Thanks for watching this video and the series, y'all! This video has more bad jokes than usual because I was having fun/I might be losing my mind, anyway...😀 For those that have been wondering what's next, I've got two projects I'm excited about that I haven't been able to devote enough time to while making the analysis videos - one is a cover album and the other is a music education resource, both NIN-related! So you may not see videos from me in February while I prioritize these projects, but rest assured I am working on making some cool shit. I'll try to go live at the very least and I'll still be hosting my 1-2x monthly listening parties on Patreon! 🌟 ~ixi
The jokes aren’t misplaced MJK had mentioned/ joked about in a few places that the meaning behind Thinking of you was about anal sex so there’s that Joke on top of the more obvious meaning ... triple entendre not intended . Nor that one .
If a perfect circle whole catalogue was just Breña, I would still be a fan. But they have like dozens and dozens of even better songs too. They’re out of this world
"Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head, tugging a beat to the sight of you lying" is somehow the filthiest lyric without being technically filthy at all.
One time I encountered someone very earnestly arguing that Thinking Of You had some super deep, emotional meaning, that was in no way sexual, and everyone who saw the song that way was wrong. Did not even attempt to counter argue with that level of obliviousness.
I can't imagine how many hours you put into researching, writing, arranging recording, and editing this series. This album means a lot to me, and I now have an even deeper appreciation of the care and thought that Billy, Maynard, and the rest of the band put into writing and arranging it. Thank you so much!
Your channel is the best thing I've found this year, your analysis are always absolutely fantastic, it makes me want to study the bass again and you're very articulate and funny which makes things easier. Kuddos for the editing also!
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this whole series has been super eye-opening! I love discovering old music all over again
Beyond awesome, Ixi. Thanks for making the huge effort, I haven't seen anything like this anywhere else. You are incredibly talented, not just ("just"?) musically, but also in the way you communicate and the great sense of humor you show.
I'm binging your channel like crazy and it's awesome cause I've discovered A Perfect Circle recently (also discovered Tool very recently, I know it's a little bit late but that's most because their style of music wasn't what it used to be on my playlist) and now I've discovered this channel which breakdowns every song in a very professional but also entertaining way, and your charisma and passion for music is overwhelming! Love your content!
@@MostlyCloudy yeah dude, the first time I listened to tool was in 2020....the lockdowns were all over, my head was super heavy and bored and scared, then I listen to fear inoculum and one thing lead to the other and now I'm totally addicted to their entire discography hahahahahahhaha
I've been watching so many vids of you since the interview with Geebs, and I love your breakdowns. I hardly know anything about music, but your jokes have made your channel joyous to go through. As a huge Tool fan, that 29 minute mark had me cracking up more than I should've. Amazing series on this album, it made me fall in love with it all over again. Would love some more breakdowns of their other albums. Really wish you had more views, but I think the content that you breakdown is a little deeper than the casual listener would care to go. Honestly, most of it goes over my head, but I love (attempting) to learn the melodic ideas behind my favorite bands. Thank you for being so hilarious, having a great taste in music, and helping the layman understand your music analysis.
Thank you for the entire series. It must have cost you hours and hours of analysis. I'm also doing some public speaking so I recognize skill in this area, too. It's hard work to make it look this easy! Wonderful stuff! Now you can focus on the NIN cover album. Can't wait!
I am absolutely in love with what you're doing here. I have a whole new vision and appreciation of the classics and loved music that has been so close to my heart through all these years. Also, I adore your jokes and humor. Thank you SO MUCH!!!
Thank you so much for your analysis. It's been great seeing someone as talented and insightful as yourself breakdown my musical nostalgia in a way that allows me to see it with fresh eyes (That's all the simping you'll get out of me for today). I've always found 'Over' to be one of the best outros for an album. Samples of the previous songs are played in the same way as fragments of memory of imperfectly recalled over and over again. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for these videos. This is one of my all time favorite albums. Songs from it pop up on my pandora station almost daily so I can say, without exaggeration, that I've been listening to this album for over 20 years, and yet you've given me a whole new understanding and appreciation of it.
Thinking Of You studio: I hear Billy's bv in the chorus. I remember that after hearing some live version I started playing the chorus chords like this: F#sus4 F# F#sus4 F# Asus4 A Asus4 A E F#sus4 F# F#sus4 F# D Dmaj7 D Dmaj7 E Breña: I play a Bbm7sus9 chord in the verse
Loved this series! I remember some conversation on a message board about "Over" that described the ending as representing the entire album as if it were played from end to beginning at high speed to end back at the beginning at the very last point. A perfect circle back to the start.
1:25 is it spoons? idk. Anyways... FANTASTIC SERIES! I loved every little bit! I would be THRILLED if this gets the attention of Billy and you could land a Zoom interview or something of the sort. Maybe that's wishful thinking, but you'd be perfect for it!
Thanks for the video and the whole series. I love the jokes and the faces/reactions in this videos. Look like you were so much more relax and having so much fun doing it!! Love it!!!
I loved watching this whole album breakdown. Subbed and rang 🔔. Between this series and your many nin breakdowns, you have a fan for the life of your channel. Will be sharing with friends.
On Breña, if you listen closely in the 2nd verse, I'm pretty sure there's another layer of MJK's vocals singing the same thing but in the lower octave. It sounds really cool. But anyway I really enjoyed this series and look forward to more breakdowns! Super insightful.
thank you for the analysis! There is so much here that I sometimes wonder if the musicians have put the same thoughts into the notes that you do. This makes me appreciate the music so much more. Now searching for live clips of the songs.
Dead As History by The Dillinger Escape Plan has a really similar riff to Thinking of You. I’d actually love to see you break down more DEP, even if it’s just one of their alt metal tunes like Milk Lizard, Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants, or Unretrofied. Parasitic Twins would be a really cool one as well.
I'm absolutely loving these videos! There in my preferred genre and are making me a better musician. U might enjoy analysing songs from the queen of the damned soundtrack I highly recommend "slept so long" by jay Gordon and Johnathan Davis 🥰
i was also really happy to see you cover thinking of you as well! that too is one of my fave songs off of this album, though it's a little out of place soley 'cuse of it's sound and it's lyrics
Thank you for your videos... I've been getting into making electronic music and your technical knowledge as well as your enthusiasm helps me a lot...I desperately wanted to partake in the nin listening parties.... unfortunately I am BROKE...I am currently detoxing from a 20+ year, hence my financial state. Thank god I found kratom! So upon my final escape from this prison I locked myself into, I def plan to support you on patreon
That high pitch guitar part on “Thinking of You” is likely a Digitech Whammy with some delay, reverb and maybe some modulation pedal like a chorus. At least this is what I hear. If not a Digitech Whammy, according to Equipboard, he uses a couple of multi-effects units that will likely have all those effects built in
Hate to be that guy...but. I really would love to see you deep dive the Tool album Lateralus. It is one of the most influential albums in my opinion. Love your content. Been binge watching it lately. Keep it up.
Honestly I'd love to but the universe might implode if I analyzed the whole album! But really it's too big of a project for the resources and time I have right now. :( BUT! I did a live 1 1/2-hour analysis of Lateralus the song. That's a bit different than studying it for weeks and producing an edited video, but here's the link to my Patreon with the video if you need to whet your appetite: www.patreon.com/posts/57476858
@@iximusic thanks for replying. I know. The universe implodes on me everytime I so much as listen to it. I will definitely check out the Lateralus analysis.
I'm no longer allowing myself to watch your videos past 11PM, because I always get inspired to play, then its 6AM and I have to work... Great series! By chance are you going to do any of Billy's other stuff like Ashes Divide?
Not quite the same but there's 5-hour livestream listening to Aenima live: th-cam.com/video/BwBJ_a-PASI/w-d-xo.html And a video on the song "Lateralus", same format: th-cam.com/video/w_RFSQHklQE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching this video and the series, y'all! This video has more bad jokes than usual because I was having fun/I might be losing my mind, anyway...😀 For those that have been wondering what's next, I've got two projects I'm excited about that I haven't been able to devote enough time to while making the analysis videos - one is a cover album and the other is a music education resource, both NIN-related! So you may not see videos from me in February while I prioritize these projects, but rest assured I am working on making some cool shit. I'll try to go live at the very least and I'll still be hosting my 1-2x monthly listening parties on Patreon! 🌟 ~ixi
"Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most."
-Mark Twain
Nin cover album!?! Gimme! Your creative reinterpretations have been my favorite parts of your videos
Really enjoyed the "bad" jokes and playful editing. Genuinely LOLd at several points.
The jokes aren’t misplaced MJK had mentioned/ joked about in a few places that the meaning behind Thinking of you was about anal sex so there’s that Joke on top of the more obvious meaning ... triple entendre not intended . Nor that one .
All jokes aside. Your love for Trent and Maynard channel's our love to you.
Brena is my second fav from this album, after Orestes. Absolutely beautiful and unconventional.
Mine too!
If a perfect circle whole catalogue was just Breña, I would still be a fan.
But they have like dozens and dozens of even better songs too. They’re out of this world
"Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head, tugging a beat to the sight of you lying" is somehow the filthiest lyric without being technically filthy at all.
Just say it Dan, it's a nut song xD
One time I encountered someone very earnestly arguing that Thinking Of You had some super deep, emotional meaning, that was in no way sexual, and everyone who saw the song that way was wrong. Did not even attempt to counter argue with that level of obliviousness.
"sexylydian" lolololol, love your videos!!!
“Key: F# sexylydian” - I shouldn’t be laughing this hard but I jumpscared my cat.
I can't imagine how many hours you put into researching, writing, arranging recording, and editing this series. This album means a lot to me, and I now have an even deeper appreciation of the care and thought that Billy, Maynard, and the rest of the band put into writing and arranging it. Thank you so much!
Ixi if you did 13 step I would be eternally grateful. Thank you for your beautiful insight...you are a wonderful teacher!
The key of "F"........................................... sharp...
More jokes, plz! Haha. Fantastic job in breaking down the songs. It’s crazy to go back to this album and hear it differently. Cheers!
Your channel is the best thing I've found this year, your analysis are always absolutely fantastic, it makes me want to study the bass again and you're very articulate and funny which makes things easier. Kuddos for the editing also!
this whole series has been super eye-opening! I love discovering old music all over again
Worlds I’ve never been to ... Dude’s lyricism is always on a left turn , but always on point .
Beyond awesome, Ixi. Thanks for making the huge effort, I haven't seen anything like this anywhere else.
You are incredibly talented, not just ("just"?) musically, but also in the way you communicate and the great sense of humor you show.
I'm binging your channel like crazy and it's awesome cause I've discovered A Perfect Circle recently (also discovered Tool very recently, I know it's a little bit late but that's most because their style of music wasn't what it used to be on my playlist) and now I've discovered this channel which breakdowns every song in a very professional but also entertaining way, and your charisma and passion for music is overwhelming! Love your content!
Welcome to the toolarmy!
Ixi f'n R.U.L.E.S.
@@MostlyCloudy yeah dude, the first time I listened to tool was in 2020....the lockdowns were all over, my head was super heavy and bored and scared, then I listen to fear inoculum and one thing lead to the other and now I'm totally addicted to their entire discography hahahahahahhaha
Thank you so much for giving me a greater appreciation for an album I thought I couldn't possibly love any more than I already did.
I've been watching so many vids of you since the interview with Geebs, and I love your breakdowns. I hardly know anything about music, but your jokes have made your channel joyous to go through. As a huge Tool fan, that 29 minute mark had me cracking up more than I should've.
Amazing series on this album, it made me fall in love with it all over again. Would love some more breakdowns of their other albums. Really wish you had more views, but I think the content that you breakdown is a little deeper than the casual listener would care to go. Honestly, most of it goes over my head, but I love (attempting) to learn the melodic ideas behind my favorite bands.
Thank you for being so hilarious, having a great taste in music, and helping the layman understand your music analysis.
So F...g great, amazing analysis 👏 👌 👍
Thank you for the entire series. It must have cost you hours and hours of analysis. I'm also doing some public speaking so I recognize skill in this area, too. It's hard work to make it look this easy!
Wonderful stuff! Now you can focus on the NIN cover album. Can't wait!
I am absolutely in love with what you're doing here. I have a whole new vision and appreciation of the classics and loved music that has been so close to my heart through all these years.
Also, I adore your jokes and humor.
Thank you SO MUCH!!!
Thank you so much for your analysis. It's been great seeing someone as talented and insightful as yourself breakdown my musical nostalgia in a way that allows me to see it with fresh eyes (That's all the simping you'll get out of me for today).
I've always found 'Over' to be one of the best outros for an album. Samples of the previous songs are played in the same way as fragments of memory of imperfectly recalled over and over again.
Thanks again.
Thank you so much for these videos. This is one of my all time favorite albums. Songs from it pop up on my pandora station almost daily so I can say, without exaggeration, that I've been listening to this album for over 20 years, and yet you've given me a whole new understanding and appreciation of it.
Awesome!
Yes!, i honestly love Breña, my favorite slow jam on the album. 🖤🖤🖤
Thinking Of You studio: I hear Billy's bv in the chorus.
I remember that after hearing some live version I started playing the chorus chords like this:
F#sus4 F# F#sus4 F#
Asus4 A Asus4 A
E
F#sus4 F# F#sus4 F#
D Dmaj7 D Dmaj7
E
Breña:
I play a Bbm7sus9 chord in the verse
Your videos are always so fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to break down all these songs so we can all appreciate them even more.
Loved this series! I remember some conversation on a message board about "Over" that described the ending as representing the entire album as if it were played from end to beginning at high speed to end back at the beginning at the very last point. A perfect circle back to the start.
You're amazing
I like that part where Ixi goes "uh uh"...... No reason, I just like it......
1:25 is it spoons? idk.
Anyways... FANTASTIC SERIES! I loved every little bit! I would be THRILLED if this gets the attention of Billy and you could land a Zoom interview or something of the sort. Maybe that's wishful thinking, but you'd be perfect for it!
omg I would be thrilled too - maybe it'll happen! Dream big :)
Spoonmaaaaaaan
Amazing grasp. I could listen to you all day/night thankyou 🙂
Thanks for the video and the whole series. I love the jokes and the faces/reactions in this videos. Look like you were so much more relax and having so much fun doing it!! Love it!!!
Thinking of You is way better than I'd expect from a song that's so blatantly about, uh, self-intimacy. Yeah, let's go with that xD
Thank you for this ixi. Thinking of you one of my favorite songs of all time. 🤭
Sexylydian made me laugh so hard xD
I am sooo happy I found your channel ixi. It's the music that shaped my life and you help me understand it so much better. Thank you!
Thanks ixi, that's a great breakdown. I learn a lot from listening to your analyses.
💗💗💗
I loved watching this whole album breakdown. Subbed and rang 🔔. Between this series and your many nin breakdowns, you have a fan for the life of your channel. Will be sharing with friends.
Great content as always. Off topic you are unbelievably gorgeous.
It's so much fun learning why the things make me feel the ways they do. Cheers ixi!
Sooo cool. So many insights and illuminations. Bravo!
Absolutely love this series!! Thanks for going through this killer album as deeply as you have!!🤘💚🤘
I would LOVE ITTTT if you did pagan poetry by Björk.
Thanks so much for this series on APC, it was really interesting and useful to watch. Hope you can make another one for 13th Step
Breña is a song that's always felt very underwater to me.
❤️
On Breña, if you listen closely in the 2nd verse, I'm pretty sure there's another layer of MJK's vocals singing the same thing but in the lower octave. It sounds really cool. But anyway I really enjoyed this series and look forward to more breakdowns! Super insightful.
Since this was one of the first albums i bought. These are 3 of the songs i didn't get a first, but my favorite songs on the album after 3 Libras
thank you for the analysis! There is so much here that I sometimes wonder if the musicians have put the same thoughts into the notes that you do. This makes me appreciate the music so much more. Now searching for live clips of the songs.
Hey, right off the bat, very good pronunciation of "Breña"!
Thanks for making this series. l learned sooo much.
So glad to hear that, thank you for watching!
I get the vibe that Thinking of you is a companion piece to Sleeping Beauty. Like he can’t forget the one he thought he could save
He can't forget her while alone... at bed... and... tugging? Man those lyrics xD
Dead As History by The Dillinger Escape Plan has a really similar riff to Thinking of You. I’d actually love to see you break down more DEP, even if it’s just one of their alt metal tunes like Milk Lizard, Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants, or Unretrofied. Parasitic Twins would be a really cool one as well.
Always a joy to sit through your videos as you cover NIN, and APC. So curious to see you cover Radiohead and Deftones down the line.
Both are on the schedule for this year! Two of my favorites.
@@iximusic also, your play through of “everything in its right place” Is as if Trent Reznor was doing a rendition to it. Always a joy!
I'm absolutely loving these videos! There in my preferred genre and are making me a better musician. U might enjoy analysing songs from the queen of the damned soundtrack I highly recommend "slept so long" by jay Gordon and Johnathan Davis 🥰
i was also really happy to see you cover thinking of you as well! that too is one of my fave songs off of this album, though it's a little out of place soley 'cuse of it's sound and it's lyrics
It's really not out of place though, lyrically speaking.
Love all the puns and jokes!!
:)
I would love to hear/watch you analyze Depeche Mode music. There are the second half of the whole of my musical soul (the other half being NIN). ❤️
D minor; the saddest of all the keys.
As a French "Mer de noms" sounds to me like "Merde non" literally meaning "shit no ! " lol
Considering Maynard's sense of humour, I'm 99% it's intentional
Thank you for your videos... I've been getting into making electronic music and your technical knowledge as well as your enthusiasm helps me a lot...I desperately wanted to partake in the nin listening parties.... unfortunately I am BROKE...I am currently detoxing from a 20+ year, hence my financial state. Thank god I found kratom!
So upon my final escape from this prison I locked myself into, I def plan to support you on patreon
hey no worries, I'm glad you are getting something out of the content on the channel! I might do a public listening party at some point.
I miss sexy Maynard. He needs more of this on a new apc album ^_^
come on , his pee pee is almost falling down, with white fur around the ballsack
really love your work!!! i was wondering if you planed to do the same on the album Grace of jeff buckley ?
Thank you! Not too familiar with Jeff Buckley but I'm loving what I'm hearing so far.
Please do an analysis for the rest of Mezzanine tracks.
I love you, lol
That high pitch guitar part on “Thinking of You” is likely a Digitech Whammy with some delay, reverb and maybe some modulation pedal like a chorus. At least this is what I hear. If not a Digitech Whammy, according to Equipboard, he uses a couple of multi-effects units that will likely have all those effects built in
Yeah, 2 octaves up
ik you haven't done NIN in a while but do you think you could do "Lights in The Sky"? it's pretty simple but its one of my favorite songs by nin
I DONT MIND
Hate to be that guy...but. I really would love to see you deep dive the Tool album Lateralus. It is one of the most influential albums in my opinion. Love your content. Been binge watching it lately. Keep it up.
Honestly I'd love to but the universe might implode if I analyzed the whole album! But really it's too big of a project for the resources and time I have right now. :( BUT! I did a live 1 1/2-hour analysis of Lateralus the song. That's a bit different than studying it for weeks and producing an edited video, but here's the link to my Patreon with the video if you need to whet your appetite: www.patreon.com/posts/57476858
@@iximusic thanks for replying. I know. The universe implodes on me everytime I so much as listen to it. I will definitely check out the Lateralus analysis.
Going to see them live tomorrow night :)
Don't know why, but at the end of "Over" where the reverse piano keys build up - I half expected "Disillusioned" to start playing...
I expect The Package to start playing as I'll often select to play all A Perfect Circle in the car rather than choose a specific album.
I'm no longer allowing myself to watch your videos past 11PM, because I always get inspired to play, then its 6AM and I have to work... Great series! By chance are you going to do any of Billy's other stuff like Ashes Divide?
I'm just starting to listen to Ashes Divide!
All of Siamese Dream please 🙏
Hey would you be interested in doing some deftones breakdowns? Not sure if you like them or not but I'm betting you do!
This year! One of my favorite bands.
Have you done or will you be doing a similar deep dive into Tool or Puscifer?
Not quite the same but there's 5-hour livestream listening to Aenima live: th-cam.com/video/BwBJ_a-PASI/w-d-xo.html
And a video on the song "Lateralus", same format: th-cam.com/video/w_RFSQHklQE/w-d-xo.html
Sorry I didn't know where to write this but do you think you could analyse a Type O negative song ?
What is this music playing over the end credits? It's beautiful
Just me improvising to ideas from "Over". Glad you enjoyed it! :)
@@iximusic I would love to hear you expand on this piece
how about doing something new - King Crimson: "Fracture"
Your waterfall is more of a waterrise.
ha, indeed!
Are you related to Ridley Scott?
#sexylidian
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can't provide any original content ?