This is one of those moments at a festival when you don’t know the band but you hear this and go “what the fuck is this” then stay for the rest of the set
Absolute beast. i was there.It was 2011 and japan had been shook. Everyone wanted to let go of all that had happened that year. We came to Fuji Rock to let go and battles brought it
Agreed. Not very common. I can think of one I love though. A massive crowd in Rio singing along to Rush's YYZ, and it's an instrumental. It blew me away how into they were. All hopping in unison as well. It's on TH-cam somewhere.
I remember that my elementary teacher show the class the music video in 2006 and I haven't heard it since today I was looking for it for like past 4 years and I tear up bc it brings me back so many memories when I was in elementary and know I'm 18 years old
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Lyrics: ( or as i call them the chant of the century) People wont be people when they hear this sound thats been glowing in the dark at the edge of town. People wont be people, no the people wont be people when they hear this sound wont you show me what begins at the edge of town?? Singer is a crook woaheyywoah Kitchen is the cook woaheyywoah Scissors are the barbers woaheyywoah A chorus full of actorssss
As a percussionist myself, I can surely say that the drum set-up here is absurdly impractical. But I think that is actually the point. Heh. Some real talent going on here.
It's no weirder than Alex Van Halen and his half a dozen bass drums! You should hear the guy's playing on the rest of the Battles album. Very simple, but some of it is way outta left field and some of the monstrous 32nd note rolls he pulls out...savage.
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They look like three upper middle class dads from the suburbs that met at Spin class and decided to start a weird experimental rock band after running into each other on the weekend at the local Whole Foods and chatting for a couple hours about PowerPoint presentations, adjustable-rate mortgages, and tax breaks from charitable giving.
For all Battles newbies out there, this is the 3-piece version of the band following the 2010 departure by head honcho Tyondai Braxton. They are now operating as a 2- piece and I was due to go and see them play in my home city of Leicester, but then came Covid-19. :-((
If you listen to the studio recording of this song and read the lyrics at the same time you can't believe he's actually saying some of the supposed words.
I read that some people think the guitarist never uses his guitar. Look closer. He is playing guitar, He's just never picking the snares. It's possible to play that way with one hand.
Not really, in my opinion. Hear what they three alone did there, what they succeed to do. And take a look at the people under the stage. Where was Tyondai at that moment?
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Discovering Battles has got me through the lock down.
Welcome.
Wild, same thing here. Just found em last week and I can't get enough!
This song is my childhood
They played Boiler Room Camden London just before the lock down.Tiny venue,it would have been amazing. Gutted to have not discovered them before that.
Same
when i'm 40 and have a midlifecrisis, this is the kind of music i wanna make with some buddy's in a garage.
I hope you can do better.
You’re gonna have to wait another 10 years, I checked your lab results
haha I'm already way past 40 and enjoying this sans any midlife crisis hahaha
I can be your buddy.
@Gus Vincenzo Yep, both of the accounts made 6 days ago seem to be in mutual agreement. Instagram is crumbling to pieces as we speak.
nice try tho :)
This is one of those moments at a festival when you don’t know the band but you hear this and go “what the fuck is this” then stay for the rest of the set
Bonnaroo 2008
Absolute beast. i was there.It was 2011 and japan had been shook. Everyone wanted to let go of all that had happened that year. We came to Fuji Rock to let go and battles brought it
LOVE how the crowd cheer every change/progression in the song - I don't think I've come across that to this level before
I was noticing that myself. That said, it's one helluva performance.
The crowd really were there for music and music alone. Hiromi plays this fest and they cheer every possible bit of exciting turn in her music too.
Agreed. Not very common. I can think of one I love though. A massive crowd in Rio singing along to Rush's YYZ, and it's an instrumental. It blew me away how into they were. All hopping in unison as well. It's on TH-cam somewhere.
I love how John just puts his head down and plows through it like a boss. So much fucking stamina!
I'm sore just watching him lol
My favorite song from Little Big Planet. Oh, and I've loved Helmet since i was a teenager in the 90's. Jon Stainer is one of my favorite drummers.
Stanier IS a genius. From Helmet to Battles, everything he does is hardcore.
I'm always blown away by how much of this song on guitar is just him playing hammer-ons, while he plays the keyboard with his picking hand.
This is like a experimental rock dj set. So much groove. So danceable.
The most astounding and innovative music I have heard in many years.
Without exclamation marks - for emphasis.
Hey can I steal that last line?
Don't know for what. Maybe a song.
If it's for a song, yes...but credit me. Ha! :-P
That's how I felt when I first heard them.
You might like Cardiacs
wow
"Atlas" is a fantastic song, and this is one absolutely incredible live version of it. Wow!
4:44 - 4:54 was so insane stuff, i would have never imagined a loop like that ever
Then awesome build
After having the week from hell this is the first thing to put a smile on my face ...
thats the highest damn cymbal I've ever seen a drummer use
It’s because the dummer thinks that people use cymbals too much in music so has it that high so he’s not tempted to use it that much.
Aimee W
With the added bonus of it looking cool as hell!
He has a close low setup to use that cymbal is to release the cramp
@@kodysqaud3016 that's a lie. It helps with his back problems.
Today was my first time listening this song, and I think I need a Psychiatrist. I can't get this out of my head.
Have you gotten the song out of your head yet?
NOR SHOULD YOU ... KEEP IT IN THERE.
This is fantastic. I just wish there was a live version with Tyondai that had this great sound quality.
Japanese crowds can keep time with claps holy shit
Marcus Dembinski Because they listen to the sound of one hand clapping!!!
+Marcus Dembinski In my experience it is ONLY white americans that clap on 1 & 3. Everyone else does 2 & 4 (which is obviously the right way to go)
+tostare i always clap in polyrhythms.
:D
+tostare Hahahaha, I've never noticed that! Rugged U.S. individualism, I suppose.
accurate
the drummer is a human metronome, amazing!
I remember that my elementary teacher show the class the music video in 2006 and I haven't heard it since today I was looking for it for like past 4 years and I tear up bc it brings me back so many memories when I was in elementary and know I'm 18 years old
Andrew Arellano This wasn’t even released in 2006 though?
got chills when the vocals kicked back in after the breakdown
stunning live sound. 21st century classic.
初めて見たけど、髭の人の印象が強すぎる。この曲が最大のヒット曲なのか？3日連続で見ている。やめられない。Brilliant! Really! They played great.
Muy muy pocas veces se me hace la piel de gallina con versiones en vivo y está ha sido de las que más me ha emocionado hasta ganas de llorar tengo (?)
battles makes you invincible.
It's crazy hearing this song live!!
I just wanted to say I LOVE YOU to anyone was there. You were magnificent.
That energy. So alive!
Para escuchar una y otra vez...
masters of rhythm
ほんと、カッコいい
I so adore this band. Was lucky enough to see them in a small joint in New York shortly after EP-C came out. So much fun to watch.
[Lyrics]
People won’t be people when they hear this sound
Glowing in the dark at the edge of town
People won’t be people, no the people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Can you show me what begins at the edge of town
People won’t be people when they hear this sound
Glowing in the dark at the edge of town
People won’t be people, no the people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Can you show me what begins at the edge of town
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The kitchen is the cook, oh way oh
The scissors are the barber, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
People won’t be people when they hear this sound
Glowing in the dark at the edge of town
People won’t be people, no the people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Can you show me what begins at the edge of town
People won’t be people when they hear this sound
Glowing in the dark at the edge of town
People won’t be people, no the people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Can you show me what begins at the edge of town
-
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The kitchen is the cook, oh way oh
The scissors are the barber, oh way oh
The singer is a crook, oh way oh
The people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Glowing in the dark at the edge of town
The people won’t be people, no the people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Can you show me what begins at the edge of town
The people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Glowing in the dark at the edge of town
The people won’t be people, no the people won’t be people when they hear this sound
Can you show me what begins at the edge of town
You forgot the line “the chorus doesn’t matter” that comes after “the kitchen has a cook, oh way oh” bit
I've been singing this incredibly wrong for almost 10 years now
Every time I hear this song, I start dancing like Ian Williams
カッコいいぜ👍
Stanier is a beast.
He really is a skin beater extraordinaire!
Lyrics: ( or as i call them the chant of the century)
People wont be people when they hear this sound thats been glowing in the dark at the edge of town.
People wont be people, no the people wont be people when they hear this sound wont you show me what begins at the edge of town??
Singer is a crook woaheyywoah
Kitchen is the cook woaheyywoah
Scissors are the barbers woaheyywoah
A chorus full of actorssss
Nicee
As a percussionist myself, I can surely say that the drum set-up here is absurdly impractical. But I think that is actually the point. Heh.
Some real talent going on here.
He wanted his cymbal far away so he wouldn't use it too much, and also to look interesting
It's no weirder than Alex Van Halen and his half a dozen bass drums! You should hear the guy's playing on the rest of the Battles album. Very simple, but some of it is way outta left field and some of the monstrous 32nd note rolls he pulls out...savage.
I think we're all forgetting John played drum for Helmet in their creative peak
@@TheZooropaBaby No, we know exactly who he is thanks.
an instance of a song where they do need to be doing allat
i was working and this song started playing randomly on spotify, is so catchy.
The drummer is so cray
Is that the best drummer helmet ever had?
the guy from Betty?
I swear its him. That guy was so hip hop and bad ass.
He made that album...
That Is him
Yes, it's him. The man.
the greatest, John Stanier
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Still watching this.
Brilliant. I wish I was there.
Even though Tyondai is now gone, they performed very well.
Come visit to Japan this summer because battles will perform in Fuji Rock '16 and play this again!!
Can't, no money!
Damn, they rocked this festival...
ニューヨーカーがロックで沖縄のエイサーを表現したらこんな曲になったみたいな素晴らしくノリの良い最高の曲
The drummer is amazing
Sublime
that drummer man......endurance is insane
Superb. XO
最高過ぎる！オーエーオー！
Oh boy! They've also added a little bit of harsh music at the beginning of the track... marvellous!
Absolutely epic
Little Big Planet in my heart
Right❤❤❤
Great memories!
Awesome performance.
Stunning..
They look like three upper middle class dads from the suburbs that met at Spin class and decided to start a weird experimental rock band after running into each other on the weekend at the local Whole Foods and chatting for a couple hours about PowerPoint presentations, adjustable-rate mortgages, and tax breaks from charitable giving.
AsTheSeasonsGray no, Stanier's played with plenty of other people. Mike Patton for one, they're just very talented dudes
thats a bit specific
i love this comment lmao
maybe so, but they deliver the goods, in spades.
Modern humour everybody. Cringy isn't it.
Adelante la gran batalla!
I love this song to play with my drums
Japan loves Battles from day one.
wow!
For all Battles newbies out there, this is the 3-piece version of the band following the 2010 departure by head honcho Tyondai Braxton. They are now operating as a 2- piece and I was due to go and see them play in my home city of Leicester, but then came Covid-19. :-((
Still waiting for Battles and Silversun Pickups to go on tour and have a “Cymbal Off”
I’d pay $1000 to see that happen.
Beautiful playing. Love ya :D From Aussie.
how they regained epicness at 6:30 is beyond me, for such a long song. great band
The Ian's mostacho gave that energy!!!!
So much epic.
7:25 Stanier looked so happy that that drum break was coming up.
This an awesome version.
*cough cough *LITTLE BIG PLANET
BLIZZ2012 hell yea
YES
Is it bad that I discovered Battles via LBP? :P
@@OscarinofTime it was the same for me
$&#&×
Fantastic!!!!
still love it!!
Interesting to watch them perform live. I dig it
If you ever get a chance to go to one of their gigs, go for it. They're one of the best live bands I've ever seen
The lyrics, hand them over.
"people won't be people when they hear this sound that's been glowing in the dark at the edge of town"
@communist scum It takes 5 seconds to Google them. 😂
If you listen to the studio recording of this song and read the lyrics at the same time you can't believe he's actually saying some of the supposed words.
The lyrics, Dahnald, hand them over
カッコイイ！メロディーも独特で面白い☆「ピポパピ」っていいなぁ～笑
Battles Rock's🤘
so cool
来年来るんですよね、知ってますよ
great drummer.
STANIER!!!!!!!
I read that some people think the guitarist never uses his guitar.
Look closer. He is playing guitar, He's just never picking the snares.
It's possible to play that way with one hand.
The sound of this live performance is amazing btw.
Just a kibd of tapping
Yes, it's possible with the right playing techniques, tools, sensibility, guitar sustain and pedals effects. For the rest is just tapping.
ian williams is my spirit animal
I was there :)
Crazy 🤪🔥👽🤘
こないだのライブすんげー良かったゾ、師匠と回ってたやつ、梅クアで最前列ですんごい興奮
After knowing this song since 2009, I have just realized that is has lyrics.
That was fucking awesome. Literally awesome.
This song belongs to Tayondai, without him felt incomplete ....
I agree. good song. but something was missing without his awesome distorted voice:(
Not really, in my opinion. Hear what they three alone did there, what they succeed to do. And take a look at the people under the stage. Where was Tyondai at that moment?
This is so fucking siiiickk!!!!
clear lyrics this time.
great fecking sound!
he awesome
Dope
Evil will be evil when they hear this sound.
Great. Stay clean, H.M.
+Hans Moser People won`t be people, it means people won`t be evil when they hear this sound.
Yes, thats correct.
SC, H.M.
their amp setup on this gig is killer holy shit
Drums are insane
@jackandjuice YES! The best!
Fuji looks like a sweaty place