I love comments like these because they always remind to appreciate the moment. It’s surreal to know that I’m living in what will be my nostalgia for maybe the rest of my life
Yeah, minecraft is definitely one of the few things which I experience nostalgia over. For me, as it does for many others, the game represents that whole part of our childhood, not just the game itself which I think just goes to show how influential Minecraft has become.
i want to iterate that, the only difference i see the game now is, aside from how much it has changed, in a graphical sense. back then when i first played it, i had a terrible laptop. nowadays i can enjoy it on some high-end hardware with the default enhanced shaderpack. oh, and everything in minecraft itself cranked up, for graphics that is. i mean this like reimagining the game as an adult as compared to as a kid.
The Aria math is my favorite track from Minecraft. Feels like discovering something new, different, dreaming, trying to reach it, and has some sort of "lonely" feelings, like you're really the last person in the world
This is by far my favourite song and has set a standard for what kind of music I like. This song to me is a journey a lonely difficult beautiful one It has a beautiful start and end leaving you in bliss sat there like wow... The first time I really listened to this song I silently cried swaying to the aggressive but gentle beat. I find this song so comforting. Thank you for covering it
Fun fact about music in The End: When you enter the End dimension, once you reach within a certain radius of the Ender Dragon existing, a different track actually plays called ‘boss.ogg’. This track continues to play until the dragon is defeated. Not until the dragon is killed do you hear the track ‘The End’, which will play in place of ‘boss’ when you’re anywhere in the End from there onwards. Unless you respawn the dragon, at which point ‘boss’ will play again when within proximity to the dragon. If you enter the End without going near the center of the main End island, ‘The End’ track will play, but will be slowly cut off with ‘boss’ once you approach the Ender Dragon. I found your channel a few years ago from that very first video about Volume Alpha, and I’m glad you were able to make a sequel to it. Looking forward to maybe one about the 2018 Aquatic soundtrack ;)
@@merakimerakimeraki Yes, please, in the future can you make a video about the rest of the final tracks of C418 before he was "cut off" from Microsoft? A channel made a video about it but only you make this levels of top quality documentaries. And if you will ever notice this comment (I doubt but): please take your time. The best works are the ones who have been made with love, effort and patience. Just like Rosenfield.
I think that alpha is the most underrated song on the whole minecraft soundtrack. It manages to perfectly capture everything in the whole game in 10 minutes of music and in such a perfect way. It's a shame most people skip over it.
here it is! hope you guys enjoy. :) to answer the two biggest questions (based on the two biggest questions from the last one) the song during the intro is called "Intro" from Volume Beta, and the shaders I'm using are BSL. missed you guys!
Just wanted to say, I came across your first video not 2 days ago in the 2 years it’s been out there and today I see that this releases. You and I got some different thoughts on the emotions of some songs, I’m glad to say something I’ve been trying to find the words for for years have not only been said but struck me with ideas of my own. Thank you, and if anything else comes to mind about this masterpiece of a game, please make more of these.
My favorite track from album Beta, titled “alpha,” has always had a deep place in my heart. It takes the simple parts of Minecraft music and expands to broad orchestral sweeps of sound. I had always assumes that because of the tracks specific, orchestral nature, the developers had never used the song in the actual game. Up until recently I had played every part of Minecraft except for one thing: beating the whole game, in survival, with no cheats or anything. So imagine my surprise and delight to find that this is the exact track that plays during the credits of the game. Still gives me chills 😊.
I'm going to be honest. I feel like the first soundtrack mostly makes me feel "sad" and nostalgic whilst the volume beta, tho still making me feel nostalgic also fills me with hope and joy. It's almost like when I listen to it, I have flashbacks to when I was playing with my friends and building random different stuff. There are some true banger songs in there aswell that i feel are highly underrated. You continue to put a smile on my face meraki, thank you.
I like that there are people who really appreciate creativity C418. I think he reinvented music. Clark, Aria Math, Living Mice, Subwoofer Lullaby, Dreiton, Taswell, Biome Fest, at the End of the Alpha - all this is a masterpiece.
The quality of content on RUclips just keeps getting better and better; this video is no exception. A carefully crafted, meaningful and well-informed video with beautiful graphics and astonishing production value, all to uphold the wonderous perfection of C418's music. Not only does the topic resonate with millions of people, but you have managed to so perfectly explain the unexplainable feeling we get from this game and it's music. It is almost a certainty to me that this video is going to do well. Thank you for pouring your time and dedication into these videos for us.
Aria Math gives me so good memories thank you for making this video Also, I would love if you sometime did a third part on the discs. Even though you don't hear them as often as the other songs in the game, they're super good and it's very interesting to hear c418 make more "chiptuny" songs.
I absolutely love how most of the soundtrack in Minecraft is mostly synth, piano, and other noises, but then you get to Alpha which has all of the above AND orchestral music in it. It's as if you reached the end of this epic adventure, but it sounds like it's telling you to keep moving and come back again for more journeys, which are all completely different. I really love how someone has made a video to show unlimited appreciation for C418's music, and that I get to see hundreds, maybe thousands more people agree! This video is truly amazing, and I appreciate all your hard effort you've put into the making of these videos! 😊
Dreiton and Aria Math are easily my favorite tracks, I think it's because of the perfect Pan drum melodies, its simultaneously melody and percussion and it feels the most like Minecraft to me than anything else, definitely the most nostalgic for me as well.
I am so glad this video gives the recognition to Dreiton and Taswell because I've always found those two the most nostalgic, emotional and beautiful ones in the entire game. I listen to them to fall asleep and they're the main reason C418's music is my favourite game music artist. Beautiful work
None of my friends understand why I love the Minecraft soundtracks so much (especially volume beta). I get called depressed and whatnot for listening to such bittersweet and nostalgic songs. Alpha was definitely my favourite song from Volume Beta at first, but now I've fallen with love with Intro, which isn't even in the game. Lots of these songs make me cry and give me chills. Some of these songs make me feel warm inside. C418 is a musical genius and I'm glad to see such appreciation of some of the best songs in Minecraft. Thank you for the video.
Beta and C418 in general has some true hidden gems that you may have never known existed. Alpha, intro, Kyoto, 11, end, SHUNIJI ESPECIALLY, and dragon fish. Wonderful songs that feel so fit for minecraft.
whatever you do please don’t stop making your videos. you’re an underrated channel that whenever I watch a video from you I’m reminded how good they are. that, and holy crap. you actually had FUNCTIONING friends who you could build things with without them just losing interest immediately or blowing stuff up
hahaha thank you sir! i’ll keep grinding and putting my heart into it. also those clips of the creative mode aren’t actually my friends; they’re from a creative commons video i saw on youtube 😔 my friends were destructive as well
I love the quality of your content. You've very quickly become one of my favourite RUclipsrs to watch. Your essay style videos are beautiful. Thank you, I hope you keep making videos
I don't think I really appreciated Minecraft music until recently. And by recently, I mean the last two years, when mine and seemingly everyone else's interest in Minecraft was rekindled. A little Minecraft server was the only way I was able to have interaction with my friends over quarantine. When school started up again, I needed something to fill the silence while the difficulties of online learning were crushing me from all angles. So I made a playlist filled with all the Minecraft soundtrack that I could find. It was nostalgic, it was comforting. Beta was my favorite, especially Alpha, which I would listen to every night for months so that I could fall asleep peacefully. I still use my playlist to study and each time, it feels like a friend coaching me, supporting me, and telling me that it's all going to be alright. I loved this video because I don't think I've found anyone saying what I've felt for years now.
I think I should point something out with The End, being my favourite track in Volume Beta; that _buildup,_ that builds for several minutes as the echoes of the Volume Alpha remixes play through, the synths, and the _noise._ Eventually, it builds so much that any tune is impossible to hear; you have to turn down the volume it's so loud. But it's not meaningless noise, I feel that it represents a culmination of Volume Alpha and the player's Minecraft journey - all in 15-20 seconds of synths on top of melodies on top of more synths on top of more noise. And what happens after this section where the song practically screams at you? One bass note, as the noise disperses into the void. The subtle melodies and sounds that follow all have this reverb to them more than before, which I feel represents the player's one remaining journey - to the outer End islands: so far away, so distant, and at such an incomprehensible scale. The indiscernible noises heard at the End, unknowable, and extremely distant. It portrays a scale that I can't justify critically, but it's there, and makes The End easily the most grandiose, impressive, and detailed piece in the whole album.
Great quality video! Very underrated. I absolutely love Volume Beta, probably my favorite album of all time. Most likely because I mostly played creative when I was a kid, so its really nostalgic. The End and Aria Math are some of my favorite tracks.
Thank you for this video man, I loved your first one and I'm so happy to see you post this one too. You successfully explain everything that needs to be explained when it comes to the musical analysis and especially the childhood nostalgia.
These older tracks give me time to reminisce on fonder days of my childhood. It gives me a sense of nostalgia which renews dulling memories and paints the images of the fun I had.
As a newer Minecraft player, getting Goosebumps from songs like Alpha for the first time is one of the best feelings you can ever have. I think it’s crazy to know that the songs from Minecraft that I just learned about a few weeks ago will be my nostalgia in the next 10 years.
Blind spots and Biome Fests are the tracks i hold dear to my heart because i used to play on an xbox 360 and spent hours in a creative world when the new redstone stuff was released and tested stuff and didnt even know how they worked, i gave up and made my first house in creative, a massive block of wood with no interior decoration, just a bed, and called it a day, i picked minecraft back up a few weeks ago and I always go play on 1.4 to 1.6 to really capture the nostalgia i had from those early versions
I’m still a kid, I have been playing MC for almost 10 years now though, anytime I look back on the MC times with my friends it rly makes me appreciate that time more, I realized I took things for granted so much back then, so now when I’m playing Minecraft in these last 2 years on the road to adulthood I really just like to take it all in and have some laughs with my friends. This music really does fit how I used to feel when looking back, but now I am more happy than just sad about it
those reminiscent songs give me SOO much nostalgia! I once got kinda annoyed at the minecraft music when i was playing multiplayer, but when i went back to singleplayer, i felt that something was missing and i decided to turn the music back on and i just fell in love with it all over again.
I love Minecraft's soundtrack, it is beautiful, but my favorite is Dreiton. For me, I think it tells the story. That crackling and "rain" sound is quite resemblant to that of the ender dragon's death sound, and the beginning of the player's final step toward becoming a master of the game. It's sort of a bittersweet moment for the player, as they make their way back to the overworld, and see all of what they have created. They beat the game, but there is so much left for them to do. The synths at the beginning remind me completely of how I feel after beating the game. But then the pan-drums start to the player, just like the player placing blocks, and realizing that there is so much more to do. That little "Dun-dun-doon-DUN" with the drums is like the player finding the momentum and energy to create as the music picks up, and more and more instruments are added to the song before abruptly quitting, then coming back even more robust than before. The drums become more methodical, as the player becomes more and more skilled. You hear a clang of an anvil, a piano, and even the dragon dying again for a brief bit of time, just as the player comes to appreciate the game even more. You hear bits of Ki, an old song, and the player is now very well acquainted with the game. I've played Minecraft for over 10 years now, and it still feels quite emotional, and this song perfectly encompasses those feelings. Eventually, everything builds up and falls into a quiet, calm section with nothing but drums, a piano, and a guitar. The player realizes how much the game has shaped their life, as they look back on their many hours with the game. Watching Stampy with their friends, reading through the original handbooks, building alone or with friends. As the music fades out, with the bits of momentum from the drums becoming more sporadic as they finally fade out, the player presses "Save and quit to the title," for the very last time.
Please keep uploading! Your content is something different and I love it. Your calm demeanor, talking about things I care about, and the quality is amazing. Please don't quit you have too much potential to waste it. You are doing great so far and this is another great video.
so glad you came back to make one about Volume Beta, Beta is unbelievably good. Intro and Alpha are masterpieces and The End, although not maybe good as a piece to just listen to, it's contextually awesome. Edit: 2:17 haha he said Ample Time
I just watched this video right after watching the first video, and.. ALL of these songs sound so different, like im like "yes this is the best/most nostalgic song" but it just keeps changing. All of the music tracks just, they are super different all give a different feeling, but they still at the end feel the same. Like before this if u would have asked me how many songs are in minecraft i would say like 11 or something but no, there are hundreds. but every single one just gives that feeling of minecraft, i think its just beyond words, its like a feeling that doesnt have a name, its more than nostalgia. I just cant explain it very well. These songs may be old, but they will never get old in our hearts. Daniel Rosenfeld is a genius, He has litterly created a new feeling, like if u would say "Nostalgia" that doesnt necessarily have a specific meaning, but say "Minecraft Nostalgia" and that has a whole new meaning. I dont really know what to say anymore. Minecraft Nostalgia is a mix of feelings, its a combination of pure sadness but also pure hapiness. You really start to think in a different way when listening to Daniel Rosenfeld minecraft tracks. And one unique thing about this music is that its just gets sadder when u listen to it when your not playing minecraft. It just reminds u of all the times youve had, even if u havnt played minecraft for a long time or never expierienced playing it together with friends it still makes u cry. And i know this text is a bit janky and i cant explain it well and its overal not a good text it still came from the heart...
I like to think that the soundtrack is also meant to be listened to in order. It starts off ambitious gives you the end. A criminally underrated song in it entirety with a almost overwhelming onsomble mid way through then cuts to more organic sounds and record scratches. Then blends into chirp. An arguably strange track to say the least. The theme is followed until eleven. Each song being almost a simplified version of the encounters and experiences you've had throughout the game. Eleven changes that theme completely. More record scratching, followed by a grand yet eloquent piano that plays throughout the whole track. Ward picks back up with the cartoonish simplified theme that switches pace a few times. Each switch changing the mood from one to another. This is continued until intro. Each song getting more and more complex and intricate as it goes on. Far finishes with more of the static we've been greeted with throughout the sound track but with more organic noises. Intro is where the complexity peaks in my mind. It starts out smooth and slightly familiar but fades in a vocal hum that progresses throughout the song along with its synth that becomes more and more integrated into the foreground allowing you to be invoked with a sense of remembrance of times once had in the game. All of this builds to a powerful yet soothing peak that coaxes the listener into a sense of joy in remembrance. All then fading off into a abrubt record scratch and then Ki plays once again. This time having a different perceived tone. Instead of feeling wonderous and excited the listener feels a sense of nostalgia for the memories made prior and ready to start anew. Instead of Intro being an "intro" song to the game, its a intro song into a new unexplored world to players who have conquered the game and are ready to start new once more. A restart button in music form that coaxes a returning player into a sense of excitement and happiness. A little bit of a stretch but its all making sense to me right now and I'm higher then hell.
I would love to see you cover the aquatic soundtrack and possibly the Console Edition Mini Games Soundtrack. Also, you forgot Flake and Kyoto (although they're locked behind Legacy Console/Bedrock Christmas Mash Up), but they are part of Beta.
I'll never forget when I accidentally forgot the title menu open after just lauching the game but had to do something else, and all of the sudden, as i came back to my room after doing what i had to do, Moog City 2 started playing. and the feeling of an adventure waiting for me, almost calling for me, as i looked back to the screen and saw the panorama of 1.15(the buzzy bees update), just overwhelmed me and i didn't even press play(it was bedrock), I just sat there looking at the title screen listening to that slow rising theme, reverbing through the trees, and then the lower part came and I was just left with the feeling of nostalgia every minecraft music has, so i pressed play and opened my survival world, and Moog City 1 started playing, sortta giving me an answer to the second one, without the airy bg, the more crispy and "beaty" notes, telling me "this is it, this is the adventure that was waiting for you, this world is your canvas and here for you to explore"
This video is truly a masterpiece! Those were the best and deepest descriptions of the Volume Beta tracks I've ever heard and I thank you and Daniel for that! I only recently learned that he is german, like me. That somehow makes the whole thing even more amazing to me. I don't think there are many game soundtracks composed by german producers and it is so cool that the best of all soundtracks is made by one!
Aria Math, and many other songs talked about in this video, remind me of me and my friends. Of past friends, present friends. Of who I used to be and no longer want to be, and who I am now and who I’ll be in the future. I’m terrified and excited, and im so glad I’ll have my friends with me for it. It also reminds of my current friends, their chaotic nature that’s still so loving and caring. Im so happy to have them in my lives. Im so happy that im still here, still able to be who I want to be and who I really am. Still able to call them on discord and just talk, and play games together. I realize Minecraft has been a core part of all my friendships, of who I am now, and I’ll be forever grateful.
I actually don’t know why, but Minecraft tracks are the ones that keep me focused while studying. I discovered it unexpectedly when I was listening to one of C418 songs that tuned in on auto-play, but then for the last 6 months I study exclusively with Minecraft music. There is truly some magic it this pieces
Damn. This awakens memorys. I used to play minecraft on my ps4 in 2014 with my friend, i used not to have a ps online account, so i couldnt update the game and had to play in TU13, until 2020, when i finally picked up my playstation again and finnaly updated it. Discovering all these old worlds frlt amazing. Old jokes that we made back in the day, monuments we built in creative mode, and old terrain we used to explore, all while listening to to the sweet sounds of C418 masterpiece of a soundtrack. I miss those times.
"Blocks" It has one of the most beautiful and melodic endings of any other c418 song. I hope one day you can talk about the rest of the songs on the album, which are many more
Over the past 12 years, these songs have accompanied me as I grew from a child into a man. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the first world I explored, all those years ago, but at least the music can bring back the faded memories.
I was very lucky to have an older brother, who was obsessed with Minecraft. The obsession went from him to me and my younger brother. I remember hopping on our ps3 just to make new worlds and never play on them again. We never made it to getting iron, we praised every stone sword we had, because we were really scared of monsters at the time. And that’s what’s beautiful about Minecraft. When you were young you didn’t do much, you built a cubic house made of wood, maybe a wheat farm and called it a day. Now, you see people beating the game in less than 10 minutes. But maybe we did that because we wanted to just hear the music play, so we wouldn’t be as scared as much. It was really relaxing at the time. Now it’s pretty much pure nostalgia. Every time I hear a C418’s Minecraft music, I swim in tears. I just can’t let the thought go that these times have passed. I want be afraid of monsters again. Ever since my account got hacked and I needed to buy a new Minecraft copy, I felt demotivated, and couldn’t bring myself to play again. The 9 years of playing this game everyday maybe coming to end.
Recently, my grandma died and it really hit hard in the soul. I felt that one piece of my life left, like dropping a jigsaw puzzle piece. Yesterday, I saw this amazing video and the meaning of Taswell really helped me. I realized that I shouldn't remember my grandma for her death and the big sadness it caused, but if not, for the happiness she helped us feel. When you experience loss, do not feel like you did not spend enough time with the person you lost, feel and remember that was the amount of time you were meant to be. Thank you, Meraki, for this amazing video! And thank you, C418, for this amazing soundtrack!
This was a beautiful comment. I’m deeply sorry for your loss, and I’m glad this was able to help, even if in a small way. Wishing you the best of luck, and thank you so much for sharing.
Great video! Volume Beta is absolutely wild, and is easily my favorite of the two albums. You did an amazing job at putting so many people's thoughts into words. Sucks that a lot of us will never be able to truly enjoy the game the same way we did as kids, but we can always listen to these godlike albums to relive our distant memories. Somewhat unrelated, but to think that C418 has a finished third album absolutely haunts me every single day. These first two albums were amazing, and I can't even begin to imagine how a third album would sound. I don't remember what's stopping him from publishing it, but I hope the disagreements can be settled so we can hear that delicious third album.
0:01 this made me gasp with joy, i, a die-harf minecraft nerd, am able to recognise most, if not all, of vol alpha and beta by the first chord or note alone. And intro is just about one of the most iconic.
I’ve been playing Minecraft since I was four and can safely say that Haunt Muskie is my favorite Minecraft song. For me, it feels like it tells a whole story within itself. And that beat drop hits so hard.
Volume Beta remains my favorite C418 album, and his magnum opus in my eyes. His other works, from Volume Alpha all the way to Excursions are also incredible. But this one is just a masterpiece.
I remember watching Stampy and squid playing adventures map when I was six, and then once I got a copy of Minecraft I remember doing a house in a flat nether, it was like 100 blocks and never thought about it. Those were the good times...
I was stoked to hear that your favorite track was the same as mine. For me, Alpha isn't just a beautiful song. It's the conclusion to an integral experience that made me what I am today. My life would be so different today if I hadn't been able to experience Minecraft
these videos are so fucking high quality dude, the amount of effort you put in shows and makes it so good to watch, i hope you keep making these because me and everyone else that sees them love to watch them. keep up the good stuff
Idk why but Kyoto by C418 is just so good. Each song in Volume Alpha and Beta just screams perfection and absolute art. Its diversity is just amazing. C418 is the soul of Minecraft’s music and it always sends a wave of nostalgia and tranquility whenever I play Volume Beta and Alpha.
My favourite Minecraft track is key for a vary personal reason. As a kid me and my friends would play on a certain world which I made on my Xbox 360 and we used to build stuff like very short skyscrapers made of glowstone, ships made from smooth stone, lighthouses made from wool and wooden boxes filled to the brim with dogs and cats. But when moved country I never got to see them again so I stopped playing the world. As the years went by I got to the point where I had defeated the ender dragon and had gotten many new and better friends then before. But only about a year and a half ago I found that world when I was looking through some of my old games on the 360 and I had forgotten it had even existed at this point. Only a few seconds after the world loaded in Sweden started to play and I decided to turn the music volume up to listen to it. But when I arrived in the main area where me and my old friends built all of the little glowstone skyscrapers the sun had almost gone down and key started to play, and that is when I cried, not only because of the fact that the song sounded sad and it brought back so many memories but also because I realised that this world was almost lost to time and I almost forgot all those said memories. In the end I ended up not giving away my 360 and key was the song that made me do this.
My favorite soundtrack is also the start menu one. It refreshes me after feeling the extreme loneliness created by hours of gaming. It is the only soundtrack that makes me want to play more.
Biome fest reminds me of my childhood, when i hear this song memories storms into my head. This song creates such unreal nostaliga. I always used to enjoy the game at my friends house, and home. we used to build the most simple houses but it was still so fun. I really miss the good old days and hope that 2023 is going to be a good life excperience.
I don't know when was i chilled so much after watching a 25 minutes long video about... anything. I could listen to your videos hours and hours long, and you know what? I think i will. The amount of content and love what your videos have, is just incredible. You are putting so much soul into each of your videos, and the way you actually compose it. Like, playing hours and hours of Minecraft, to get clips from Minecraft's nature, to fill the video backgrounds. Keep up dude the amazing work!
Those tracks are what helped shape a whole generation of children including myself. In my eyes, he changed the world with his music. I still remember the days when Herobrine was popular and when trolling people was real popular. This kind of made me cry a little :) Your super underrated bro, you deserve more subs.
I fell asleep to Aria Math and I think It was one of the best dreams will ever have again. It started off with the hand pans, and my brain knew that this melody is from minecraft, then causing to dream in Minecraft. Once the sythns started to play, I entered creative mode. I could do anything. My friends were there too, all of them together, which was something I was starting to envy. We built for a while and at one point, played along with the music?? I woke up when the track ended. I wish I could go back to 2011-2014, truly a great time.
Beginning 2 and Aria math is my my favorite. For me, these two elevate my feelings so much that most of the time I just have to sit back and listen. Danny knew what he was doing.
The most important thing in Minecraft is, that after you’ve made all the possible quests (discovering mansions, fighting off bosses, mining perfect materials etc.) you’re left with the end. You go to the end and when you beat the end, it is the end. After the credits end, you’re left now wondering what to do next? And so far, you’re done with everything possible you’ve done and gives when reentering your world a behind the scenes atmosphere. The point I’m trying to make is, Minecraft is like a series or a movie, the beginning and the journey is the most entertaining part of all and the end is like the end, the movie ends and your left wondering if I should rewatch it again or leave it for a long time until you want to experience it again. That makes Minecraft and the tracks a sense of a start and a end of your world, you have finished it, now all you can do is to start again. That’s what gives me the nostalgia, a sad feeling and knowledge that it comes to an end, like a spectacular and amiable movie or simply an adventure coming to an end, like a series.
I'm so glad you made a follow-up video about Volume Beta. There is no way to describe my respect for C418 and it's really fascinating to see how you interpret these masterpieces and honestly just make them feel even more special. Loved this video, can't wait for your next!
Dude, your voice and charisma catch me to the soul! Thanks for the great video, everything about it is great and i love it! We all expirienced minecraft differenty in some ways but nearly the same! Just being curious young guy, filled with hopes and dreams, wanting to get to the top of the world, and this game gave it to us in a lot of ways! I still remember my first few items crafted, the excitment of collecting wood and doing them, the first mud house, the first night spend around skeletons and spiders, first creeper blowing my house, first time in a cave deep in the dark with only few torches and mobs around me, first time playing multiplayer and the excitement of doing stuff together with your bro, first try to make silly jokes with your friends house or chests , ahh the nostalgia is really , really strong.. I watched your previous video about the soundtrack of minecraft and i loved it! Instantly felt inlove with how calm and good your voice is, your thoughts and how you express so good the soundtrack, i feel everything you've said the same! Good job! Subscribed!
I remember when I was 7 or 8 and turning on Minecraft legacy edition on the Wii U and hearing one of those main menu songs play and I listened to the entire thing. It is now the most nostalgic song I know I believe this song was moog city 2
this video, and the video preceding it about volume alpha, are two amazing videos. these two soundtracks, and the songs they contain, are most certainly the music i've listened to the most over the past 10 years, whether in the background of minecraft, or just on shuffle while working, and, beyond a few tracks, i had never taken the time to fully consider and realize the complexity and beauty of the songs within until these videos. truly, two beautiful soundtracks
21:50: I think you missed the most important moment in the end sountrack: One that we all felt the first time we entered the end. The droning increases more and more, pulsating, getting louder when you feel that you are truly far away from everywhere - and then, suddenly: One familiar chord. The first chord of Sweden. Sends us back to the beginning of all of our adventures in Minecraft. Years and years have passed, you have lived through the development of Minecraft with countless worlds, and then - the End gets introduced. You try and finally enter it, feeling the otherworldness of the place, feeling so incredibly far away from everything, with nothing to hold on to. But then the droning and pulsating gets overdroned by the first chord of Sweden, still very distorted, but you recognize it. Then the droning and pulsating tries to come back, but gets fought back by the continuation of Sweden. The end of the soundtrack is a very curious sensation of a fight: Sweden and the end droning and pulsating fight against each other. For a moment, Sweden wins - still very distorted, but you feel like back at home for a moment in that strange foreign place. In the end, both get very loud and in the end: Silence. If that was a fight, I don't know who has won - the end or Sweden - but it's great nevertheless. And I think in that was way more to analyze, than you have thought about during that soundtrack. Not angry, but a bit sad, because I know that of course you put a lot of work into analyzing the soundtrack. But that's what I got out of the End soundtrack always, and why I think that it triggers very interesting emotions.
My favourite minecraft song is one I never think I heard in the soundtrack growing up, but one I got to know through finding Jschlatt´s a tribute to minecraft. I then looked it up and found it on volume beta. Its called intro. And although I had never heard it before. It resonated with me, and reminded me of all the good times I had with this game. I even got tears in my eyes. Thank you C418, for making my childhood amazing
Thank you so much for putting the time and heart into making another unbelievable video for us. You somehow managed to follow up your part 1 on this, which is my favorite video on RUclips, with a part 2 that is just perfect.
I would say floating trees is kinda a spin off of subwoofer lullaby... you can hear at the and of Floating trees a part from Subwoofer lullaby (2:08 in Subwoofer lullaby) its not exactly the same but it sounds extremely similar
I started playing Minecraft in 2014. These songs give me memories of when my brother and I sat in my hallway playing Minecraft on my mom’s iPad and laughing at Steve drowning (don’t worry we were like 5 years old). And this brings me back to the good times 😌. Minecraft is a revolutionary game for people all over the globe and I hope in the future we will remember it and the nostalgia and excitement that the game has. ❤
I started playing minecraft when I was a young kid, I’m now 26 and I miss it dearly, I’m going to 100% the game with trophies and absolutely get sad every time I hear his music. ありがとう Meraki! I’ve been playing since Alpha and stopped playing in Beta sadly, I have gone back a couple of times with one my of best friends and absolutely enjoyed my time, thanks for everything Notch, Minecraft, and especially you C418.
Im just gonna write here what I feel, it might sound weird or stuff like that but.. Its simply what I feel when I hear those songs, I just imagine an old grandpa, sitting in his room and getting a visit from his grandson, his grandson begins playing these songs and then I just imagine the inside of the grandpa's mind, he is hearing those songs with excitment tho he never heard them before, they give him nostalgia feelings even tho he never heard it before, he's amazed, he goes back to the good old days, but its not like us, 13-20 year olds who just imagine themselves being kids, he.. he imagines an entire life because that's what he had gone through, he was a child, so careless and free, he then imagines his teenhood, he remembers being sad because he missed the old days, he remembers his teen self crying at night because of desperation, tough years, he imagines the army, losing many friends but also meeting some, he cries as he remembers all the friends he had during his childhood all the way to his adulthood, he wonders what happened with them, he then imagines is adulthood, he was a nice man, he had a wife, he had kids, he was just.. proud of himself, he got everything he ever wanted but he still felt like he needed more, more money, more cars, more vacations, he was greedy, he cries realising he took everything he had as usual, he remembers the first hug he got from his grandson, being so proud of his son for succeeding in life too, he knows what is his son thinking of, money, cars, vacations, but he does not care, at least his son has willpower, his son wants to succeed more than anyone ever, but how does the grandpa knows? He's just a grandpa listening to some songs from a video game.
Minecraft music touch your emotions that bringing back to our old memories and you've been spending time with friends or yourself in an lonely fantasy world, For minecraft veteran it made us cry.
4:45 omg THANK YOU I have to agree Alpha is by far the BEST track in the game. A nostalgic, memorable collage of some of the best, most vibeful tracks in the game and turning it into something special. Something melancholic yet inspiration and AAAAAAAAAAAAAA so good.
C418 didn't give the game a soundtrack, he gave it a soul.
Golden words... Oh I mean diamond, given that it's Minecraft, so gold kinda succ
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@@gistasbanaitis473 Netherite? 👀
@@SileoForte oh yes, yes it is
This is the only time I’ve seen this comment but it seems overused.
as a minecraft veteran at this point, having been playing since 2012, i do miss the experiences i had in my later childhood with minecraft.
I do too
I love comments like these because they always remind to appreciate the moment. It’s surreal to know that I’m living in what will be my nostalgia for maybe the rest of my life
Yeah, minecraft is definitely one of the few things which I experience nostalgia over. For me, as it does for many others, the game represents that whole part of our childhood, not just the game itself which I think just goes to show how influential Minecraft has become.
I as well
i want to iterate that, the only difference i see the game now is, aside from how much it has changed, in a graphical sense. back then when i first played it, i had a terrible laptop. nowadays i can enjoy it on some high-end hardware with the default enhanced shaderpack. oh, and everything in minecraft itself cranked up, for graphics that is.
i mean this like reimagining the game as an adult as compared to as a kid.
The Aria math is my favorite track from Minecraft. Feels like discovering something new, different, dreaming, trying to reach it, and has some sort of "lonely" feelings, like you're really the last person in the world
As someone said, "The soundtrack of creative"
This is by far my favourite song and has set a standard for what kind of music I like. This song to me is a journey a lonely difficult beautiful one It has a beautiful start and end leaving you in bliss sat there like wow... The first time I really listened to this song I silently cried swaying to the aggressive but gentle beat. I find this song so comforting. Thank you for covering it
This song hits stronger than Sweden and Minecraft songs
To me Aria Math is a good song to listen to when you're building stuff, it suits your creative mind and what you want to build.
me not having a favorite track from minecraft because i like all of them
Fun fact about music in The End:
When you enter the End dimension, once you reach within a certain radius of the Ender Dragon existing, a different track actually plays called ‘boss.ogg’. This track continues to play until the dragon is defeated. Not until the dragon is killed do you hear the track ‘The End’, which will play in place of ‘boss’ when you’re anywhere in the End from there onwards. Unless you respawn the dragon, at which point ‘boss’ will play again when within proximity to the dragon. If you enter the End without going near the center of the main End island, ‘The End’ track will play, but will be slowly cut off with ‘boss’ once you approach the Ender Dragon.
I found your channel a few years ago from that very first video about Volume Alpha, and I’m glad you were able to make a sequel to it. Looking forward to maybe one about the 2018 Aquatic soundtrack ;)
Thank you for the informative comment and the kind words! Stay tuned for more :)
@@merakimerakimeraki Yes, please, in the future can you make a video about the rest of the final tracks of C418 before he was "cut off" from Microsoft? A channel made a video about it but only you make this levels of top quality documentaries. And if you will ever notice this comment (I doubt but): please take your time. The best works are the ones who have been made with love, effort and patience. Just like Rosenfield.
Boss may not stand out much as a song, but it's really underated in what it does
I think that alpha is the most underrated song on the whole minecraft soundtrack. It manages to perfectly capture everything in the whole game in 10 minutes of music and in such a perfect way. It's a shame most people skip over it.
for me i literally listen to the song while going to sleep i just think it is a perfect song and how long it is just makes it more perfect to me
Alpha also sounds like a tribute to your journey and a farewell to your childhood memories.
@@coryjamieson3171yeah I have been thinking about making a Minecraft tribute using alpha
Idk, Ive seen alot of people claim it as their favorite
And it never even plays! Actually, "end" never plays either.
here it is! hope you guys enjoy. :)
to answer the two biggest questions (based on the two biggest questions from the last one) the song during the intro is called "Intro" from Volume Beta, and the shaders I'm using are BSL.
missed you guys!
Thanks
Missed you too!
Soundtracks are just as important as graphics. Lets talk about the biggest fail in the history of Minecraft: Super Duper Graphics Pack! lol
Just wanted to say, I came across your first video not 2 days ago in the 2 years it’s been out there and today I see that this releases. You and I got some different thoughts on the emotions of some songs, I’m glad to say something I’ve been trying to find the words for for years have not only been said but struck me with ideas of my own. Thank you, and if anything else comes to mind about this masterpiece of a game, please make more of these.
welcome back, your analysis of this and the original track is amazing. This video and you in general deserve so many more views and subs.
My favorite track from album Beta, titled “alpha,” has always had a deep place in my heart. It takes the simple parts of Minecraft music and expands to broad orchestral sweeps of sound. I had always assumes that because of the tracks specific, orchestral nature, the developers had never used the song in the actual game. Up until recently I had played every part of Minecraft except for one thing: beating the whole game, in survival, with no cheats or anything. So imagine my surprise and delight to find that this is the exact track that plays during the credits of the game. Still gives me chills 😊.
I’ve now finished the video, cool to hear we share a favorite track :)
i agree. it’s probably my favorite C4 song overall, if i had to pick. just so incredible.
I'm going to be honest. I feel like the first soundtrack mostly makes me feel "sad" and nostalgic whilst the volume beta, tho still making me feel nostalgic also fills me with hope and joy. It's almost like when I listen to it, I have flashbacks to when I was playing with my friends and building random different stuff. There are some true banger songs in there aswell that i feel are highly underrated. You continue to put a smile on my face meraki, thank you.
Anytime Rekh, thanks so much for the continued support
Couldn't have said it better myself. Creative musics give you the feeling of hope and a bright future
agreed
I like that there are people who really appreciate creativity C418. I think he reinvented music. Clark, Aria Math, Living Mice, Subwoofer Lullaby, Dreiton, Taswell, Biome Fest, at the End of the Alpha - all this is a masterpiece.
'reinvented the music' what does that shite really mean?
i like all those, we have quite the same taste!
The creative mode songs are the ones that impacted me the most. Brings me back to when I was younger and would play with my sister on our Xbox.
agree
The quality of content on RUclips just keeps getting better and better; this video is no exception. A carefully crafted, meaningful and well-informed video with beautiful graphics and astonishing production value, all to uphold the wonderous perfection of C418's music.
Not only does the topic resonate with millions of people, but you have managed to so perfectly explain the unexplainable feeling we get from this game and it's music. It is almost a certainty to me that this video is going to do well. Thank you for pouring your time and dedication into these videos for us.
thank you so much for the kind words ☺️
I totally second this :))
Aria Math gives me so good memories thank you for making this video
Also, I would love if you sometime did a third part on the discs. Even though you don't hear them as often as the other songs in the game, they're super good and it's very interesting to hear c418 make more "chiptuny" songs.
i’m thinking that will be the next installment - likely not for a little bit though :) back to non-minecraft for the next video, i think
The soundtrack of minecraft never fails to amaze me.
I absolutely love how most of the soundtrack in Minecraft is mostly synth, piano, and other noises, but then you get to Alpha which has all of the above AND orchestral music in it. It's as if you reached the end of this epic adventure, but it sounds like it's telling you to keep moving and come back again for more journeys, which are all completely different.
I really love how someone has made a video to show unlimited appreciation for C418's music, and that I get to see hundreds, maybe thousands more people agree!
This video is truly amazing, and I appreciate all your hard effort you've put into the making of these videos! 😊
Dreiton and Aria Math are easily my favorite tracks, I think it's because of the perfect Pan drum melodies, its simultaneously melody and percussion and it feels the most like Minecraft to me than anything else, definitely the most nostalgic for me as well.
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I am so glad this video gives the recognition to Dreiton and Taswell because I've always found those two the most nostalgic, emotional and beautiful ones in the entire game. I listen to them to fall asleep and they're the main reason C418's music is my favourite game music artist. Beautiful work
Same actually, Dreiton and Taswell are both my favorite minecraft songs, and favotire C418 songs in general.
None of my friends understand why I love the Minecraft soundtracks so much (especially volume beta). I get called depressed and whatnot for listening to such bittersweet and nostalgic songs. Alpha was definitely my favourite song from Volume Beta at first, but now I've fallen with love with Intro, which isn't even in the game. Lots of these songs make me cry and give me chills. Some of these songs make me feel warm inside.
C418 is a musical genius and I'm glad to see such appreciation of some of the best songs in Minecraft. Thank you for the video.
your friends sound dumb
I loved the first one and so far I am loving this one, I’m very excited to see your future videos.
thanks so much :) stay tuned, i have lots planned!
Beta and C418 in general has some true hidden gems that you may have never known existed. Alpha, intro, Kyoto, 11, end, SHUNIJI ESPECIALLY, and dragon fish. Wonderful songs that feel so fit for minecraft.
The part two I’ve been waiting for
Thank you.
whatever you do please don’t stop making your videos. you’re an underrated channel that whenever I watch a video from you I’m reminded how good they are. that, and holy crap. you actually had FUNCTIONING friends who you could build things with without them just losing interest immediately or blowing stuff up
hahaha thank you sir! i’ll keep grinding and putting my heart into it.
also those clips of the creative mode aren’t actually my friends; they’re from a creative commons video i saw on youtube 😔 my friends were destructive as well
@@merakimerakimeraki it's fun tho, without them doing things like that feels like you are just building with ncps
Its so crazy that i know every song in minecraft but never really noticed it while i was playing, nostalgia is wild
i absolutely loved the first part and i didn’t expect it to be continued, but i won’t complain!!!
I love the quality of your content. You've very quickly become one of my favourite RUclipsrs to watch. Your essay style videos are beautiful. Thank you, I hope you keep making videos
thanks so much :) don’t worry, i will!
@@merakimerakimeraki Glad to hear that man! Can I just say you have such a calming narrating/story-telling voice.
PS: you're kinda handsome :o
I don't think I really appreciated Minecraft music until recently. And by recently, I mean the last two years, when mine and seemingly everyone else's interest in Minecraft was rekindled. A little Minecraft server was the only way I was able to have interaction with my friends over quarantine. When school started up again, I needed something to fill the silence while the difficulties of online learning were crushing me from all angles. So I made a playlist filled with all the Minecraft soundtrack that I could find. It was nostalgic, it was comforting. Beta was my favorite, especially Alpha, which I would listen to every night for months so that I could fall asleep peacefully. I still use my playlist to study and each time, it feels like a friend coaching me, supporting me, and telling me that it's all going to be alright. I loved this video because I don't think I've found anyone saying what I've felt for years now.
I think I should point something out with The End, being my favourite track in Volume Beta; that _buildup,_ that builds for several minutes as the echoes of the Volume Alpha remixes play through, the synths, and the _noise._ Eventually, it builds so much that any tune is impossible to hear; you have to turn down the volume it's so loud. But it's not meaningless noise, I feel that it represents a culmination of Volume Alpha and the player's Minecraft journey - all in 15-20 seconds of synths on top of melodies on top of more synths on top of more noise.
And what happens after this section where the song practically screams at you? One bass note, as the noise disperses into the void. The subtle melodies and sounds that follow all have this reverb to them more than before, which I feel represents the player's one remaining journey - to the outer End islands: so far away, so distant, and at such an incomprehensible scale. The indiscernible noises heard at the End, unknowable, and extremely distant.
It portrays a scale that I can't justify critically, but it's there, and makes The End easily the most grandiose, impressive, and detailed piece in the whole album.
Alpha never fails to make me cry, even just a little
I owe you so much for both of these videos, thank you
Great quality video! Very underrated. I absolutely love Volume Beta, probably my favorite album of all time. Most likely because I mostly played creative when I was a kid, so its really nostalgic. The End and Aria Math are some of my favorite tracks.
Thank you for this video man, I loved your first one and I'm so happy to see you post this one too. You successfully explain everything that needs to be explained when it comes to the musical analysis and especially the childhood nostalgia.
Thanks for the kind words - means a lot! Hope you have a great day
@@merakimerakimerakiyou too man
I remember I was sobbing when I first jumped through the end portal and was reading the poem. Really touched my heart.
These older tracks give me time to reminisce on fonder days of my childhood. It gives me a sense of nostalgia which renews dulling memories and paints the images of the fun I had.
The Minecraft soundtrack is truly amazing. Although C418 doesn't work for Mojang anymore the new soundtracks still hit hard
I don't like the new Title tracks
They just don't....fit
As a newer Minecraft player, getting Goosebumps from songs like Alpha for the first time is one of the best feelings you can ever have. I think it’s crazy to know that the songs from Minecraft that I just learned about a few weeks ago will be my nostalgia in the next 10 years.
Blind spots and Biome Fests are the tracks i hold dear to my heart because i used to play on an xbox 360 and spent hours in a creative world when the new redstone stuff was released and tested stuff and didnt even know how they worked, i gave up and made my first house in creative, a massive block of wood with no interior decoration, just a bed, and called it a day, i picked minecraft back up a few weeks ago and I always go play on 1.4 to 1.6 to really capture the nostalgia i had from those early versions
I’m still a kid, I have been playing MC for almost 10 years now though, anytime I look back on the MC times with my friends it rly makes me appreciate that time more, I realized I took things for granted so much back then, so now when I’m playing Minecraft in these last 2 years on the road to adulthood I really just like to take it all in and have some laughs with my friends. This music really does fit how I used to feel when looking back, but now I am more happy than just sad about it
those reminiscent songs give me SOO much nostalgia! I once got kinda annoyed at the minecraft music when i was playing multiplayer, but when i went back to singleplayer, i felt that something was missing and i decided to turn the music back on and i just fell in love with it all over again.
I love Minecraft's soundtrack, it is beautiful, but my favorite is Dreiton. For me, I think it tells the story.
That crackling and "rain" sound is quite resemblant to that of the ender dragon's death sound, and the beginning of the player's final step toward becoming a master of the game. It's sort of a bittersweet moment for the player, as they make their way back to the overworld, and see all of what they have created. They beat the game, but there is so much left for them to do. The synths at the beginning remind me completely of how I feel after beating the game.
But then the pan-drums start to the player, just like the player placing blocks, and realizing that there is so much more to do. That little "Dun-dun-doon-DUN" with the drums is like the player finding the momentum and energy to create as the music picks up, and more and more instruments are added to the song before abruptly quitting, then coming back even more robust than before. The drums become more methodical, as the player becomes more and more skilled.
You hear a clang of an anvil, a piano, and even the dragon dying again for a brief bit of time, just as the player comes to appreciate the game even more. You hear bits of Ki, an old song, and the player is now very well acquainted with the game.
I've played Minecraft for over 10 years now, and it still feels quite emotional, and this song perfectly encompasses those feelings.
Eventually, everything builds up and falls into a quiet, calm section with nothing but drums, a piano, and a guitar. The player realizes how much the game has shaped their life, as they look back on their many hours with the game. Watching Stampy with their friends, reading through the original handbooks, building alone or with friends.
As the music fades out, with the bits of momentum from the drums becoming more sporadic as they finally fade out, the player presses "Save and quit to the title," for the very last time.
Please keep uploading! Your content is something different and I love it. Your calm demeanor, talking about things I care about, and the quality is amazing. Please don't quit you have too much potential to waste it. You are doing great so far and this is another great video.
Survival soundtrack feels like exploration, menu music feels like possibilities, creative mode sounds like creativity
i found your channel yesterday because of the 1st part of the video. next day you drop the 2nd part. great video bud
thank you! what are the chances - great timing
so glad you came back to make one about Volume Beta, Beta is unbelievably good. Intro and Alpha are masterpieces and The End, although not maybe good as a piece to just listen to, it's contextually awesome.
Edit: 2:17 haha he said Ample Time
I just watched this video right after watching the first video, and.. ALL of these songs sound so different, like im like "yes this is the best/most nostalgic song" but it just keeps changing. All of the music tracks just, they are super different all give a different feeling, but they still at the end feel the same. Like before this if u would have asked me how many songs are in minecraft i would say like 11 or something but no, there are hundreds. but every single one just gives that feeling of minecraft, i think its just beyond words, its like a feeling that doesnt have a name, its more than nostalgia. I just cant explain it very well. These songs may be old, but they will never get old in our hearts. Daniel Rosenfeld is a genius, He has litterly created a new feeling, like if u would say "Nostalgia" that doesnt necessarily have a specific meaning, but say "Minecraft Nostalgia" and that has a whole new meaning. I dont really know what to say anymore. Minecraft Nostalgia is a mix of feelings, its a combination of pure sadness but also pure hapiness. You really start to think in a different way when listening to Daniel Rosenfeld minecraft tracks. And one unique thing about this music is that its just gets sadder when u listen to it when your not playing minecraft. It just reminds u of all the times youve had, even if u havnt played minecraft for a long time or never expierienced playing it together with friends it still makes u cry. And i know this text is a bit janky and i cant explain it well and its overal not a good text it still came from the heart...
I like to think that the soundtrack is also meant to be listened to in order. It starts off ambitious gives you the end. A criminally underrated song in it entirety with a almost overwhelming onsomble mid way through then cuts to more organic sounds and record scratches. Then blends into chirp. An arguably strange track to say the least. The theme is followed until eleven. Each song being almost a simplified version of the encounters and experiences you've had throughout the game. Eleven changes that theme completely. More record scratching, followed by a grand yet eloquent piano that plays throughout the whole track. Ward picks back up with the cartoonish simplified theme that switches pace a few times. Each switch changing the mood from one to another. This is continued until intro. Each song getting more and more complex and intricate as it goes on. Far finishes with more of the static we've been greeted with throughout the sound track but with more organic noises. Intro is where the complexity peaks in my mind. It starts out smooth and slightly familiar but fades in a vocal hum that progresses throughout the song along with its synth that becomes more and more integrated into the foreground allowing you to be invoked with a sense of remembrance of times once had in the game. All of this builds to a powerful yet soothing peak that coaxes the listener into a sense of joy in remembrance. All then fading off into a abrubt record scratch and then Ki plays once again. This time having a different perceived tone. Instead of feeling wonderous and excited the listener feels a sense of nostalgia for the memories made prior and ready to start anew. Instead of Intro being an "intro" song to the game, its a intro song into a new unexplored world to players who have conquered the game and are ready to start new once more. A restart button in music form that coaxes a returning player into a sense of excitement and happiness. A little bit of a stretch but its all making sense to me right now and I'm higher then hell.
I would love to see you cover the aquatic soundtrack and possibly the Console Edition Mini Games Soundtrack. Also, you forgot Flake and Kyoto (although they're locked behind Legacy Console/Bedrock Christmas Mash Up), but they are part of Beta.
I'll never forget when I accidentally forgot the title menu open after just lauching the game but had to do something else, and all of the sudden, as i came back to my room after doing what i had to do, Moog City 2 started playing.
and the feeling of an adventure waiting for me, almost calling for me, as i looked back to the screen and saw the panorama of 1.15(the buzzy bees update), just overwhelmed me and i didn't even press play(it was bedrock), I just sat there looking at the title screen listening to that slow rising theme, reverbing through the trees, and then the lower part came and I was just left with the feeling of nostalgia every minecraft music has, so i pressed play and opened my survival world, and Moog City 1 started playing, sortta giving me an answer to the second one, without the airy bg, the more crispy and "beaty" notes, telling me "this is it, this is the adventure that was waiting for you, this world is your canvas and here for you to explore"
This video is truly a masterpiece! Those were the best and deepest descriptions of the Volume Beta tracks I've ever heard and I thank you and Daniel for that!
I only recently learned that he is german, like me. That somehow makes the whole thing even more amazing to me. I don't think there are many game soundtracks composed by german producers and it is so cool that the best of all soundtracks is made by one!
This is awesome, really good job on the quality of the vid. One of your best videos yet in my opinion, keep on climbing up the RUclips ladder!
thanks so much, that means a lot. i’m really happy how it turned out and i hope to only improve from here :)
Aria Math, and many other songs talked about in this video, remind me of me and my friends. Of past friends, present friends. Of who I used to be and no longer want to be, and who I am now and who I’ll be in the future. I’m terrified and excited, and im so glad I’ll have my friends with me for it. It also reminds of my current friends, their chaotic nature that’s still so loving and caring. Im so happy to have them in my lives. Im so happy that im still here, still able to be who I want to be and who I really am. Still able to call them on discord and just talk, and play games together. I realize Minecraft has been a core part of all my friendships, of who I am now, and I’ll be forever grateful.
I actually don’t know why, but Minecraft tracks are the ones that keep me focused while studying. I discovered it unexpectedly when I was listening to one of C418 songs that tuned in on auto-play, but then for the last 6 months I study exclusively with Minecraft music. There is truly some magic it this pieces
Damn. This awakens memorys. I used to play minecraft on my ps4 in 2014 with my friend, i used not to have a ps online account, so i couldnt update the game and had to play in TU13, until 2020, when i finally picked up my playstation again and finnaly updated it. Discovering all these old worlds frlt amazing. Old jokes that we made back in the day, monuments we built in creative mode, and old terrain we used to explore, all while listening to to the sweet sounds of C418 masterpiece of a soundtrack. I miss those times.
"Blocks" It has one of the most beautiful and melodic endings of any other c418 song. I hope one day you can talk about the rest of the songs on the album, which are many more
Over the past 12 years, these songs have accompanied me as I grew from a child into a man. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the first world I explored, all those years ago, but at least the music can bring back the faded memories.
Really liked the first one, glad a second part has come out. I hope you keep making great videos
moog city 2 is probably my favorite song in all of minecraft. lots of memories associated with it haha
So glad that Dreiton and Alpha got some love. Alpha is one of the most underrated songs imo
volume beta is quite literally the peak of music and this video describes every aspect of why. Amazing work
Truly nostalgic. This is quality content right here. You deserve more subs bro.
I was very lucky to have an older brother, who was obsessed with Minecraft. The obsession went from him to me and my younger brother. I remember hopping on our ps3 just to make new worlds and never play on them again. We never made it to getting iron, we praised every stone sword we had, because we were really scared of monsters at the time. And that’s what’s beautiful about Minecraft. When you were young you didn’t do much, you built a cubic house made of wood, maybe a wheat farm and called it a day. Now, you see people beating the game in less than 10 minutes. But maybe we did that because we wanted to just hear the music play, so we wouldn’t be as scared as much. It was really relaxing at the time. Now it’s pretty much pure nostalgia. Every time I hear a C418’s Minecraft music, I swim in tears. I just can’t let the thought go that these times have passed. I want be afraid of monsters again. Ever since my account got hacked and I needed to buy a new Minecraft copy, I felt demotivated, and couldn’t bring myself to play again. The 9 years of playing this game everyday maybe coming to end.
Recently, my grandma died and it really hit hard in the soul. I felt that one piece of my life left, like dropping a jigsaw puzzle piece. Yesterday, I saw this amazing video and the meaning of Taswell really helped me. I realized that I shouldn't remember my grandma for her death and the big sadness it caused, but if not, for the happiness she helped us feel. When you experience loss, do not feel like you did not spend enough time with the person you lost, feel and remember that was the amount of time you were meant to be. Thank you, Meraki, for this amazing video! And thank you, C418, for this amazing soundtrack!
This was a beautiful comment. I’m deeply sorry for your loss, and I’m glad this was able to help, even if in a small way. Wishing you the best of luck, and thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you so much! ;)@@merakimerakimeraki
Great video! Volume Beta is absolutely wild, and is easily my favorite of the two albums. You did an amazing job at putting so many people's thoughts into words. Sucks that a lot of us will never be able to truly enjoy the game the same way we did as kids, but we can always listen to these godlike albums to relive our distant memories.
Somewhat unrelated, but to think that C418 has a finished third album absolutely haunts me every single day. These first two albums were amazing, and I can't even begin to imagine how a third album would sound. I don't remember what's stopping him from publishing it, but I hope the disagreements can be settled so we can hear that delicious third album.
0:01 this made me gasp with joy, i, a die-harf minecraft nerd, am able to recognise most, if not all, of vol alpha and beta by the first chord or note alone. And intro is just about one of the most iconic.
I’ve been playing Minecraft since I was four and can safely say that Haunt Muskie is my favorite Minecraft song. For me, it feels like it tells a whole story within itself. And that beat drop hits so hard.
I don’t think that there’s any string of words that can explain the way I feel for this content and the other content you put out.
this was beautiful. the soundtrack is truly special, and the last two tracks are incredible. great analysis
Volume Beta remains my favorite C418 album, and his magnum opus in my eyes. His other works, from Volume Alpha all the way to Excursions are also incredible. But this one is just a masterpiece.
excursions is SUCH a banger
I remember watching Stampy and squid playing adventures map when I was six, and then once I got a copy of Minecraft I remember doing a house in a flat nether, it was like 100 blocks and never thought about it. Those were the good times...
I was stoked to hear that your favorite track was the same as mine. For me, Alpha isn't just a beautiful song. It's the conclusion to an integral experience that made me what I am today. My life would be so different today if I hadn't been able to experience Minecraft
damn it's already been 2.5 years since the first upload
these videos are so fucking high quality dude, the amount of effort you put in shows and makes it so good to watch, i hope you keep making these because me and everyone else that sees them love to watch them.
keep up the good stuff
Your content has so much potential. You deserve so much attention! I hope more people get to watch these :)
Idk why but Kyoto by C418 is just so good. Each song in Volume Alpha and Beta just screams perfection and absolute art. Its diversity is just amazing. C418 is the soul of Minecraft’s music and it always sends a wave of nostalgia and tranquility whenever I play Volume Beta and Alpha.
My favourite Minecraft track is key for a vary personal reason. As a kid me and my friends would play on a certain world which I made on my Xbox 360 and we used to build stuff like very short skyscrapers made of glowstone, ships made from smooth stone, lighthouses made from wool and wooden boxes filled to the brim with dogs and cats.
But when moved country I never got to see them again so I stopped playing the world. As the years went by I got to the point where I had defeated the ender dragon and had gotten many new and better friends then before. But only about a year and a half ago I found that world when I was looking through some of my old games on the 360 and I had forgotten it had even existed at this point.
Only a few seconds after the world loaded in Sweden started to play and I decided to turn the music volume up to listen to it. But when I arrived in the main area where me and my old friends built all of the little glowstone skyscrapers the sun had almost gone down and key started to play, and that is when I cried, not only because of the fact that the song sounded sad and it brought back so many memories but also because I realised that this world was almost lost to time and I almost forgot all those said memories.
In the end I ended up not giving away my 360 and key was the song that made me do this.
My favorite soundtrack is also the start menu one.
It refreshes me after feeling the extreme loneliness created by hours of gaming. It is the only soundtrack that makes me want to play more.
And due to the loneliness this game gives me every time I play it, I never play survival mode alone.
Biome fest reminds me of my childhood, when i hear this song memories storms into my head. This song creates such unreal nostaliga. I always used to enjoy the game at my friends house, and home. we used to build the most simple houses but it was still so fun. I really miss the good old days and hope that 2023 is going to be a good life excperience.
concrete halls and ballad of the cats evokes the feeling i had when everytime i got lost in nether
I don't know when was i chilled so much after watching a 25 minutes long video about... anything. I could listen to your videos hours and hours long, and you know what? I think i will. The amount of content and love what your videos have, is just incredible. You are putting so much soul into each of your videos, and the way you actually compose it. Like, playing hours and hours of Minecraft, to get clips from Minecraft's nature, to fill the video backgrounds. Keep up dude the amazing work!
thanks so much for the kind words :) i’m glad you feel that way, i wanted it to have that effect
the quality over all may just be the best thing ive ever seen on a video of minecraft
Those tracks are what helped shape a whole generation of children including myself. In my eyes, he changed the world with his music. I still remember the days when Herobrine was popular and when trolling people was real popular. This kind of made me cry a little :)
Your super underrated bro, you deserve more subs.
You are so right.
I fell asleep to Aria Math and I think It was one of the best dreams will ever have again. It started off with the hand pans, and my brain knew that this melody is from minecraft, then causing to dream in Minecraft. Once the sythns started to play, I entered creative mode. I could do anything. My friends were there too, all of them together, which was something I was starting to envy. We built for a while and at one point, played along with the music?? I woke up when the track ended. I wish I could go back to 2011-2014, truly a great time.
Beginning 2 and Aria math is my my favorite. For me, these two elevate my feelings so much that most of the time I just have to sit back and listen. Danny knew what he was doing.
The most important thing in Minecraft is, that after you’ve made all the possible quests (discovering mansions, fighting off bosses, mining perfect materials etc.) you’re left with the end. You go to the end and when you beat the end, it is the end.
After the credits end, you’re left now wondering what to do next? And so far, you’re done with everything possible you’ve done and gives when reentering your world a behind the scenes atmosphere.
The point I’m trying to make is, Minecraft is like a series or a movie, the beginning and the journey is the most entertaining part of all and the end is like the end, the movie ends and your left wondering if I should rewatch it again or leave it for a long time until you want to experience it again.
That makes Minecraft and the tracks a sense of a start and a end of your world, you have finished it, now all you can do is to start again.
That’s what gives me the nostalgia, a sad feeling and knowledge that it comes to an end, like a spectacular and amiable movie or simply an adventure coming to an end, like a series.
I'm so glad you made a follow-up video about Volume Beta. There is no way to describe my respect for C418 and it's really fascinating to see how you interpret these masterpieces and honestly just make them feel even more special. Loved this video, can't wait for your next!
7:45 actually, Floating Trees is a remix of Subwoofer Lullaby. Don't believe me? Take the time to hear it whole.
i remember me being 6 or 7 years old playing Minecraft with my older brother and with my 2 cousins. great memories.
Dude, your voice and charisma catch me to the soul! Thanks for the great video, everything about it is great and i love it! We all expirienced minecraft differenty in some ways but nearly the same! Just being curious young guy, filled with hopes and dreams, wanting to get to the top of the world, and this game gave it to us in a lot of ways! I still remember my first few items crafted, the excitment of collecting wood and doing them, the first mud house, the first night spend around skeletons and spiders, first creeper blowing my house, first time in a cave deep in the dark with only few torches and mobs around me, first time playing multiplayer and the excitement of doing stuff together with your bro, first try to make silly jokes with your friends house or chests , ahh the nostalgia is really , really strong.. I watched your previous video about the soundtrack of minecraft and i loved it! Instantly felt inlove with how calm and good your voice is, your thoughts and how you express so good the soundtrack, i feel everything you've said the same! Good job! Subscribed!
I absolutely love that phrase "don't cry because its over, smile because it happened"
I remember when I was 7 or 8 and turning on Minecraft legacy edition on the Wii U and hearing one of those main menu songs play and I listened to the entire thing. It is now the most nostalgic song I know
I believe this song was moog city 2
this video, and the video preceding it about volume alpha, are two amazing videos. these two soundtracks, and the songs they contain, are most certainly the music i've listened to the most over the past 10 years, whether in the background of minecraft, or just on shuffle while working, and, beyond a few tracks, i had never taken the time to fully consider and realize the complexity and beauty of the songs within until these videos. truly, two beautiful soundtracks
21:50: I think you missed the most important moment in the end sountrack: One that we all felt the first time we entered the end. The droning increases more and more, pulsating, getting louder when you feel that you are truly far away from everywhere - and then, suddenly:
One familiar chord. The first chord of Sweden. Sends us back to the beginning of all of our adventures in Minecraft. Years and years have passed, you have lived through the development of Minecraft with countless worlds, and then - the End gets introduced. You try and finally enter it, feeling the otherworldness of the place, feeling so incredibly far away from everything, with nothing to hold on to.
But then the droning and pulsating gets overdroned by the first chord of Sweden, still very distorted, but you recognize it. Then the droning and pulsating tries to come back, but gets fought back by the continuation of Sweden.
The end of the soundtrack is a very curious sensation of a fight: Sweden and the end droning and pulsating fight against each other. For a moment, Sweden wins - still very distorted, but you feel like back at home for a moment in that strange foreign place. In the end, both get very loud and in the end: Silence.
If that was a fight, I don't know who has won - the end or Sweden - but it's great nevertheless. And I think in that was way more to analyze, than you have thought about during that soundtrack. Not angry, but a bit sad, because I know that of course you put a lot of work into analyzing the soundtrack. But that's what I got out of the End soundtrack always, and why I think that it triggers very interesting emotions.
My favourite minecraft song is one I never think I heard in the soundtrack growing up, but one I got to know through finding Jschlatt´s a tribute to minecraft. I then looked it up and found it on volume beta. Its called intro. And although I had never heard it before. It resonated with me, and reminded me of all the good times I had with this game. I even got tears in my eyes. Thank you C418, for making my childhood amazing
Taswell is one of my all time favorite pieces of music.
based. 100% agree, my favourite song, followed by dreiton then aria math. creative music is so underrated
Thank you so much for putting the time and heart into making another unbelievable video for us. You somehow managed to follow up your part 1 on this, which is my favorite video on RUclips, with a part 2 that is just perfect.
thank you so much for the kind words - people like you are the reason i make these videos
I love your videos so much! All of them are so well made, keep it up bro!
Moog City 2 is special to me as it’s the first song you play when booting up Minecraft Xbox One edition, and it’s a masterpiece.
I would say floating trees is kinda a spin off of subwoofer lullaby... you can hear at the and of Floating trees a part from Subwoofer lullaby (2:08 in Subwoofer lullaby) its not exactly the same but it sounds extremely similar
I started playing Minecraft in 2014. These songs give me memories of when my brother and I sat in my hallway playing Minecraft on my mom’s iPad and laughing at Steve drowning (don’t worry we were like 5 years old). And this brings me back to the good times 😌. Minecraft is a revolutionary game for people all over the globe and I hope in the future we will remember it and the nostalgia and excitement that the game has. ❤
I started playing minecraft when I was a young kid, I’m now 26 and I miss it dearly, I’m going to 100% the game with trophies and absolutely get sad every time I hear his music. ありがとう Meraki!
I’ve been playing since Alpha and stopped playing in Beta sadly, I have gone back a couple of times with one my of best friends and absolutely enjoyed my time, thanks for everything Notch, Minecraft, and especially you C418.
Im just gonna write here what I feel, it might sound weird or stuff like that but.. Its simply what I feel when I hear those songs, I just imagine an old grandpa, sitting in his room and getting a visit from his grandson, his grandson begins playing these songs and then I just imagine the inside of the grandpa's mind, he is hearing those songs with excitment tho he never heard them before, they give him nostalgia feelings even tho he never heard it before, he's amazed, he goes back to the good old days, but its not like us, 13-20 year olds who just imagine themselves being kids, he.. he imagines an entire life because that's what he had gone through, he was a child, so careless and free, he then imagines his teenhood, he remembers being sad because he missed the old days, he remembers his teen self crying at night because of desperation, tough years, he imagines the army, losing many friends but also meeting some, he cries as he remembers all the friends he had during his childhood all the way to his adulthood, he wonders what happened with them, he then imagines is adulthood, he was a nice man, he had a wife, he had kids, he was just.. proud of himself, he got everything he ever wanted but he still felt like he needed more, more money, more cars, more vacations, he was greedy, he cries realising he took everything he had as usual, he remembers the first hug he got from his grandson, being so proud of his son for succeeding in life too, he knows what is his son thinking of, money, cars, vacations, but he does not care, at least his son has willpower, his son wants to succeed more than anyone ever, but how does the grandpa knows? He's just a grandpa listening to some songs from a video game.
Minecraft music touch your emotions that bringing back to our old memories and you've been spending time with friends or yourself in an lonely fantasy world, For minecraft veteran it made us cry.
4:45 omg THANK YOU I have to agree Alpha is by far the BEST track in the game. A nostalgic, memorable collage of some of the best, most vibeful tracks in the game and turning it into something special. Something melancholic yet inspiration and AAAAAAAAAAAAAA so good.