0:00 dead time 4:59 beginning 13:13 Trust Love 25:53 Touch The Sky 41:37 Hero 56:27 Brand New Day 1:11:57 Let's Get Real 1:24:47 War 1:37:01 Celebration 1:49:28 Until The End 2:02:09 Fear 2:23:05 I May Fall (Acoustic) 2:42:11 Into The Mines (score) 2:55:05 Party Crashers (score) 3:05:39 ...Then You Trained Us (score) 3:16:05 And I Refuse To Starve (score)
4 scores and 7 volumes ago I had a dream. A dream about cute kick ass anime girls who all things turning into guns. It grew on us and we reacted to it and came to love it and then the guy making the music liked us because we were also musicians and could truly appreciate his brilliant craft. Now we sit as spokespersons for the RWBY soundtracks and life was good. And also a gun. That was a weird runaway joke but just wanted to Say thanks to you lot for the enjoyable reactions and well done lyric videos.
*For anyone wondering about timestamps* 13:10 - Trust Love 26:00 - Touch the Sky 41:33 - Hero 56:27 - Brand New Day 1:11:57 - Let's Get Real 1:24:47 - War 1:37:02 - Celebrate 1:49:28 - Until the End 2:02:11 - Fear 2:23:14 - I May Fall (Acoustic Version) 2:24:11 - Into the Mines 2:55:05 - Party Crashers 3:05:40 - ...Then You Trained Us 3:16:06 - And I Refuse to Starve *Looking to see some cover from War or Trained Us* Love from Chile
I am so grateful for the music Jeff, Casey, and everyone else who had helped make it over the years. I was 15 when I first listened to the volume one opening and I had no idea what I was doing with my life at the time. The music is the reason I started watching RWBY and how I got inspired by Monty Oum. But before that I was depressed most of my life, I always thought how useless I was and how unimportant I thought my life was. Soon after I started watching RWBY I kept thinking to myself, "keep moving forward, I can do it!" Keeping my head up no matter what gets thrown at me was what got me through most of it. Seeing Monty's dedication and determination was what I strived to be from then on. This show and the people surrounding it gave me a purpose, a goal to chase after. And as of today I have been accepted to my dream college to fulfill the goal that I have set for myself. I give my thanks to this amazing show, the amazing creators, and all of you.
I'm also really really happy that you've done pieces of the score too, because Alex's work is absolutely phenomenal! Further, I'm a HUGE proponent of the idea that some of the soundtrack's vocal songs are absolutely enhanced and *should* be listened to combined with some of the score lead up. Red Like Roses Part 2 is the biggest one, to me; that song just isn't the same without the strings leading up to it. War is absolutely 100% another one. On its own, it's an excellent piece, but it just hits even stronger when it's directly attached to ...Then You Trained Us.
1:03:49 its amazing how many ppl got pulled into watching rwby by listening to the music first. That wasnt my experience as an og watcher of rt things but its not at all surprising that its the music that gets ppl interested bc it is just that good 1:15:45 omg i never noticed that, thats funny
I just binged all of these RWBY OST videos, you guys are awesome! My personal favorite piece of music from RWBY is the score from Volume 3 Chapter 11: Heroes and Monsters. As great as the score is in so many episodes that will always be my favorite.
No reaction to the "Are You With Me?" score from chapter 11 in Ironwood's office?!? One of my favorite in all of the RWBY OSTs w/ all the low-brass & the 7/8 polyrhythms. Love you guys :)
The whole discussion about adding emotion into songs reminds me of something I heard before for either Cold or Indomitable, probably both, where Casey had to get all the tears out before they could get the final takes. And speaking of those songs, I heard them both before I finally ended up at a psychiatrist and started depression medication, and I was not prepared the first time I heard them afterwards, totally broke me for a few minutes.
Adam Peterson yep if I remember the conversation we had with Casey, she had to listen to “indomitable” for something like 20 times to process it so she wasn’t a total wreak while trying to record it
Adam Peterson I know that feeling. I had been in a long bout of depression for about 3 years when I finally gathered enough courage to see a therapist and get it fully diagnosed. This pandemic has prevented me from going to sessions, but even after only two months of sessions a lot of RWBY music hits different. Like, while my situation isn't anything close to Weiss', Mirror Mirror Part II's beginning describes my hesitancy to seek help rather well. "My life is comfy, so what right do I have to complain?" But now I know that I do have that right. My mom died on April first when I was 13. My dad was falsely accused and sent to prison when I was 2. When my aunt adopted me, my uncle used that kindness as an excuse for mental and emotional abuse, to the point I was actually happy when he kicked me out. Seeking help isn't a sin. Finding joy in anime and friendship in fandom don't make those feelings and friends "fake." A friend online is just as real as a friend IRL. I had given up looking for a job before I got help, but now I've held a job for the past 6 months, much longer than the 3-6 week odd jobs I had been lucky to come across. I can do this. *You* can do this! After all, this life is mine.
@@SuperiorPosterior That first verse of MMpt2 was a pretty big wow moment for me, actually that's not quite right, more like the start of a very long period of realizations, but Weiss' whole musical backstory of isolation and self-loathing is almost a comforting thing for me, as messed up as it sounds. Not that I'm glad that other people are in this situation too, of course, but the knowledge that you aren't alone, that other people have struggled and recovered from this sort of thing. It can't have been the first sign of that sort, but for some reason that's the one that really got through to me. Thats probably part of why I latched onto RWBY as much as I have, it's not perfect, but the combination of the writers and musicians somehow still combine to make these characters stories impactful. I'm sorry you had to go through that, but its awesome that, whether forced or not, you got out of that shitty situation and are finding ways to make things better for yourself. We can indeed do this. I always feel like i'm oversharing in these sorts of comments, but I realized recently that this is exactly the sort of thing my therapist encourages, even if its to random cool people on the internet instead of family members. As you said, this being the internet doesn't invalidate the fact that you're an awesome person that was willing to have this conversation with me, so thank you for taking the time to not just read, but reply too. And thank you to S&M also, for being the people that are cool enough for me to not feel too self-conscious and anxious about this sort of thing, if you end up reading this whole wall of text. So anyways I just spent over an hour trying to figure out how to express my deep inner emo-ness and need food, so I wish you all a good day. (edit: hopefully its obvious enough that that's not intended as a jab at anyone, I do think its important to be able to laugh at yourself.)
Indomitable was a huge balm for me personally when it came out. Honestly, I attached _hard_ to the 30 second clip from the ending episode of V6. I _knew_ that song was going to be something special and it _was._ I was _bawling_ to it on the third listen when I finally understood the lyrics. I'm a writer and have been for twenty years. I write out _everything_ by hand and it resulted in me getting tendinitis. I had to limit my writing time or wear a brace when I did write, but I managed to live with it. Two years ago, I fractured my wrist in a way that just _completely_ fucked over my right forearm. Whenever I wrote for more than an hour, I ended up in complete and utter _agony._ Indomitable came out and it reminded me that I'm a creator and I shouldn't let anything keep me down. That song _literally_ made me pick myself up out of the year-long depressive episode caused by that wrist fracture. I started on a _huge_ research project for a RWBY AU that's so dear to my heart. I didn't start writing until this year again and I'm still struggling with it. But I put my perfectionism aside and tell myself to just enjoy the process of creation again. My prose is abysmal but my characterisation is enough to carry the bad prose.
Into the Mines with the visual cues makes it feel like a Cirque du Solei performance with the suspension of a beat almost waiting for the performer/character to stick the landing and I am all for it! Its something you really don't get just watching or listening by itself. There is SO much more that I could comment on for the rest of this but that really stuck out to me. Love your work guys and I'm SO down to have a "Catch-up" reaction series with Cheryl through all the volumes!
Oh, just got to the part after Brand New Day talking about what made people watch the show, and that was literally my introduction too. Caleb Hyles' covers, actually. I literally watched his covers when he did This Will Be The Day, listened to the originals, and went "with music this good, this show has to be worth checking out!"
I think part of the reason Fear is so good is that it's backed up by the most thematically-consistent volume in RWBY, which comes about in part because of the new writers (counterintuitively enough). I know that Fear is a bop even without that, but I feel like having that tone in the volume might have helped Jeff with the composition, maybe, a little? IDK I'm blowing smoke.
I think its so important to have Ozpin back. Perhaps the only person that doesn't fear or has already conquered the fear of Salem. He definitely gives that hope that will be lacking from the group.
I've been looking forward to this reaction all summer. Great as always. On a different note: Is anyone else getting whiplash from the track order on the album? Going from Celebration to Until The End without at least War or Hero in between is a harsh shift in tone.
1:47:00 I'm the one who asked the Postmodern Jukebox question. I'm glad to see you're all fans, but I shouldn't even be surprised. Their stuff is so good, I put some on when I'm going out or just doing stuff around the house.
Another great OST reaction! Love it! Welcome to Cheryl and Paul! Can't wait to watch Cheryl react to the entire series. It would be interesting to get her reactions on the earlier OSTs as well. If you want a fun drinking game, just take a drink every time Jeff changes keys in a song. You won't be able to play it long, because you'll be blotted, but you'll have fun while you're still sober enough to enjoy it.
Part of the joy of watching these soundtrack reactions is keeping a notebook open for all the music references so I can check them out later. You guys have already improved my life. Thank you!
I was hoping to hear The Enemy of Trust, that score is so good! And I wonder, would you guys ever do score reactions to things that maybe you haven't seen?
Ive been waiting for this my god... Im no musically inclined so im not getting some of the musical points you guys are talking about half the time.. but what i love about this is the way you react while listening is the same as i was when i first listned to every song especially when matthew started dancing on "touch the sky" i did the same thing the first time .... Oh man rwby songs goes over every other song for me for how much it affects how i feel when i listens to them..... Love ur reactions too by the way and keep up the good work looking forward to vol 8 reactions
I always love watching these reactions, and I enjoy them even more since you also do scores. My personal favorites are The Enemy of Trust and Are You with Me? I'd also recommend Full-On vigilante, which gives you the best version of Robyn's motif.
I’m watching this for the analysis for the band/musically element, for my own channel, I’m more on the emotional hit of the music. and I’m so happy that you all touched on all the stuff that I’m weak on. Like yeah Jeff deserves soooooo much freaking credit for making some real music. (Non derivative with his own flair)
I will be pretty interested in watching not only a reaction for volume 8 ost with Cassey and/or Jeff commenting with you guys, but a full interview too. That would be awesome. Sorry if my english is incorrect, I'm spanish
Might be a goose thing, but the Bloodborne soundtrack is so incredibly epic and horrifying with it's themes of horror and enlightenment and I'd love to see you cover it. Your guys' discussions about music is always so interesting.
Any plans to record Cheryl's reaction to the series - If she does end up watching, that is. I'd love to see more LGBT reactors on the scene - I only know of y'all, Xiao Long, and UnicornOfWar, so any more that I see are definitely welcome
@@minusxero I'm LGBT and I kind of don't care about it. RWBY takes in all comers and I dunno why it's important to list orientation as a benchmark for who's content to watch. So to answer, I did but didnt care about it.
@@fenrirswolh3 The point is the original comment was "I hope Cheryl records reactions for when she watches" and what you commented was "I hope MurderofBirds shows up in one of these someday!" You literally missed the primary point of the comment, which was to encourage one of the people in this video to watch the show.
Honestly, this soundtrack surprised me a lot but in the _best_ possible way. I have a full ranking of _every_ song an the order I like it in as well as the order I like the soundtracks in. (I exclude remixes because those just aren't my personal taste and acoustics since I just feel like they're never as good as the original. There is _one_ exception to that rule, though....) On my first listen, I was just like, "Eh, maybe it'll overtake V6 for third place." After I sat with it more, it was just like "MOVE OVER, BITCHES, _MY CITY NOW."_ I rank songs 0-10 based on personal enjoyment (a number of factors) and since most of the soundtracks are within ten points of each other either way (70 for V5 being the lowest, V7 being the highest at 90), I think it's a level enough playing field. Anything above a 7 is basically _beyond_ exceptional, so most rankings are within the 40-50 range. V7 is a whopping 64/90. V4 was originally the highest at 49/80. It took a bit for the songs to grow on me, but I absolutely _love_ them. The funniest part I was _completely certain_ that Hero would be my absolute favorite. Turned out to be the I May Fall acoustic (my first and _only_ 9) followed by Brand New Day. I did _not_ expect to latch onto that little duwop song so much, but it turned out to be my absolute _favorite_ V7 original. (Hero is my number three, so I wasn't _too_ far off at least lol) I doubt you care, but if you're wondering, This Life Is Mine and Indomitable are my top two.
Just found the channel about an hour ago, you guys are amazingly funny! Also, the youtuber @nate wants to battle dose some good my hero academia english covers and (in my opinon) he sounds lile the Japanese singer. Not sure if the covers are directly translated or not though.
What I take away from listening to RWBY music: Jeff is absolutely relentless and ruthless on what whichever instrument he plays. He shows no mercy on the guitar.
I kinda wonder if it's because they're so leitmotif-heavy, cause they don't seem to recognize (or if they do they never mention it) the individual character's themes. Like, Fear has Oscar's leitmotif all over it and it only got a passing mention? And those two tracks (and Free Ride and a Show also) jump themes very VERY rapidly and so it might be too hard to follow? Not entirely sure what their reasoning is.
I actually think that Casey is a soprano, her voice is light and the timbre is brillant too, if she sounds better in the mids, I think is because she uses a more balanced mix in that place, but when she go to the highs, she uses too much chest, a example of that would be Hwasa of mamamoo, or Solar of Mamamoo.
I feel kind of bad saying this but I enjoy Casey more on the Rwby tracks more than Ok Goodnight and I’m not sure why. I think it might be because Ok Goodnight has more instrumental portions where Casey doesn’t sing for a while but I really enjoy it when Casey is a constant voice through the song
The "Kiss of Judas" in the Bible was Judas' signal to the mob ... it was to betray him.. So in the song you have the idea of betrayal and this lyric uses that for a type of allegory displaying the gravity of the betrayal in experiences between team RWBY and Ace Ops (Spec Ops for Matthew)
Hey guys, the video is broken up for me. There is only 2 hours runtime and starts halfway through “War”. I know Arnold from @murderofbirds had the same issue. Maybe he can help you resolve it. I’ve tried phone, iPad and desktop, but it’s the same.
Honestly sad and disappointed that they didn't talk about War some more. It's such a kick ass song (one of my favorites from the show, actually) and I wanted to see your guy's reaction and insight to it so bad. Great reactions overall though! And the addition of Cheryl(?) Was great cause we got to have a different perspective.
I'd say this volume's OST is the least RWBY-like. Look at how unique Hero, Until the End and Celebrate are compared to other RWBY songs, and Trust Love is way more positive than all the other openings so it almost feels out of place. Not saying it's a bad thing, the songs are amazing, just different.
@@SirsMadamsEntertainment Hope you didnt have to pay like i did. A few prayers to the god of porcelain. Sometimes my commentary goes over like a lead sinker, and being I was feeling extra good. Was making sure I didnt go too far.
Once again I have no idea what half of these terms mean that you all throw around, but for some reason it was a joy to watch anyways. 10/10
"With a smile and a cheerful heart I'll turn to you and say goodbye!"
Has about as much sass as:
"You were. Then you trained us."
Fitting.
I love how you casually discuss complicated music theory but also just admit when a song is a bop. Loved watching as always.
0:00 dead time
4:59 beginning
13:13 Trust Love
25:53 Touch The Sky
41:37 Hero
56:27 Brand New Day
1:11:57 Let's Get Real
1:24:47 War
1:37:01 Celebration
1:49:28 Until The End
2:02:09 Fear
2:23:05 I May Fall (Acoustic)
2:42:11 Into The Mines (score)
2:55:05 Party Crashers (score)
3:05:39 ...Then You Trained Us (score)
3:16:05 And I Refuse To Starve (score)
if you add a 0:00 timestamp in the description the segments will show up as partitioned in the video
4 scores and 7 volumes ago I had a dream.
A dream about cute kick ass anime girls who all things turning into guns. It grew on us and we reacted to it and came to love it and then the guy making the music liked us because we were also musicians and could truly appreciate his brilliant craft. Now we sit as spokespersons for the RWBY soundtracks and life was good. And also a gun.
That was a weird runaway joke but just wanted to Say thanks to you lot for the enjoyable reactions and well done lyric videos.
"Somebody's already got Bingo, I'm telling ya."
:slowly slides bingo card back into its folder:
I am so down to have another RWBY reactor on this channel. Great stream.
This x1000.
Well okay if y’all insist! 💜
@@Windyblade And so the people rejoiced.
*For anyone wondering about timestamps*
13:10 - Trust Love
26:00 - Touch the Sky
41:33 - Hero
56:27 - Brand New Day
1:11:57 - Let's Get Real
1:24:47 - War
1:37:02 - Celebrate
1:49:28 - Until the End
2:02:11 - Fear
2:23:14 - I May Fall (Acoustic Version)
2:24:11 - Into the Mines
2:55:05 - Party Crashers
3:05:40 - ...Then You Trained Us
3:16:06 - And I Refuse to Starve
*Looking to see some cover from War or Trained Us* Love from Chile
I am so grateful for the music Jeff, Casey, and everyone else who had helped make it over the years. I was 15 when I first listened to the volume one opening and I had no idea what I was doing with my life at the time. The music is the reason I started watching RWBY and how I got inspired by Monty Oum. But before that I was depressed most of my life, I always thought how useless I was and how unimportant I thought my life was. Soon after I started watching RWBY I kept thinking to myself, "keep moving forward, I can do it!" Keeping my head up no matter what gets thrown at me was what got me through most of it. Seeing Monty's dedication and determination was what I strived to be from then on. This show and the people surrounding it gave me a purpose, a goal to chase after. And as of today I have been accepted to my dream college to fulfill the goal that I have set for myself. I give my thanks to this amazing show, the amazing creators, and all of you.
Hope you are doing well now!
@@lotus5770 I am, thank you!
I'm also really really happy that you've done pieces of the score too, because Alex's work is absolutely phenomenal!
Further, I'm a HUGE proponent of the idea that some of the soundtrack's vocal songs are absolutely enhanced and *should* be listened to combined with some of the score lead up. Red Like Roses Part 2 is the biggest one, to me; that song just isn't the same without the strings leading up to it.
War is absolutely 100% another one. On its own, it's an excellent piece, but it just hits even stronger when it's directly attached to ...Then You Trained Us.
1:03:49 its amazing how many ppl got pulled into watching rwby by listening to the music first. That wasnt my experience as an og watcher of rt things but its not at all surprising that its the music that gets ppl interested bc it is just that good
1:15:45 omg i never noticed that, thats funny
I'm so happy my main man Cgang the Score Dino got noticed! He always does such a wonderful job crafting the score videos, they're so lovely to watch.
I just binged all of these RWBY OST videos, you guys are awesome! My personal favorite piece of music from RWBY is the score from Volume 3 Chapter 11: Heroes and Monsters. As great as the score is in so many episodes that will always be my favorite.
No reaction to the "Are You With Me?" score from chapter 11 in Ironwood's office?!? One of my favorite in all of the RWBY OSTs w/ all the low-brass & the 7/8 polyrhythms. Love you guys :)
The whole discussion about adding emotion into songs reminds me of something I heard before for either Cold or Indomitable, probably both, where Casey had to get all the tears out before they could get the final takes.
And speaking of those songs, I heard them both before I finally ended up at a psychiatrist and started depression medication, and I was not prepared the first time I heard them afterwards, totally broke me for a few minutes.
Adam Peterson yep if I remember the conversation we had with Casey, she had to listen to “indomitable” for something like 20 times to process it so she wasn’t a total wreak while trying to record it
Adam Peterson I know that feeling. I had been in a long bout of depression for about 3 years when I finally gathered enough courage to see a therapist and get it fully diagnosed. This pandemic has prevented me from going to sessions, but even after only two months of sessions a lot of RWBY music hits different.
Like, while my situation isn't anything close to Weiss', Mirror Mirror Part II's beginning describes my hesitancy to seek help rather well. "My life is comfy, so what right do I have to complain?"
But now I know that I do have that right. My mom died on April first when I was 13. My dad was falsely accused and sent to prison when I was 2. When my aunt adopted me, my uncle used that kindness as an excuse for mental and emotional abuse, to the point I was actually happy when he kicked me out.
Seeking help isn't a sin. Finding joy in anime and friendship in fandom don't make those feelings and friends "fake." A friend online is just as real as a friend IRL.
I had given up looking for a job before I got help, but now I've held a job for the past 6 months, much longer than the 3-6 week odd jobs I had been lucky to come across.
I can do this. *You* can do this! After all, this life is mine.
@@SuperiorPosterior That first verse of MMpt2 was a pretty big wow moment for me, actually that's not quite right, more like the start of a very long period of realizations, but Weiss' whole musical backstory of isolation and self-loathing is almost a comforting thing for me, as messed up as it sounds. Not that I'm glad that other people are in this situation too, of course, but the knowledge that you aren't alone, that other people have struggled and recovered from this sort of thing. It can't have been the first sign of that sort, but for some reason that's the one that really got through to me.
Thats probably part of why I latched onto RWBY as much as I have, it's not perfect, but the combination of the writers and musicians somehow still combine to make these characters stories impactful.
I'm sorry you had to go through that, but its awesome that, whether forced or not, you got out of that shitty situation and are finding ways to make things better for yourself. We can indeed do this.
I always feel like i'm oversharing in these sorts of comments, but I realized recently that this is exactly the sort of thing my therapist encourages, even if its to random cool people on the internet instead of family members. As you said, this being the internet doesn't invalidate the fact that you're an awesome person that was willing to have this conversation with me, so thank you for taking the time to not just read, but reply too. And thank you to S&M also, for being the people that are cool enough for me to not feel too self-conscious and anxious about this sort of thing, if you end up reading this whole wall of text.
So anyways I just spent over an hour trying to figure out how to express my deep inner emo-ness and need food, so I wish you all a good day. (edit: hopefully its obvious enough that that's not intended as a jab at anyone, I do think its important to be able to laugh at yourself.)
Indomitable was a huge balm for me personally when it came out. Honestly, I attached _hard_ to the 30 second clip from the ending episode of V6. I _knew_ that song was going to be something special and it _was._ I was _bawling_ to it on the third listen when I finally understood the lyrics.
I'm a writer and have been for twenty years. I write out _everything_ by hand and it resulted in me getting tendinitis. I had to limit my writing time or wear a brace when I did write, but I managed to live with it.
Two years ago, I fractured my wrist in a way that just _completely_ fucked over my right forearm. Whenever I wrote for more than an hour, I ended up in complete and utter _agony._
Indomitable came out and it reminded me that I'm a creator and I shouldn't let anything keep me down. That song _literally_ made me pick myself up out of the year-long depressive episode caused by that wrist fracture. I started on a _huge_ research project for a RWBY AU that's so dear to my heart.
I didn't start writing until this year again and I'm still struggling with it. But I put my perfectionism aside and tell myself to just enjoy the process of creation again. My prose is abysmal but my characterisation is enough to carry the bad prose.
Into the Mines with the visual cues makes it feel like a Cirque du Solei performance with the suspension of a beat almost waiting for the performer/character to stick the landing and I am all for it! Its something you really don't get just watching or listening by itself. There is SO much more that I could comment on for the rest of this but that really stuck out to me. Love your work guys and I'm SO down to have a "Catch-up" reaction series with Cheryl through all the volumes!
I’d love a rwby reaction with just Cheryl catching up on the series!! That would be amazing!
I love this sort of look and analysis of the music and score of the show! I've been waiting for something like this!
shadowblade159 if you haven’t seen them yet check out the previous OSTs we did for RWBY
:)
@@SirsMadamsEntertainment I absolutely will do that! (after I finish this one of course; made this comment when it was still on Touch The Sky, heh.)
Oh, just got to the part after Brand New Day talking about what made people watch the show, and that was literally my introduction too. Caleb Hyles' covers, actually. I literally watched his covers when he did This Will Be The Day, listened to the originals, and went "with music this good, this show has to be worth checking out!"
The same they are amazing
Love to see the appreciation for Fear, my favorite RWBY end-credit song - and from a series that had both Divide and Nevermore.
I think part of the reason Fear is so good is that it's backed up by the most thematically-consistent volume in RWBY, which comes about in part because of the new writers (counterintuitively enough). I know that Fear is a bop even without that, but I feel like having that tone in the volume might have helped Jeff with the composition, maybe, a little? IDK I'm blowing smoke.
I think its so important to have Ozpin back. Perhaps the only person that doesn't fear or has already conquered the fear of Salem. He definitely gives that hope that will be lacking from the group.
I've been looking forward to this reaction all summer. Great as always.
On a different note: Is anyone else getting whiplash from the track order on the album? Going from Celebration to Until The End without at least War or Hero in between is a harsh shift in tone.
Yeah I honestly wish we got the songs in show order. Really emphasizes the drop in tone in the later half of the volume, the fall from love to fear.
Wow in I May Fall Casey's vibrato really lent itself to the violins, almost mimicking them, right? And not just in a harmonising way.
1:47:00 I'm the one who asked the Postmodern Jukebox question. I'm glad to see you're all fans, but I shouldn't even be surprised. Their stuff is so good, I put some on when I'm going out or just doing stuff around the house.
Thanks for the reaction and analysis, it really helped me appreciate the music more!
Another great OST reaction! Love it! Welcome to Cheryl and Paul!
Can't wait to watch Cheryl react to the entire series. It would be interesting to get her reactions on the earlier OSTs as well.
If you want a fun drinking game, just take a drink every time Jeff changes keys in a song. You won't be able to play it long, because you'll be blotted, but you'll have fun while you're still sober enough to enjoy it.
Celebrate is by far my favorite song on this track. Absolutely phenomenal.
Ive watched all your reviews on the osts this entire week and this is a great addition
Part of the joy of watching these soundtrack reactions is keeping a notebook open for all the music references so I can check them out later. You guys have already improved my life. Thank you!
I was hoping to hear The Enemy of Trust, that score is so good! And I wonder, would you guys ever do score reactions to things that maybe you haven't seen?
Possibility.. what things were you envisioning ?
Ive been waiting for this my god... Im no musically inclined so im not getting some of the musical points you guys are talking about half the time.. but what i love about this is the way you react while listening is the same as i was when i first listned to every song especially when matthew started dancing on "touch the sky" i did the same thing the first time .... Oh man rwby songs goes over every other song for me for how much it affects how i feel when i listens to them.....
Love ur reactions too by the way and keep up the good work looking forward to vol 8 reactions
Love how you did the scores its like super fresh to my ears
I don't play bass, but it is my favorite instrument and I had the exact same reaction to "Touch The Sky" that Sterling did. It's so good!
Why am I just seeing this in my feed, I've been looking for this.
I always love watching these reactions, and I enjoy them even more since you also do scores.
My personal favorites are The Enemy of Trust and Are You with Me? I'd also recommend Full-On vigilante, which gives you the best version of Robyn's motif.
59:25 Not going to lie, if I had a cat, I'd probably try to play a guitar solo on it too.
Such a big fan of ag_nonsuch. I am love that you included her artwork!
I’m just glad so many of you are together again XD
I’m watching this for the analysis for the band/musically element, for my own channel, I’m more on the emotional hit of the music. and I’m so happy that you all touched on all the stuff that I’m weak on. Like yeah Jeff deserves soooooo much freaking credit for making some real music. (Non derivative with his own flair)
I will be pretty interested in watching not only a reaction for volume 8 ost with Cassey and/or Jeff commenting with you guys, but a full interview too. That would be awesome. Sorry if my english is incorrect, I'm spanish
We did have a nice chat with Casey earlier in the year, you can hear it here open.spotify.com/episode/5br4JGU3VebOSBzph0MzFG?si=MCUFW_lFTu2w0XDXcJ6iVg
Re-listening to this while waiting for Vol8 to end and I’m excited for the OST reaction for 8
You guys should cover some rwby songs
cannot wait for you guys to react to the volume 8 score and soundtrack
Same... I’ll make the lyric vids for Jeff but I won’t let anyone else in SM see or hear them before filming a reaction.
-Bruce
Might be a goose thing, but the Bloodborne soundtrack is so incredibly epic and horrifying with it's themes of horror and enlightenment and I'd love to see you cover it. Your guys' discussions about music is always so interesting.
Oh hey it finally finished processing and now I can see the first half of the video.
Me: I've been waiting a long time for this moment
Im a trumpet player and the moment I heared Celebrate, I soo wanted to play it xD It sounds like so much fun 😍
Any plans to record Cheryl's reaction to the series - If she does end up watching, that is. I'd love to see more LGBT reactors on the scene - I only know of y'all, Xiao Long, and UnicornOfWar, so any more that I see are definitely welcome
Uow wasnt bad until they started injecting their own political views into their videos. That's how they lost me. Lol
But I'd kill to see Murderofbirds on here!
@@fenrirswolh3 I feel like you didn't read the comment at all.
@@minusxero I'm LGBT and I kind of don't care about it. RWBY takes in all comers and I dunno why it's important to list orientation as a benchmark for who's content to watch.
So to answer, I did but didnt care about it.
@@fenrirswolh3 The point is the original comment was "I hope Cheryl records reactions for when she watches" and what you commented was "I hope MurderofBirds shows up in one of these someday!"
You literally missed the primary point of the comment, which was to encourage one of the people in this video to watch the show.
Cheryl’s OHHH during celebrate has become part of the song in my head..... it fits sooo good
Honestly, this soundtrack surprised me a lot but in the _best_ possible way. I have a full ranking of _every_ song an the order I like it in as well as the order I like the soundtracks in. (I exclude remixes because those just aren't my personal taste and acoustics since I just feel like they're never as good as the original. There is _one_ exception to that rule, though....)
On my first listen, I was just like, "Eh, maybe it'll overtake V6 for third place."
After I sat with it more, it was just like "MOVE OVER, BITCHES, _MY CITY NOW."_
I rank songs 0-10 based on personal enjoyment (a number of factors) and since most of the soundtracks are within ten points of each other either way (70 for V5 being the lowest, V7 being the highest at 90), I think it's a level enough playing field. Anything above a 7 is basically _beyond_ exceptional, so most rankings are within the 40-50 range.
V7 is a whopping 64/90. V4 was originally the highest at 49/80.
It took a bit for the songs to grow on me, but I absolutely _love_ them.
The funniest part I was _completely certain_ that Hero would be my absolute favorite.
Turned out to be the I May Fall acoustic (my first and _only_ 9) followed by Brand New Day. I did _not_ expect to latch onto that little duwop song so much, but it turned out to be my absolute _favorite_ V7 original. (Hero is my number three, so I wasn't _too_ far off at least lol)
I doubt you care, but if you're wondering, This Life Is Mine and Indomitable are my top two.
Just found the channel about an hour ago, you guys are amazingly funny! Also, the youtuber @nate wants to battle dose some good my hero academia english covers and (in my opinon) he sounds lile the Japanese singer. Not sure if the covers are directly translated or not though.
What I take away from listening to RWBY music: Jeff is absolutely relentless and ruthless on what whichever instrument he plays. He shows no mercy on the guitar.
I love the live chat, "I wonder if Nora’s gonna have a defining moment in V8"
I’m kind of sad they didn’t react to Are you With Me (at least the last bit) or Enemy of Trust.
I kinda wonder if it's because they're so leitmotif-heavy, cause they don't seem to recognize (or if they do they never mention it) the individual character's themes. Like, Fear has Oscar's leitmotif all over it and it only got a passing mention? And those two tracks (and Free Ride and a Show also) jump themes very VERY rapidly and so it might be too hard to follow? Not entirely sure what their reasoning is.
Please record Cheryl watching the show!!!
I know im a little late to the party. I love seeing other musicians react to rwby soundtracks.
This was amazing. Also I'm totally down to see Cheryl in more things.
#Gingernut
been waiting for this!!! yay!!
Great stream guys!!! Gingernuts rise!!!!
I actually think that Casey is a soprano, her voice is light and the timbre is brillant too, if she sounds better in the mids, I think is because she uses a more balanced mix in that place, but when she go to the highs, she uses too much chest, a example of that would be Hwasa of mamamoo, or Solar of Mamamoo.
I feel kind of bad saying this but I enjoy Casey more on the Rwby tracks more than Ok Goodnight and I’m not sure why. I think it might be because Ok Goodnight has more instrumental portions where Casey doesn’t sing for a while but I really enjoy it when Casey is a constant voice through the song
I'm assuming Dawn M Bennett in war was the line about friendship being another game
I don't get the judas thereupon kissed bit. Pls explain?
The "Kiss of Judas" in the Bible was Judas' signal to the mob ... it was to betray him..
So in the song you have the idea of betrayal and this lyric uses that for a type of allegory displaying the gravity of the betrayal in experiences between team RWBY and Ace Ops (Spec Ops for Matthew)
This was awesome! Enjoyed the review! Y’all should look into reacting to Dimash Kudaibergen! Has a good vocal range and is an incredible talent!
Am I the only one that thought of Mr. B from Pokémon Gale of darkness when celebrate was playing ?
LETS GO
Hey guys, the video is broken up for me. There is only 2 hours runtime and starts halfway through “War”. I know Arnold from @murderofbirds had the same issue. Maybe he can help you resolve it. I’ve tried phone, iPad and desktop, but it’s the same.
Daniel Perry I think it’s a processing issue on TH-cam’s end... did the same to fallofmeerkat and fixed itself after a day or so
Thanks. I’ll be eagerly waiting. These ost reviews of yours are my favorites :)
In conclusion, They all slap
Amen on Hailey Reinhardt because oh my yes
If you guys react to other songs and such I'd love to see My Dark Disquiet. It's such a strangely melodic tune
Could we expect a Cheryl react to the rest of the rwby music!?
possibly.. but i'm about 99% sure she will start reacting to the series at least.
i just realized how much Matthew reminds me of Miles :0
uhh...the first hour and a half of this video are cut off. the video starts on them listening to War
Yeah, same. I thought it was because that's where I joined the stream, but I think I actually joined sometime after the vocal tracks were done...
@@lumas825 .. same think happened to FallofMeerKat... it takes time to process longer than normal.. It'll pan out eventually.
Sirs & Madams Entertainment I don't know when it got fixed, but it works now! ...At least for me.
Lumas825 yeah it took about 3 days
Honestly sad and disappointed that they didn't talk about War some more. It's such a kick ass song (one of my favorites from the show, actually) and I wanted to see your guy's reaction and insight to it so bad.
Great reactions overall though! And the addition of Cheryl(?) Was great cause we got to have a different perspective.
it is always fun i understand less than 5% of the the musictalk but is still interesting ^^.
Have you guys seen RWBY vol 8 teaser
Nic Of Light I know Sterling and Bruce at least
I really want to understand why they reacted so hard for “Put a full stop on the train wreck that I’ve been.”
Its the chords, the harmonies and the rhythm. Its hard to explain, but it all comes out of nowhere and its just wonderful.
This video is still shortened. Is there something wrong on my end?
B Wells .. no it’s on TH-cam… murderofbirds and fallofmeerkat had the same issue .. it gets fixed after a couple days unfortunately
I can't stop listening to Touch the Sky!
I can’t stop listening to Hero
Touch the Sky is SOOO GOOD. Easily my favorite of the Volume and maybe of the series.
No "Nevermore" remix?
Question do you think trust love is a penny song
Eye mentions usually point to Ruby
Hero and Touch the Sky 👩🏽🍳💋
I'd say this volume's OST is the least RWBY-like. Look at how unique Hero, Until the End and Celebrate are compared to other RWBY songs, and Trust Love is way more positive than all the other openings so it almost feels out of place.
Not saying it's a bad thing, the songs are amazing, just different.
(Spoiler, possibly)
does this mean that Penny's return has been spoiled for Cheryl?
Nope.. she didn’t know any characters to make connections or remember it.
@@SirsMadamsEntertainment thanks, that is good to know!
Virtual edition!
your reaction, hand it over
Hey Sterling, hope I didn't annoy the other day. I was well into a few bourbons on the rocks, with my own side of cotton mouth. If I did, apologies.
? I don’t know what you mean so don’t worry about it. I went through way more apple juice then I wanted to lol. ~ Sterling
@@SirsMadamsEntertainment Hope you didnt have to pay like i did. A few prayers to the god of porcelain. Sometimes my commentary goes over like a lead sinker, and being I was feeling extra good. Was making sure I didnt go too far.
With this group we are all habitual line steppers. You’re good
Bill A ...in Russia.. vodka drinks you!
Brand new day is definitely Blake and Qrow