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Composer Reacts to Cap'n Jazz - Little League (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Little League
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0:00 Intro
0:57 Reaction
4:51 This Is Proto Emo
9:35 Analysis - Overview of the Track
10:48 Analysis - The First Section
15:05 Analysis - The Quiet Section
16:15 Analysis - Bringing In The Screaming
19:21 Analysis - Is The Vocalist Yelling?
22:35 Analysis - The Flow of the Song
25:54 Analysis - These Emo Lyrics!!!
39:34 Outro
This isn't proto emo, this is emo. The bands you mentioned were definitely into stuff like this and were a later, more commercial wave. There was a lot of stuff like this in the mid 90s. The Promise Ring, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, Braid, Texas Is the Reason, American Football, loads more. And yeah it was adjacent to more experimental post-hardcore/math-rock type stuff around the same time like Unwound, Drive Like Jehu, Polvo, etc.
Thanks man, I'll give these a shot and see if anything sticks. I'm always looking out for more stuff that reminds me of 2000s emo.
Holy shit I never hear anybody talk about Braid
Braid were incredible. So good live as well.
the real emo! all the bands i saw in high school! such an amazing time of music! get up kids , list goes on and on
you literally listen to all the artists that i love haha, shout out polvo i’ve never seen anyone mention them in any youtube music discourse
Cap'n Jazz is such a classic. They bring so much fun energy, it's hard not to love them.
Bryan, this has been one of my favorite bands since I first heard them in high school in the 90's. I can't tell you how tied up their music is to memories I have of being a teenager, driving around aimlessly with friends after school, falling in love for the first time, having your heart broken (whoops lol), going to what feel like *at least* one hardcore punk / indie / emo show per week, spending what little money i had on vinyl, taking what precious little money that remained and using it to get to the jersey shore on the weekends... and countless other miscellaneous memories that decorate the display cases of my mind. caP'n Jazz felt like perfect "boy-grows-into-man" soundtrack music, especially if you were sensitive and loving and raw and open as a little kid, and painfully aware of how exposed that left you as you transitioned through your teenage years, when you'd be tested by other dudes and might need to toughen up on the outside, if only just to survive until high school graduation.. But you're also aware of how precious and valuable and unique that loving, warm, sensitive side to you truly is, and so you feel like you want to protect and nurture that side of you, even if it means you might get tested or even teased or harassed along the way. caP'n Jazz was central to this transitional soundtrack of mine, their music reminded me that it was OK to be a little weird, that it was cool to possess and display an emotional palette that extended beyond "angry, happy, hungry, horny, sleepy"... That good music didn't necessarily have to fit in these precise molds of punk and metal and emo, and that yeah, you just might hear some french horn or something in the middle of a song, which itself was exceptionally difficult to describe in terms of genre to begin with *before* the addition of the brass instrument... And God.. yeah, I could go on and on... But suffice it to say that their music still occupies a very special corner of my heart and mind.. Thanks for doing this one.
Dude this band means so so much to me I can’t even put it into words
Indian summer pfp!!!!
Fun fact: 90% of the lyrics were written on a single night on shrooms
jesus dude mustve felt lighter after
Cap’n jazz reunited into the band owls with two more albums, its alot more math rock and matured straying away from cap’n jazz like its a childhood
Man I got so pumped when I saw this come up on my feed. Whadda great tune from a terrific album.
The cool thing about Cap'n Jazz, as well as other Kinsella Brothers based music projects (like American Football) is their sound fits the feel of Illinois outside of Chicago (even though they're from the Chicago area). Any direction you go in the state, it has a desolate feel, and then you'll encounter a city, then back to desolation.
As a person that grew up in a part of Illinois that isn't Chicago, the music does feel like "Illinois", as weird as that may sound.😂
what do you think of Sufjan's Illinoise?
Their song ‘Que Suerte’, if you pay attention around the 1.05 - 1.08 minute mark, that chord THAT CHORD that they strum, I feel like that inspired all those early 2000s mall emo bands you mentioned. Theres just so much emotion and just the right amount of dissonance in those couple of seconds.
Also, I think you might like Algernon Cadwallader…it is essentially Cap’n Jazz 2.0 but with cleaner guitars.
Hahaha exactly! Good observation
Love me some Cap’n jazz. You picked up on the lineage and path to those early 2000’s bands immediately!! I’d recommend checking out some early sunny day real estate and maybe some moss icon if you dug it!
Oh also seeing you analyze these lyrics in depth is amusing to me because apparently all the lyrics to this album were written during one day on a shrooms trip
I grew up listening to My Chemical Romance, From First to Last, and Taking Back Sunday. I discovered Cap n' Jazz when I was about 15. I also discovered other bands like Four Hundred Years, Hoover, I Hate Myself, Native Nod, and Unwound around the same time. For me I could hear a lot of these bands in the groups I was already listening too. I tried to show my friends though, who were into the more modern stuff and they couldn't understand or back it. Glad to see someone else hearing those influences I also heard.
It's certainly a bit rougher but man, the foundation is there, clear as day. I'll have to check into some of those bands you listed. I'm always on the search for more 2000s emo music. A modern take on the pop-emo vibe I've found is Hot Milk - Split Personality.
@@CriticalReactions if youre checking unwound out again, look for their early stuff instead, specifically "valentine card/kantina/were, are and was or is" off fake train. def their magnum opus of that era and very much different from terminus, the track you previously checked out from them.
also check out dc emo bands like embrace and rites of spring, pretty good early emo that you might like.
Lol we’re literally the same
I loved Four Hundred Years, Unwound and Native Nod in the late-90's... not to mention Native Nod were a local band, and the various bands that the Leo brothers played in would go on to be some of my favorite music of the 90's, and they still occupy a special place in my heart. Ted Leo was in both Citizens Arrest *and* Chisel -- think about that for a second. And Chris Leo was in The Van Pelt and The Lapse. I saw Chris play a solo, unplugged set at Michigan Fest in '99, where he performed "The Speeding Train," and i swear i almost fucking shed a tear, it was gorgeous.
Song About An Angel by Sunny Day Real Estate, while also the same genre as CapNJazz, would’ve also fit very well with the “wild screamers.” Interestingly, Jeremy Enigk’s voice sounds extra gritty and raspy on Diary because they recorded that album right after a tour.
Capn jazz is so under rated became one of my favorite bands when i first heard them 18 years ago
Why are you just now hearing this? I don't know. We were all blasting this shit in the early 2000s. Then again, I lived in the midwest.
Shmap'n Shmazz is a nearly perfect album. Also, you have a nice smile. Also also, "Ringwald haze" refers to Molly Ringwald, in this context being held up as a romantic ideal.
One of my fav bands ever, and one of the most explosive opening tracks I've ever heard.
Congrats, man, you are experiencing some of the truly great music for the first time, which is an amazing experience.
Holy shit, I absolutely love this band!! Such an underrated amazing song too, the screaming section at the end always gives me goosebumps. Awesome analysis, really interesting to hear how MCR and the used were influenced by them, I've never really listened to MCR or The Used before but if there earlier stuff is like Capn jazz then I'll definitely have to check them out sometime.
I'm sure you've already listened to the rest of their stuff by now but you would definitely love Oh Messy Life if you liked this track ! Analphabetapolothology as a whole is great as well, a lot of demos and stuff like that on it but there are really some amazing tracks from their only album and other eps on it (the last track which is an acoustic demo of "Ooh do I love You" has always been one of my favorites)
I love Cap'N Jazz!
So do I now :)
This is my favorite band of all time. To me they sum up the experience of being a boy in the suburbs in the late 80s/ early 90s, growing up in fits and starts (with minimal supervision in a wide open, pre-internet-addled world)… and all the adolescent wonder, impetuousness, exuberance, curiosity, confusion, and excitement that entails.
(Also, I found Cap’n Jazz around the time my childhood cat, Harry, passed away. I’ve always insisted that during the ‘quiet part’ of Little League, Tim is singing “kitty kitty cat, kitty cat cat/ cat’s named Harry” … and I refuse to spoil this personal ode by learning the actual lyrics haha)
If you like Cap'n Jazz you have to check out Owls, same singer and just as awesome
Other cool bands with links to include American Football, Owen and Joan of Arc. Oh and the Promise Ring
Cap'N Jazz are amazing! So influential on (imo) less interesting bands, and were one of the links between hardcore/straight edge and mainstream emo. A proper Emotional Hardcore band!
The Used's self titled album is such a masterpiece. It was my introduction into the emo/post hardcore genre in my pre-teens and it holds up so well to this day. Glad you made this connection with the vocals!
I would also recommend Joyce Manor for a band that has similar rawness and uniqueness in their vocals.
Man, whenever you get the chance. PLS analyze & review these Cap’N Jazz tracks: Olerud, Troubled By Insects, AOK, Rocky Rococo, We Are Scientists, Oh Messy Life, & Planet Shhh. If you’re into old school emo then you might wanna check out Everyone Asked About You/Dahlia-Seed/Still Life ✊🏻
Olerud 👌👌
@@Noothgrush420 would honestly even throw in the tracks Forget Who We Are & Scary Kids Scaring Kids 💯
I didn't see it mentioned entirely in the other comments, there is so much more from this genre just from this band alone. This is definitely my favorite genre and regional music type so I definitely am biased here. However this band not only made this magical ride, but if you really do like it, you just need to go down the entire rabbit hole that is the Kinsella brothers. They made this, and together as well as individuals contributed/made Cap'n Jazz, American Football, Joan of Arc, Owls, Owen, Their They're There, as well as influencing and being in other projects that included member's from other bands recommended in these comments (such as Braid). Some of them are still making music to this day. This entire genre tho is amazing and I hope you do check out more of it and modern interpretations of it. There is a ton of other fantastic groups from this genre and era as others mentioned, as well as a lot of intermixing in bands, but these guys ended up in half of them
Im totally obsessed with this band and its offshoots, The Promise Ring, OWLs, and American Football
In case you're not familiar with them: I feel you will like Algernon Cadwallader, Bryan.
And their drummer went on to Make the best Midwest emo record of all time.
Hell yeah he did
their drummer and one of the guitarists*
which record?
this song actually has a single vocalist, and most of the members would continue in bands that would help popularize emo, like davey von bohlen (guitarist) in the promise ring, and mike kinsella (drummer) in american football. pretty cool
Not to mention Joan of arc, Owen and owls. These guys are absolute legends
davey performed the backup vocals when capn jazz performed these songs live
recuerdo la primera vez que escuche cap n jazz, la conocí por medio de american footbol, y creí que sería un sonido similar, pues por los músicos, pero, resulto ser algo mucho mejor, me sorprendí al escuchar un sonido único aunque compuesto por los mismos autores; como soy de Colombia me tocó traducir las canciones para entender sus letras - algo difícil - y así me gustaron más.
me agrada ver que le agrada el sonido de cap n jazz, a mis amigos no les gustó y a mi expareja tampoco, me sentía solo al no poder compartir esté aprecio.
soy más del sonido punk y ska, surf y rock en español como la vela puerca, cuarteto de nos, y aunque esta banda se etiqueta como emo su explosión artística es digna de reconocer comofull energy youth. como bajar en una bicicross por una cordillera, o escalar, o patinando por las calles.
el álbum es difícil de digerir como comida con mucho picante, pero es como una pizza hawaiana con jalapeños y una jarra de cerveza.
10/10
Man i’m so happy this is getting covered
Cool you checked this out! One of the members went on to form American Football which was also influential in its own right with mid west style math rock.
I've tried to get into American Football a couple of times. It's got some parts that I really love but that half is stuff I have problems connecting with.
Other members of Cap'n Jazz (primarily the main vocalist Tim Kinsella) went on to form Joan of Arc. Some early Joan of Arc stuff is similar to Cap'n Jazz, but it's much more diverse and experimental overall. Simply more Capn' Jazz would be the safest bet. Actually, Tim screams a fair bit in his more recent band Make Believe, and to my ears it still sounds pretty raw and reminiscent of his Cap'n Jazz days.
Cap'n Jazz were a seminal part of the early midwest emocore scene (a lot of these bands formed after Fugazi started touring and came through the area). Other bands in the vicinity (both in time and place) were Braid, Gauge, Haymarket Riot, The Sky Corvair, Friction, ...
Oh and The Promise Ring! Davey from The Promise Ring was actually in Cap'n Jazz, and plays one of the guitars on the Little League recording
@@ARNervebag Added all of those my list! Thanks for all of that.
Never heard of this band but this was a really fun listen. Their sound really takes me back to the mid-to-late 90s when these kind of indie, poppy, posty, punky pop/rock (tm) bands were everywhere, though this being from '95 makes it even earlier from most of the popular bands I was aware of at the time. Like you it's always fun to discover these predecessor bands. Another band it reminds me a lot of is ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, though the latter are a bit more serious and eventually evolved into a weird art-rock band.
I heard these guys in a retail store like 7 years ago and had to find out who it was. Cool and fun band.
Retail stores? Dunno where you're from but around here I've only heard pop-adjacent groups on store radios. I think it'd be pretty neat to hear something like this while shopping :)
I work in retail and hear the same 5 songs get looped everyday for 8 hours a day. If i heard this over my stores speaker system id loose my shit.
Holy shit, haven't heard these guys in a LONG time. This is my adolescence right here.
so good, need more early midwest emo reactions, best music
What a great band . All associated acts are amazing as well .. I’m sure everyone has mentioned em all in the comments. If you check out Joan of Arc I suggest “ questioning Ben franklins ghost “ . For sure one of their most interesting tracks
That whole album is a masterpiece
Got so happy seeing that you listened to this. If you ever feel like listening to Cap'n Jazz squared (more technicality, more anxiety, more beauty) there's a band called The Brave Little Abacus that you might love. One of my absolute favorite bands ever. Might actually donate just to see what you think of them
One of the most unique bands ever
Not sure how far down the Cap’n Jazz rabbit hole you’ve gone but all the lyrics were written while they were tripping acid at a campfire 😅
This was fantastical 👌
if you want more Cap'n Jazz you for sure need to check out Algernon Cadwallader. they took a huge amount of inspiration of the band and are basically a 2010 version of the band. the band is broken up now, but in their prime they were one of the big bands of the 4th wave emo scene. im not sure how familiar you are with the 4th wave, but the 4th wave as a whole took a lot of inpsiration from this type of emo and mixed with a lot of math rock elements. lots of uses of guitar tapping and such. (unrelated, but i think the band people look to most when reflecting on the 4th wave is Snowing. you'd likely enjoy them a lot as well.
but yeah Algernon Cadwallader are great! my favorite song by them is Pitfall. im sure you'll instantly pick up on the similarities. im a huge fan of this genre of music and have plenty more recs, but I'll keep it short for now lol.
If you loved this you should definitely check out the album "Diary" of Sunny Day Real Estate, or their songs "In Circles" or "Seven"
I do agree MCR’s debut album is their best. The rawness of the production combined the awesome post hardcore esque sound definitely makes it my favorite album by them.
If you’re looking for a more technical kind of post hardcore sound I’d really recommend either Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In or Yank Crime by Drive Like Jehu. Both are great post hardcore albums.
Not only is it their best, it's the only one I even like remotely.
Oh Messy Life and Puddle Splashing
Good breakdown. After hearing all this hype throughout the years I have to say Im incredibly underwhelmed. I hear the words “math rock” “proggy” and “jazzy” to describe these bands and its just kids banging in their instruments. Proto screamo.
They remind me of Coaltar of the Deepers.
Have you reviewed any of Slint's work?
I checked out Good Morning Captain quite some time ago. th-cam.com/video/7arkB_peEW8/w-d-xo.html
@@CriticalReactions Slint's Spiderland LP was super influential and ahead of its time.
if you're liking the chaotic, twinkly side of emo, you have to check out brave little abacus. imagine cap'n jazz but with more instrumentations
this is a great band that is under appreciated
watched the dodheimsgard review couple weeks ago, now CAP'N JAZZ ????? SUBSCRIBED!!!!!!
I don't know why because they were pretty fucking important to the emo movement
If you like the way this sounds just look up Midwest emo .
Oh now you need to dive into Joan of arc, owls etc.
I bet Tim Kinsella read a lot of Gertrude Stein as a boy
mcr hot take they put their albums out in order of quality
Nooooooo! 🤣
Though is that really a hot take?
@@CriticalReactions i think it'd definitely tick of more than a few mcr fans, at the very least lol
@@cucarachx Yeah, I could see that. Though popular reception saw praise for Three Cheers and then more praise for Black Parade so I think most people (maybe not hardcore fans) would see a quality increase from album to album at least for the first 3. I don't know how Danger Days was received.