The Strange Case of 'CHIRP' from Minecraft
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- I recently revisited the Minecraft OST and I discovered a familiar sound that linked back to my childhood.
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Me!
Hell yeah!!
chirp is easily my favorite music disc
@@BennySGB what is the song you used at the end of this video??
OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED THE CONNECTION I THOUGHT I'VE BEEN LOSING MY MIND ALL THESE YEARS
DUDE SAME I SWEAR, I KEPT TRYING TO TELL MY FRIENDS BUT NOBODY I KNEW PLAYED LBP
IM NOT ALOOOONE!!
same
FINALLY I KNEW IT WAS LITTLE BIG PLANET FOR SO LONG BUT NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND
Yup I have had the same thought too
Things that these two composers have in common:
- Both are named Daniel.
- Both used this sample.
Lore
If i had a nickel for every time two well known composers sampled the same song for different games i would have two nickels which is not alot but its weird that it happened twice
@@stskits2402 if i had a nickel for every time i saw someone use the "if i had a nickel" quote, i'd have at least a hundred nickels, which is a lot of nickels and it's getting on my nerves
@@stskits2402 Not just two well-known composers, two composers named Daniel.
@@Solutra 😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah, these memes are getting out of hand.
Lbp has to be one of the most astounding games of all time
ABSOLUTELY
Indeed
@@BennySGB unfortunately I don’t think we are getting any closer to having LBP be revived
@@TheRealJackee4 restitched
@@zynerd didn’t that get shut down for copyright even though Sony isn’t doing a single thing about the game?
As a neurodivergent kid, littlebigplanet and minecraft were my biggest reoccurring hyperfixations growing up. Having that same music sample in both games meant the world to little me. I could constantly be reminded of my other favorite game whenever I heard the tune.
As a sporkmaxxing binklebopp, Finklestink was the focus of my hyperdicrotations.
@@TheSpartanlaw L bozo
@@TheSpartanlaw what
REAL!
@@TheSpartanlaw in my autismmaxxing era
Also Stal uses the Mellotron - the first ever sampler
Pretty sure I can hear one of the settings on Chirp as well
Man we all love Stal.
Pigstep also has a mellotron.
Its also the exact same sample the Beatles used in Strawberry Fields forever.
Chirp doesnt use the mellotron it uses the Optigan
@@uselessaccount9929 yes, I noticed that yesterday when I was looking at mellotron stuff
@@MaragiMusic the optigan can be recalled as a mellotron type instrument
one of the largest bands of the 90s, blur, also sampled an optigan preset, they used it for their album "13" in 1999
Oooooh I’ll check it out
which song in the album?
@@ghobetsky it’s called Optigan 1
Gorillaz reference
Omg I love blur I found it from the band gorillaz witch has been my biggest hyperfixation for the past two years lolz
Gotta love the optigan, those old 70’s samples, so fun! I believe it’s the first sampler, besides the Talentmaker and orchestron
I didn’t know that!
mellotron?
@@solarnzl Yeah, the mellotron was released in the 1960s, the optigan was released in 1971.
Then there's the chamberlin, which the mellotron evolved from, was developed in the 1940s and 50s.
@@tweer64 I really didn't know of any machines pre-dating the mellotron. that's so sick!
@@tweer64 you are my favorite type of commenter
Chirp always had LBP vibes to me, but I thought it was just my memory mixing with nostalgia and playing tricks on me, until now.
As a kid I would call chirp the little big planet disc.
same
it creeps me out because reminds me of just a burning memory
Exactly it’s so weird
I think that someone made a Minecraft version of that and it was based off of Chirp.
that's just because of low sample rate + noise
it's just a chirping memory
Because it is
Little big planet is dying, and this is the last thing you can hear from it
Minecraft might change to unrecognizability, so you forget all your sweet, warm memories
They burn, they burn with this music that only thing you can actually remember.
i played a little big planet game (LBP2) for the first time just the other day, and hearing that sample really tripped me out. crazy how this got reccomended to me so soon after playing and thinking "damn that sounds like chirp".
Hahaha thats a crazy coincidence!!!
Enjoy the experience dude
I genuinely didn't make the connection until this video. I know both game franchises very well. I even played Minecraft alongside LBP some days growing up. Probably just didn't listen to the disks a lot.
Lol it was the opposite for me
YES YES YES, so nostalgic too
As someone who played LBP before I started Minecraft, I honestly thought that I was the only one that thought they sounded similar, then forgot about it when I started playing less games. I want to thank you so much for making this video, it answered that question that I forgot I even had! Thank you!
Two of the most GOATED games. Both built my childhood
Same same :)
Sooo true
I started playing Minecraft in BETA 1.3 and remember it so fondly. This CD, of course, didn't exist back then.
I love that this game has created memories for different generations.
@@OiCCaboose it’s a disc not a CD
I remember instantly recognizing it as a kid. Feels nice to know where the sample is from
I played LBP1 first and when I first heard Chirp, I got super confused, lol.
Same, I was convinced that chirp had literally quoted a song from LBP1. Apparently it's merely _convergent evolution..._
@@WackoMcGoose I mean... C418 may have heard the sound from the LittleBigPlanet song before putting it into the song for Minecraft.
This is a great video!
Also, a little note from a music theory nerd: I think another little big factor is the frequent use of the minor iv chord in the song, which invokes a feeling of nostalgia and bittersweetness.
Thanks for watching!
Ooooh that’s a cool insight! I wanna learn music theory 🥲
Minor IV doesnt exist unless you mean the dimished 4, which one are you talking about
@@arandomsuprathe chord progression in the first part of the song is
C major -> F major -> F minor
F major is the IV, which makes f minor the minor iv
@@potatojuiceultra Yeah so I literally just learned about how chird patterns are named and I was under the assumption that that meant 4th
@@arandomsupra It does mean the fourth, here's how chord naming works:
So, Chirp is in the key of C Major, which means it is based off of the C major scale: C D E F G A B C
You can make a chord off of each note in the scale, and the chords are assigned numbers based off of their degree.
So a chord based on C will be I, D will be II, E will be III, F is IV, and so on. Since we are talking about going from C to F in the song, that's going from 1 to 4 or I to IV.
Now to get more into the music theory behind Chirp specifically:
Each chord in a scale isn't usually just a major chord. Each scale degree has its own diatonic chord, which is a chord built only out of notes in the scale. So I is major, ii is minor, iii is minor, IV is major, V is major, vi is minor, and viiiº is diminished (Capital = major, lowercase = minor). Notice that the diatonic IV chord is major, there isn't usually a minor iv in a major key.
However, in a minor key, the diatonic chords are different. The fourth of a minor key is actually a minor chord. So, if you use a minor iv in a song that's in C major, you are "borrowing" a note/chord from C minor.
Generally, when you use a minor iv chord, you put it directly after a major IV chord and before a major I chord (this is what happens in Chirp. The major IV chord is very simple and has a lot of different functions, but I would say it generally has a happy sound while also wanting to move somewhere. Switching to the minor iv changes the bright major sound to a dark minor one by just changing the A to an Ab. It isn't a note you aren't usually expecting to hear, and it has a big impact. It also really really wants to resolve back to I (thanks to voice leading that I won't get into). And going through with that resolution brings the song back into a fully major sound, while also landing on I which acts as your "home" chord.
To me, this progression gives me the feelings of happiness -> sadness -> relief. A pretty accurate representation of the bittersweetness and nostalgia that the original commenter said.
I hope this made sense. I'm a music major and I love just talking about music theory, but I'm also really bad at explaining things.
Little big planet is such a god damn, wonderful game. The customization dragged me in like a moth and fulled my imagination for years
Gosh dang*
@@elenalohrey1971 No, god damn
This is why chirp has always been my favourite disc, it brings me nostalgia not only from playing minecraft, but also from when i was much younger playing LBP with my brother
I personally was really into LBP before minecraft became pretty much a part of my life, but when I did, popping in Chirp into the juke box instantly had me freaking out as a kid thinking Mojang was actually referencing LBP
I was so bewildered by the coincidence that I once recreated the pod from LittleBigPlanet in Minecraft. And I was surprised about the origin of the sample, it all goes back to a sampler from the 70's.
I KNEW IT
THE MOMENT I HEARD THIS SONG
I HAD A FEELING IT WAS FROM THERE LMAO
Lesssgoooo
give this video 8 million views NOW
Haha thanks 😄
I think your cast is slowly starting to work
Chirp was also my favourite disc back then. I remember loading a world just to play it in a jukebox too. The sampled part was what got me into the track and the latter half grew on me later. I remember people liking Cat better and even a PvP youtuber I followed at the time dissing at the red disc when first listening to it. It's good to know that Chirp has some praise as deserved
I was also listening to the Minecraft soundtrack this week and thought "Chirp" sounded familiar, I never knew it had this much history, well done with this video.
That’s awesome! Thanks for watching!
this video is mad underrated why hasn't everyone watched it yet
Haha as long as people are enjoying it
oh man i had a super similar experience. i had never actually heard "chirp" until recently when i decided to give the minecraft soundtrack a listen on spotify and IMMEDIATELY i was shot back to my days of playing nothing but LBP. really weird experience. anyway, awesome video, you deserve more views.
Thanks!!
@@BennySGB OMFG LIKE THREE DAYS AGO I WAS LISTENING TO CHIRP IN THE CAR AND I SAID IT WAS WEIRD THAT THIS REMINDED ME OF LITTLE BIG PLANET HFDIAYWFIABWFUYABGWFIUBASUFSUF
@@T4ngi hahahahaha
the song “modern day caine” by IDK how but they found me would later sample it :) i remember being shocked when i first heard it
I love how that song also has Steve's "Oo" damage sound effect in the beginning too. Makes me think they got inspired by chirp
@@kidztruthproductions HAHA it totally does. i never noticed that
It does???? I'll have to go back and check. I've listened to that song dozens of times and never noticed.
LITERALLY YESSS
@@NathanBoehmit's at the end
when i heard "daniel pemberton" i audibly said "wow"
When I listened to it, it gave me too memories of something; I was sure it came from the 60s or 70s, and here we are 1971. Thank you Mattel.
Dude!! Thank you!! I grew up playing both of these games on the PlayStation and they were the main two I played. I knew when I was listening to the Minecraft soundtrack all those months ago that Chirp sounded like LBP but I thought maybe I was getting my memories confused.
Haha awesome
i have always adored the lbp and minecraft soundtracks
Blud I was wondering about this shit for over a decade, this is actually mental
Thank you for confirming my childhood brain wasn't crazy
Fun Fact: Moog City is named after the Moog line of synthesizers (you should really look into the history of Moog, its fascinating), Oxygene from the album of the same name in 1976 by Jean Michel Jarre, and Equinoxe from the album of the same name in 1978, also by Jean Michel Jarre
thank you so much for making video, I've been always comparing the two!
I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY ORB OF DREAMERS AND CHIRP SOUNDED SO SIMILAR
I'm so glad im not the only one who recognized the connection between these games
the optigan is like a more modern version of the mellotron which i think is where he got the sample for stal
this makes so much sense my soul is shook those are my top 2 fav soundtracks of all time i KNEW IT
Same I love these soundtracks
If i had a nickel for every time two well known composers sampled the same song for different games i would have two nickels which is not alot but its weird that it happened twice
Man, I was BORN in fall of 2008. 😕
But chirp is my absolute fave today. In fact, I found this video on the side of the screen while watching 'Minecraft Chirp - Original Fingerstyle Arrangement' by vClapem, to try and replicate it for myself.
Dude, i remeber said went i play minecraft on my ps3, and put the disc and say: hey, this sounds just like little big planet
chirp has been my favorite minecraft disc since i was very young. never thought much about it, it just sounded nice.
this "Chirp" tune sounded nostalgic to me bc it sounds like a sound track from Disney Universe (which is a game i played alot when i was like 7 or 8).
But it sounds especially like a mix of something from the Monsters Inc and Wall-E levels (which both features my favorite songs from this game).
This exact sample was also in a fangame I played as a kid called New Super Mario Forever, and when I heard it in Minecraft many years later, it was a very pleasant surprise.
I'm so happy that finally someone made a video about it :]
I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY
OH MY GOD, SIENCE I PLAY MINECRAFT ON THE PS3 AND HEAR THIS AMAZING SONG THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY HEAD WAS LITTLE BIG PLANET
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT BRO THE TWO GAMES I GREW UP WITH WERE EARLY MINECRAFT AND LITTLE BIG PLANET 2
HOLY SHIT INTERLUDE WITH LUDES IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME LISTEN TO THAT ENTIRE ALBUM RIGHT NOW
LBP was by far the happiest thing that happened in my life.
Same 😪
0:36 STAMPY MENTION!!!
Stampys the goat
This is why I always loved Chirp out of every disc. It always reminded me of LBP.
I'm a simple man: I see Sackboy, I click.
Sabía que esa canción salía en LBP, pero no tenía idea sobre lo del Mattel Optigan. Gran video.
LBP was just nostalgic
I WAS GOING INSANE BECAUSE OF THIS!!!!
Dude this video came out around the time I realised they both used the same song sample, and just NOW I get recommended this video lol. Good video man!
I FUCKIN KNEW IT! I KNEW IT SOUNDED LIKE A LITTLE BIG PLANET SONG! Thanks for finally confirming my suspensions! (To lazy to do my own research)
I never played with music, but Chirp I feel nostalgic for.
Great Video! And thank you for not making it an hour long! Just feels like when one of these interesting types of videos pops up it’s always a feature film
@@willatkinson8231 hahaha thank you. I’m a very impatient video viewer so I like getting to the point
Man just seeing lbp opening again made me feel so much emotion
I thought i was the only one that thought it sounded like little big planet I listen to it all the time in Minecraft because of that connection
LBP and Minecraft were staples of imagination in childhood, bless them truly. I still miss the LBP Minecraft texture pack
About 10 years ago, me and my brother played LBP, and our first reaction to the opening was “IS THAT CHIRP FROM MINECRAFT?!” I’m so glad we’re not the only ones who noticed.
fun fact: they're both called Daniel. C418's name is Daniel Rosenfeld
It's honestly good to know im not insane, at first i thought i was crazy, and then i thought it was just from the LittleBigPlanet Texture pack world that console Minecraft had, but now i know, and closure is nice lmao.
Good spot! As I played both games and watched stampy a lot and never noticed
I've loved little big planet so much, my dad had a ps3 that me and my siblings would play endlessly on. One day he got Minecraft on the ps3 and I remember playing the music disc and finding chirp and thinking "hey this sounds like little big planet!" I thought it was stolen at first or that the same composer worked on both games. chirp is one of my favorite disc cuz it reminds me of Lbp, I remember seeing that the servers shut down and felt a lil sadder that day because one of the greatest early 2D sandbox games just lost alot of very creatively made levels, that will never see the light of day ever again
Yeah I remember noticing the connection both games are so nostalgic but remember nostalgia is a weakness, and it’s good to make more memories and moving forward
That's true, in time, everything we are doing in this moment will one day be nostalgic lmaooo
LittleBigPlanet is such a great game
That’s crazy, I’ve had this same thought process before but probably not thought about this topic in like 6 years lmao
Hahah same it’s always been on my mind but just recently decided to look more into it and actually make a video on it lol
Fun fact, in the Disney show Wonder Over Yonder, there's a scene where 2 characters are in an elevator and the same sample is playing, and STG I thought it was just chirp, cause it was the only place I had heard it!
OH MY GOD! I WASN’T THE ONLY PERSON WHO THOUGHT THAT IT SOUNDED LIKE LBP!? I’M NOT ALONE! I’M NOT CRAZY! I’VE THOUGHT THIS EVER SINCE I FIRST HEARD THE SONG. I’M SO HAPPY THAT I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THIS!!
I’ve always called chirp LBP music lol, just gave those vibes
Thank you Matel!
OMFG SOMEONE REMEMBERS LBP!!1!!11
I used to be addicted to Little Big Planet as a kid, now I have no idea how to play it, it's been years since I played Little Big Planet
Hearing what I know as Chirp as sample fragments gives me an uneasy feeling hearing one part of my childhood in settings and orders it doesn’t belong. Hopefully I can sleep tonight lol.
Omg I miss stampy so much, whenever I hear about the disc chirp, whether it's played or just mentioned, I instantly think "That's Stampy's Fave Disc"
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! I love this song since LBP's release, know where it came is wonderfull
I KNEW IT! i was wonder why did chirp remind me of LBP lol.
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWED IT !!!
C418 not only used samples from the Optigan but even from the Mellotron!!
You can hear a Mellotron (Chamberlin but its the same thing still) sample on the music disc, Stal.
The original sample I think is called... Mellotron master tapes Afrocuban/slowpiano
What is a Mellotron you ask? Its basically one of the worlds first samplers (well a different model came before it but that's a whole story for another day) released all the way back in 1965's Great Britain. It has 35 keys similar looking to a piano and the original model had 3 sounds to choose from that were all prerecorded instruments like the Optigan but all on strands of magnetic audio tapes. It had a volume nob and a even a pitch bending feature (Which worked by changing the motor which made it so you could even operate the instrument in the first place).
The 3 prerecorded sounds where 3 violins together, a cello and a choir all of which for each key had to be recorded separately onto tape.
Alot of artist have used the Mellotron in the 1960s and it became a staple in alot of recordings, chances are alot of late 1960s recording were a Mellotron rather than a full orchestra cause it was convenient at the time but still expensive to rent (Still is expensive today). It was on a ton of progressive rock records and the best selling artist of all time, The Beatles, famously used it on their song Strawberry fields Forever in that time period.
Sadly though the company who made the Mellotron went out of business in the mid to late 80s (probably because of the synth) but interest in this instrument was revived in the 90s when Radiohead used it on their album, Ok Computer.
Further more the whole company got relaunched in the early 2010s so you can actually go and buy a Mellotron right now!!!! Though their quite expensive, it features all the original sounds recorded in high detail for their newest keyboard so you should get your bang for your buck there.
The Mellotron is an absolutely facinating instrument and Im glad that people even today are hearing the sounds of the eerie and melancholic but nostalgic and lovely sounds of the Mellotron.
FINALLY someone else thinked of this, IT IS ALSO A VIDEO IDEA I HAVE, also cool video
how tf does this only have 300 views man 😭
Haha doesn’t matter as long as people enjoy the content 👌👌👌
so it uh has 2.4k now
6.666 now 👹
Lbp i think is the first game I played and I remember playing it with my brothers when I was 4, that was a great time.
never played LBP but i adore investigations like this into your core memories essentially! also it's crazy how this one sample inspired so many musicians and went in almost unchanged
Dayum this is the reason it was familiar
Let’s make bossa nova style the next amen break, let’s sample it everywhere we can
Everyone either likes chirp for some reason is creeped out by it or thinks it’s so mid
OMG FINALLY IVE BEEN LOSING MY MIND KNOWING THIS CONNECTION
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. I was thinking of this about 2 weeks ago and was shocked to know it wasn't even the same song, nor the same composer
OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED THE CONNECTION I THOUGHT I'VE BEEN LOSING MY MIND ALL THESE YEARS
I have had the connection between those two songs for 5 years! nice to see it in a video
I played them both on ps3
This sample was also used in Disney's animated series "Wander over Yonder", specifically it was a part of the Lord Hater's Skullship Cafeteria theme
dude i love chirp its a 10/10 it does not bother me at all its really cool it makes you feel like youre in a 90's movie or smth
I'm glad I found out that I'm not going insane today