what i find that's extremelly underrated in this song is that the line "i don't want to go insane / i don't want to have schizophrenia" feels like an impulse punch on the wall of someone who's feeling too much at the same time to the point of being scared shitless and it's such a powerful punch in the gut that i really don't know how to process it a lot of the time. what a song.
Also one more thing to note in the first part of this song: The chord progression feels incomplete, causing a lot of tension to be built. That tension gets released with the line “I don’t want to go insane,” where the song quite literally goes off the rails and becomes not only a song, but an experience.
beach life in death is and will always be my favorite song. every version of it, and not to mention the commit yourself entirely version is so fucking beautiful and raw
this is the ONLY song which has every described this live-wire type of often angry energy in me. I don’t know how common it is, but I frequently will present myself perfectly fine throughout the day, even while alone, but in short bursts or through build ups, my rage becomes intense. it’s usually when i’m feeling particularly angsty and drained. like smash your phone on the floor with a blank face type mad. or, if there was a punching bag in front of you and you weren’t sitting in class while everyone was just idle, you’d go ballistic. I especially love the way their tone changes so seamlessly, and it doesn’t leave you high and dry, you move with it, even in those intense jumps between volume/energy. god I love it.
i really liked this analysis my favorite line which was removed from the remake for some reason is “a book of aubrey beardsley art corrupted me in my youth and now i’m trapped inside my youth and you’re in love with my late-stage youth”. when i first heard it it really resonated with me and it just shows how brilliant of a writer will is. keep up with the good work i look forward to more car seat headrest videos.
Thank you for creating the analysis, I am a literature teacher and I looked at Beach Life in Death with my year 10 class a couple of months ago and I just showed them a transcript of your video as an example of an excellent way to utilise quotations and your video really helped my ADHD students get it. You're a legend. Thanks from Melbourne Australia.
Fat White Guy Married with kids…and a teacher. One of my students suggested this song. Your analysis really helped me understand better. Great review, sophisticated artists as well.
"if it´s nothing but the simple verse chorus structure over and over again then there is really nothing to anticipate and the song becomes a massive slug through the mud" Bob Dylan: Hold My Beer
I loved this video! And I wanted to mention something you kind of touched upon, but Will actually brings up religion A LOT in his music and it’s kind of interesting, I wish I could interview him. Thank you for the video! It was amazing!
as a mtm backer, the first album fits the lack of equipment and quality with the depression and problems will had and the lack of control he has over the world. I would argue this for essentially every song. i.e. something soon, beach life in death, famous prophets (minds), psst teenagers, etc.
I wasn't familiar with this version of the song when I watched this video. The version I knew of the Glass Beach cover (which I highly recommend if you haven't given it a listen), so this encouraged me to seek the original and I fell in love with the song all over again. I'm glad I found your channel; I've watched your video on Caroline Polachek, ace anthems (which I loved as an asexual demiromantic) and separating art from the artist, and all these have been incredible! I'm eager to watch more and engage, for sure :D
I love this song so much and they played it when i saw them live which was a very happy surprise. The parallel you drew to bohemian rhapsody is so accurate, i do see this as an operatic or symphonic piece and i really love when artists take this direction (like joanna newsom or sufjan stevens in impossible soul)
Another thing in the song that referenced god was “Thank god for the little things and and fuck god that they’re little things I am running out of prayers to sing” so this could just be referencing that things that he enjoys might not be a big part of his life or they might be very small and it might have some connection to him needing to feel thankful for a higher power if you’re going down the biblical route
As a Christian Car Seat Headrest fan, I completely disregard any lyrics that go against my beliefs lol. Some of these lyrics relate so much to my life, I always feel like I'm trying to interact with aliens anytime I talk to new people
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what i find that's extremelly underrated in this song is that the line "i don't want to go insane / i don't want to have schizophrenia" feels like an impulse punch on the wall of someone who's feeling too much at the same time to the point of being scared shitless and it's such a powerful punch in the gut that i really don't know how to process it a lot of the time. what a song.
Same that's also my favorite line 🤣
i love how this video is barely longer than the song itself
car seat headrest got me through a bad time in my life by making it worse
hahahaaaa
Hope you're doing okay now. ❤
original
Ya'll fans are hilarious af!! 😂😂
Been helping future bad times by making the current one worse since 2012
Also one more thing to note in the first part of this song: The chord progression feels incomplete, causing a lot of tension to be built. That tension gets released with the line “I don’t want to go insane,” where the song quite literally goes off the rails and becomes not only a song, but an experience.
He also starts on C which makes it feel like it's starting halfway through the progression
glass beach pfp!!!!
GLEACH PFP
beach life in death is and will always be my favorite song. every version of it, and not to mention the commit yourself entirely version is so fucking beautiful and raw
this is the ONLY song which has every described this live-wire type of often angry energy in me. I don’t know how common it is, but I frequently will present myself perfectly fine throughout the day, even while alone, but in short bursts or through build ups, my rage becomes intense. it’s usually when i’m feeling particularly angsty and drained. like smash your phone on the floor with a blank face type mad. or, if there was a punching bag in front of you and you weren’t sitting in class while everyone was just idle, you’d go ballistic. I especially love the way their tone changes so seamlessly, and it doesn’t leave you high and dry, you move with it, even in those intense jumps between volume/energy. god I love it.
This video is about 30 seconds short of Beach Life-in-death’s runtime
i really liked this analysis my favorite line which was removed from the remake for some reason is “a book of aubrey beardsley art corrupted me in my youth and now i’m trapped inside my youth and you’re in love with my late-stage youth”. when i first heard it it really resonated with me and it just shows how brilliant of a writer will is. keep up with the good work i look forward to more car seat headrest videos.
You sound like a goth librarian......... great video btw.....
Haha, I love that! Thank you so much 🖤
Thank you for creating the analysis, I am a literature teacher and I looked at Beach Life in Death with my year 10 class a couple of months ago and I just showed them a transcript of your video as an example of an excellent way to utilise quotations and your video really helped my ADHD students get it. You're a legend. Thanks from Melbourne Australia.
ive always taken the we wanted to be humans part as being closeted
Fat White Guy Married with kids…and a teacher. One of my students suggested this song. Your analysis really helped me understand better. Great review, sophisticated artists as well.
this is so sweet
"if it´s nothing but the simple verse chorus structure over and over again then there is really nothing to anticipate and the song becomes a massive slug through the mud"
Bob Dylan: Hold My Beer
great video, csh is my favorite band and BLID... is juts so good, but for me the gun song is the best
i love love love your video essays, car seat headrest is one of my favorite bands so thank you for doing this video!!! so thorough and eloquent :)
I loved this video! And I wanted to mention something you kind of touched upon, but Will actually brings up religion A LOT in his music and it’s kind of interesting, I wish I could interview him. Thank you for the video! It was amazing!
Wtf this is so good, how are you not famous??? Keep up the good work!!
Great video!
as a mtm backer, the first album fits the lack of equipment and quality with the depression and problems will had and the lack of control he has over the world. I would argue this for essentially every song. i.e. something soon, beach life in death, famous prophets (minds), psst teenagers, etc.
I wasn't familiar with this version of the song when I watched this video. The version I knew of the Glass Beach cover (which I highly recommend if you haven't given it a listen), so this encouraged me to seek the original and I fell in love with the song all over again. I'm glad I found your channel; I've watched your video on Caroline Polachek, ace anthems (which I loved as an asexual demiromantic) and separating art from the artist, and all these have been incredible! I'm eager to watch more and engage, for sure :D
This is such a great video, thanks for making this! Beach life in death is my favorite song of all time, so I love hearing people talk about it lol
I love this song so much and they played it when i saw them live which was a very happy surprise. The parallel you drew to bohemian rhapsody is so accurate, i do see this as an operatic or symphonic piece and i really love when artists take this direction (like joanna newsom or sufjan stevens in impossible soul)
Dude this is amazing! Love that someone made a breakdown of my favorite song
5:02 this is probably my favourite look of his ever
Wow you deserve a lot more subs!! Keep up the great content :))
This is criminally under viewed
(Amazing video btw)
Awesome
My personal favourite songs in order are,
I want you to know that I’m awake
Body’s
And beach life in death:)
Another thing in the song that referenced god was “Thank god for the little things and and fuck god that they’re little things I am running out of prayers to sing” so this could just be referencing that things that he enjoys might not be a big part of his life or they might be very small and it might have some connection to him needing to feel thankful for a higher power if you’re going down the biblical route
The song that was 13 mins, that's such a Stereolab thing too, example 'Jenny Odenline.'
shoutout to stereolab for inventing 13 minute songs(?)
sad gay summer
Trying to play catch up going down a Toledo hole for like a week now and its just getting more and more interesting..
watched 2 of ur vids and damn they're just so nicely written, keep it up!
Rad, awesome and neato!
Fucking gnarly dude Great job
Great video! I love this song!
this is great, sorta called me out for relating to parts of the song
nice vid
i meaaan, famous prophets ~is~ longer
was the irony/sincerity line intended to be a reference to burning man?? because if so thats genius
This video is around the same length as the track it's talking about
awesome video.
Was the runtime intentional? Cos that is funny
You mean 13 minutes? Haha, nope. I didn’t even make the connection before, but that is pretty funny
Ngl the original mirror to mirror sounds microwaved
This video is as long as the actual song lol
Ive yet to listen to the second half of the song. Idgaf.
Its good just do it
As a Christian Car Seat Headrest fan, I completely disregard any lyrics that go against my beliefs lol. Some of these lyrics relate so much to my life, I always feel like I'm trying to interact with aliens anytime I talk to new people
Mirror to Mirror is sooo much better then Face to Face
The original version is better
finally gave this video a chance and you did the ballad of a year of my life justice, great video, thank you 💌
Face to face < Mirror to mirror
Getting signed was the death of CSH.