One guy in the comments is depressed drinking alone to this song, another guy is happily making coffee and breakfast to it. Captures the mood of the song pretty well tbh.
Esprit de Corps: "If an assault were launched on this building right now - if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you - this man would hurl himself in death's way to save you. He is your half-brother." What a way to introduce a character, especially with this playing in the background. It made me take a liking to Kim instantly. After that rough wake-up, at least *someone* got your back.
I like to think that I'd like to do anything in my power to make sure Kim was well, even put my life at risk to save him. But I also know very well that he wouldn't let me.
@@madikken5363 It's really interesting because on paper he doesn't sound like a popular character. He's stoic, has some character sure, but nothing crazy or super-cool on the surface. He's a straight man. But everyone who played the game loves him! Easily the most popular behind (maybe) the protagonist.
@@fpedrosa2076 True! I think we all love him because he´s like an anchor to the chaotic mess of a main character that is Harry. While playing I found it a great relief to be accompanied by someone who will always have my back, no matter how badly I fuck up. Maybe having someone as reliable and loyal by our side is something that speaks to us on a very personal level? Also, since he has such a serious personality, it is all the more satisfying when he does indulge in Harry´s shenanigans now and then :) The writers just did an overall fantastic job with him imo
Still love the line ‘that’s the name your parents gave you, tequila sunset is your real name’ there’s you as society sees you, and there’s you as you see yourself
Finding out about Disco Elysium completely changed my life. I always come back to this sound track every night and listen to it before going to bed. This sound track is something else. I can't explain what kind of feeling it gives me when I listen to it. All I can say is that I am grateful that this masterpiece exists. People probably won't see this comment but goodnight everyone. I'll come back again tomorrow to listen to this. I'll always keep coming back.
@@nothingtoseeherepls5844 Be sure to check out the band Sea Power f.k.a. British Sea Power. They wrote most of the soundtrack and much of their other work has the same vibe
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - Trying to sleep? But that's boring. You can do that when you're dead, or in tomorrow's lecture. Lectures are a great time for that, the *best* time, so drop the "just one more song" act. Put your phone aside, boot the computer back up and play some more! That's the life, my man, the gaming life! YOU - NO! I'm tired and trying to stay up to date with my studies. You kept me up too long already, so let me get at least four and a half hours of sleep, for crying out loud! Good luck with your dopamine receptors, y'all. Better luck than me, anyway.
VOLITION [Moderate:Success] - It's nothing you haven't dealt with before. Temptation has called every day of your life, and no matter how far along you wish you were, you're still better now than if you'd given in. This time's no different. REPTILIAN BRAIN - Embrace the darkness, true respite from what you want to be distracted from. It's warm down there in that bed, good enough to never get up...
ive been on a weight loss journey for the last two months now, every morning i wake up at 5:30am and put this on. i make a double shot espresso and go on a 3 hour walk with this soundtrack in the background. I never realised how beautiful the world was until now
It's amazing how this song can make me joyous and giddy with excitement. But then sad and empty. It's like getting deep into a dream of good times with friends in the sun but you know that it's just a dream. That's okay tho.
It is the songification of electrochemistry/addiction: like sex, alcohol and drugs, at first, the euphoria, then comes melancholy, then you might realize something is wrong but will be unable to give it up. The song does the same: it starts with an upbeat, slowly becomes less so, and in the end you just want to loop it to keep listening.
Shivers: As the music plays a distant flightless bird pecks aimlessly at the ground; the wind whips up an old, spoiled food wrapper and sends it spiralling to the ground. The glow of an abandoned lighthouse pierces the autumn air and an elderly man watches from a bench he visits each day to remember his wife. As it plays, it’s as if it will never end.
I've been in college for nearly 6 years, getting a 4 year degree. I've watched a lot of friends graduate and move on without me, and I've commuted every year so far, leaving my experience hallow for the most part. Just for one month during this summer I'm finally living on campus, an experience I never thought I'd get considering I'm a super-senior now. But the campus is sad and empty, leaving me unsure If it's even worth it. I'm sitting in a nearly empty warehouse sized chow hall, almost by myself there are so few people. It feels so lonely and a place out of time, but I listen to this song while eating breakfast in this largely empty cafeteria, and I feel a bit more comfortable while I wait for my life to finally get under way... join my friends on the other side of adult hood I guess... A lot how I imagine Harry feels waking up trying to muster the canter to find himself, and a killer, if you wanted to get philosophical about it...
same feeling I get in my late 20s at work or just alone on the grind man, roommates are getting serious relationships, Im recently out of a serious one etc. You know the deal. Just trying to keep the ball rolling. This game legit taught me how to process a lot of different responses Id have to things. There's a lot of strangely therapeutic elements to disco elysium. Going so deep down a self defeating rabbit hole in this game will straight up end it. So you learn to keep yourself going and finding reasons to keep going. And I suppose that's life. In a good way.
@@hossbonaventure Im right there with you, and I think the most important and moving thing about it is that: even when you do crazy or self destructive stuff, there are characters who still care about you/Harry. In particular Kim, and to a lesser degree even Jean. Most other stories would paint Harry as a completely unredeemable person, but even when you do some stupid stuff (up to the point that Harry is just down right malicious/racist), characters understand how the circumstances of the world pushed you in this direction and are patient with you. Some even doing every thing in their limited power to help steer you towards good decisions. It just makes me feel less alone knowing that you can mess up and feel lost but that people can and will still care about you, even if they literally don't know you at all. Just because we're all human and we're more empathetic than most are lead to believe. That's what felt therapeutic to me.
This song has the energy of a sunrise No matter if you're seeing the sunrise because you woke up early and refreshed or if you stayed up all night drinking in existential dread the sun has still rose and it is still just as beautiful
I can't tell if I want to cry or jam along to this song. There is a certain melancholy to it, bittersweet feeling but in the end, we all know what it entails...loss
Quick info: Almost the entire ost was made by Sea Power. The game's songs are all featured on their various albums, usually with vocals. I'm unsure what relationship the band has to the game's dev team. This theme seems to be based on "A Light Above Descending" on the album Sea of Brass (2015), but finds its most faithful analog in "Fire Escape in the Sea" on Everything Was Forever (2022). The fluidity of the melodies and themes are incredibly compelling across their discography.
I know that the Whirling-in-Rags was named after a lyric from an older Sea Power song in the original tabletop RPG sessions that Disco Elysium was based on. "You're whirling in rags You're vast and you're sad Hail holy queen of the sea" So obviously having been fans for a while, the creators went straight to Sea Power to ask if they could do the soundtrack and by god did they do a phenomenal job
Hits different when you are far from home for college, couldnt sleep in the dormitory thinking about that girl at 2 am in a cold and rainy fall night while smoking and knowing damn well that tommorow aint gonna go easy on you.
Just finished my first play through today, never has any game affected me the way Disco Elysium did, fantastic writing, great and believable characters, good voice acting, main character I might relate to a bit too much, one of the most interesting game worlds I've ever had the pleasure to explore and learn about, no forced shooty shooty bang bang fighting to keep players engaged but insightful, deep and meaningful conversations with people, truly touching moments, brilliant soundtrack and you can play the whole game with only a mouse. Truly a 10/10 masterpiece of interactive story telling. Jumped right next to DOOM and DOOM II as my all time favorite games ever, can't wait for the final cut version to come out, I'm already longing to return to Revachol.
I am really not judging your taste of games at all but... Isn't Disco Elysium Like VERY different from the DOOM games? I am just curious because those are as I said, very different
@@Honorio-nz4ts Yes they are different, I hope you realize that some people can and do like different kinds of things, not just the same regurgitated sludge that games usually offer. And btw I wasn't talking about nuDOOM, I was talking about OG DOOM, just to make that clear too.
@@Honorio-nz4ts coincidentally I jumped into doom 2016 right after disco elysium and disco was a spiritual experience for me. I loved disco. Doom was something I put off for years and now experiencing it and it’s amazing too. Balance of fast pace and slower methodical games works well for me.
My quarantine song, perfectlly captures the mood between not having to leave the house because of work in the morning, and not beeing able to leave the house at all lol
"VOLITION: You can do it. It's nothing. Do it for the city. Go. SHIVERS: Do it for the wind. LOGIC: Do it for the picture puzzle. Put it all together. Solve the world. One conversation at a time."
This game honestly left me not knowing how to feel throughout the entire game, it's like my brain couldn't tell whether I should be sad, angry, depressed or happy at literally any time.
To me this song feels like you’ve found what you’re looking for, it may not necessarily be what you want but dawn is revealing itself and with it, some kind of happiness
What I love about this soundtrack is that it really captures the mood of the Whirling in Rags. It's a place where the happiest of people and people at their lowest all gather. The place is constantly caught between a happy and sad state. That's the mood of this song. It's neither happy nor sad, it's somewhere in between.
The world is a beautiful place, the people shine with inspiration and passion within them. Don't believe it all, don't believe that ever swirling, ever consuming void. That comfortable black pit where you can convince yourself that the world has abandoned you- that nothing can ever get better. It may not now. It may not by the time you're on your death bed. But its those moments where the sun and wind rises, that you feel the cool vastness of the world on your bare cheek and you think "Yes, in this already passed moment- things are good." Be kind if nothing else. To yourself, to others, to those underserving. Disco into that tequila sunset.
This music is the end. This music is the beginning, This is what I hear when I wanna cry and this is what also makes me smile. It's what gives me confidence and what makes me question myself. This is what nothing and everything means at the same time. And you can damn bet that I love it.
I actually passed the check and got away from responsibility. Only returned back there close to 12 pm when I realised I had to sleep and he wouldn't let me in without his 200 pay. And I only had like 10 in my pockets. P.S. the game bugged out and Kim haven't proposed me to sell his stuff at pawn shop and it was late anyway so it was already close. Plus I already failed skill check for begging rich lady for money so I soft-locked the game lol. Reloaded recent save and then both sold Kim's stuff AND passed a check for begging money. Feels good man.
I came into Elysium as someone who had recently fallen in love with the band Pulp and constantly prepared myself for the kind of perfect karaoke that would demonstrate the immensity of my soul every night on the drive home from the job I hated. This song is exactly that mood. It's like getting off of work only to go home not sure if you have enough money for the fast food you feel the need to treat yourself to. It sounds like falling asleep just so you can wake up in less than eight short hours and continue "living the dream."
I know a few of you have said that this song describes various melancholic life scenarios, but honestly, I feel like it paints the whole picture of life in general - sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down, sometimes we feel well guided, and there are times we feel lost. Life is a wave. It changes around like the seasons and a lot of the time it's extremely unpredictable, such as the weather can be also. Life is a beautiful, mysterious sorrowful bitter sweet song and dance, but what a hell of an experience it surely is. The trick is to try and enjoy it all, no matter how tough it can get. Ride the waves 🌊
Ok, so its 4:31 here in Poland and I cant fall asleep and Im quite drunk so I might as well write my experience from this game for the 3 people that will read it. First of all, Disco Elysium helped me understand things that I couldnt cope with, that is break up and running away from your problems, like alcoholism. Its definetely a game like no other, but what made me feel like this game was made especially for me, was probably 4th night, I cant really remember as I finished this game quite long ago. Namely, I played on hard, and made a promise to myself that I wont sell any "souvenirs", I mean items like postcards, forgive me but I cant really recall what they were called. So there goes 1st, 2nd, 3rd nights and Im doing quite well, making progress in investiagtion and then suddenly there comes night and I cant afford a place to sleep. I made a run around town for bottles but at this stage I basically found every single one of them. Here comes decision, do I sleep on street or I sell something? I was missing literally few cents and as sleeping on street in this god forsaken land was like commiting suicide at this point, I went to the thrift shop. I spent like 10 minutes on chosing item I want to sell and I made up my mind. I was going to sell photo of a particular reitred soldier, that is Rene Arnoux, with his girlfriend to afford a place to sleep. I received my money and went to whirling in rags. You can imagine horror in my heart the next day when I saw his friend sitting on a bench alone. I already knew what was going on I was thinking to myself for the rest of the game that he actually died because of me. I blamed myself for the rest of the game and weeks after I learned that he dies no matter what you do, but man, my heart seriously froze there for a moment. I know it wasnt planned but holy shit, no game made me feel this and probably no game will probably ever make me feel this pure, I dont even know how to call it, helplesness and injustice as Disco Elysium.
About three months ago I started this masterpiece. I was only making ~$100/week and was at risk of financial catastrophe. Since then, I have gotten the "dream job" I always wanted, a high school band/chorus director. It pays well but the kids are savages. Like, imagine a fucking choir of Cuno. I'm about to quit and just deliver pizza on the weekends so I have more time to actually LIVE. Whatever the fuck that means... This song is perfect for situations such as these in life. Minimalism perfection.
@@BattleToads yea, kids in our time just cannot understand WHAT IS another human. So they don't want to deal like civilised creatures. Only barbarian lang, only kuno's way. And sry if i got some mistakes here.
@@BattleToads How is everything going right now? I hope it's well! I've gone back to school after like half a decade, after having my life basically destroyed ten years ago. Socializing with people again is weird, but finally feeling like getting out of that rut is a whole another feeling, even if it's hard, tiring and it hurts sometimes. That song personally reminds me of that and the cold days out waiting to cross the highway, humming songs to myself and just thinking of people, and thinking about writing about them.
@@Morgan_grail Hanging in there. Been self employed doing delivery apps and running my own tiny business. Student loan payments started back this month and it looks like my car is dying this month, right on que.
Woke up hangover after a night of self destruction and letting loved ones worry and after a hot shower i started listenning to this, while trying my hardest to not puke out a drop of water. Good song
this song is the emotional opposite to gymnopedie no1 for me, i saw a comment on that song a while ago that said "i'd like to go back, not to change anything, just to feel a few things twice" but this song is filled with so much awareness of the present and inability to reminisce. i can't help but pause and breathe in the moment when i hear this, before reengaging in the rush and worries of my day
On a recent playthrough, the guitar riff kicked in right after Titus said the line about how the Hardie Boys had to look after Klaasje and everyone in Martinaise, despite everything, or there’d be no point to them doing anything. Really nice emotional moment.
We shared something. You and I. When we played this game, the few of us that ever will, and that thread of connection will remain. In twenty years, upon stumbling across this song, we'll remember and we'll smile about it. That you can be sure of.
How does a song sound so comforting yet anxious? Seriously fucking incredible how it encapsulates the mood of the game. One of my all time favourites. Mixed to perfection
This music makes you think about a hotel named Whirling In Rags and makes you imagine that you are in that hotel lounge with a coffee cup in your hand. Maybe sitting around or maybe running from here to there and talking with people to investigate a case or about some bugs! Who knows? Life is Good and Bad at the same time. The joy and the melancholy hits at the same time. This music nothing but a masterpiece which Instantly reminds you about the City Revachol. I can write endless words, but the music is over now.
bro, i dont do spoilers at all, so i thought i was going to be a detective in jamrock and then the game just ended, i was so devastated i cant even describe it. one of the best games ever made
I relate so much to the love story of the main protagonist. And my ex left me during the time I was playing this game. When he(the protagonist) made that phone call to his ex wife I just broke down. And it was this song that I ultimately linked to the whole breakup. I never thought I’d be able to actually listen to this song again without any pain.
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One guy in the comments is depressed drinking alone to this song, another guy is happily making coffee and breakfast to it. Captures the mood of the song pretty well tbh.
What is the nature of a man?
hallerd “I was born I had a good life was vaporized by a bomb”
Aye, the Whirling In Rags brings everyone together. Happy new year
@@hallerd What can change the nature of a man?
doing both rn, feels good man
"So the body is still in the tree?"
I don't like dead bodies...
my dude kept fuckin' pukin'
@@bigfupa69 You need to get your shit together.
@@bigfupa69 shit compressor was my first thought investment
Lol
Neither optimist nor pessimist, this song is dedicated to eyes facing forward
like a predator
@@mairidberz1450 dude, tf
@@faikzia7811 no-no, they’re right. Like a predatory animal
Man that's goals honestly. These days I find it hard not to look backwards all time or not worry about things that aren't actually there.
Hahahahaha wtf I completely forgot I commented this, this song and this game go hard asf tho keep it real guys
Esprit de Corps: "If an assault were launched on this building right now - if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you - this man would hurl himself in death's way to save you. He is your half-brother."
What a way to introduce a character, especially with this playing in the background. It made me take a liking to Kim instantly. After that rough wake-up, at least *someone* got your back.
Love your comment. Esprit de Corps all the way. Kim...
Yeah even at your lowest Kim is always there to uplift you in really clever ways.
I like to think that I'd like to do anything in my power to make sure Kim was well, even put my life at risk to save him. But I also know very well that he wouldn't let me.
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Having finally just beat the game, and experienced the Mercenary Tribunal, that line is one HELL of a bit of foreshadowing.
*+1* The lieutenant trusts you.
*+2* Kim **truly** trusts you.
I love this song so much. It really captures that "derealization episode in a convenience store at 3am" vibe.
What helps with your derealization? I have it too.
@Jean-Mathieu Janzen thanks brother. You’re right…the best solution is to just forget you even have it.
@@MSantosMusic Getting sober, if you're not already.
Man what a perfect description
Derealization isn't a word
Feels like a beginning and ending at the same time.
Alasdair Clark because it is
In more ways than one
Exit Harrier Du Bois, Enter Raphael Ambrosius Costeau
Beginnings and endings, A life rolling on in a circular motion of never ending beginnings and endings. You summed it up well.
It really does… also 1000th like ig lol
Wake up to a cigarette you shouldn’t have. A hangover you forgot you made. A crisis of faith, a war of ideals, a broken heart, and a city on fire.
Didn’t that make you feel alive brother?
DETECTIVE, ON THE SCENE
Thats disco baby
Waking up at the bottom of a fire escape.
Im not apologizing for anything
My reptilian brain approves this song.
So does my limbic system!
This song reminds me of bonding with Kim Kitsuragi. What a journey
My dear dear Kim, I did everything for him
@@CanelaAguila we all did
@@madikken5363 It's really interesting because on paper he doesn't sound like a popular character. He's stoic, has some character sure, but nothing crazy or super-cool on the surface. He's a straight man. But everyone who played the game loves him! Easily the most popular behind (maybe) the protagonist.
@@fpedrosa2076 True! I think we all love him because he´s like an anchor to the chaotic mess of a main character that is Harry. While playing I found it a great relief to be accompanied by someone who will always have my back, no matter how badly I fuck up. Maybe having someone as reliable and loyal by our side is something that speaks to us on a very personal level?
Also, since he has such a serious personality, it is all the more satisfying when he does indulge in Harry´s shenanigans now and then :)
The writers just did an overall fantastic job with him imo
This game has some of the best written characters in video games I think. Kim's character was wonderful. I love him
How can you be nostalgic about a game you only played 8 months ago?
Disco Elysium: "Hold my empathy...."
This game taught me to put points into Volition
Why develop your Volition when you could just obssess over the "suicide" of Kras Mazov, though.
I start my game with thinker. Suddenly my char quit his job because of fucking Cuno. Volition is real
@@MyStunner96
I tried to punch Cuno and ended up falling to the ground
@@arthurnunes5702 😂😂😂
Looking into klaasjes eyes is god damn hard
Just sitting here drunk wondering how i let my life get so out of control and how many people ive lost touch with. feelsbadman. Good soundtrack.
deaconoob I feel that brah. Don’t lose ur memory
@John Wayne Is that an authority check I feel?
@@20storiesunder Volition check
More cafeteria manager, less bartender
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Still love the line ‘that’s the name your parents gave you, tequila sunset is your real name’ there’s you as society sees you, and there’s you as you see yourself
Finding out about Disco Elysium completely changed my life. I always come back to this sound track every night and listen to it before going to bed. This sound track is something else. I can't explain what kind of feeling it gives me when I listen to it. All I can say is that I am grateful that this masterpiece exists. People probably won't see this comment but goodnight everyone. I'll come back again tomorrow to listen to this. I'll always keep coming back.
Goodnight pal. Let’s listen to this song together before we sleep. Let this song be the last memory before we enter the dream world. Live the song
you still coming back?
@@Mahaka_35 Still coming back
@@nothingtoseeherepls5844 Be sure to check out the band Sea Power f.k.a. British Sea Power. They wrote most of the soundtrack and much of their other work has the same vibe
we all coming back😉 the game was epic probably music made huge imapct
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - Trying to sleep? But that's boring. You can do that when you're dead, or in tomorrow's lecture. Lectures are a great time for that, the *best* time, so drop the "just one more song" act. Put your phone aside, boot the computer back up and play some more! That's the life, my man, the gaming life!
YOU - NO! I'm tired and trying to stay up to date with my studies. You kept me up too long already, so let me get at least four and a half hours of sleep, for crying out loud!
Good luck with your dopamine receptors, y'all. Better luck than me, anyway.
Fantastic writing, makes me appreciate how good the games was too. Great comment.
Straight out of the game quality
Read in the Ancient Reptilian Brain voice... Simply perfect
I have greatly increased my relationship with ELECTROCHEMISTRY in these times.
VOLITION [Moderate:Success] - It's nothing you haven't dealt with before. Temptation has called every day of your life, and no matter how far along you wish you were, you're still better now than if you'd given in. This time's no different.
REPTILIAN BRAIN - Embrace the darkness, true respite from what you want to be distracted from. It's warm down there in that bed, good enough to never get up...
We're all here for the funeral now, but remember right to the end- the creators stuck to their guns
capital subsumes all criticism of itself again :/
@@intolerablescamp1436it really does 😔
The Final Cut hype is real
March 30th, baby!
@@Gun_Metal_Grey TODAY!!!
Best game I've ever played 🙌🙌🙌
@@baltazarriosdelbarco4230 Best Tabletop RPG indeed
ive been on a weight loss journey for the last two months now, every morning i wake up at 5:30am and put this on. i make a double shot espresso and go on a 3 hour walk with this soundtrack in the background. I never realised how beautiful the world was until now
I’m happy for you ❤
Heck yeah brother! Your killing it 🎉❤
godspeed
I'm honoured to share this piece and game with all of you watching, you guys are cool
It's a pleasure to listen to, Harry.
Thank you Raphäel Ambrosius Costeau
Thanks, guy.
It has been a pleasure listening with you guys.
You are cool too ❤
Me: My soul is immense
Inland Empire: Utterly. And it needs to be heard.
- Through a PA system.
- By other people
Shivers: It resonates into regions yet unaccounted
It's amazing how this song can make me joyous and giddy with excitement. But then sad and empty. It's like getting deep into a dream of good times with friends in the sun but you know that it's just a dream. That's okay tho.
It is the songification of electrochemistry/addiction: like sex, alcohol and drugs, at first, the euphoria, then comes melancholy, then you might realize something is wrong but will be unable to give it up. The song does the same: it starts with an upbeat, slowly becomes less so, and in the end you just want to loop it to keep listening.
@@Diogovsky25
Well said
THIS.
Shivers: As the music plays a distant flightless bird pecks aimlessly at the ground; the wind whips up an old, spoiled food wrapper and sends it spiralling to the ground. The glow of an abandoned lighthouse pierces the autumn air and an elderly man watches from a bench he visits each day to remember his wife. As it plays, it’s as if it will never end.
What’s north? And beyond that?
This music promises a warm and welcoming world. It lied. Sort of.
It promises a world that is what you make it.
It delivered 100%.
Going straight to my 'Horrible hangover' playlist.
can you share it?
@@bloomingpain-flower7074 this song on repeat
@@Paul-wz9so This made me laugh way harder than it should have.
I've been in college for nearly 6 years, getting a 4 year degree. I've watched a lot of friends graduate and move on without me, and I've commuted every year so far, leaving my experience hallow for the most part. Just for one month during this summer I'm finally living on campus, an experience I never thought I'd get considering I'm a super-senior now. But the campus is sad and empty, leaving me unsure If it's even worth it. I'm sitting in a nearly empty warehouse sized chow hall, almost by myself there are so few people. It feels so lonely and a place out of time, but I listen to this song while eating breakfast in this largely empty cafeteria, and I feel a bit more comfortable while I wait for my life to finally get under way... join my friends on the other side of adult hood I guess... A lot how I imagine Harry feels waking up trying to muster the canter to find himself, and a killer, if you wanted to get philosophical about it...
36 And about to finish with my Masters. I feel ya, brother.
@@Zenryo11 good luck man, we got this 👊
same feeling I get in my late 20s at work or just alone on the grind man, roommates are getting serious relationships, Im recently out of a serious one etc. You know the deal. Just trying to keep the ball rolling. This game legit taught me how to process a lot of different responses Id have to things. There's a lot of strangely therapeutic elements to disco elysium. Going so deep down a self defeating rabbit hole in this game will straight up end it. So you learn to keep yourself going and finding reasons to keep going. And I suppose that's life. In a good way.
I hope you finish your carrer anon, good luck.
@@hossbonaventure Im right there with you, and I think the most important and moving thing about it is that: even when you do crazy or self destructive stuff, there are characters who still care about you/Harry. In particular Kim, and to a lesser degree even Jean. Most other stories would paint Harry as a completely unredeemable person, but even when you do some stupid stuff (up to the point that Harry is just down right malicious/racist), characters understand how the circumstances of the world pushed you in this direction and are patient with you. Some even doing every thing in their limited power to help steer you towards good decisions. It just makes me feel less alone knowing that you can mess up and feel lost but that people can and will still care about you, even if they literally don't know you at all. Just because we're all human and we're more empathetic than most are lead to believe. That's what felt therapeutic to me.
This song has the energy of a sunrise
No matter if you're seeing the sunrise because you woke up early and refreshed or if you stayed up all night drinking in existential dread the sun has still rose and it is still just as beautiful
I once again am awake at 5 am listening to this song WTF me from 2 years ago was so poetic
I can't tell if I want to cry or jam along to this song. There is a certain melancholy to it, bittersweet feeling but in the end, we all know what it entails...loss
Impermanence of all phenomena, that loss we cannot escape from but have to embrace in order to proceed.
Dora.....
That seems to be the overall feel of the game too.
You captured the feeling so well!
It promises lights, warmth, energy and potential, but it's dead, part of the past. It's Disco
My wife asked me why i kept repeating that song , she didn't know i was playing Disco Elysium and enjoying this music
Ex-something...
Why does that sound so bad?
Volition: Stop. Please.
Quick info:
Almost the entire ost was made by Sea Power. The game's songs are all featured on their various albums, usually with vocals. I'm unsure what relationship the band has to the game's dev team. This theme seems to be based on "A Light Above Descending" on the album Sea of Brass (2015), but finds its most faithful analog in "Fire Escape in the Sea" on Everything Was Forever (2022). The fluidity of the melodies and themes are incredibly compelling across their discography.
Thank you Encyclopedia. Was that a challenging check?
I know that the Whirling-in-Rags was named after a lyric from an older Sea Power song in the original tabletop RPG sessions that Disco Elysium was based on.
"You're whirling in rags
You're vast and you're sad
Hail holy queen of the sea"
So obviously having been fans for a while, the creators went straight to Sea Power to ask if they could do the soundtrack and by god did they do a phenomenal job
Love this song so much. Set the atmosphere of the game right from the start.
Hits different when you are far from home for college, couldnt sleep in the dormitory thinking about that girl at 2 am in a cold and rainy fall night while smoking and knowing damn well that tommorow aint gonna go easy on you.
So damn true
that's very exceptional
Just finished my first play through today, never has any game affected me the way Disco Elysium did, fantastic writing, great and believable characters, good voice acting, main character I might relate to a bit too much, one of the most interesting game worlds I've ever had the pleasure to explore and learn about, no forced shooty shooty bang bang fighting to keep players engaged but insightful, deep and meaningful conversations with people, truly touching moments, brilliant soundtrack and you can play the whole game with only a mouse. Truly a 10/10 masterpiece of interactive story telling.
Jumped right next to DOOM and DOOM II as my all time favorite games ever, can't wait for the final cut version to come out, I'm already longing to return to Revachol.
I am really not judging your taste of games at all but... Isn't Disco Elysium Like VERY different from the DOOM games? I am just curious because those are as I said, very different
@@Honorio-nz4ts Yes they are different, I hope you realize that some people can and do like different kinds of things, not just the same regurgitated sludge that games usually offer. And btw I wasn't talking about nuDOOM, I was talking about OG DOOM, just to make that clear too.
@@tappajavittu impossible
@@Honorio-nz4ts coincidentally I jumped into doom 2016 right after disco elysium and disco was a spiritual experience for me. I loved disco. Doom was something I put off for years and now experiencing it and it’s amazing too. Balance of fast pace and slower methodical games works well for me.
My quarantine song, perfectlly captures the mood between not having to leave the house because of work in the morning, and not beeing able to leave the house at all lol
That made me giggle - fuck
Truly the most neutral song ever
This song feels like sunshine of the unwanted Monday morning
By far my favorite music in the game. When I think of this wonderful piece of interactive art, I think of this song.
I think the evening theme is even better personally
This song is 80% of what attracted me to this masterpiece
winter of '51 vibes
Franklin! What's up brother!
*spring
"VOLITION: You can do it. It's nothing. Do it for the city. Go.
SHIVERS: Do it for the wind.
LOGIC: Do it for the picture puzzle. Put it all together. Solve the world. One conversation at a time."
Suggestion: use 'the expression' on her, let her know that you want her. Physically
Will never forget the time I failed the roll to kiss her, lmaoo
Check FAILED: "I want to have fuck with you".
"Let down the corp with the gun.........check failed.....shit..."
@@Brother-Kavkaz that's the best fucking line in the whole game, I knew it was going to be something special after that interaction
This game honestly left me not knowing how to feel throughout the entire game, it's like my brain couldn't tell whether I should be sad, angry, depressed or happy at literally any time.
To me this song feels like you’ve found what you’re looking for, it may not necessarily be what you want but dawn is revealing itself and with it, some kind of happiness
What shadow lies there, beneath the bright gleam?
This song is like being sad and happy at the same time. Just like our detective.
Pure melancholy...
What I love about this soundtrack is that it really captures the mood of the Whirling in Rags. It's a place where the happiest of people and people at their lowest all gather. The place is constantly caught between a happy and sad state. That's the mood of this song. It's neither happy nor sad, it's somewhere in between.
I can’t tell if this song makes me sad or happy
То же самое
Man I’m gonna miss being alive.
The world is a beautiful place, the people shine with inspiration and passion within them. Don't believe it all, don't believe that ever swirling, ever consuming void. That comfortable black pit where you can convince yourself that the world has abandoned you- that nothing can ever get better. It may not now. It may not by the time you're on your death bed. But its those moments where the sun and wind rises, that you feel the cool vastness of the world on your bare cheek and you think "Yes, in this already passed moment- things are good." Be kind if nothing else. To yourself, to others, to those underserving. Disco into that tequila sunset.
1 dislike from cuno
Feck does Cuno care?!
He doesn’t care...
CUNO DOESN’T FUCKIN CARE PIG !!! AT MAXIMUM VELOCITY !!!
Cuno GOT this!!
Cuno the cunto
I wish the "Drama" stat was real and would explain to me what people actually mean by what they say!
I think it’s generally that everybody is a little lost here, and everywhere. But that’s cool dude, nobody’s alone in this!
I suggest investing in points in rhetoric.
Empathy does that for you
This music is the end. This music is the beginning, This is what I hear when I wanna cry and this is what also makes me smile. It's what gives me confidence and what makes me question myself. This is what nothing and everything means at the same time. And you can damn bet that I love it.
*tries to escape from the cafeteria manager *
Ancient Reptilian Brain: "Back so soon already?"
Did you like my ninja moves?
That shit made me nearly blow a hole in my gut
I actually passed the check and got away from responsibility. Only returned back there close to 12 pm when I realised I had to sleep and he wouldn't let me in without his 200 pay. And I only had like 10 in my pockets.
P.S. the game bugged out and Kim haven't proposed me to sell his stuff at pawn shop and it was late anyway so it was already close. Plus I already failed skill check for begging rich lady for money so I soft-locked the game lol. Reloaded recent save and then both sold Kim's stuff AND passed a check for begging money. Feels good man.
Disco Elysium’s music is superb. Each musical piece is selected for the precise moment of the game. Disco Elysium is perfect!
I came into Elysium as someone who had recently fallen in love with the band Pulp and constantly prepared myself for the kind of perfect karaoke that would demonstrate the immensity of my soul every night on the drive home from the job I hated. This song is exactly that mood. It's like getting off of work only to go home not sure if you have enough money for the fast food you feel the need to treat yourself to. It sounds like falling asleep just so you can wake up in less than eight short hours and continue "living the dream."
This is the only song I can dance to.
I know a few of you have said that this song describes various melancholic life scenarios, but honestly, I feel like it paints the whole picture of life in general - sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down, sometimes we feel well guided, and there are times we feel lost. Life is a wave. It changes around like the seasons and a lot of the time it's extremely unpredictable, such as the weather can be also. Life is a beautiful, mysterious sorrowful bitter sweet song and dance, but what a hell of an experience it surely is. The trick is to try and enjoy it all, no matter how tough it can get. Ride the waves 🌊
Ok, so its 4:31 here in Poland and I cant fall asleep and Im quite drunk so I might as well write my experience from this game for the 3 people that will read it.
First of all, Disco Elysium helped me understand things that I couldnt cope with, that is break up and running away from your problems, like alcoholism. Its definetely a game like no other, but what made me feel like this game was made especially for me, was probably 4th night, I cant really remember as I finished this game quite long ago.
Namely, I played on hard, and made a promise to myself that I wont sell any "souvenirs", I mean items like postcards, forgive me but I cant really recall what they were called. So there goes 1st, 2nd, 3rd nights and Im doing quite well, making progress in investiagtion and then suddenly there comes night and I cant afford a place to sleep. I made a run around town for bottles but at this stage I basically found every single one of them. Here comes decision, do I sleep on street or I sell something? I was missing literally few cents and as sleeping on street in this god forsaken land was like commiting suicide at this point, I went to the thrift shop. I spent like 10 minutes on chosing item I want to sell and I made up my mind. I was going to sell photo of a particular reitred soldier, that is Rene Arnoux, with his girlfriend to afford a place to sleep. I received my money and went to whirling in rags. You can imagine horror in my heart the next day when I saw his friend sitting on a bench alone. I already knew what was going on I was thinking to myself for the rest of the game that he actually died because of me. I blamed myself for the rest of the game and weeks after I learned that he dies no matter what you do, but man, my heart seriously froze there for a moment. I know it wasnt planned but holy shit, no game made me feel this and probably no game will probably ever make me feel this pure, I dont even know how to call it, helplesness and injustice as Disco Elysium.
Beautiful comment, very apt. The game genuinely changed my life, and my views on spirituality. What a game.
Somehow, it all mattered. Thank you Disco Elysium you will forever be ingrained upon my psyche.
Inland Empire: The stars have aligned again. No more past, no more present. Just the stars, and disco.
About three months ago I started this masterpiece. I was only making ~$100/week and was at risk of financial catastrophe. Since then, I have gotten the "dream job" I always wanted, a high school band/chorus director. It pays well but the kids are savages. Like, imagine a fucking choir of Cuno. I'm about to quit and just deliver pizza on the weekends so I have more time to actually LIVE. Whatever the fuck that means... This song is perfect for situations such as these in life. Minimalism perfection.
Back again. Literally got cussed out by the kids and walked out. Fuck it.
@@BattleToads yea, kids in our time just cannot understand WHAT IS another human. So they don't want to deal like civilised creatures. Only barbarian lang, only kuno's way.
And sry if i got some mistakes here.
@@lekt6992 Remember that, in the case of Cuno, even, it's a combination of other kids and horrible parenting. The entire system is fucked.
@@BattleToads How is everything going right now? I hope it's well!
I've gone back to school after like half a decade, after having my life basically destroyed ten years ago. Socializing with people again is weird, but finally feeling like getting out of that rut is a whole another feeling, even if it's hard, tiring and it hurts sometimes. That song personally reminds me of that and the cold days out waiting to cross the highway, humming songs to myself and just thinking of people, and thinking about writing about them.
@@Morgan_grail Hanging in there. Been self employed doing delivery apps and running my own tiny business. Student loan payments started back this month and it looks like my car is dying this month, right on que.
I recommend this as a ringtone. Love it.
How can I have it on the iPhone?
@@LuisSantos-bb7dv I don't have an iPhone, but I guess a RUclips to MP3 converter should work.
I would never answer my phone.
i have it in my alarm
The start of the song really does sound like a stock ringtone on a new cellphone. Love it.
I still can’t believe it’s almost going to be 4 years
this is like playing The Sims 2 with my sister but if I was an alcoholic.
Listening to this in the morning hits different.
Woke up hangover after a night of self destruction and letting loved ones worry and after a hot shower i started listenning to this, while trying my hardest to not puke out a drop of water. Good song
I don't often listen to video game music but this might be one of the best songs ever written
This is my morning alarm :)
OST + Artbook now available on Steam.
I don't think I'll ever stop coming back to this song. It's an audible cup of coffee on a cold morning.
“I was born had a good life was vaporized by a bomb”
I just started playing the game a week ago. Haven't talked about it anywhere, but now youtube recommended me this.
this song is the emotional opposite to gymnopedie no1 for me, i saw a comment on that song a while ago that said "i'd like to go back, not to change anything, just to feel a few things twice" but this song is filled with so much awareness of the present and inability to reminisce. i can't help but pause and breathe in the moment when i hear this, before reengaging in the rush and worries of my day
this song really just makes me feel like its gonna be alright, whatevers going in the moment, theres always the future to look towards
honestly really good music to listen to during a hangover
Look, your buddy’s over there, why don’t you go talk to him
This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it’s still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You’re still alive.
On a recent playthrough, the guitar riff kicked in right after Titus said the line about how the Hardie Boys had to look after Klaasje and everyone in Martinaise, despite everything, or there’d be no point to them doing anything. Really nice emotional moment.
the final cut is the best rpg i've ever played. simply a masterpiece
Just started a new gameplay series on this and I freaking love this song!
This song reminds me of everything I could've been and everything I shouldn't have been at the same time
im drunk again, nd i m here agfain
We shared something. You and I. When we played this game, the few of us that ever will, and that thread of connection will remain.
In twenty years, upon stumbling across this song, we'll remember and we'll smile about it.
That you can be sure of.
I'll see you in twenty years, friend.
Unto two decades hence, bud.
Will meet in 20 years, mate
see you in the future
I've cried to this song and I've listened to it in a good mood.
this is disco.. i'm drunk and it's 3am
How does a song sound so comforting yet anxious? Seriously fucking incredible how it encapsulates the mood of the game. One of my all time favourites. Mixed to perfection
This song makes me want to talk with my tie. But I realize, that I have no tie.... I miss you, bratan :'-(
BRATAN!!!!
Every man should own a suit. Go out and buy one. Its doesnt have to be expensive, but make sure it fits you just right.
This music makes you think about a hotel named Whirling In Rags and makes you imagine that you are in that hotel lounge with a coffee cup in your hand. Maybe sitting around or maybe running from here to there and talking with people to investigate a case or about some bugs! Who knows? Life is Good and Bad at the same time. The joy and the melancholy hits at the same time. This music nothing but a masterpiece which Instantly reminds you about the City Revachol. I can write endless words, but the music is over now.
I'm trying. I am.
This song feels like a very good old friend. I never wanna miss it
I stayed in a hostel for the first time this week and couldn’t help but remember this game.
The music of this game has so many layers, so polyphonic and textural with subtle complexeties, it has the perfect atmosphere and quality of emotion
The fisrt second i heard this exiting my fucked up hotel room i fell in love.
"Have you removed the dead body from the tree?"
Beautiful composition...
This is beautiful.
Since I played this game, I take it as it comes
bro, i dont do spoilers at all, so i thought i was going to be a detective in jamrock and then the game just ended, i was so devastated i cant even describe it. one of the best games ever made
"A Detective RPG". Yeah, okay, it made me rethink everything in my life, what a silly game.
One of the best games ever made - as close to planescape as it gets if not better
Finally on spotify
This song evokes powerful memories. 5 years ago my son was zero. My son is 5 now.
Taco Bell used to assemble and sell the Mexican Pizza 2 years ago. And now...we are on the precipice once again...
I relate so much to the love story of the main protagonist. And my ex left me during the time I was playing this game. When he(the protagonist) made that phone call to his ex wife I just broke down. And it was this song that I ultimately linked to the whole breakup. I never thought I’d be able to actually listen to this song again without any pain.
That is especially rough, I'm sorry man. But you're here listening to the song, so there is hope for your future.
A Light Above Descending