@@yuuri9064 it’s a mixture of genetics, alchohal and smoking, and vocal distortion. When you do vocal distortion/compression/fry you constrict the muscles at the back of your throat that force air to pass from lungs and vibrate the fleshy parts around your vocal box, which creates “grit” in your vocal style.
Don’t know for sure here, but if you do ‘vocal fry’ and then turn up the volume, it gives you a safe kind of rock and rill distortion. Hopefully he’s doing something similar
@@luf4rall They actually had a giant binder full of prompts to chose from, so Ross chose this one out of a lot of them. For obvious reasons, since he fuckin nailed it.
Was literally thinking "wow this has Patrick Page in Hadestown vibes" then he sang that line at the end xD how much do I have to pay this man for a full version?
sam's little "got to come down" is so fhcking funny to me because he was clearly freaking the fuck out over how clever the lyrics were but didn't want to interrupt the flow of the song, so he expressed his awe by way of back up vocals
@@HighFlyActionGuy Um... no? To adlib a simple backup chorus for a line is a thing most kids know to do in Elementary School... though there we just did it to be cool or to annoy the teacher.
His name is Ross not Jess 😂 Jess Mckenna is the girl who usually does musical improv with Zach Reino (the guy with the longer hair who was shown in this clip)
I know "improv god" is basically a requirement on the CollegeHumor job application, but it still blows my mind how they come up with 1) the music and 2) the lyrics to these incredible songs _on the fly._ Phenomenal work.
@@RicardoMontania once you work on improv, it gets easier. Then there's people who are just talented to do it on the spot, like Harry Mac, who does full free styles on the spot.
@@RicardoMontania there are hundreds of prompts they can choose from in the episode, but they have also had other episodes where they come up with songs on the fly. Additionally, they have a whole new show on the concept - Play it by ear - and other shows have done this plenty of times. The classic "whose line is it anyways" did this every episode as the last prompt. Check out Wayne Brady, he's the OG on-the-fly song writer and has been doing it for decades.
"And the crowd goes wild with recognition." He said it. He delivered. Im madly impressed and i want more. Also mad respect to the musician the thing sounds Waits from top to bottom.
I'm just trying to imagine what it was like to improvise these with only piano, because the post-production drums and sound effects are just so perfect!
To be fair they do interview etc before the show to give the game changers an idea of their musical styles, interests, etc. they aren’t going to give them a singer or topic they know nothing about.
@@TequilaToothpickthey're pretty open with the fact that they do try to tailor the prompts to the players, even writing some prompts specifically for one person.
Wow. As a big fan of Waits, this was just fantastic. He didn't just get the gravely voice, but the mannerisms and the slightly more whispery growl Waits does.
This. This is the hardest improv from my humble perspective. Not only do you need near encyclopedic knowledge of what makes singers/genres unique, you need to be able to rhyme on command, all while keeping it thematically appropriate. And you need to sound good, too.
@@luthien47normally i would agree, but i've seen play it by ear which is basically just this but for a whole hour, building an entire story, and yeah no i'm not surprised anymore. I mean- i guess it is staged in that they deliberately tailor the questions to the guests' talents, all the guests they got this ep where people who aleady had experience in "musical comedy improv"
@@luthien47 Honestly, I think this is much easier for some people than it is for others. I'm pretty stupid about math and science, but improvising themed songs like this on the spot is almost effortless for me. I'm not nearly as good as this guy, but it wouldn't take an insane amount of training for me to get there either. Which isn't to discount the skill needed to do this, I just mean to say that it isn't impossible to the point of questioning its sincerity.
I mean the pianist is great, but he played a pretty standard progression and having a general knowledge of music theory would make it an easy follow if you have the skill to come up with the lyrics. 4 bar intro to get a feel before it starts so he has the vibe, 8 bar verse (nice touch having an a and b theme across the verse) and then an 8 bar chorus. It's why it's really easy to predict the words (and a lot of the rhythms) of modern church music if you know enough words for basic rhyme recognition
@@clearlynotchloe Yeah, I mean my point is that while someone with the skills and knowledge might consider it easy I think they're underestimating just how much more they know then your average layman.
Omg this is fantastic. As a huge Tom Waits fan, I have to say that they nailed the voice, music, lyrics, and physical peculiarity. Absolutely awesome! I’ve watched 10 times, already. Nicely done.
I've never felt chills from a song at the same time as stitches from laughing before, and I never want to again. Thank you for that uniquely sensorily overwhelming experience.
@@trashpanda2200 The structure and melody seems straight out of the new works he did for the Brawlers portion of 'Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards' collection (partially unreleased older songs that didn't quite mesh in the albums he was working on in the past, part newer material, about an even split iirc), which is smack in the middle of the album Mule Variations (which this also would fit into stylistically, if slightly less, probably mostly similar to the Glitter & Doom live version of 'Get Behind the Mule') and 'Real Gone' (this improv piece does remind me a bit of 'Don't Into That Barn' off that album). Vocal performance, he seems to be emulating the Glitter & Doom tour era before Waits' voice started to fail him a bit live, but after he started shifting to more of a holler & shout style of singing. So yeah, this is the 1999-mid-00's Waits era more or less. There's probably stuff you'd like off 'Mule Variations', 'Alice', 'Blood Money', 'Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards', and 'Real Gone' (a five year period of time, he was wildly prolific so late in his career). And if you haven't heard the Glitter & Doom live album, I def recommend it, his live versions of songs can be wildly different than the album versions. Some tracks to start with similar to this if you like this vibe: "Get Behind the Mule" off Glitter and Doom live album "Don't Go Into That Barn" off Real Gone "God's Away on Business" off Blood Money "Come On up To The House' off Mule Variations "2:19" off Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. And then there's some personal favourites: "Clap Hands" off Rain Dogs "Black Wings" off Bone Machine "16 Shells From A 30.6" off Swordfishtrombones "Rain Dogs" off Rain Dogs "Alice" off of Alice
So props to the guy singing, but double to props goes to the guy playing the keyboard. Listening to the queues for tempo change in someone's voice on the fly is CRAZY difficult. Give that man a raise.
what are you talking about it's nearly the same tempo all the way through. It goes from being steady on 115 and steps up to 117 in small increments. If you're following someone's voice being forward on the beat that isn't a direct cue to you increasing the tempo, in fact that would generally be considered inconsistent. We're not talking some super rhythmically tight genre of music where these things truly matter. This is Tom Waits where the more drunk and swingy everything sounds the better. The very slight tempo increases could very well be planned, especially considering that the drum track is probably running as a sequence.
@@youwillneverknow2926 With a drop out subscription would be the legal way If you want to do it a little less legally I wouldn't really know but I hope that at least helped some
I gasped and had to cover my mouth. Ross Bryant is really impressive, I've quickly become a huge fan of his since he first appeared on Make Some Noise just a few months ago!
Dropout is the only subscription I feel good about buying. I discovered college humour back when they would host picnicface sketches, they were a small comedy troupe from near my home who did really ahead of it’s time stuff. Been a huge fan ever since, and the D20 content alone on dropout is worth the $8 a month.
@@TripleXMango Same. Picnicface, Jake and Amir, all the old sketches they used to do, but it dropped off with Adam Conover and that new generation. I had seen some Game Changer stuff, but when I realised it was Sam hosting it, I made the connection it was Collegehumor. I love the new players, and still having Josh around to do the Seagull is amazing, I'm glad the creators of half my childhood jokes between me and my friends are still going and better than ever.
I've rewatched this so many times, I'm focusing on the reactions now: Sam barely containing his emotions and narrowly escaping interrupting by singing along instead, the guy being barely surprised because he just knows how genious the other guy is, and the lady just fluctuating in and out of scarousement all the way to the end 😂
@@riven5544 Sure. Here's a few. The first one is clearly the inspiration for this one. Don't go into that barn: th-cam.com/video/qRSBmalHDV0/w-d-xo.html Underground: th-cam.com/video/vaTSQzYIR3U/w-d-xo.html Hell Broke Luce : th-cam.com/video/0Fju9o8BVJ8/w-d-xo.html Little Drop of Poison: th-cam.com/video/_VgL_gbz3xs/w-d-xo.html Earth Dies Screaming: th-cam.com/video/C7I4kSpS43o/w-d-xo.html Singapore: th-cam.com/video/QywH5lialsU/w-d-xo.html Make it Rain: th-cam.com/video/Mv0htJ0tgsU/w-d-xo.html He;s got a ton of music that's weird, growly, bluesy, avant garde, etc... but he also has tons of smooth love songs, tragic ballads, swinging tunes. He's the man of many voices and the man of many genres. He writes with a humor and pain that feels older than he was when he wrote them. Easily one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
@@riven5544 ‘Way Down Hadestown’ ‘When the Chips are Down’ ‘Why we Build the Wall’ These are three songs that fit the song vibes really well, especially the last one 👍
@@aarons3014 it really is, and I believe Sam called the musical improv exactly that in one if the GC episodes with them. It is so incredible to me that people can hone this skill into something that produces *this*. It's *amazing*.
Could you not imagine some classic Disney animation of some boatman rowing someone through the Styx, who was silent right up until they enter Tartarus just pull his hood down and start singing this to the probably child character whose come to save maybe a sibling or something, with like, spectral skeletons snapping in unison around him, the big flares of fires and the drops of the river and such. It’s such a clearly perfect musical including to some Greco inspired Disney family film. Like, as soon as he hits “hadestown” the boat drops off of a ledge into another section of river with that sign lazily hanging up with all sorts of colourful ghouls and goblins skulking around
The instruments are played by skeletons who rock up on a different ferry completely unprompted. Also one of them plays another’s vertebrae like a xylophone at one point.
My jaw DROPPED 😲 Nailed Tom Waits' voice/style, knew the mythology, came up with lyrics *on the spot*, and made a banger all at the same time. Please, dear god, I need a full version of this. 🙏🏽
The version I read is he invited Hades over for dinner, and Hades, never having been invited to dinner by a mortal before, accepted. Sisyphus tied him up and left him there. 😂 And as long as Hades was tied up, no-one could die.
Do yourself a favor. Personal recommendations are God's Away on Business, Hell Broke Luce, Hope I Never Fall in Love with You, and if you want something particularly silly, The Piano Has Been Drinking
In addition to the fantastic Tom Waits songs suggested by Spider Mike Jr, I recommend listening to some of his more beautiful ballads, Alice, and Georgia Lee a listen. (Fair warning, Georgia Lee is a sad one).
unfortunately uploading to Spotify is likely to get these shorts taken down by automated copyright systems just like what happened to the mountport ones
I just love seeing the genuine joy in everyone's expression because it just proves how much he killed this uber comedic, soulfully talented on spot Karaoke rendition! And of course, Sam's overall reaction made me grin and laugh even more!
I've rewatched this short SO many times. I absolutely adore the song he made up, especially his reference to Hadestown at the end. Absolutely immaculate.
The myth of Sisyphus actually explains his sentence in Tartarus: Sisyphus spent his life luring people into his home for shelter and killing them to steal their money. Eventually he died, but specifically asked his wife not to bury him; he told Persephone herself that he had no proper burial, which upset her. He took advantage of her upset to go back in the world of the living, but once he died again he was sentenced to roll a boulder up a mountain. Every time that boulder reached the top, it rolled down the other side, plummeting back and making him have to start all over again, much like how death was inescapable despite his attempts.
@@TheM8 No Tantalus fed his son to the gods (or more specifically, Demeter who was still grieving the loss of Persephone and the only god at the table who hadn't realised they were being served human flesh until she'd already eaten some) after they kicked him off Olympus for stealing nectar and ambrosia. Sisyphus chained Death and told his wife not to perform the funeral rites so he was allowed to go back. Then he just... stayed there until he got very old and got dragged down to Tartarus kicking and screaming.
@@claudiag.9307 Both things happen. When death came for him the second time he trapped him in a box. Ares who realized people weren't dying in wars anymore made it his goal to find the missing death. He found and freed death who promptly took him to hades.
It makes perfect sense to me that Tom Waits singing about Greek mythology is just straight up Hadestown
he could definitely play hades
@@batabids Omg exactly!!!!!
YESSSSS
omg i was thinking that too 💀💀💀
I would buy a ticket to the full play
This cast can't just keep making hit songs, and then cut them off when I NEED MORE
They could, no joke, just start releasing albums
@just i c e
Yeah… no, stop.
@just i c e why have you done this
@just i c e ... You deserve to roll a rock now for this.
report bots n move on 👍
Tom Waits fell unconscious and possessed Ross the moment he opened his mouth
All major artists have that power. Kanye uses it to spy on people.
I imagine he was in a studio or something and then hes like "hey i got to do something real quick"and then just *THUD* as his body hits the floor
@@thecountercounter9127 Studio? Tom Waits has sadly not made an album since 2011.
@@puffnisse shhh shhh shhshshsh shshhhhhhhhshshsh sh shhh
@@thecountercounter9127
I like how the translation button decided it needed just one more h
The atmosphere in the room changed from "amused anticipation" to "scaroused shock" in an INSTANT
The atmosphere here in the comments did the same 😂😂😂
I'm steal scaroused jsyk
Is that scared and aroused? 😂😂😂
@@BlackFresh1 Yes. I looked it up & Urban Dictionary reared its freaky head immediately.
Everyone in that room got moist from that performance
“Howdy stranger, how’d you like to be guided across this here river by an old man who only accepts loose change?”
“Dammit I think I left my wallet on my other corpse”
@just i c e curse you and seven of your kin.
@just i c e you absolute mad lad
@just i c e dammit I was expecting a Rick Roll...
@just i c e 💯🤣
Seeing that voice come out of that person is simply wild.
Bruh look at Tom Waits
Look at any metal vocalist, Phil Bozeman, Randy Blythe, Mitch Lucker
Yeah, it’s kinda the same thing as watching the actual Tom Waits.
If you're seeing voices, that's wild enough.
@@killerrosebudiscool I always use Tatiana Shmaylyuk as a good example Lol
Idk how he pulled that voice out with that metric ton of gravel
Fucking fantastic!
Compression, and lots of it lol
He pulled from the mountain of Sisyphus itself.
@@yuuri9064Google lmao
@@yuuri9064 it’s a mixture of genetics, alchohal and smoking, and vocal distortion. When you do vocal distortion/compression/fry you constrict the muscles at the back of your throat that force air to pass from lungs and vibrate the fleshy parts around your vocal box, which creates “grit” in your vocal style.
Don’t know for sure here, but if you do ‘vocal fry’ and then turn up the volume, it gives you a safe kind of rock and rill distortion. Hopefully he’s doing something similar
“And the crowd goes wild with recognition” is probably my favorite part about this.
By now I know the song by heart, so technically he ain't wrong
When I showed this to my wife, she said, "I don't know who Sisyphus is". I said, "Don't worry. Soon, you will and never forget it".
Afterwards, the crowd went wild for being recognition'd.
My Gods! He didn't just nail it, he built a whole fucking house out of it!
Damn that's good!!
Right?!? It's just mmm!
what's he building in there?
@@bruceusername damn, you beat me to it 😁
i like that it was clear nobody knew ross could do that with his voice
After the McDonalds McBeth, I exclusively expect him to pull out this type of voice
I mean, whoever made that prompt sure as hell did...
@@keithklassen5320 it was a book full of prompts and he chose it himself. But maybe whoever wrote those knew. There is a bts episode for this one.
That's why he was chosen for this prompt so they knew.
@@luf4rall They actually had a giant binder full of prompts to chose from, so Ross chose this one out of a lot of them. For obvious reasons, since he fuckin nailed it.
8 months later and I still desperately need this as a single
I’m with you on that
2 months later still, and I too want to hear a full song of this
Here we are, a full year in
A full year and 6 days.
I don't know time
The fucking Vibrato on "What goes up" is the part the fucking floors me.
I love that it just turns into a deleted Hadestown song at the end lol
same lmao
I mean it kinda started as one too, I love it
@@daometh They're bots.
Thought he said hades' town
Same XD
Was literally thinking "wow this has Patrick Page in Hadestown vibes" then he sang that line at the end xD how much do I have to pay this man for a full version?
right!!!
agreed, my new alarm btw :'D!
YES PLEASE!
It would fit in after wait for me or the reprise
Beginning the song with 'abandon all hope ye who enter here' and ending it with 'Hadestown' is absolutely, absolutely brilliant.
Absolutely amazing
Bravo, Vince!
Hadestown is an excellent musical just FYI
@@captainseawolf1 Pretty sure that was the point made above
Crazy genius. How how did he do this much less spontaneously?
That is MENACING
How can he just make something like this up?????
That is so UNBELIEVABLY skilled.
We need an episode with him, Jess and Brennan that is made for dramatic monologues and impromptu singing.
I’m thinking Shakespeare meets musical
@just i c e why do you lie?
@@jean-lucwalker3690 it's a bot...
Bump because more people need to see this
Perfect idea
FROM THE FIRST LINE I WAS LIKE “holy shit this is SO Hadestown” and then, he finished off with Hadestown. Brilliant
Literally, even before the vocals too
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let me fix that!
And then he hadestowned to everybody. The most hadestown ever.
@@markm.9062 I liked when he said ‘It’s Waits Time’ and then he Hadestowned all over
Same!
sam's little "got to come down" is so fhcking funny to me because he was clearly freaking the fuck out over how clever the lyrics were but didn't want to interrupt the flow of the song, so he expressed his awe by way of back up vocals
honestly, spontaneous jazzy backup vocals is the coolest/most respectful way to be hype about improvised jazz lyrics.
I freaking lost it on that same part!
That's just editing homie.
I...I really need to start expressing my awe thru bgvs .
@@HighFlyActionGuy Um... no? To adlib a simple backup chorus for a line is a thing most kids know to do in Elementary School... though there we just did it to be cool or to annoy the teacher.
Game changers may have the single greatest concentration of performance talent ever assembled.
Man just improvised a blues masterpiece on the spot
LITERALLY! So impressive, theres being an improv professional and then theres THIS like... omg
And thats the Gospel Truth!
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece but it was pretty good.
This whole episode is musical imporv genius
Was THAT improvised??? That's fucking insane (I haven't seen the whole thing, don't at me too bad)
sam literally hyperventilating with excitement is so valid rn
Ignore the bot people
@@FFKonoko don't ignore. report the bot for spam
To he fair, so was i
i was gobsmacked too that was insanely good
@@kamaradevile9978 with how many of these bot comments there are and how many are sure to follow, reporting them every time is just, well, sisyphean
Ross: “HAS GOT TO COME DOOOOWN”
Sam very gently: “got to come down”
His name is Ross not Jess 😂
Jess Mckenna is the girl who usually does musical improv with Zach Reino (the guy with the longer hair who was shown in this clip)
@@aqueelkadri8371 My bad, I made this comment at like 4 in the morning so I didn’t really realize at the time🤣
@@avval8549 No worries my man
Been there done that 😂
@@aqueelkadri8371 god we’ve got a third dropout Jess now
@@dumpy_frog 🤣🤣🤣
The other one's full name is literally JESS ROSS
And she was the original droupout Jess
This has no business being this freaking good
I know "improv god" is basically a requirement on the CollegeHumor job application, but it still blows my mind how they come up with 1) the music and 2) the lyrics to these incredible songs _on the fly._ Phenomenal work.
This and "The Official Cast Recording" are easily in the top 5 of Game Changer for me.
There's no way this wasn't staged o_o
@@RicardoMontania once you work on improv, it gets easier. Then there's people who are just talented to do it on the spot, like Harry Mac, who does full free styles on the spot.
@@RicardoMontania there are hundreds of prompts they can choose from in the episode, but they have also had other episodes where they come up with songs on the fly. Additionally, they have a whole new show on the concept - Play it by ear - and other shows have done this plenty of times. The classic "whose line is it anyways" did this every episode as the last prompt. Check out Wayne Brady, he's the OG on-the-fly song writer and has been doing it for decades.
@@andreidinu7316 Dude, the Harry Mack episode on Marc Rebillet's YT channel..... damn
"And the crowd goes wild with recognition." He said it. He delivered. Im madly impressed and i want more. Also mad respect to the musician the thing sounds Waits from top to bottom.
Yeah I was not expecting him to get the voice but he was actually really good
I must admit I'm impressed with his impersonation.
I'm just trying to imagine what it was like to improvise these with only piano, because the post-production drums and sound effects are just so perfect!
This unironically slaps and I would buy this song with actual human money in a second.
Same
Lizard money works too
Where can one acquire thisss human currencccccccy?... Asking for a fellow human I call, friend.
I'd buy it with dog money
Me personally, spirit money.
this regularly gets stuck in my head (including the preemptive "And the crowd goes wild with recognition!")
The singing goes hard as fuck but lets also give props to the beat and piano because it fits SO WELL
Yeah! Dude killed it on all of these
As soon as the pianist started playing I was immediately like "oh man this guy knows Tom to a tee" 😂
Not really. The piano and beat started it and the singer had to come up with a voice to match it
@@Whiskers--5 They mean fitting the prompt
@@BroudbrunMusicMerge ohhhh
The fact that you not only have to be able to sing, but adlib, AND possess a working knowledge of the mythos of Sisyphus. I'm floored.
It's super easy to do this, you just need to get possessed by Sisyphus, who is himself being possessed by Tom Waits.
To be fair they do interview etc before the show to give the game changers an idea of their musical styles, interests, etc. they aren’t going to give them a singer or topic they know nothing about.
Also, the knowledge of the words carved above the gates of hell in Inferno
@@thedrunkenelfYeah I figured that would be the case when I saw one so an Animal Crossing Impression. They had to have known she knew that game.
@@TequilaToothpickthey're pretty open with the fact that they do try to tailor the prompts to the players, even writing some prompts specifically for one person.
Wow. As a big fan of Waits, this was just fantastic. He didn't just get the gravely voice, but the mannerisms and the slightly more whispery growl Waits does.
SAME
😂 I love the shocked looks on everyone’s faces. He NAILED it. As a Waits fan, he N A I L E D it!
This. This is the hardest improv from my humble perspective.
Not only do you need near encyclopedic knowledge of what makes singers/genres unique, you need to be able to rhyme on command, all while keeping it thematically appropriate. And you need to sound good, too.
Entirely agree
Yeah seems very staged
@@luthien47normally i would agree, but i've seen play it by ear which is basically just this but for a whole hour, building an entire story, and yeah no i'm not surprised anymore. I mean- i guess it is staged in that they deliberately tailor the questions to the guests' talents, all the guests they got this ep where people who aleady had experience in "musical comedy improv"
@@luthien47 Honestly, I think this is much easier for some people than it is for others. I'm pretty stupid about math and science, but improvising themed songs like this on the spot is almost effortless for me. I'm not nearly as good as this guy, but it wouldn't take an insane amount of training for me to get there either.
Which isn't to discount the skill needed to do this, I just mean to say that it isn't impossible to the point of questioning its sincerity.
They got to choose from a list of prompts so he probably had a bit of time to come up with some basic ideas while choosing.
The way he relaxes after every verse like he's being POSSESSED
his whole body tension was amazing
Somewhere Tom Waits had an out of body experience
@@lauratruxillo6264 HAHA like he got spiritually teleported into the room for a few minutes and was sent back when done.
By syfilus
cuz he was fuckin possessed by the muses themselves baby!
His voice goes hard as fuck, I love it
@here is the full clip don't do that. I don't like that. 😅
@here is the full clip 🗿👍
@here is the full clip you tricked me you jerk
@here is the full clip damn it. I just got rick rolled :(
Like Lance Armstrong doing a stint in a Finnish metal band
This is easily one of the greatest moments from the series. Those lyrics are 🔥
Can we please appreciate the pianist that managed to follow his singing perfectly and made it sound so smooth?
I mean the pianist is great, but he played a pretty standard progression and having a general knowledge of music theory would make it an easy follow if you have the skill to come up with the lyrics. 4 bar intro to get a feel before it starts so he has the vibe, 8 bar verse (nice touch having an a and b theme across the verse) and then an 8 bar chorus. It's why it's really easy to predict the words (and a lot of the rhythms) of modern church music if you know enough words for basic rhyme recognition
@@timtheenchanter55 It might seem simple to you but I assure you that it's way more impressive than you think it is.
@@TonkarzOfSolSystemi mean the way he just described it, it seems like he’s knowledgeable enough to grasp what the pianist did
@@clearlynotchloe Yeah, I mean my point is that while someone with the skills and knowledge might consider it easy I think they're underestimating just how much more they know then your average layman.
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem ur right actually, i ddint consider that. i think he’s underselling both his and the pianist’s talent
"when he was aliiive"
sam: aæuhh 😩
Sam cuming to good music sounds about right
😆 spelling on point for Sam's little noise of glee.
I can't- 😂
Love the username!
my favourite bit, that moan was involuntary and I love that for Sam :D (oh to have a longer version of this song!)
Sam adlibing "GOT TO COME DOWN!" Out of excitement makes my day every time.
Incredible
I swear if it was an actual Hadestown song, those adlibs would definitely be in there 😂
I was right there with Sam even before the camera cut to him 😂
Omg this is fantastic. As a huge Tom Waits fan, I have to say that they nailed the voice, music, lyrics, and physical peculiarity. Absolutely awesome! I’ve watched 10 times, already. Nicely done.
I've never felt chills from a song at the same time as stitches from laughing before, and I never want to again. Thank you for that uniquely sensorily overwhelming experience.
All being produced in real-time like some sort of god-tier machine learning algorithm. Fuck me!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one with chills lmao. Red with embarrassment too
Same lmao
I don't even usually get chills and it did it
The fact that I can pin this solidly to a specific era of Waits' music is a testament to this masterful improv.
Could u maybe tell me what era or what albums/songs kinda bc this song lowkey made me want to get into Tom waits
@@trashpanda2200 chocolate Jesus might be a good start
@@trashpanda2200 The structure and melody seems straight out of the new works he did for the Brawlers portion of 'Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards' collection (partially unreleased older songs that didn't quite mesh in the albums he was working on in the past, part newer material, about an even split iirc), which is smack in the middle of the album Mule Variations (which this also would fit into stylistically, if slightly less, probably mostly similar to the Glitter & Doom live version of 'Get Behind the Mule') and 'Real Gone' (this improv piece does remind me a bit of 'Don't Into That Barn' off that album). Vocal performance, he seems to be emulating the Glitter & Doom tour era before Waits' voice started to fail him a bit live, but after he started shifting to more of a holler & shout style of singing.
So yeah, this is the 1999-mid-00's Waits era more or less. There's probably stuff you'd like off 'Mule Variations', 'Alice', 'Blood Money', 'Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards', and 'Real Gone' (a five year period of time, he was wildly prolific so late in his career). And if you haven't heard the Glitter & Doom live album, I def recommend it, his live versions of songs can be wildly different than the album versions.
Some tracks to start with similar to this if you like this vibe:
"Get Behind the Mule" off Glitter and Doom live album
"Don't Go Into That Barn" off Real Gone
"God's Away on Business" off Blood Money
"Come On up To The House' off Mule Variations
"2:19" off Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards.
And then there's some personal favourites:
"Clap Hands" off Rain Dogs
"Black Wings" off Bone Machine
"16 Shells From A 30.6" off Swordfishtrombones
"Rain Dogs" off Rain Dogs
"Alice" off of Alice
@@tomascinnsealeach9979 I'm partial to the live performance here out of what's available on youtube: th-cam.com/video/5c5dlaOzOC0/w-d-xo.html
It's the little percussion hit with the brake bell in the beginning that really puts it squarely into Swordfishtrombones/Rain Dogs territory for me
As a huge Tom Waits and musical improv fan I've never felt more alive
Then can you help me find the original one 🙏
It doesn't seem to be on TH-cam for some reason 🙏
@@shadowversatile689 they are uploaded to the College humour's Dropout streaming service
Right when I heard the music start, I immediately thought of Tom Waits and that gravelly voice. Then he starts singing. Was NOT disappointed.
@@shadowversatile689 It's from a streaming service. They post clips here for promo.
"Dropout" is the name.
SAAAAMMMEEE
It's been nigh on 2 years, and this one still hits as hard as it did on first play
So props to the guy singing, but double to props goes to the guy playing the keyboard. Listening to the queues for tempo change in someone's voice on the fly is CRAZY difficult. Give that man a raise.
This! Seriously
Yeah, love to appreciate good talent.
what are you talking about it's nearly the same tempo all the way through. It goes from being steady on 115 and steps up to 117 in small increments. If you're following someone's voice being forward on the beat that isn't a direct cue to you increasing the tempo, in fact that would generally be considered inconsistent. We're not talking some super rhythmically tight genre of music where these things truly matter. This is Tom Waits where the more drunk and swingy everything sounds the better. The very slight tempo increases could very well be planned, especially considering that the drum track is probably running as a sequence.
@Gwen Nah definitely a temp change, better luck next time Gwen.
Pretty sure he just played the piano and the guy sang along. You know, how it normally works
As a theater kid who absolutely loves hadestown, I now wish Sisyphus was in the show, so we could have this delightful treat on the stage.
Pssssst, watch Triangle (the movie). Just enjoy.
Or play Hades, it has all of them in there!
@@rootbourne4454 Magic is real and so is Bouldy!
@@roxxram9151always give nectar 🥹
Wait are these lyrics from a song that already exists? He didn’t make these up on the spot?
ross somehow sneakily shovelled a fistful of rough, loose stones into his throat to make his voice that gravelly, and that's dedication
rough loose stones that broke off of Sisyphus's boulder. Lol
"Excuse me while I gargle this Drano".
Man smoked about 19 packs of cigarettes just moments before
"Oh HELL yeah!" was perfectly on point.
This episode was the absolute peak of talent, EVERY SINGLE ONE SLAPPED HARD, they did not miss a beat, holy crap dude
Do you know how i can watch this full episode
@@youwillneverknow2926 With a drop out subscription would be the legal way If you want to do it a little less legally I wouldn't really know but I hope that at least helped some
Link
Have you seen the musical?
Feel like the guy with the black hair can’t sing lol
When he started singing I lost it 😂
@here is the full clip nope that's a bot
I gasped and had to cover my mouth. Ross Bryant is really impressive, I've quickly become a huge fan of his since he first appeared on Make Some Noise just a few months ago!
So did sam XD
Homie just adlibbed a Hadestown fanfiction.
i LOVE it
HELP SO TRUE
ITS AMAZING
Bro it totally works
"ad libbed"
His voice really sounds like what a canon Disney villain's voice would be and i highly respect that.
@just i c e no
It's literally just what Tom Waits sounds like if you didnt know
Tbh It kinda reminds me of the animated Hercules movie
@@viridiantheforest1037 I KNOW
JUST IMAGINE THE FATES COMING OUT AS HE SAID HADESTOWN
It's fairly reminiscent of Dr facelier
I love how Sam was one of the responsable of saving the company in to dropout by just making the stars entretain him, it's glorious.
Dropout is the only subscription I feel good about buying. I discovered college humour back when they would host picnicface sketches, they were a small comedy troupe from near my home who did really ahead of it’s time stuff. Been a huge fan ever since, and the D20 content alone on dropout is worth the $8 a month.
@@TripleXMangoI miss dropout to be honest I'm gonna make room in my budget to get it you've reminded me it's good to enjoy
That's really all it is now, isn't it. Just a bunch of people goofing around on improv game shows and role-playing games.
@@PaulGuyyeah, and its fantastic!
@@TripleXMango Same. Picnicface, Jake and Amir, all the old sketches they used to do, but it dropped off with Adam Conover and that new generation.
I had seen some Game Changer stuff, but when I realised it was Sam hosting it, I made the connection it was Collegehumor. I love the new players, and still having Josh around to do the Seagull is amazing, I'm glad the creators of half my childhood jokes between me and my friends are still going and better than ever.
“Who’s that rolling a rock over there? No man can tell.” *Proceeds to tell exactly who that man rolling a rock is.*
He's clearly no man.
@@TwoToneShoes Odysseus?
@@LasagnaTheArtist or, hear me out, Hades or Thanatos himself, no man there technically 😌🤔
@@enriquepx1698nah, its definitely that sneaky fuck Odysseus. Snuck down there to tell us that story
@@LasagnaTheArtist nobody did this to me!
I've rewatched this so many times, I'm focusing on the reactions now: Sam barely containing his emotions and narrowly escaping interrupting by singing along instead, the guy being barely surprised because he just knows how genious the other guy is, and the lady just fluctuating in and out of scarousement all the way to the end 😂
me: this sounds perfect for Hadestown!
him: step ahead of ya
Jesus loves you!
@@awesome346 not you though!
@@awesome346 Stop.
@@bradleyh4532 Don't be rude, he is clearly expressing a form of kindness
@@GustavRex Not cool
I love everything about this. This should get made into a real song.
Check out underground by Tom Waits
@@geoffreyschuchardt5350yessir
I would listen to this all day
@@jackpage7843 same.
Absolutely
Dude... I grew up on Tom Waits and greek mythology. This is my perfect video and now that I've seen it I can die happy.
A natural venn diagram of interests
Thats oddly specific and I love it
Watch hadestown 🧐
The clip such a weird intersection of interests of mine as well, it just tickled my brain from start to finish.
🥲
One of the greatest improvisers of our era. Thank goodness for dropout bringing these gems to masses
Holy shitt the amount of confidence to create that shit out of nowhere is absolute bonkers
absolute boulders
This is such a bloody earworm. I need a full song pronto
Basically Tom Waits has several songs like this lol
Any recommendations?
@@riven5544 Sure. Here's a few. The first one is clearly the inspiration for this one.
Don't go into that barn: th-cam.com/video/qRSBmalHDV0/w-d-xo.html
Underground: th-cam.com/video/vaTSQzYIR3U/w-d-xo.html
Hell Broke Luce : th-cam.com/video/0Fju9o8BVJ8/w-d-xo.html
Little Drop of Poison: th-cam.com/video/_VgL_gbz3xs/w-d-xo.html
Earth Dies Screaming: th-cam.com/video/C7I4kSpS43o/w-d-xo.html
Singapore: th-cam.com/video/QywH5lialsU/w-d-xo.html
Make it Rain: th-cam.com/video/Mv0htJ0tgsU/w-d-xo.html
He;s got a ton of music that's weird, growly, bluesy, avant garde, etc... but he also has tons of smooth love songs, tragic ballads, swinging tunes. He's the man of many voices and the man of many genres. He writes with a humor and pain that feels older than he was when he wrote them. Easily one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
@@riven5544 lol just remembered "Fish in the Jailhouse" music.th-cam.com/video/xiXsIKJSRnA/w-d-xo.html&feature=share
@@riven5544 ‘Way Down Hadestown’ ‘When the Chips are Down’ ‘Why we Build the Wall’
These are three songs that fit the song vibes really well, especially the last one 👍
He is FEELING that song. He even goes staccato with the pianist
whats staccato
@@cruz6550 it's when the notes are shortened (often with a short silence afterwards). I think OP was referring to "rolling that stone up a"
"and the crowd goes wild with recognition" is underrated
One must imagine Tom Waits happy
I think you just elevated TH-cam comments as an art form
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I have no words
🔥
I have to say as a Tom Waits fan. He f-ing NAILED Waits’ voice.
"How many times have you"
"yes"
"But I didn't finish my sentence"
"YES"
No
@@firetrio2103 yes
YES
Maybe
Yes.
This man is one of the best people to see and watch on this show, when he appears you know it’s gonna be a good episode.
Dude I'm a massive fan of Tom waits and i can swear to you this sounds exactly like something he'd write. I implore you to make a full version
Right I think I was more surprised by the fact that this isn't already a song by Tom Waits
@@GrizzG13 thats what i thought :D
! 100 thousand fu**in percent !
Still waiting and hoping for a full version
@@Kihen9 i think there is one
The McBeth already blew my mind but this is just outstanding. His improv talent is out of this world.
I agree. I've seen other shorts that were funnier, but the two you mention are the most astonishing. Like watching an impossible magic trick.
@@aarons3014 it really is, and I believe Sam called the musical improv exactly that in one if the GC episodes with them. It is so incredible to me that people can hone this skill into something that produces *this*. It's *amazing*.
I thought the McDonald's MacBeth was the peak of comedy, and now he tops that with this masterpiece
This was Needlessly Amazing
Like
Seriously
there was no need for it to be that good
now I want a 3min version and an accompanying album
wow
Absolutely!
Add the extended version of 1000 hellos, I love it
I just have to randomly watch this video from time to time. Its so damn good.
Their reactions when he pulled out that voice was ✨PRICELESS✨
I got chills when he said “what goes up”
Seriously, that voice was perfect for this song
Me too!!!
Wait i want this to be a real song so bad
@just i c e this is why I have trust issues
It is. It's no less a real song just because it was improvised.
My soul craves the full version
@@9nikola I think they meant a full length song, not a song shorter than a minute
@@kryzai9302 never listen to a top reply that says something like that
I'm always impressed by people who can improv sing.
We need like an entire album of this show's improv songs
There's one for Mountport songs on Spotify, so I'm hoping they'll make one for this episode too
Link plz kindred
@@johnsnow9210 links aren't allowed on TH-cam sadly
He knew the assignment, and ate it up I need a full song of this that would be so cool!
Could you not imagine some classic Disney animation of some boatman rowing someone through the Styx, who was silent right up until they enter Tartarus just pull his hood down and start singing this to the probably child character whose come to save maybe a sibling or something, with like, spectral skeletons snapping in unison around him, the big flares of fires and the drops of the river and such. It’s such a clearly perfect musical including to some Greco inspired Disney family film. Like, as soon as he hits “hadestown” the boat drops off of a ledge into another section of river with that sign lazily hanging up with all sorts of colourful ghouls and goblins skulking around
Im thinking “John Henry” style- it be so good 😫
SO MUCH THIS!
I believe that we'll know where to search for a cast of characters to revitalize cartoons after disney finally dies.
And it could have a couple other verses, each one pertaining to a different myth/punishment!
Give it to me now. With Ross as the Boatman.
The instruments are played by skeletons who rock up on a different ferry completely unprompted.
Also one of them plays another’s vertebrae like a xylophone at one point.
I come back to this short every so often because it's just that good
“Deep Voiced Ross isn’t real, he can’t hurt you”
* deep voiced Ross *
I'm fine with him hurting me. As long as he uses THAT voice
@@endosym5023 aye, safe words exist for a reason.
My jaw DROPPED 😲 Nailed Tom Waits' voice/style, knew the mythology, came up with lyrics *on the spot*, and made a banger all at the same time. Please, dear god, I need a full version of this. 🙏🏽
Wait! Are you saying that he actually improvised all THAT? Including the lyrics?!!! WOW!!!
@@elplain yep... the whole show, even the rules of every episode are improved
I love how Sam is always so tickled with what he can make people do.
His improvisational skills are just beyond comprehension.
"Offended the Gods."
Bro locked Death Incarnate in a box until Ares and Hades got suspicious
The version I read is he invited Hades over for dinner, and Hades, never having been invited to dinner by a mortal before, accepted. Sisyphus tied him up and left him there. 😂 And as long as Hades was tied up, no-one could die.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 the story varies on wether it was Thanatos or Hades
@@benjaminoechsli1941well it wouldn’t matter because Hades isn’t the god of death. Thanatos is.
My favorite part of that myth was how long it took them to *get* suspicious
@@kanakomonsen9114 well Hades does have a lot of work. And what are years to immortal beings?
I’ve never heard of Tom Waits but I just know he nailed the fuck out of that prompt.
Do yourself a favor. Personal recommendations are God's Away on Business, Hell Broke Luce, Hope I Never Fall in Love with You, and if you want something particularly silly, The Piano Has Been Drinking
In addition to the fantastic Tom Waits songs suggested by Spider Mike Jr, I recommend listening to some of his more beautiful ballads, Alice, and Georgia Lee a listen. (Fair warning, Georgia Lee is a sad one).
I don't wanna frow old
Waltz in Matilda
Hell Broke Luce is a phenomenal and deep song.
Okay but this slaps it feels just like a Hadestown song, I need a full version by someone
Amen to that!
Every time this shows up in my feed I can’t help but watch it. A masterpiece!
Fucking hell that is an astounding voice mimicry. And the fact that her pulled out those lyrics, beautiful
I've listened to this 37 times now and don't see myself stopping anytime soon
Its mesmerising isnt it
SPARTA LISTEN TO THE ROSS
Makes me wanna listen to 🔥🔥🔥 *_Hell_* 🔥🔥🔥 by the Squirrel Nut Zippers
I‘ve legit been here for half an hour
I'm at well over 370 times and still going strong.
Sam looks like he discovered something about himself as soon as Ross brought that voice out
They’re so fucking talented it’s craY
the immediate freakout after he instantly nails it
WHAT THE ACTUAL- literal chills the moment he started singing
We need these bangers on a Spotify playlist dedicated to the chaotic tunes created on this godforsaken show
+1
we do!
Fact
"The tune of chaotic goods"
unfortunately uploading to Spotify is likely to get these shorts taken down by automated copyright systems just like what happened to the mountport ones
I need a full version of this. It's my favorite bit in all of dropout
I just love seeing the genuine joy in everyone's expression because it just proves how much he killed this uber comedic, soulfully talented on spot Karaoke rendition! And of course, Sam's overall reaction made me grin and laugh even more!
I've rewatched this short SO many times. I absolutely adore the song he made up, especially his reference to Hadestown at the end. Absolutely immaculate.
The myth of Sisyphus actually explains his sentence in Tartarus: Sisyphus spent his life luring people into his home for shelter and killing them to steal their money. Eventually he died, but specifically asked his wife not to bury him; he told Persephone herself that he had no proper burial, which upset her. He took advantage of her upset to go back in the world of the living, but once he died again he was sentenced to roll a boulder up a mountain. Every time that boulder reached the top, it rolled down the other side, plummeting back and making him have to start all over again, much like how death was inescapable despite his attempts.
I've heard another myth where he made Death drunk and Held hin captive in his basement
@@claudiag.9307 that was tantalus i think?
@@TheM8 No Tantalus fed his son to the gods (or more specifically, Demeter who was still grieving the loss of Persephone and the only god at the table who hadn't realised they were being served human flesh until she'd already eaten some) after they kicked him off Olympus for stealing nectar and ambrosia.
Sisyphus chained Death and told his wife not to perform the funeral rites so he was allowed to go back. Then he just... stayed there until he got very old and got dragged down to Tartarus kicking and screaming.
@@claudiag.9307 Both things happen. When death came for him the second time he trapped him in a box. Ares who realized people weren't dying in wars anymore made it his goal to find the missing death. He found and freed death who promptly took him to hades.
Him rolling the boulder up the hill but it falling down every time is a representation of the futility of escaping death
This actually gave me chills
I WANT THIS ON SPOTIFY HOLY SHIT