I don’t know if Whoever created this video checks these comments but thank you sir. For over 12 years you’ve kept me on this earth. You’ve always helped me find myself. And I’m thankful for whoever’s reading this creator or not. You all are beautiful. Please love yourself and life and your mothers and spouses and love your enemies not for them but selfleshly for you. find peace. Its our only will to live. It’s never too late.
One thing I love about Ratatat is the uncanny ability to make a song with a highly individual meaning without putting a single lyric to it. It means what it means to each of us.
On point man! To this day I've been through everything and all music but ratatat is the only music that has ever got me in my feelings, to a point where I nod my head and feel amazing doing it
This is love. This is heartbreak. This is getting a date with your all time crush. This is getting stood up. This is someone telling you they love you. This is them forgetting you exist This is so beautifully joyful and depressing at once...
I love this song so much. I cry every time I hear it. Right after 3:35, I can feel tears begin to form. It's not a happy thing, or a sad thing. It's just so much emotion from one song. I've never had it happen to me before. It's such a beautiful thing.
You're not the only one lol😅 I cry tears of bliss and beauty to this. Wrought out of the pain and struggle to exist, certainly. While also in awe of the fact that Creation brought forth creators that make such incredible masterpieces.
This song is incredibly therapeutic and beautiful, but reading all of the comments is the best. It's beautiful to know this song has touched so many people in a lot of different ways. I've been listening to this for 10 years, and I hope to continue so for another 10. I wish nothing but the best for everyone who took the time to comment, and took the time to read this one. ❤️
I saw a comment on here a couple of years ago that said this song reminds them of a robot mother comforting their robot child. Strange analogy but it certainly fits
found it haha (because I don't have anything better to do) Oceanmachine27 2 years ago This song to me always sounded like a robot mother singing a lullaby to its child
I don't think words can explain the amount of peace i hold when i listen to this song. It just inspires the deepest form of thinking in me. Something this beautiful can only be described as a masterpiece. I am sure there are millions who would agree.
Listened to this song and watched this video for the first time a little over 13 years ago. I was getting high with my best friend in high school. He was the most brilliant person I ever knew, and he loved this song. He couldn't wait to show me. We were 17 at the time, and he passed at 19 in a rock climbing accident during our freshman year of college. I still listen to this song a lot, but I'm glad that I am now 31 years old and it makes me smile again. Thank you.
I don't know what there is to this piece of art but everyone seems to get deep feelings from this and to be honest, me too. It's just so beautiful. I don't know how to explain this but it just fills my heart up entirely.
first time I heard it, I was on shrooms.... I dont know where I went, but it sure was nice... I never ever wanted to leave and never wanted the song to end...
I love how everyone gets something different from the song, but near everyone feels the both happy and sad feeling. It's funny, I always got the happy feeling before but only felt the sad today. Maybe it's cause I'm growing up slowly but surely, but man, the image at the end just reminds me of my band and how it started and how god awful we were when we started, but towards the end we got pretty ok. But whenever we were on stage together, we'd make poses exactly like the end of the video, and in that moment it'd be exactly how we felt. Just completely in our element, totally relaxed, loving every second of life Man I miss those days
MCDMars Your story is the epic fantasy I have when I watch the end of this song, though I do not play guitar. Perhaps I should? Seriously though, down to the feeling of being in my element, like when I was a child, before life was complicated.
Im just hearing this group for the first time in my life today and i cant tell you how much this has lifted my mood. Can tell there is a lot of love in this music. Makes me feel good.
Some friends that I lost a while ago and I would always listen to this song after we came back inside from hanging out and would sit in preparation for the drop. It always felt as though it would take forever but we would all sit in silence to be careful not to interrupt it. After it would come, it seemed as though we all relaxed and for some reason, it felt like all of our worries were gone.
This song will always be one of my favorites, my best friend showed it to me the first time I tripped on acid, I don’t think I’ve felt anything more surreal than that. R.I.P Jake I’ll always love you
This is by far the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard. For it's simplicity, it's jaw-dropping how much emotion this brings from me. I listen to rap music, and I've heard a lot of lyrics that have impacted me a lot, but this instrumental is the pinnacle of "words need not be said."
I totally agree. I feel like they do the opposite of what most artists do; elaborate. Instead, they simplify to one abstract word for the title and make the instrumental take a journey.
The song stimulates the memory to point where it becomes overwhelming. The beat is calm and slowly builds, making one think of a time when things were simple. When you were a child and all you thought about was cookies and naps, that can describe the beginning. Then as the tension builds you think of your teenage years and the madness that followed with friends and family. The climax brings about thoughts of becoming older and what maturity brought with it... All the emotions and the events...
nice to come back every once in a while and pay a visit to the innocent inner child. we were just kids once, we didn't know any better but it was alright. we were where we had to be. shit happened and we made it anyway. we were so strong and i love you so much
I've never read a better comment section. This song makes me the most nostalgic person, and like many other people here, it makes me happy and sad at the same time. It reminds me of a love I have/had and makes me fear of loosing it. But this song is much more than that, this song is love. This song is the definition of everything. Don't try to find a song more pure, there isn't one. I fucking love this. I do not know what I'd do without this song or this band. Thank you, genuinely from the bottom of my heart for making the music you guys do. It has not only saved me, but so many people out there as well.
Go back into the past, find where you lost yourself, remember the feeling, grab your self's hand and bring him to the present. All in 5 minutes and 38 seconds.
In 2013, "Cherry" was the song my daughter and future son-in-law chose for their wedding procession song. Their core friends (at first surprised) all started grinning, and the older generation (older than me, that is) looked confused and frightened. So, definitely a win-win. The bride entered at the beginning of the crescendo (3:35).
I first listened to this song when I was about 10 with my brother. I’m 18 now, and here I am back at this song. Someone please remind me to come back here.
I've always pictured this song to be someone on their deathbed. They reflect on their life and replay memories with fondness. Realizing how every matter seemed important, but it was really trivial. Thinking of the beauty of their life lived. Thankful for the love shared and time spent with family. The climax is the great realization and final goodbye. The fade out is accepting their fate and slowly letting go, releasing themselves and passing on.
@@AudioDregs I really appreciate you checking the comments even after 14+ years since this video was released! If I'm not mistaken, it's the Mast brothers that run this record label, right? Eric and Evan, with Evan being the bassist for Ratatat.
hey I'm 17 years old, I think this is one of the songs that I'll play on repeat in bad moments til forever, stay strong lil gurl, in one way or another you'll always make it right love ya your dreamy and stupid past self
This is pure emotion. It goes superbly with any memory of journey you've stored in your thoughts. For me, it's quebec in winter, walking knee-deep in the snow, hand in hand w/ my friend. And truth is, it never gets old. Rare enough to mention.
This is the most beautiful song I've heard in a long time. First time I've broken down into tears from a song. But it wasn't just the song, it was the people here.
I haven't heard this song in well over a decade, but it brings back incredible memories: you and I would l curl up in my bed next to each other listening to ratatat (this was our favorite song), the blue LED on my computer would illuminate the bedroom and bring about an almost dreamlike ambiance - your smile is forever burned into my mind... miss you Tania Saunders 10/15/07
One time, about 6 months ago, I decided to take a few large hits of dmt, put my headphones in, and picked this song. My trip was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful, the closed eye visuals I was getting were woven with the music in such an incredible synchronization. It showed me the birth and death of the universe, all the workings inside, and my little soul, and how I fit right into the plan. The trip ended with me disintegrating right into this cosmic orange flowy river, which contained everything that ever was. Such an incredible experience, and I’ve never looked at this song the same ever since. One of my favorite songs I’ve ever heard, and that’s saying a lot
@@tommyschlaaang of course not, I already loved the song, but I had decided to combine two things that I love. But yes the end of the song concluded the trip, it’s kinda crazy how that happens!
My dad has always played Ratatat when I was growing up, so buying these songs and listening to them for a first time in a while made me happy. I've imagined this song in my head when having my first kiss, during my first heartbreak, and I know I will hear it all the time in the future, also. Thank you, Ratatat, for making memories along with me.
This song always gives me the vibes Like the kind that make you contemplate suicide but appreciate life in a sense where you come to an understanding of complete equivalent respect for one another.
+Israel Aviña I agree. In my experience this song opens me to all of the repressed pain of humanity, which at times has brought me to contemplate similarly as you have. But there is no void behind the pain, just the simple bliss of a soothing lullaby, which in my opinion, is a metaphor for God's love for humanity, which man does not realize, because of all of the painful karma he clings to.
I watched this when my trip first started and the rays started leaving my tv and spilling onto all the walls in my room and I felt so at ease with the world. Thank you
The first time I heard this song was live; I was with some friends and people I didn't know that well. This was maybe 8-10 years ago in a cramped university club in St. Louis. I didn't really want to be there but was along for the ride. Whatever. About 3:35 I danced with the most beautiful woman in the room, and a drunkish commitment later meant the best 6 years of my life since, which I have regretted losing blah blah. I'm not here to preach. This is an amazing song that produces memories and feeling and dare I say it some hope. I miss every second of it. ~ cheers
I used to live in a small town in Southern California called Cherry Valley. I discovered this song driving down the main road in/out of town, was so zen with the moment. To my left was a field of cows happily grazing in the foothills, on my right a LARGE freshly started under construction block housing complex. I shed a tear for the field, knowing the other side of the road with the cows will someday have the same fate. This song and that moment were grouped together in my brain. Every time I hear it I see those happy cows grazing in the sun. Alas this was any years ago, and now there is a LARGE block housing complex where those cows used to be. Progress :/
I know it seems weird, But, but I grew up with theses guy's songs, I'm still young, all their sht still such a BOP like 12 yrs later!! Would love to know other bands that do similar stuffsss?
To me this is a perfect deathbed song. We reflect on our life from sunrise to sunset. Along the journey we relive all of the triumphs and tragedies. This is a highly reflective song. It's very sad and very happy at the same time, if filled with regret can leave one feeling very mixed up inside, happy and thankful to remember and feel the good times, but also sad and heavy and dissappointed and upset with the mistakes I've made to hurt the good times.
this song is clearly about the dilemma between jubilation and euphoria. the dialectic rythm and the contrast of our daily entities are produced through this qualm but not leaving yourself hybridized. it is sad and dissapointing that we live through this on a daily basis but it's a pain to have the happy moments of our lives and have daily recollections of our thought out past. you can also tell by the colors in the end that life is a constant build up of defecation discharge and animosity and then a diametric outburst at the end of our minimal euphoric existence. but can you recall this existance when death is upon us? maybe yes but you must not know not with a vernacular substance. just kidding. I just shit these words out of my butt hole to show how smart I am.
As a major Ratatat fan, this has always been my absolute favorite song. I've tried to explain what it feels like to listen to it as an electronic embrace not unlike what you feel as a child being comforted by your mother, and a repeated mantra that says, simply, "Everything... everything is going to be alright." Today I found some comments from other fans who also get the feeling of a comforting hug from a 'robot mother', and there's something profound in that, I think. Total strangers from who knows what walk of life experiencing something like that from listening to this music. Happy, sad, hopeful, devastated, connected - just... awesome in the literal sense. We all need more Ratatat in our lives!
This song is just crazy, it makes me happy and sad a t the same time i don't know how to explain this sensation when i'm listenning to it just wow.. Thank you for made it.
I just found back my ''last fm '' account that I used from 2007 to 2010 more or less. And this was my second most listened song ever. This is a NICE BIRTHDAY GIFT I am doing to myself finding this song back. Memories of love and beauty !
When the guitar layer comes in at 4:06 I know that Ratatat is one of the greatest bands I have ever heard. Good music is good music, you can just tell by your gut.
Been listening to this song almost everyday since it dropped on TH-cam so many years ago. Never gonna get tired of the feeling it gives me. Amazing piece of work.
This was of my friend go to songs when would hang out and smoke. Everytime I hear it, I can hear his contagious life and dumb jokes. R.I.P miss you man.
As I read about what's happening in the world, about the pain and suffering of so many people less fortunate than me often due to things my own government does, I can't stop the flow of hot tears of rage and sadness. This song brings me back and reminds me of my love for my family and how there is still a small bit of good, even if its just a baby sleeping on my chest while I listen. I don't know why this song calms me so. Thank you Ratatat.
12 years of this and when i listen this song its like the first time. One of the most sweet and peaceful melodies i ever heard. Thank you so much Ratatat. 😛 sorry my english..
I clearly remember this first time I heard this song. Must have been summer or 2006 or so, soon after it came out, but before my brother moved out. Me and Kevin were big into sounds, and through him I was absorbing the music that makes me who I am today. So I get in his old standard civic to smoke a joint and cruise the countryside. He pulls of onto the dirt roads of the orchard, turns up the radio, and tells me to shut up until the next song is over. It still blows my mind every time
Bringing me back to a moment that will never be lived again, times that are now intricately stored away memories, softly whispering at the very depths of my mind only to appear again at sudden moments like listening to music that hadn't touched my slowly aging eardrums in too long. Nostalgia Nostalgia Nostalgia Happiness and wistfulness all in one, and a wish for a time maschine.
my best friend showed me this song 12-13 years ago. he killed himself in front of me 7 years ago. this song always reminds me of him and when we were kids. I miss you buddy
hey feel your pain and I just want to say. hang in there everything will work out don't think about it too much please don't be too sad from time to time think of this song as a happy pleasant thing and always find people to talk to when you feel sad or lonely things like that aren't supposed to happen and when they do its best not to dwell on them please live happily and don't think about it too much if you ever see this know there are people looking after you you're not alone and I'm sure he misses you too and he will look forward to seeing you again please have a good life -kite
Sorry bro I lost my fiance 4 yrs it will be on the 6th n she took her life in front of me by taking drugs I feel ur pain bro send me a message anytime try not to dwell on it yeah but I'm still hurt almost 4 yrs later but that's life's fucked up way of working I guess hang in there bro
Still in love with this song 15 years later. I always thought it was like an orgasm: slowly coming up then calming a moment and then explosive pleasure. I feel less alone seeing the comments, this song speaks to many minds, in an inexplicable way, but it's beautiful.
I remember listening to this song before youtube which is a trip but this song reminds me of cherish which i highly doubt she will see this back then was hella fun! if your young and read this enjoy youth lol..
I remember watching this, peaking on LSD and how intense the feeling I had when the sequence around 3:33. It felt like being blasted with eternal light and incredible emotion. Then again, I was high.
Always come back to this song. It brings about a special moment of a day that probably never existed, for it was just too good to be true. Even so, that day and this song...I love you. Thank you~
So basically I play this song in my saxophone section in band at my high school whenever we have a really important show and it honestly makes us slay and make everything seem the best it can be. This song has literally made me feel at peace with life and death at the same time and has brought me extremely close with the other members of my section (I know this sounds like /really/ cringey lmao)
Sanjana Ahmed Cherry is the best feeling ever. If we all got together and decided that Cherry is the new religion everybody would be very good. Instead of making war, somebody will step up, and say, "Hold on, let's make Cherry" , and then everything will make sense from every point of view at once because everyone making Cherry is all about the journey to the heart of self. Hmmmmmm
I FOUND IT AGAIN I had this stuck in my head all of a sudden but couldn’t remember the name of the song or who it was by. Sure enough, I finally find it in my favorites.
For me, this entire song symbolizes the end of one age and the beginning of another, and that crescendo at 3:34 is where that transition occurs. I always picture it as me walking through a tunnel before the crescendo. I can hear this roaring, this swell of anticipation...and as I step out of that tunnel and into the bright lights, that crescendo hits, and I see this crowd around me. I feel their energy. And more than anything, I just want to yell, to roar like a lion. I’m walking to the cage/ring to fight. It’s this mesmerizing sequence I’ve constructed in my own mind, and it feels like a movie scene. I’m pretty emotionally-driven, so music like this gets to me...
I looked at the comments, and I am so happy to see that I am not alone. This song brings back feelings and memories for me. As is the same case with many other Ratatat songs. I began listening to them while living in nyc in 2008, and used to listen to them heavily in 2011 while living in Brooklyn. I remember when I was living in nyc, I loved this band ,because it invoked nostalgia in me from when I was younger. It made me feel the joy of being young, and hanging out with friends, playing Nintendo or just living life. Now when I listen to it, I feel both anjoy and sadness, of not only missing my childhood as I’ve gotten older, but also missing the time I had in New York. I guess the moral I’ve learned from these feelings is to live in the now, and cherrish every moment. Again, glad to see there are people with similar feelings. Peace to you all!
I don’t know if Whoever created this video checks these comments but thank you sir. For over 12 years you’ve kept me on this earth. You’ve always helped me find myself. And I’m thankful for whoever’s reading this creator or not. You all are beautiful. Please love yourself and life and your mothers and spouses and love your enemies not for them but selfleshly for you. find peace. Its our only will to live. It’s never too late.
❤
🙏 bless
Preach
I NEEDED TO HEAR THIS... TY
This also has helped me through many of my hardest times. It really is soothing.
One thing I love about Ratatat is the uncanny ability to make a song with a highly individual meaning without putting a single lyric to it. It means what it means to each of us.
I kno rights
Profound
On point man! To this day I've been through everything and all music but ratatat is the only music that has ever got me in my feelings, to a point where I nod my head and feel amazing doing it
This is love. This is heartbreak.
This is getting a date with your all time crush. This is getting stood up.
This is someone telling you they love you. This is them forgetting you exist
This is so beautifully joyful and depressing at once...
COPE
A lot of his work seems to feel that way. Like it’s hopeful while also deeply painful.
This is HUMANITY
This song gives me the feeling that "Hey. everything will be alright." Its like if a song could give you a hug.
Dont ruin it for everyone you annoying self loathing narcissist
BNGBuns when you’re rolling ballssssd
@@khalilac17 ghaha uhhh
I love this song so much. I cry every time I hear it. Right after 3:35, I can feel tears begin to form. It's not a happy thing, or a sad thing. It's just so much emotion from one song. I've never had it happen to me before. It's such a beautiful thing.
and 11 years later, here I am in tears after listening....
You're not the only one lol😅 I cry tears of bliss and beauty to this. Wrought out of the pain and struggle to exist, certainly. While also in awe of the fact that Creation brought forth creators that make such incredible masterpieces.
This song is incredibly therapeutic and beautiful, but reading all of the comments is the best. It's beautiful to know this song has touched so many people in a lot of different ways. I've been listening to this for 10 years, and I hope to continue so for another 10. I wish nothing but the best for everyone who took the time to comment, and took the time to read this one. ❤️
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I saw a comment on here a couple of years ago that said this song reminds them of a robot mother comforting their robot child. Strange analogy but it certainly fits
found it haha (because I don't have anything better to do)
Oceanmachine27
2 years ago
This song to me always sounded like a robot mother singing a lullaby to its child
VGMEnix hahahahahaahahahahahahah
VGMEnix Props for finding that shit
yes i remember that comment as well Ive been coming to this video for a long time :D
wow. i never would have thought of that but now that you mention it i totally agree
I don't think words can explain the amount of peace i hold when i listen to this song. It just inspires the deepest form of thinking in me. Something this beautiful can only be described as a masterpiece. I am sure there are millions who would agree.
Listened to this song and watched this video for the first time a little over 13 years ago. I was getting high with my best friend in high school. He was the most brilliant person I ever knew, and he loved this song. He couldn't wait to show me. We were 17 at the time, and he passed at 19 in a rock climbing accident during our freshman year of college.
I still listen to this song a lot, but I'm glad that I am now 31 years old and it makes me smile again. Thank you.
Heavy... I am glad you find a smile. Music go on❤
I don't know what there is to this piece of art but everyone seems to get deep feelings from this and to be honest, me too. It's just so beautiful. I don't know how to explain this but it just fills my heart up entirely.
=) Cherry ftw
first time I heard it, I was on shrooms.... I dont know where I went, but it sure was nice... I never ever wanted to leave and never wanted the song to end...
Tantric music 🧣🦓🎶
Putting my baby brother to sleep with this song was the one of the most peaceful moments I've had in my life.
Amy Jackson wait until it's your daughter. I have so many feels going on and swirling in me...
I gotta go cry..
u killed him ? wtf
I can't begin to describe how much this song means to me. I don't even have a specific reason why it does... it just speaks to my soul.
Ratatat always brings out some powerful emotions with their songs. One of the best bands ever.
I love how everyone gets something different from the song, but near everyone feels the both happy and sad feeling. It's funny, I always got the happy feeling before but only felt the sad today. Maybe it's cause I'm growing up slowly but surely, but man, the image at the end just reminds me of my band and how it started and how god awful we were when we started, but towards the end we got pretty ok. But whenever we were on stage together, we'd make poses exactly like the end of the video, and in that moment it'd be exactly how we felt. Just completely in our element, totally relaxed, loving every second of life
Man I miss those days
MCDMars Your story is the epic fantasy I have when I watch the end of this song, though I do not play guitar. Perhaps I should? Seriously though, down to the feeling of being in my element, like when I was a child, before life was complicated.
This brings up a nostalgia feeling to moments I've never experienced
Peter Valente same
I don't get that anymore. At best im at baseline, which is still pretty good compared to most, probably.
A few years ago someone commented on this song "This sounds like a robot mother comforting her robot son". So on spot.
Im just hearing this group for the first time in my life today and i cant tell you how much this has lifted my mood. Can tell there is a lot of love in this music. Makes me feel good.
You have found a good one! Even 6 years after falling in love with Ratatat I still love coming back for a listen.
Same here.
Some friends that I lost a while ago and I would always listen to this song after we came back inside from hanging out and would sit in preparation for the drop. It always felt as though it would take forever but we would all sit in silence to be careful not to interrupt it. After it would come, it seemed as though we all relaxed and for some reason, it felt like all of our worries were gone.
Wow, totally true i felt the same sensation, this song has something.. amazing
Brian Williams?
We would listen to this song in my friends minivan in high school and it took on some kind of sacred quality for us too. The build up is so good.
DookieMeister That is a very special feeling to feel among amigos
This song will always be one of my favorites, my best friend showed it to me the first time I tripped on acid, I don’t think I’ve felt anything more surreal than that. R.I.P Jake I’ll always love you
This is by far the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard.
For it's simplicity, it's jaw-dropping how much emotion this brings from me. I listen to rap music, and I've heard a lot of lyrics that have impacted me a lot, but this instrumental is the pinnacle of "words need not be said."
I totally agree. I feel like they do the opposite of what most artists do; elaborate. Instead, they simplify to one abstract word for the title and make the instrumental take a journey.
I like noises
You know people are full of shit, right. You seem like you have a good head on your shoulders, don't get caught up in feelings.
The song stimulates the memory to point where it becomes overwhelming. The beat is calm and slowly builds, making one think of a time when things were simple. When you were a child and all you thought about was cookies and naps, that can describe the beginning. Then as the tension builds you think of your teenage years and the madness that followed with friends and family. The climax brings about thoughts of becoming older and what maturity brought with it... All the emotions and the events...
wow... what an awesome narrative to this amazing track..... Both the track and your narrative still as meaningful as it was 12 years ago.
most underrated ratatat song
*****
Couldn't agree more. While I love this track, Sunblocks is easily the most underrated Ratatat track.
This song stays on repeat during my panic attacks and helps me a lot. I owe a lot to Ratatat!
❤
Grow up
@@charleslindbergh8222 …You really don’t know what is a panic attack, do you ?
@@cheesy4753 is made up feminine bs. Grow I
Ratatat keeps me going when times are tough
nice to come back every once in a while and pay a visit to the innocent inner child. we were just kids once, we didn't know any better but it was alright. we were where we had to be. shit happened and we made it anyway. we were so strong and i love you so much
and I love you right back for this comment.. you're right.
I've never read a better comment section. This song makes me the most nostalgic person, and like many other people here, it makes me happy and sad at the same time. It reminds me of a love I have/had and makes me fear of loosing it. But this song is much more than that, this song is love. This song is the definition of everything. Don't try to find a song more pure, there isn't one. I fucking love this. I do not know what I'd do without this song or this band. Thank you, genuinely from the bottom of my heart for making the music you guys do. It has not only saved me, but so many people out there as well.
This comment deserves a BIG like!
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This song reminds me of driving home after breaking up with my first love, and tearing up like the mama's boy that I am.
Ryan Morin dude, i feel you
Kristen dude you're awesome
Go back into the past, find where you lost yourself, remember the feeling, grab your self's hand and bring him to the present. All in 5 minutes and 38 seconds.
Absolutely perfect.
***** I do not have Autism, friend, I'm high as a kite.
forgotaboutbre Both, in my case.
forgotaboutbre sounds like some nlp shit
Cory Norfleet NLP? where's the linguistic part? This song doesn't have words.
In 2013, "Cherry" was the song my daughter and future son-in-law chose for their wedding procession song. Their core friends (at first surprised) all started grinning, and the older generation (older than me, that is) looked confused and frightened. So, definitely a win-win. The bride entered at the beginning of the crescendo (3:35).
+Jonathan Cardon that sounds beautiful :- D
+Jonathan Cardon I'd love to see that procession! Sounds like a beautiful event!
+Mikes Chinhair Oh you poor thing...
Mikes Chinhair youve gotta be at least 60 years old with the look of that white hair and ur trolling on the internet?
+Jonathan Cardon i agree sounds fucking stupid lol
I first listened to this song when I was about 10 with my brother. I’m 18 now, and here I am back at this song.
Someone please remind me to come back here.
Always come back bro🤙💪
@@tescovaluerice7321 thank you brother ✊
this is ur reminder 👏
I've always pictured this song to be someone on their deathbed. They reflect on their life and replay memories with fondness. Realizing how every matter seemed important, but it was really trivial. Thinking of the beauty of their life lived. Thankful for the love shared and time spent with family. The climax is the great realization and final goodbye. The fade out is accepting their fate and slowly letting go, releasing themselves and passing on.
That's great!
@@AudioDregs I really appreciate you checking the comments even after 14+ years since this video was released! If I'm not mistaken, it's the Mast brothers that run this record label, right? Eric and Evan, with Evan being the bassist for Ratatat.
hey I'm 17 years old, I think this is one of the songs that I'll play on repeat in bad moments til forever, stay strong lil gurl, in one way or another you'll always make it right love ya
your dreamy and stupid past self
This is pure emotion. It goes superbly with any memory of journey you've stored in your thoughts.
For me, it's quebec in winter, walking knee-deep in the snow, hand in hand w/ my friend.
And truth is, it never gets old. Rare enough to mention.
This is the most beautiful song I've heard in a long time. First time I've broken down into tears from a song. But it wasn't just the song, it was the people here.
I haven't heard this song in well over a decade, but it brings back incredible memories: you and I would l curl up in my bed next to each other listening to ratatat (this was our favorite song), the blue LED on my computer would illuminate the bedroom and bring about an almost dreamlike ambiance - your smile is forever burned into my mind... miss you Tania Saunders 10/15/07
One time, about 6 months ago, I decided to take a few large hits of dmt, put my headphones in, and picked this song. My trip was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful, the closed eye visuals I was getting were woven with the music in such an incredible synchronization. It showed me the birth and death of the universe, all the workings inside, and my little soul, and how I fit right into the plan. The trip ended with me disintegrating right into this cosmic orange flowy river, which contained everything that ever was. Such an incredible experience, and I’ve never looked at this song the same ever since. One of my favorite songs I’ve ever heard, and that’s saying a lot
@@tommyschlaaang of course not, I already loved the song, but I had decided to combine two things that I love. But yes the end of the song concluded the trip, it’s kinda crazy how that happens!
My dad has always played Ratatat when I was growing up, so buying these songs and listening to them for a first time in a while made me happy. I've imagined this song in my head when having my first kiss, during my first heartbreak, and I know I will hear it all the time in the future, also. Thank you, Ratatat, for making memories along with me.
This song always gives me the vibes Like the kind that make you contemplate suicide but appreciate life in a sense where you come to an understanding of complete equivalent respect for one another.
+Israel Aviña I agree. In my experience this song opens me to all of the repressed pain of humanity, which at times has brought me to contemplate similarly as you have. But there is no void behind the pain, just the simple bliss of a soothing lullaby, which in my opinion, is a metaphor for God's love for humanity, which man does not realize, because of all of the painful karma he clings to.
+forgotaboutbre or its just a song.
+CPCondor it's a pretty good song tho
CPCondor What does it mean when you say it is "just" a song?
forgotaboutbre You are going so in depth with it. A bit too in depth.
This song doesn't need words, the sound of the music just expresses beyond that.
Man this song's emotional value is priceless. Every time the goosebumps the tears ahh.
The rollercoaster of life in one song
I watched this when my trip first started and the rays started leaving my tv and spilling onto all the walls in my room and I felt so at ease with the world. Thank you
still just as good 8 years later.
A song that is forgotten now but its gonna always be in my heart because this was my best friends favorite song but last year she took her life... 😔💔🕊
the song is not forgotten. You will always remember your friend and by association will remember the song as well.
The first time I heard this song was live; I was with some friends and people I didn't know that well. This was maybe 8-10 years ago in a cramped university club in St. Louis. I didn't really want to be there but was along for the ride. Whatever. About 3:35 I danced with the most beautiful woman in the room, and a drunkish commitment later meant the best 6 years of my life since, which I have regretted losing blah blah. I'm not here to preach. This is an amazing song that produces memories and feeling and dare I say it some hope. I miss every second of it. ~ cheers
I used to live in a small town in Southern California called Cherry Valley. I discovered this song driving down the main road in/out of town, was so zen with the moment. To my left was a field of cows happily grazing in the foothills, on my right a LARGE freshly started under construction block housing complex. I shed a tear for the field, knowing the other side of the road with the cows will someday have the same fate. This song and that moment were grouped together in my brain. Every time I hear it I see those happy cows grazing in the sun.
Alas this was any years ago, and now there is a LARGE block housing complex where those cows used to be. Progress :/
I know it seems weird, But, but I grew up with theses guy's songs, I'm still young, all their sht still such a BOP like 12 yrs later!!
Would love to know other bands that do similar stuffsss?
To me this is a perfect deathbed song. We reflect on our life from sunrise to sunset. Along the journey we relive all of the triumphs and tragedies. This is a highly reflective song. It's very sad and very happy at the same time, if filled with regret can leave one feeling very mixed up inside, happy and thankful to remember and feel the good times, but also sad and heavy and dissappointed and upset with the mistakes I've made to hurt the good times.
Exactly how I feel
this song is clearly about the dilemma between jubilation and euphoria. the dialectic rythm and the contrast of our daily entities are produced through this qualm but not leaving yourself hybridized. it is sad and dissapointing that we live through this on a daily basis but it's a pain to have the happy moments of our lives and have daily recollections of our thought out past. you can also tell by the colors in the end that life is a constant build up of defecation discharge and animosity and then a diametric outburst at the end of our minimal euphoric existence. but can you recall this existance when death is upon us? maybe yes but you must not know not with a vernacular substance.
just kidding. I just shit these words out of my butt hole to show how smart I am.
chance williams Decent effort
oh my god dude this would be a perfect final song for kid cudi's man on the moon iii
Thank you for fucking ruining it.
I always feel uplifted after hearing this song.
dont know if i want this played at my wedding or my funeral
What's the difference?
wow man so dep
In one you get married and in the other, you're dead.
weddings are just funerals with cake
Why not both?
This song is such an integral part of me growing up. It held me through a lot of pain and comforted me through overwhelming sadnesses.
As a major Ratatat fan, this has always been my absolute favorite song. I've tried to explain what it feels like to listen to it as an electronic embrace not unlike what you feel as a child being comforted by your mother, and a repeated mantra that says, simply, "Everything... everything is going to be alright."
Today I found some comments from other fans who also get the feeling of a comforting hug from a 'robot mother', and there's something profound in that, I think. Total strangers from who knows what walk of life experiencing something like that from listening to this music. Happy, sad, hopeful, devastated, connected - just... awesome in the literal sense.
We all need more Ratatat in our lives!
This song is so innocent. When listening to this I get butterflies.
Absolutely love this song! I listen to it when I want to feel happy and calm. I've also had amazing meditations while listening to this song!
This song is just crazy, it makes me happy and sad a t the same time i don't know how to explain this sensation when i'm listenning to it just wow.. Thank you for made it.
I just found back my ''last fm '' account that I used from 2007 to 2010 more or less.
And this was my second most listened song ever.
This is a NICE BIRTHDAY GIFT I am doing to myself finding this song back. Memories of love and beauty !
How and why does a song without words bring you to tears every time?
Music is a language without words.
It's amazing how complex this song sounds yet how easy the basic melodies are to play, what a great group
Simple tones, carefully orchestrated, evoke complex emotions
It’s because of the complex layers and harmonies that gradually build upon each other into a crescendo of greatness!
There's a word for this ... sublime
When the guitar layer comes in at 4:06 I know that Ratatat is one of the greatest bands I have ever heard. Good music is good music, you can just tell by your gut.
i have to confess this is my favorite song ever! Thank you Ratatat
Been listening to this song almost everyday since it dropped on TH-cam so many years ago. Never gonna get tired of the feeling it gives me. Amazing piece of work.
This song makes me feel all the emotions.
That drop is heavenly..
This makes my skin cry and my eyes have goosebumps
Oooooh very nice
This was of my friend go to songs when would hang out and smoke. Everytime I hear it, I can hear his contagious life and dumb jokes. R.I.P miss you man.
I almost forgot about this gem... So nostalgic to come back to it, lots of old memories and feelings coming back
I will always come back to this song. Always.
As I read about what's happening in the world, about the pain and suffering of so many people less fortunate than me often due to things my own government does, I can't stop the flow of hot tears of rage and sadness.
This song brings me back and reminds me of my love for my family and how there is still a small bit of good, even if its just a baby sleeping on my chest while I listen. I don't know why this song calms me so. Thank you Ratatat.
Federal workers aren't all that. They don't know what it's like to perform under pressure. They live in a bubble.
I'm drunk listening to this for the first time and this is fucking beautiful. peace be to everyone listening.
lol yea meh too. I've been drinking all day.
Same guys, on 8 or sho shots and I'm not a big drinker, just discovered this and I'm crying. They're good tears, but goodluck guys and godspeed.
Jimmy dude man bro you will never be forgotten at least until the day I pass on too.
12 years of this and when i listen this song its like the first time. One of the most sweet and peaceful melodies i ever heard. Thank you so much Ratatat.
😛 sorry my english..
Looks like many beings being radiated from some kind of cosmic creative principle.
that too. But how they just disappear, and evolve in color over time..
The deathless face of the unborn mind.
that bit around the 3:30 mark when it's really quiet and then the music just explodes gives me goosebumps
5 years later, im still listening to this.
one of the best music I ever heard that fully blows my mind..
I clearly remember this first time I heard this song. Must have been summer or 2006 or so, soon after it came out, but before my brother moved out. Me and Kevin were big into sounds, and through him I was absorbing the music that makes me who I am today. So I get in his old standard civic to smoke a joint and cruise the countryside. He pulls of onto the dirt roads of the orchard, turns up the radio, and tells me to shut up until the next song is over. It still blows my mind every time
ughhhghh that sigh of relief finally i have found you
This song makes me think about the deeper things in life and existence.
Ratatat. From the bottom of my heart, I say: Thank You.
The counselors at the summer camp I went too would always wake us up with this song. It feels so special to me.
Bringing me back to a moment that will never be lived again, times that are now intricately stored away memories, softly whispering at the very depths of my mind only to appear again at sudden moments like listening to music that hadn't touched my slowly aging eardrums in too long. Nostalgia Nostalgia Nostalgia
Happiness and wistfulness all in one, and a wish for a time maschine.
I dont smoke, but this is still my favorite song. I cant even begin to describe how perfect it is.
my best friend showed me this song 12-13 years ago. he killed himself in front of me 7 years ago.
this song always reminds me of him and when we were kids.
I miss you buddy
Steven Avary sorry man.
That shit sucks, man. Life works in beautiful, fucked up ways, or often times just fucked up ways.
I can't even imagine the pain and loss you've gone through,, sorry to hear x
hey feel your pain and I just want to say.
hang in there everything will work out
don't think about it too much
please don't be too sad from time to time
think of this song as a happy pleasant thing
and always find people to talk to when you feel sad or lonely
things like that aren't supposed to happen and when they do its best not to dwell on them
please live happily and don't think about it too much
if you ever see this know there are people looking after you
you're not alone
and I'm sure he misses you too and he will look forward to seeing you again
please have a good life -kite
Sorry bro I lost my fiance 4 yrs it will be on the 6th n she took her life in front of me by taking drugs I feel ur pain bro send me a message anytime try not to dwell on it yeah but I'm still hurt almost 4 yrs later but that's life's fucked up way of working I guess hang in there bro
Still in love with this song 15 years later. I always thought it was like an orgasm: slowly coming up then calming a moment and then explosive pleasure.
I feel less alone seeing the comments, this song speaks to many minds, in an inexplicable way, but it's beautiful.
Sometimes I get really depressed man, coming back to this song really helps me calm down.
what absolutely delectable vibes
I remember listening to this song before youtube which is a trip but this song reminds me of cherish which i highly doubt she will see this back then was hella fun! if your young and read this enjoy youth lol..
Will do! 👍
Some of the comments on this song are giving me the feels [even more].
I remember watching this, peaking on LSD and how intense the feeling I had when the sequence around 3:33. It felt like being blasted with eternal light and incredible emotion. Then again, I was high.
+Henry St Louis The exact same thing happened to me! its one hell of a ride...
+Henry St Louis I've never had LSD, nor ever will. But could you describe the experience to me, for curiosity's sake?
+Henry St Louis Same thing happened to me, and I was sober as a bird.
+Martin Johnson why?
+Chris whoa hoa! This guy is ON it!
Always come back to this song. It brings about a special moment of a day that probably never existed, for it was just too good to be true. Even so, that day and this song...I love you. Thank you~
this song keeps me alive at this point
So basically I play this song in my saxophone section in band at my high school whenever we have a really important show and it honestly makes us slay and make everything seem the best it can be. This song has literally made me feel at peace with life and death at the same time and has brought me extremely close with the other members of my section (I know this sounds like /really/ cringey lmao)
Could you post a video of you playing it on the saxophone ? It’d be perfect
THIS IS THE MOTHERSHIP CALLING OUT TO ALL THE LOST CHILDREN: YOU CAN COME BACK HOME NOW!
This makes me nostalgic and happy and so sad all at once
and i think 3:34 was the best moment of my life
Sanjana Ahmed
Cherry is the best feeling ever. If we all got together and decided that Cherry is the new religion everybody would be very good. Instead of making war, somebody will step up, and say, "Hold on, let's make Cherry" , and then everything will make sense from every point of view at once because everyone making Cherry is all about the journey to the heart of self.
Hmmmmmm
+Sanjana Ahmed You're too pretty to be sad! I know the feeling.
+Sanjana Ahmed JOHN CENA! +Jack0834
eso es bonito
That is what happens when you exhale a bong toke of DMT actually 0_0
This comment made me cry tears of joy... Thank you.
I love to just close my eyes and listen to this. The song takes you on an adventure.
Apparently I'm late to the game here, but geezus, this song is just so so dope.
+Benjamin Herzberger best song ever man
+Benjamin Herzberger there is no late. Only later.
@@estebanstrangiato dude this comment is gold
I FOUND IT AGAIN
I had this stuck in my head all of a sudden but couldn’t remember the name of the song or who it was by. Sure enough, I finally find it in my favorites.
For me, this entire song symbolizes the end of one age and the beginning of another, and that crescendo at 3:34 is where that transition occurs.
I always picture it as me walking through a tunnel before the crescendo. I can hear this roaring, this swell of anticipation...and as I step out of that tunnel and into the bright lights, that crescendo hits, and I see this crowd around me. I feel their energy. And more than anything, I just want to yell, to roar like a lion. I’m walking to the cage/ring to fight.
It’s this mesmerizing sequence I’ve constructed in my own mind, and it feels like a movie scene. I’m pretty emotionally-driven, so music like this gets to me...
If I where to be completely honest, this is one the few songs that has brought a smile to my lips, I love it
I looked at the comments, and I am so happy to see that I am not alone.
This song brings back feelings and memories for me. As is the same case with many other Ratatat songs. I began listening to them while living in nyc in 2008, and used to listen to them heavily in 2011 while living in Brooklyn.
I remember when I was living in nyc, I loved this band ,because it invoked nostalgia in me from when I was younger. It made me feel the joy of being young, and hanging out with friends, playing Nintendo or just living life. Now when I listen to it, I feel both anjoy and sadness, of not only missing my childhood as I’ve gotten older, but also missing the time I had in New York.
I guess the moral I’ve learned from these feelings is to live in the now, and cherrish every moment.
Again, glad to see there are people with similar feelings. Peace to you all!