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Mr. Fregoli also has another leitmotif from one of Will's older songs, Nuburbatize

“I’ll stay awake tonight….. CRY-“

I feel like some of these are more of references than leitmotifs

calling the similarities between Self-ish's two parts "references" is a crime

Okay the Tomcat Disposables and Willard! one hit me like a fucking truck

7:55 i haven't been able to find Love Me, Nomally because all the search results show is Love, Me Normally (and i cant find it on Spotify.) can anyone help

my absolute favorite leitmotif in will's songs are the floorboards one from misanthropologist and 2econd 2ight 2eer. firstly i love that it's a reference to "tell tale heart" which is my favorite edgar allen poem story but also those lines happen to be my favorite parts of their respective songs. musically and lyrically they are such beautiful lines

is it just me or does 0:50 onwards in 'good morning, campers!' from ch&t sound like willard? i swear theyre the same melody at times

i once saw a live performance where will did 2012 and destroy to enjoy in the same song

I'm not sure anybody else has pointed this one out but in memento mori, the part that says "well one day you'll be not even a faint memory" until "Your legacy's not yours to see nor is your eulogy and you'll never know what it all means" you can literally perfectly sing front street's chorus

Also the beginning of Cotard’s Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca) sounds like the near end of Mr. Sunshine is Dead.

REMEMBER ME WHEN UR FAMOUS 💕💕 THIS IS FIRE

the way will wood says floor boards "floormboards">>

Where did u get the tabs??

This isn’t leitmotif-it’s just sampling and reusing parts of his older songs (which is still cool)

In Outliers and hippocrates Will makes a reference in the verse "Too weird to love, too scared to die, too alien to take you home" to a song by A Verbal Equinox (a band he was in before he created Will Wood and the Tapeworms) called "He'll use me for his needle show" with the verse "I'm far too wierd to life, but ain't too rare to die, take a good hard look, you can see it in my bloodshot eyes" Curiously, Dr. Sunshine himself sings this song

2:19 I’ll stay awake tonight……CRA-

4:17 is such a drastic change lol i love both albums tho

Also there's the little kazoo part that plays during: -6up 5oh when he's saying those random words during the instrumental, the "da da da da da daa oh wooh wooh" thing -Dr Sunshine is dead during the start, it's the same rythm but in a bass not a kazoo, and then with a kazoo when he says "If we could see each other then there's no more use for hiding..." -Laplace's angel when he says "It doesn't take a killer to murder, it only takes a reason to kill"

I loved the 1 frame scream from cotards to dr sunshine

Fun? Fact! 8:33 is a reference to the tell-tale heart, a short story by Edgar Allen Poe

he would excel at writing musicals!!

IS THAT A WILL WOOD REFERENCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

idk if anyone has pointed this out already but from the normal album documentary: the background during the talking part of blackboxwarrior is a distorted audio of will whistling the melody to vampire culture! two cross references to the same two songs

some of these very much a stretch

it's funny how some of these songs later had transitions in the live album.

Im pretty sure suburbia has references to all the other songs on tna, which is probably fairly known but its honestly so cool and makes it the perfect 'overture' and the first song on the record

I think the end of Cicada Days matches the beginning of Falling Up (And I think think Rumba of Death has a saxophone part that's the same as Laplace's Angel) sory leitmotifs are so cool

I love this kind of stuff in songs, for example in Hamilton or Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or in Will Wood songs and I JUST FOUND IT ACTUALLY HAS A NAME THAT'S SO COOL, I was calling it something like lyrics/melody recycling ahah

Well that explains why I liked Welcome to CH&T, I loved the opening to Mr. Fregoli's and didn't even realize he just, yoinked it as Mr. Rat Wood himself does

good video, but aren't some of these just songs that share lyrics?

toby fox has a contender for the title of mister leitmotif

I noticed will using "hand me my shovel im going in" and referencing how he doesn't remember 2012 alot and i just needed conformation

I'm so glad i found this video! just yesterday i was talking about these with my friend bc i find the musical similarities in songs really interesting and i noticed how much Will Wood does it. thank you so much for compiling all of these together!!!!!!

there’s also a bit of ‘self-‘/‘-ish’ in the love me normally music video :D

In Against the Kitchen Floor there's a moment after the first chorus that always reminds me of the beginning of I/Me/Myself with how it does the kinda doo-wop but with a small trumpet section instead Also, that Skeleton Appreciation Day / Chemical Overreaction bit is done really well when listening to the live versions off of The Real Will Wood, especially with how they transition into eachother

0:57 I like to think that it’s more foreshadowing than leitmotif, as it was a lead up to the next album

i love leitmotifs

The “this is not enough” in Mr Capgras will always hit so hard ngl

i feel like this is intentional tbh like hell, SELFiSH and The Normal Album have this in SPADES, it ltierally connects the whole album together, it makes sense In Case i Make It and In Case i Die also share motifs, they sort orlf ar elike... retrospectives? of eberything so far in a way

Btw 6up 5oh and Vampire Reference have a leitmotif with the notes being the same in the pre-chorus (6up) and the instrumental interlude(VRIAMK)

Holy hell! Your finger picking on your uke is incredible (I strive to play that well), and your voice is so beautiful and calming. The richness of it is astounding. TL;DR: Your cover is amazing and deserves more views.

damn, suddenly I wanna hear the full 12 hours of the discography of will wood on shuffle to laugh and cry at the same time! thanks a lot!

There's a small chunk of piano from the Love Me Normally segment of Suburbia Overture in Willard! "Lot he has his lot in life, Job his job and I guess you too will die" "My friend you've got a friend in me, let's go and make more enemies"

No way does just the word “suburbia” count

there's a small motif for i/me/myself in against the kitchen floor

I played a bunch of songs from in case I make it on my guitar cause I was bored today, right after the other, and holy shit they are SO similar. theres a BUNCH of this: emmaj7 to em7 to em6, and a BUNCH of: g to gmaj7 to g7

I love love this song

I like the jump scare for cotards solution/ Dr. Sunshine is dead

Could be overthinking but Welcome to CH&T Evening Announcements sounds like the beginning of The Song With 5 Names