@@Frog154 Dude, your comment blew my mind. It's true, every experience is experienced only once. And after that, it's only immediately archived by what your mind is capable of storing and revealing to you. Insane to think about.
Is that the purpose of life? Not the ultimate one, according to quran " I have created humans and jinn only to worship (me) "[Allah/God] Celebrate God as the Christians would say. Praise be to Allah (God) is how the frist verse of the first chapter of the quran starts it is a kind of celebration. Worship is to submit to him and love him. You experience life and you see the beauty but evil comes up a lot in humans for the most part but god through nature test us a child with cancer, people born with handicapes, whatever that is god testing us with difficulties, being poor being sick being fearfull.. What are going to do do we accept it be patient and be thankful or stray away and become nihilistic that is the only alterative if you don't have a à purpose that is linked to this higher power you are doomed with nihilism.
reminds me of something robert anton Wilson said; akin to "looking for meaning in life is like looking to drink from a river on a map; you need to find a real river."
I used to listen to the song while feeding my oldest daughter in the middle of the hour when she was just an infant. We would fall asleep together for a time in the rocking chair. She was such an amazing person in so many ways. She in college now and she still is an amazing person .... and I miss her.
A couple weeks ago my father died at the age of 49, he died because of doctor’s mistake. I am 25, my younger brother 23, we feel like we’ve lost not only a father but a real man who made us good persons. This song and video style is not only about music it’s about your life experience (like somebody says in the comments before) - I remember how my father took us to the forest and was teaching us how to find a path and how to feel comfortable alone among the nature. I think these memories will always be in my head until I’ll die. Music can make your emotions. Wish you a happy life.
I hate it when people say “why do people listen to this, it’s so boring” like seriously, have you ever felt peace in your life? More people need to appreciate this kind of music.
I'm 46 years old and I can say without a doubt that this comment section and song is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on the internet. I cried while reading a lot of your comments. I want you to know that you are blessed and loved, and I just don't have the right words to express how moved I am.
Hello you beautiful soul! Most of the times we are lost, no touch what's inside. I'm 30 years old, struggling with depression and anxiety past 10 years. Now i'm on right medicine and fighting forward! Now i'm listening this song at the beach and everything feels great. Thank you Dana for being here.
Just when I thought the comment section of Aphex Twin's Stone in Focus was the sanctum of the internet I stumble upon this one here... so fucking glad you're all here.
Yesterday my grandmother fell asleep. Today she never woke up. She used to tell me a story how her mother passed away. One day she brought her food and the next day she found her laying in the bed with her hands together under her face like kids do when they sleep. Her mother was 99 at the time. Today my grandmother was lying in the bed in the same exact position at the age of 98. I am grateful that she went so peacefully while dreaming. Grateful for the countless memories and for the infinitive love she was always sharing. I love you yiayia. Have a great trip. One day we'll meet and I'll hug you again.
im envious that you were there for her at that moment. i wasn''t there for mine. with all she done for me, i know i owed it to her to be. at least she stroked my back one last time as i was coming out of a dream.
I had the same experience just a couple weeks back...i brought my nan some food and it seemed she had passed away gently in her sleep💞 im glad it happened peacefully
I found a stray cat the other night. It had been hit by a car sometime before I'd gotten there and left in front of a gas station's door, swaddled in blankets by some passing soul. I went home, got a box and towels, and drove it to the local 24/7 pet hospital. I couldn't afford to take care of it but they would have taken the poor thing off my hands as best they could. Trying to think of the most soothing music possible I decided to play this on repeat as I made the long drive and I kept telling the kitty how brave it was, how it wouldn't be hurting soon, how pretty it was. When I got there I found out that it had passed away sometime on the drive over there. It had no microchip and it was a youngster. It was a boy. I named him and got a pawprint of him that I will soon frame. It's a small thing; a small cat in a small corner of the world that probably never had a human to love or a positive interaction in its life, but that experience has been haunting me for the last few days and I keep coming back to this song thinking of it. I named him Victory there at the end. I hope I can see you again one day, brave boy.
Man, i was a little sad and listening to this beautiful song for the first time and your comment made me cry so damn loud. You're a kindly soul and i hope live a happy life, you deserve it. Blessings from a random stranger in Mexico
I hope you understand that you are a very pure and kind soul and that is sometimes a rarity in the world we live in. I have a similar story about a cat that we picked up off the street over year ago. We wanted to keep it but it must've also been hit by a car since its tail and paw were broken. It crushed me and my girlfriend but the poor kitty also didn't make it once he got to the vet. We were going to keep him if he had made it. His last moments were filled with love. I remember the people that drove by as we picked up the cat off the street told us how we were angels for doing what we did. We need more people in the world like you. People like you will save us someday. Please never stop being who you are. Much love, brother!
when i die i will have this on a tape in a walkman with headphones connected to solar panels so i can listen to this song from the other side whenver the sun is shining.
I came to listen to this song on the 15th of october. It would have been my 15th anniversary with my wife. we both loved RDJ. She took her own life on 21st april, 2019. I wanted to share this to let you know, it gets better. It always does. Don't give up. There is someone out there who needs you around. I love you, Hiroka. I'll see you soon.
heard this on the radio last night 8 minutes before midnight. on the classical music station of all places... they played the whole song. ive already heard it dozens of times before. it's hard to explain why this hits so hard to people who don't already get it. im in a pretty low place in my life. 22, unemployed, crippling anxiety, dropped out of college after 40 minutes because of anxiety. best friend left me a month ago. im not religious, but hearing this suddenly playing through the crappy mono speaker on the thirty-year-old FM radio at night made me feel like someone or something is out there, saying "i hear you. i see you." and for eight minutes, i felt grounded, and felt like i'm really here, and alive, despite everything.
Hello there stranger, I hope you remember that we are all in this together, life can get difficult at times but beauty persists, and I am more than sure than are you are a beautiful and lovely soul. Take care of yourself and never give up on your dreams.
A few weeks ago, one of my closest friends took his life. He showed me Aphex Twin and some of his ambient music. We liked this track. We also enjoyed the beauty of ambient music and really appreciated it as a genre. I hope you're listening to this Kyle, wherever you are now- Love Jon. And stay strong everyone.
I deeply sorry for your loss,losing someone you relate too in unique ways is something people in a bad headspace never get over(bad meaning self destructive and negative).I hope your thriving and showing your freind that his absence will only strengthen your drive,much love
@@Nicholas44566 thank you so much for your kind message Nick, I am trying to do exactly that in his absence. I hope you and your loved ones keep strong also. Much love !
I’m listening and reading all the comments with tears running down my face. You’re all so beautiful. Thank you for being so open, loving and compassionate. I’m with you.
It's amazing how hard it hits. No drums, no lyrics. It literally brings out all your deepest thoughts and memories. Every time I hear these chords, I fly into another dimension.
Last night I went climbing with my friend. We had been talking and laughing the whole evening, putting on stupid voices and making jokes about the other climbers and the place where we climb. On the drive home I put on a saved playlist of house music, a lot of the tracks are high energy and I wasn't expecting this piece of music to come on, I had honestly forgotten that this was saved on my phone. As the beauty of this music weaved its way from the speakers and into our ears we fell quiet for the first time all evening. A strange kind of peace washed over us and we were content to simply listen and share the silence. It was a special moment. Thank you.
@@juno3242 Thank you for your comment Will. I saw what you had posted further down and I hope that things have got better for you. It takes courage to want to open yourself up in order to change. I wish you all the best. Big love x
I was watching a video about rhubarb pie and wanted to know what rhubarb looked like in its un-pied form. So I searched "rhubarb" in youtube and this video was the first result. What a wonderful accident.
The biggest mistake I made was listening to this song while on a ride way home during a fall season. I looked out the window and just stared at trees with variety of colors. Some were red, some were orange, some were yellow, some were green This song alone already made me emotional, but looking at these trees really did it for me. This song had you thinking, and by staring at these trees it made me think so much. I was thinking about the beauty of nature, the beauty of fall season. There so much beauty into this world that we just aren’t aware of. No one takes the time of their day to truly appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. We’re all so used to it. As I was looking at those trees while this song was playing, I started tearing uncontrollably. I tried to stop myself but since I’m an over thinker, I just can’t. Life truly is beautiful. Nature is extraordinary beautiful. Music gives you an emotion that you can’t put in words. Neither does nature. There so much beauty that surrounds us that we simply just aren’t aware, even if it’s as little as simple trees with colors. I wish I can hike to see more beautiful views, more beauty in nature. Please take your time in day to see the beauty we have. Even if it’s so simple as clouds in sky, birds flying, butterflies flying, and a simple tree. Look at the sunset for hours, look at the moon in the night sky full of stars for hours. I know it sounds boring but do it. You’ll really figure out how beautiful this world is
Heard GTA got a new radio station for Frank Ocean and I'm a big fan. Dont even play gta 5, decided to listen to the full tracklist, found aphex twin - iz us, then i found this one. I love this chill electronic type of music, Bonobo is one of my favorite artists and I am so glad i found Aphex Twin and now have his whole discography to discover!
My childhood best friend died at 21. His dad died 8 years later from drinking. I’ll never forget seeing his apartment in shambles when we had to clean it up. None of it will ever sit right with me. This song takes me back almost 20 years. Three of us riding around in his Monte Carlo, I thought he was the coolest guy alive. Only father figure my group of friends had that looked out for us and cared. All I have now from them are pictures, a pool stick, and a lot of memories. Take care of yourself and enjoy every moment. Don’t let down the person in the mirror.
It's so comforting returning to this song, the video and comments. I got accepted to my dream uni and i'm graduating high school this year. I want this song to be the closure of my rough, and meaningful high school years. So many ups and downs it's brilliant how much I've grown and became stronger through each mistake. I've faced bullying, rejection, lies and more, and i managed to get through them by standing up against these problems. I'm grateful for the friends that I've made, I'm grateful that i've discovered myself, i'm grateful that i've experienced my first relationship, i'm grateful for being alive. I know that in college, everything will get better. It's only just the start of living life. Whoever you are, if you're going through something horrible, I believe in you and trust that you can overcome any sort of grief. If i could pull through my worst years as a teenager, by knowing my worth, so can you. I believe in you. Never give up, you're only just starting to live life. I love you.
Lost mine too on xmas eve after 6 years battling cancer. She's in a better place now without any pain or suffering. Hope everyone is doing well and I pray for each and everyone of you out there. Stay strong,never give up and always smile. It sure helps 🙂
It is unlikely that anyone will read this or care, but I really hope that my life will get better soon. This song gives me hope, that I can better myself as a person and open myself up emotionally. I love you all.
I read this and I do care. I recently had went to a club out in Miami by myself to break out of my comfort zone, to meet new people and find new textures to add to my life without depending on a group of people to help ease me into conversations. I am going back to college and leaving one of my jobs, I have been struggling my entire life to find some sort of answers for so many things that troubled me. It almost feels as if things are starting to go in the right direction for me finally, EVEN THOUGH I had so desperately wanted these things and tried so hard early on in life. I wanted to tell you I met this guy in the club who poured his heart out to me about his problems and how alone he felt, he came to the club to be around people but it is all anonymous to him and no one cares is what he said. no one understands him even though he wants to so desperately express himself and make people truly understand him through out life, he puts on a face and hides behind it, much like most people. We all are struggling with ourselves, But you can and will find a better way for yourself and emotionally find yourself. I love you too.
My younger brother committed suicide last weekend by overdosing on something. He was found with headphones on, presumably listening to something. This is his youtube account. He made a playlist containing 6 songs that was edited the day he passed. This is one of the 6 songs. With the method he used, he was dead after about 30 minutes, probably unconscious around 12 minutes. I like to think that it was peaceful for him with his music on. I love you Darius, I'll miss you everyday for the rest of my life..
I am so sorry about your loss, I hope it gets better for you. Cherish everything good that comes your way and live the life he couldn’t. Merry Christmas ❤️
i'm on the post-operatory period of an ear surgery where i could lost my hearing, and this was one of the songs that I played before and after the process. words can't describe how grateful i am for hear it again and for all the care that aphex music brought me in this last year of my life. it feels unearthly how music can connect us so deep, like a common root for the entire humanity. love u all, take care of yourselves.
This track instantly takes me back to the loneliest time in my life. I can’t describe how wretchedly sad and isolated I felt at the time. The music is a permanent time stamp of those days, and important to me as a low water mark, reminding me of how much has changed during the past twenty years. I’m thankful that this exists, for there is nothing else from that era that serves as such a stark reminder. It feels almost like a form of time travel, and is such a shocking change in my psyche the moment those first five notes play. If you’re having a hard time right now, hang in there, things will change.
time machine, shit, I wonder how I'll feel listening to this 20 years from now bc I'm nearing the end of high school and I associate this track with blissful times with friends (whom I don't really see much these days bc of the rona :/)
Saturated Neō Wax I’m 26. Not too much older than you, still young, but with a few more years under my belt. Many songs you listen to now will become fossilized in a way with the passage of time. Many of my favorite songs, ones I listened to when I was your age, now carry the memories of those earlier days. They’re like an artifact from a different era, something from the past, capable of taking me right back to those moments with all of the accompanying sounds, emotions, feelings, and more. I hope your story is a good one, friend. Enjoy these young years while you still have them.
this comment remined me of a dream I has a few weeks ago. it was one of those dreams that seemed realer than realty itself. I was in a plane flying over a stormy sea. the sky was black and the waves where higher than skyscrapers. I though to my self "how could I possibly survive this". then I looked up to see 100s planes in a v formation flying overhead and instead of con trails behind them spread clear blue skies. then in the light of the brightest summer sky I saw that same ocean and the same waves and it was the most beautiful thing id ever seen. the sun reflecting , refracting, and diffusing through Himalayan sized mountains of water was breath taking.
Tears on my eyes. Don’t try to listen this at 4am while overthinking, its dangerous and also filled with emotions. This isn’t just music, its a life, because it makes you think about everything in few minutes and nobody can find words to describe the level of this art. It’s interesting who was that person who created these sounds, its straight from heaven. We should be so thankful to god that we witnessed Aphex Twin. Absolutely masterpiece.
Doing it now... 😔 It's odd and bittersweet. I think about everyone and everything I've lost. Tears come pouring but it feels so good to reflect on my awesome past with awesome people that helped shape me to be who I am today. Such a song... Wow.
March 18th 2023 exactly almost 2 years ago i found myself listening to this song in my bedroom, so alone and isolated from everyone i know it was a hard to time to be alive for me but i know one day if i pull through something great would happen, no matter how long it takes. At the time there was this girl, i liked her something about her is very amusing to me and i couldnt help but to eventually crushing on her. I knew i was at a very low point in my life so i knew i had to get myself together and change for the better, and i did very slowly. After a while i decided to tell her that i liked her, little did i know shes also in a low point so i wait, and i waited and i waited and i waited. And in the end she eventually accepted me and have the courage to go on with me. And now today as this song played in the background, ive never felt such intimacy before with another human being. I learned to love, as much as i did lost. I will try my best to keep what is us as us. Im happy now and i never felt happier, i love her.
just when i thought i couldnt cry anymore, this tune makes me think of you and the fun times we had. Forever in my heart babe. forever in my heart. Jay..17/02/70 -12/04/19
I love the concept of you reading my comment. Just know that in this space of time I am thinking of you, and me doing so is forever immortalized within this comment. I love you all so very much. The human race is such an amazing, twisted thing... and I love that you and I are a part of it. Unified.
I love the way your brain works. I love that you’re sharing love, for you are loved. I hope you’re conquering life’s struggles and continuing to see the beauty in it 🖤
I used to listen to this song constantly when depression hit me. after years of just surviving I went to psychotherapy and it changed my life forever. Now I'm slowly tasting my life. Just like cats do with paws on unknown ground. Carefully, with patience and focus. And boy I'm crying. It's the first time for me to just be happy to be here and now with myself. I feel like it's the first time I'm in safe place. I made peace with myself. I'm no longer fighting. I still recover but it's stated to feel good. I have never felt such a joy. And I can't believe it's just starting. It's like mania for me just to feel safe and good with myself. And this song also changed for me. It's now giving me a hope. I survived. I made this. Now I can just sit and stare at clouds and be happy just because I'm here and now with all me.
I had a very similar experience to you. I had been depressed for years in a deep dark hole, I started therapy and anti depressants, and I was staring at the sunset, the clouds moving along listening to lichen and I was in tears, as I was finally free. It feels incredible to share this moment of likeness with you.
This song healed my inner child. I closed my eyes and thought of myself as a child… walking up to me… I gave her the biggest hug she always needed. I assured her that she wasn’t alone, she wasn’t worthless and so on. The most important, I said she was loved. I love her and I’m so proud of her that she came this far. That I came this far. I put myself first for her. I am my first priority. My therapist told me to do this once I came home. When I was done I opened my eyes and saw that I was crying without realizing. I recommend anyone to do this. I love you earthling, whoever you are.
I’m dreading the day that this video gets deleted or taken down. The song and video are beautiful in and of themselves but this comment section is one of the brightest corners of the internet, a kind of refuge for my soul when I want a break from the toxic storm all around us. I wish I could save every single comment, and tell each and every one of you how thankful I am for you. The most interaction we will ever have is reading a few words on a screen, but I hope you all have wonderful lives, truly.
last year was one of the worst years of my life, I was depressed, uninterested in the things I loved doing and had no friends. This year has turned around and I've never been happier to be alive. Do not give up. I am so glad I didn't.
Everyone has pretty much already pointed out something about this track that makes us nostalgic. But do you realize how crazy it is that so many people feel the same way? How a few repeating chords of music are able to give each of us memories of a simpler time, even though we are all vastly different people of vastly different personalities and ages, along with having vastly different memories. That is amazing to me.
I was just thinking the same about another track earlier. It's fascinating. Some tracks just make people go into a reflective mood. The repeating theme seems to be one of loss. I'd be interested to see if this is cross cultural, and I don't mean across cultures within the sphere of developed consumer culture nations, I mean wider cross cultures. Did we learn to associated this kind of sound with nostalgia or is it innate? I'd like to see how people in remote regions of the planet would receive this.
i will forever hold this song and this comment section in my heart. even though i don't know and probably will never know you all, i'm glad you were all able to share comfort messages and life stories here. thank you all so much. and thanks to Richard for creating one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.
This song makes me think of my grandpa. Growing up being his only grandson we were inseparable. I was his pride and joy and he was my biggest inspiration and hero. When I got older I ended up getting in a lot of trouble around 18. After that whenever I would see him I could tell he was ashamed of me. Something was different and I could tell by the way he looked at me that our relationship would never be the same again. Later he would get dementia and continually ask my grandmother where I was at. When I came to visit he wouldnt recognize me and still ask where I was. It was as if he was looking for my younger self who was no longer there. I never had a chance while he was still coherent to tell him how sorry I was and how much he meant to me. Moral of the story, say what needs to be said to whomever NOW. No matter how hard it is to say. Tomorrow is never promised.
This music. It runs back to 2013, my little enchanted box of a room I had as a student in Manchester. The view on the empty basketball square. The late evening in the campus library, everywhere smelt like moist wood with personality. Someone left an old hard cover book on the table. Earplugs in, while this was playing- I open and read a verse on random pages, I will never forget it: "Within us, inside us a battle rages". This message carried even more intensity in the middle of a silent studious yet eloquent library.
My wife is about 2 months from giving birth. I chose this song for my baby girl to listen to for her first song. I hope one day it'll mean as much to her as it does me.
One more month to go, buddy! Scary but also really beautiful to think that you're putting someone into existence, on this very planet, to experience all the things that there are. Taking this as her first song to listen to is an excellent choice, whether she'll like that type of music in the future or not. I wish ya'll all the luck and good things there are for your future of being a family.
Reminds me of the days back at my grandma’s house. She’s not dead or anything, but she lost the house because the bank kept overcharging her. I still dream about that place often. It makes me happy knowing I have those memories, but it also makes me sad knowing I won’t ever experience them again. The era of childhood is long gone for so many of us. If you’re still a kid, enjoy it as much as you can. I spent my entire childhood trying to grow up too fast, so don’t make the same mistake
I didn't mean to grow up fast. I had a lot of things thrown at me that made me. I'm 18 now and I feel I missed out on so much growing up. I was just trying to get through every day, most the time.
Human life is temporary, life isn't. It will flourish somewhere and it will. Sit with me for a while, as we stroll each other's untold thoughts and feelings. We are in this together, never separated, neither attached. We too will die someday, let alone give this moment our exchange of words and feelings. Let this moment and next be as it is. Let go. It'll be beautiful - just as creation itself, with you included in it.
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist. I composed, mixed and made the cover of this album over a year, thinking about the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness. It is a 28 minute album with two songs. I wanna be heard by people who connect with ambient music. Aphex was a big inspiration. (I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work.) This is very special. It means a lot to me. Enjoy. th-cam.com/video/Tp2P5S-txVI/w-d-xo.html
It's scary how much truth this track has. The truth about impermanence. About all the fuss that we create about our everyday lives is all but temporary. A small insignificant activity on a small insignificant unit of time. I hope whoever is reading this, I hope you have lived a good life. I hope you've met some good people. I am sure you must've lost some as well. I hope you've had beautiful realisations in all the changing seasons. I hope you must've overcome all your ordeals before they broke you completely. I hope the light swallows you with ease.
I remember exactly the first time hearing this song. I had spent the evening with 3 friends playing card games, the hours were passing by and the night was such a bliss... When we decided to go to sleep, one of the guys asked us if he could put some light music, and everyone agreed. Then this song came to us, and I still remember the calm and peaceful feeling I had this night. I miss this time a lot, but I'm so glad it happened once
This track is something else... I played it while going to my Grandmother’s grave.. she passed away in 2015... and On my way to her I just get a rush of memories and emotions.. I remember her laugh.. her smell.. her jokes.. she knew all my secrets..i was her favorite grandson :) I cried a lot while listening to this beautiful track.. truly amazing. Pray for my Grandmother please🙏🏻
Hasan Abdulla Hoping you see this comment because I have a very similar experience man. I’m 18 and my grandmother passed away suddenly of a stroke in October of 2019. My grandmother was the most important person I had the privilege of meeting, teaching me to be patient with impatient people and to be genuine.Up until she passed, we would talk for hours just the two of us about a multitude of things.I would always come over and sleep over at her place. My grandfather passed away in 2015, four years before her like your grandmother. She was heartbroken, but I always remember her telling me that whenever she passed, sooner or later she would be watching over me somewhere with him.I’m not a believer in god or anything per say, but I’ve had these vivid dreams were she is telling me everything will be quite alright, so maybe there is an afterlife somewhere who knows. I can definitely feel her presence.Like you, I was her “favorite grandson” and I figured I’d share my experience because it is so similar to yours, hope you’re doing well, we’ll all be okay ❤️
I was listening to the whole of SAW II and it moved on to Hanky (#4) as I read this. Gave the comment a whole other vibe to say the least. Bless you and grandmother.
This song makes me think hard about what really matters in life. My uncle lived on his own for most of his life and didn't have much money but he made it his purpose to live for others. He would constantly do favors for the older people in his street, cutting their grass or doing their shopping for them because they couldn't do it themselves anymore (in spite of his own age). One day he collapsed in his house and died. The street banded together and found him after they became concerned. They all said he was one of the kindest people they're ever likely to have met. I only met my uncle a couple of times but I still travelled hundreds of miles to his funeral where I was one of the only people that showed. To me, my uncle is the perfect example of what it is that matters. Not success or wealth, but kindness. We all die in the end, but so long as we're remembered for what is right, we have nothing to fear. R.I.P. My uncle, Norman. I still think about you and you still inspire me.
It does, we just go along with the flow over, and over and over.. and over again we just have trouble remembering it the universe is kind it gives you not two, but many chances.
My father passed away two days ago, and I have never missed anyone more than this. My heart is falling apart. There is no words to describe the pain I am currently living with. But he was so beautiful, and he was so smart, and so funny, and meant more than anything in the world to me. There was no telling how much pain he was going through. He was living with one kidney his whole life, and was very heavy, and his dialysis wasn't cutting it, and he was unable to make it through the fight, he fought so hard. I saw him just the other day, he was hurting so terribly, and I could tell, but I didnt think he would be gone just a few days later. I miss his voice already, I miss him calling me every day just to say goodnight or tell me about his day. It hurts so bad, but he was proud of me, and thats all that is getting me through the day. That is all I can think of. I love you Dad, you were my best friend, ever, forever, always.
Condolences for your father , I know what it's like to lose someone so near and dear to your heart. I lost my uncle back in 2012 and I still haven't gotten over it. As long as you have love in your heart for them they are never truly gone. I wish the best of luck to you on your journey my friend. Take care🕉
onenightinminsk Just like my favorite classical piece is still Gymnopedies No. 3 Orchestrated by Debussy more than a hundred years ago - the best songs never get old.
Beautiful ,your daughter sounds special. Join us as we do our little bit using our music to shine some light in these twisted and upside down times. May the land BE HEARD again. TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER.
Depression is a weird thing. I've been suffering from it ever since I was a child. It's not like anything people say it is. You dont feel sad; you feel this overwhelming sense of emptiness. Things don't have that childlike glow to them. You don't see the good in things, or the point in anything. All you see is a monotonous shade of gray coating everything. As you get older and it worsens you start to lose hope in everything, in yourself. Sometimes the sadness does come, but it is so unbelievably painful, like your brain is trying to push out of your skull. But you get addicted to it. Feeling pain is better than feeling nothing at all. You end up isolating yourself out of fear and disinterest. It forces you into being alone, and feeling alone even amongst other people. This song helps me in times of great pain, it feels like a warm embrace of someone who isn't there... the only sense of warmth and compassion I have felt in a long, long time.
this comment section is better than therapy. reading and feeling all of these stories people are telling makes me feel comfortable. i also love how everyone feels safe to tell their stories to unknowns. thank you for this.
It is interesting how ambient music like this, or William Basinski, brings out the real warmth and human vulnerability in people. No negative comments, just a sharing of life. The poetry in these comments is so moving..
Bruh i just randomly came across this video right after crying real hard. If you're wondering why i was crying, it's because i was thinking about how my dad was never there for me, and how much i want to be a good dad some day.
You will be a good dad, king. Keep that crown on top of your head. Even if no one else can see it, your children will. You'll be able too tell by the way they look at you. Be safe bro 🤜🏼🤛🏼
@@ItsMeTheMoon This song is the simple manifestation of the infinite sadness. Van Gogh's last words were "The sadness will last forever." And that's that.
Despite everything that happened, I truly hope you're healthy, at peace, and even in love again. You'll almost certainly never read this, but I wish you all the best.
I found this a few months ago. This song encapsulates the nostalgic wonder frequency I seek so often as well as nailing the sense of anguish I feel when I say goodbye to my past. It is despair and hope at the same time. It is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. It takes me to my bedroom window as a child looking out at the snow falling in the street light for hours. Sitting and staring at a stream as a teenager while trying to picture as much of the infinite as I could; every molecule of water, every blade of grass, every particle of sand. Standing on a beach in India with Abdul, who I had just met staring at the sunset on the Indian Ocean. No words were needed. The sensation I felt when I held my children for the first time. The moment my wife and I locked eyes at our wedding and I had to take a deep breath to keep from turning into a puddle. Looking at old photographs and connecting with those feelings, smells, sensations.... As well as taking me to the foot of my mother's hospice bed as I found her cold and arms spread wide 1 month and 16 days ago at my home. Two years of suffering over. I wailed at the ceiling. Making sounds I didn't know I was capable of making. The last time I spent time with my best friend who died of cancer at age 24 and how we just stared at each other in silence and cried, herself a shadow of the powerful woman I knew. We used to split bottles and tell each other our deepest darkest secrets and talk for hours. Now we had nothing left to say. To the floor of my daughter's room where I slept for weeks and drank and cried after her mother and her moved out. In my car as I drove away from the woman I loved sobbing because I finally accepted that she didn't love me anymore. Finally seeing my father at age 10 for the first time in 5 years and the feeling of standing in the empty room I was to sleep in on the floor with a blanket and a couch cushion and realizing that this visit was an obligation, he didn't care if I was there or not. He did not accept me. - This song is the all. Both sides of the sword. It is awe. The beauty in the suffering and the decay. Joy and it's relative price. - I played this for my wife last night and read comments to her. I wanted her to see how beautiful it was and I unexpectedly cried. My grief's path needed this. I miss you so fucking much Mom. I'm sorry and I love you.
This is beautiful. You're a beautiful person for experiencing life this way. A true person who isn't afraid to hurt and swim in it. Not everyone can do that. Stay strong. Sending you love.
I was scrolling through Disney+ when this song came on on spotify. I ended up watching the entirety of Car 2 on mute, no subtitles, with Rhubarb playing over and over again and I cried the entire time. Don't miss out on life, kids. Don't let the flame die out.
There are so many good ambient sounds on Yotube nowadays, and so many comments expressing a yearning for this kind of music. On that basis some of the people we don't talk to on the train, or in cafes, probably listen to the same sort of music and also wish they could find someone to share their love of it with. Reconnect with the humans we come across every day, but who we've trained ourselves to ignore.
Do you know what? I think this is just average people. The same ones making frustrated and angry comments elsewhere. Here we just find a little peace and remind ourselves for a second what's important.
My partner used to sit listening to this song, he'd tell me to read the comments as they were so beautiful. He passed away suddenly last month, I miss you so much B ❤️ My love will never fade.
Sorry for you loss. What a beautiful thing he left with you though coming back to listen to this masterpiece and read these comments. He’s still with you x
I'm so sorry for your loss. This song now is my daughter's song. I used to enjoy it differently but since she passed it just makes me feel her somehow. All the best to you, thanks for sharing your experience with us . Take care of yourself
Every once in a while I go there, I listen to the recording, read the comments, and every time after around five minutes of doing so I find myself crying and smiling stupidly. Usually I can't force myself to cry, so I return there from time to time to check if I'm still able to feel anything, and every time my tears give me some hope, hope that some day everything will be fine again and life will become bearable. I know there's a lot of people who are in pain here, and I just want them to know that life is about balance. One day you will wake up and realise that everything is perfect and you are as happy as you could ever be.
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist. I composed, mixed and made the cover of this album over a year, thinking about the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness. It is a 28 minute album with two songs. I wanna be heard by people who connect with ambient music. Aphex was a big inspiration. (I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work.) This is very special. It means a lot to me. Enjoy. th-cam.com/video/Tp2P5S-txVI/w-d-xo.html
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist. I composed, mixed and made the cover of this album over a year, thinking about the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness. It is a 28 minute album with two songs. I wanna be heard by people who connect with ambient music. Aphex was a big inspiration. (I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work.) This is very special. It means a lot to me. Enjoy. th-cam.com/video/Tp2P5S-txVI/w-d-xo.html
Hey, you reading this. I love you. We will likely never meet, but just know that someone, at least one person on this earth, living somewhere you'll probably never be, loves you for who you are. Just know that someone cares about you, personally, hoping that you make it out of whatever situation you're in alive and well. You are human, I am human. Is that not enough for love?
Love you too, good friend. Give kindness and love to all things; save the little bugs in your home, give the homeless guy some cash, reach out to your loved ones. We’re all scared and lonely creatures but we have the capacity to push back the darkness, even if it’s only a little bit.
15 today. Sitting in my room with a beer and this playing appreciating the good things and looking forward to the future. Hope you're all well, especially at the moment -Luke
Life is fucked. but there are little things that make it worth living still. like this kind of music, skateboarding, getting drunk and high with good friends, watching the sun rise, watching the sun set, family, etc
Life is precious. To all the young - take a deep breath. Live for the moment. Smell her hair, touch her skin. Your whole life in front of you. Enjoy it and be happy. It goes so fast. To anyone struggling right now, stay strong - “this too shall pass” - better times are ahead x
James stated that the sounds on Selected Ambient Works Volume II were inspired by lucid dreams, and that upon awaking, he would attempt to re-create the sounds and record them. He claimed to have natural synaesthesia, which contributed to this album.[7] James described the album as being "like standing in a power station on acid"; he continued that "if you just stand in the middle of a really massive one, you get a really weird presence and you've got that hum. You just feel electricity around you. That's totally dreamlike for me. It's just like a right strange dimension."[7]
I walked past a generator one day on my way to school and its humming harmonized with the song I was listening to (probably aphex or spacemen 3 I forgot)
“You will grow up, travel, and work. Over the years you will try to make sense of that happy-sad-full always-shifting life you were in, and when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.” - Claire A. Nivola
I used to listen to this on heroin and im 7 years clean from smoking black tar every day. This music gives me a free heroin high everytime i listen to it. There is hope. Sobriety is possible
I cannot find my original comment that I've posted almost a year ago. I heard this song while i was dealing with the mental anguish of my father's declining health. This song triggers intense sadness as well as peace in me. I take solace in that my father doesn't suffer any more. Forever in my memory
I remember listening to this song coming back from my great aunt's funeral. My tear-stained face was leaned against the window and the clouds looked just like the ones from this video I wasn't so sad over her death anymore. I felt this peace, as if the universe told me that my Aunty was going to be okay. Wherever she was in the universe, she was happy. I love this song so fucking much. It's just beautiful.
So recently I’ve been seeing this girl and she’s everything I could’ve asked for but it’s weird cause I remember at the end of last year I sat down with a good mate of mine and we were talking about if we had the perfect girl, what would she look like, how would she act and starting listing all there traits and fast forward 8 months later, I’m literally looking at her every time I see her. It still doesn’t feel real to me but man she’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me, I gave up on looking for anything and haven’t talked to anyone real in years but man after crossing paths with her, it’s all been worth the wait. Good things happen when you least expect it and take it from me, I wasn’t even looking at all and remember seeing her and she lit up the room and can still picture it from the night we met. Every time I’m with her, it’s like the whole universe goes quiet and it’s just me and her. I love you Ruby forever and always ❤
Oh yes, this is Aphex Twin. Either super weird or full of melancholy. And this track is one of my absolute favorites. I love the atmosphere and the simplistic floaty way our world is portrayed in here. It's bringing realisation of how connected we are. And we need this, especially in these hard times. Take care everyone! I really enjoy reading all of these comments.
I’m going through the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through at the moment and aphex twin is about all I can listen to right now. I didn’t expect the comment section to be like this.. but I’m happy I’m here. and I’m not alone
There are lessons in the pain. In the hate. In the moments of sadness. Don’t bottle them up, express them and feel them. Go through the storm. But learn from them. I love you, we all do. I hope everything goes well if it hasn’t already. Take care. ❤️
Sounds like the memory of a place you visited for the last time without knowing it.
This song is so inspiring and comforting ✨🤍
Spot on. It's bottled retroactive nostalgia
Yes, the entirety of your past
@@Frog154 Dude, your comment blew my mind. It's true, every experience is experienced only once. And after that, it's only immediately archived by what your mind is capable of storing and revealing to you. Insane to think about.
A place and time that now only exists in evanescent memory...
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced”
- Søren Kierkegaard
So inspiring ✨🤍
@@snowzardmusic Thank you!
Is that the purpose of life?
Not the ultimate one, according to quran
" I have created humans and jinn only to worship (me) "[Allah/God]
Celebrate God as the Christians would say. Praise be to Allah (God) is how the frist verse of the first chapter of the quran starts it is a kind of celebration. Worship is to submit to him and love him. You experience life and you see the beauty but evil comes up a lot in humans for the most part but god through nature test us a child with cancer, people born with handicapes, whatever that is god testing us with difficulties, being poor being sick being fearfull.. What are going to do do we accept it be patient and be thankful or stray away and become nihilistic that is the only alterative if you don't have a à purpose that is linked to this higher power you are doomed with nihilism.
I experience reality by solving problems.
reminds me of something robert anton Wilson said; akin to "looking for meaning in life is like looking to drink from a river on a map; you need to find a real river."
“Close your eyes and you’ll see nothing at all, or maybe it’s just everything at once.”
Hm.. see everything at once may seem to see nothing at all... Interesting, just like all colors at once may appear white.. thanks 😊.
@@pedromoreira6720 Pedro llevo días con el Aleph en mente. Y con algo que dice 'felices los felices' de los fragmentos de un evangelio apócrifo..
White light is not the absence of color, it's all the other colors combined
@@linkinparkrulz2275 but if you mix every colour it’s black, but if you put light through a prism all the colours are produced. Crazy world.
This be hittin deep rn
I wonder how aphex twin feels about creating a song that makes us universally well up in teary nostalgia for various things
This song is so inspiring and comforting ✨🤍
I bet he fells excellent!
he cares..because we do
Probably just sit back in his couch watching tv while eating burritos as we become extremely emotional to his masterpieces
This would be good music to doe to........
I used to listen to the song while feeding my oldest daughter in the middle of the hour when she was just an infant. We would fall asleep together for a time in the rocking chair. She was such an amazing person in so many ways. She in college now and she still is an amazing person .... and I miss her.
You sound like an amazing father.
Hi.
Currently doing the exact same with my newborn son!
Stay strong King
You win at life.
The differences between aphex’s songs are massive.
either idiosyncratic breakbeat music or super evocative ambient
@@candlelight20 Basically
I always listen to this song right after listening to ventolin just to soothe my ears
So inspiring ✨🤍
"I WILL EAT YOUR SOUUUULLL"
To
"COME ON YOU CUNTS LETS HAVE SOME APHEX ACID"
To
"GUMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"
To
*"Oh cool depression in audible form."*
A couple weeks ago my father died at the age of 49, he died because of doctor’s mistake. I am 25, my younger brother 23, we feel like we’ve lost not only a father but a real man who made us good persons. This song and video style is not only about music it’s about your life experience (like somebody says in the comments before) - I remember how my father took us to the forest and was teaching us how to find a path and how to feel comfortable alone among the nature. I think these memories will always be in my head until I’ll die. Music can make your emotions. Wish you a happy life.
Максим Федотов ❤️
Have a good life friend
Take care
❤💪
Thank you buddy. I hope this finds you in at an equally good time.
I hate it when people say “why do people listen to this, it’s so boring” like seriously, have you ever felt peace in your life? More people need to appreciate this kind of music.
True 🙌
Those are the same people who years later start to listen to it only because it became trendy.
@@mvj1153 this is how most people operate nowadays
They know...Not Of what of they speak...
@RealRayman so true
I'm 46 years old and I can say without a doubt that this comment section and song is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on the internet. I cried while reading a lot of your comments. I want you to know that you are blessed and loved, and I just don't have the right words to express how moved I am.
Love
Thank you Dana. Life is just a little difficult at times.
Hello you beautiful soul! Most of the times we are lost, no touch what's inside. I'm 30 years old, struggling with depression and anxiety past 10 years. Now i'm on right medicine and fighting forward! Now i'm listening this song at the beach and everything feels great. Thank you Dana for being here.
Just when I thought the comment section of Aphex Twin's Stone in Focus was the sanctum of the internet I stumble upon this one here... so fucking glad you're all here.
@@rahmigenis9092 trust me. You don't belong here
Yesterday my grandmother fell asleep. Today she never woke up. She used to tell me a story how her mother passed away. One day she brought her food and the next day she found her laying in the bed with her hands together under her face like kids do when they sleep. Her mother was 99 at the time. Today my grandmother was lying in the bed in the same exact position at the age of 98. I am grateful that she went so peacefully while dreaming. Grateful for the countless memories and for the infinitive love she was always sharing. I love you yiayia. Have a great trip. One day we'll meet and I'll hug you again.
RIP yiayia
im envious that you were there for her at that moment. i wasn''t there for mine. with all she done for me, i know i owed it to her to be. at least she stroked my back one last time as i was coming out of a dream.
I had the same experience just a couple weeks back...i brought my nan some food and it seemed she had passed away gently in her sleep💞 im glad it happened peacefully
god bless you bro
❤
I found a stray cat the other night. It had been hit by a car sometime before I'd gotten there and left in front of a gas station's door, swaddled in blankets by some passing soul. I went home, got a box and towels, and drove it to the local 24/7 pet hospital. I couldn't afford to take care of it but they would have taken the poor thing off my hands as best they could.
Trying to think of the most soothing music possible I decided to play this on repeat as I made the long drive and I kept telling the kitty how brave it was, how it wouldn't be hurting soon, how pretty it was.
When I got there I found out that it had passed away sometime on the drive over there. It had no microchip and it was a youngster. It was a boy. I named him and got a pawprint of him that I will soon frame. It's a small thing; a small cat in a small corner of the world that probably never had a human to love or a positive interaction in its life, but that experience has been haunting me for the last few days and I keep coming back to this song thinking of it.
I named him Victory there at the end. I hope I can see you again one day, brave boy.
Enthios poor baby kitty this made me bawl my eyes out. its okay though i just know that Victory is in cat heaven having the time of his life:,)
lana
Thanks Lana, I hope so too. I'm glad he's remembered within you too, now. You're a good soul, I wish you a wonderful life
Man, i was a little sad and listening to this beautiful song for the first time and your comment made me cry so damn loud.
You're a kindly soul and i hope live a happy life, you deserve it.
Blessings from a random stranger in Mexico
I hope you understand that you are a very pure and kind soul and that is sometimes a rarity in the world we live in. I have a similar story about a cat that we picked up off the street over year ago. We wanted to keep it but it must've also been hit by a car since its tail and paw were broken. It crushed me and my girlfriend but the poor kitty also didn't make it once he got to the vet. We were going to keep him if he had made it. His last moments were filled with love. I remember the people that drove by as we picked up the cat off the street told us how we were angels for doing what we did.
We need more people in the world like you. People like you will save us someday.
Please never stop being who you are.
Much love, brother!
jesus christ my heart hurts
,,You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending"
-C.S. Lewis
Based 🗿
I needed this, thank you.
Thanks love it!!!
That is quite a quote. I spend my life bashing myself up for decisions I made but I cannot change them now. Look to what is left and not behind
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
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when i die i will have this on a tape in a walkman with headphones connected to solar panels so i can listen to this song from the other side whenver the sun is shining.
Just love the fact you wanted tape, and not mp3's. Excellent.
Brilliant. Listening to this track slowly disintegrate would be very pleasant.
This music was from Salad Fingers.
that comment is gold... I'll save that one
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I came to listen to this song on the 15th of october. It would have been my 15th anniversary with my wife. we both loved RDJ. She took her own life on 21st april, 2019. I wanted to share this to let you know, it gets better. It always does. Don't give up. There is someone out there who needs you around.
I love you, Hiroka. I'll see you soon.
My heart. Thank you.
You’re a very strong man , your wife must be very proud of you.
even in these messages, people be cutting onions. I'm sorry for your loss.
god, i am so sorry, stay strong
❤❤❤
One day we'll all be free. Stay strong guys♥️
🫂 virtual hug is the best I can do right now. I appreciate you.
🙂
heard this on the radio last night 8 minutes before midnight. on the classical music station of all places... they played the whole song.
ive already heard it dozens of times before. it's hard to explain why this hits so hard to people who don't already get it.
im in a pretty low place in my life. 22, unemployed, crippling anxiety, dropped out of college after 40 minutes because of anxiety.
best friend left me a month ago.
im not religious, but hearing this suddenly playing through the crappy mono speaker on the thirty-year-old FM radio at night made me feel like someone or something is out there, saying "i hear you. i see you."
and for eight minutes, i felt grounded, and felt like i'm really here, and alive, despite everything.
Hello there stranger,
I hope you remember that we are all in this together, life can get difficult at times but beauty persists, and I am more than sure than are you are a beautiful and lovely soul.
Take care of yourself and never give up on your dreams.
Hope you are doing well these days
I hope youre doing alright man
it gets better
I feel it too
A few weeks ago, one of my closest friends took his life. He showed me Aphex Twin and some of his ambient music. We liked this track. We also enjoyed the beauty of ambient music and really appreciated it as a genre. I hope you're listening to this Kyle, wherever you are now- Love Jon. And stay strong everyone.
I deeply sorry for your loss,losing someone you relate too in unique ways is something people in a bad headspace never get over(bad meaning self destructive and negative).I hope your thriving and showing your freind that his absence will only strengthen your drive,much love
@@Nicholas44566 thank you so much for your kind message Nick, I am trying to do exactly that in his absence. I hope you and your loved ones keep strong also. Much love !
@@jonellaby6281 ❤❤❤
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@@coppliable ❤️
I’m listening and reading all the comments with tears running down my face. You’re all so beautiful. Thank you for being so open, loving and compassionate. I’m with you.
Saw you comment under the stone in focus video, too. Glad I'm not the only one going through this stuff again in these isolated times.
Felix Eberhard They’re a new discovery for me. Better late than never! Be well.
We're all beautiful human beings struggling through the difficulties that life brings. Only true warriors can make this far =)
Emotional and sad moments bringing me here everytime....and then I feel hope 🙏🏽
Thank you for beiing so an amazing person! Take care of yourself and everyone you love..
It's amazing how hard it hits. No drums, no lyrics. It literally brings out all your deepest thoughts and memories. Every time I hear these chords, I fly into another dimension.
Last night I went climbing with my friend. We had been talking and laughing the whole evening, putting on stupid voices and making jokes about the other climbers and the place where we climb. On the drive home I put on a saved playlist of house music, a lot of the tracks are high energy and I wasn't expecting this piece of music to come on, I had honestly forgotten that this was saved on my phone. As the beauty of this music weaved its way from the speakers and into our ears we fell quiet for the first time all evening. A strange kind of peace washed over us and we were content to simply listen and share the silence. It was a special moment. Thank you.
James Curzon I love when these moments happen. Unspoken human connection over how amazing a work of music is will never get old
Did you two fall in love?
@@sabrinakrisb4672 yes, they then adopted a kid and named him rhubarb
@@juno3242 Thank you for your comment Will. I saw what you had posted further down and I hope that things have got better for you. It takes courage to want to open yourself up in order to change. I wish you all the best. Big love x
I deeply remember this comment. I scrolled down specifically looking for THIS one.
I hope life is treating you well James.
I was watching a video about rhubarb pie and wanted to know what rhubarb looked like in its un-pied form. So I searched "rhubarb" in youtube and this video was the first result. What a wonderful accident.
WIN!
@@MCAndyT :D
Welcome to the cool gang :)
Victory
Did your pie turn out ok? You gotta use a lot of sugar, rhubarb is sooooo bitter
the internet can be a scary horrible place but this comment section is unbelievably blessed. we are all gonna make it.
And people like you are the reason these comment sections are so blessed.
Thank you.
You are a blessing and are sure blessed yourself.
@Divinital at least we are safe here.
@Divinital TH-cam mp3 player ;)
The biggest mistake I made was listening to this song while on a ride way home during a fall season. I looked out the window and just stared at trees with variety of colors. Some were red, some were orange, some were yellow, some were green
This song alone already made me emotional, but looking at these trees really did it for me. This song had you thinking, and by staring at these trees it made me think so much. I was thinking about the beauty of nature, the beauty of fall season. There so much beauty into this world that we just aren’t aware of. No one takes the time of their day to truly appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. We’re all so used to it. As I was looking at those trees while this song was playing, I started tearing uncontrollably. I tried to stop myself but since I’m an over thinker, I just can’t. Life truly is beautiful. Nature is extraordinary beautiful. Music gives you an emotion that you can’t put in words. Neither does nature.
There so much beauty that surrounds us that we simply just aren’t aware, even if it’s as little as simple trees with colors. I wish I can hike to see more beautiful views, more beauty in nature. Please take your time in day to see the beauty we have. Even if it’s so simple as clouds in sky, birds flying, butterflies flying, and a simple tree. Look at the sunset for hours, look at the moon in the night sky full of stars for hours. I know it sounds boring but do it. You’ll really figure out how beautiful this world is
Nature = God. Observe it, respect it, speak to it, love it, thank it. It connects with you. That's what you felt..
You speak from my heart
Well said my friend , You truly have a beautiful soul. 🕉
Why was that a mistake?
@@Jeremy.Bearemy I was listening to it in while I was riding home and the driver saw me crying and it was embarrassing
It's a shame that thousands of people will spend a entire lifetime without listening to songs like this
Yeah but over 7 million of us have heard it though!
Heard GTA got a new radio station for Frank Ocean and I'm a big fan. Dont even play gta 5, decided to listen to the full tracklist, found aphex twin - iz us, then i found this one. I love this chill electronic type of music, Bonobo is one of my favorite artists and I am so glad i found Aphex Twin and now have his whole discography to discover!
Billions of people...
Not to mention the lives that didn't make it to this timepoint to concieve what music could truly make you feel.
And listening to Bad Bunny
My childhood best friend died at 21. His dad died 8 years later from drinking. I’ll never forget seeing his apartment in shambles when we had to clean it up. None of it will ever sit right with me.
This song takes me back almost 20 years. Three of us riding around in his Monte Carlo, I thought he was the coolest guy alive. Only father figure my group of friends had that looked out for us and cared.
All I have now from them are pictures, a pool stick, and a lot of memories. Take care of yourself and enjoy every moment. Don’t let down the person in the mirror.
I am so sorry, I hope the best for you❤️
I'm so sorry mate. I think everything lasts only for a while, we should make the most out of it. ❤
thanks for sharing, means a lot!
Deep stuff ❤️
wow I will. I'm 16 as i'm writing this.
this song reminds me that we are all just walking each other home.
Izzy Schechter damn
Ram dass? RIP :)
Ram Dass is a beautiful soul and so are you. Namaste!
Izzy Schechter after school or hanging out with a friend....???
@@tonysoprano6310 both work
It's so comforting returning to this song, the video and comments.
I got accepted to my dream uni and i'm graduating high school this year. I want this song to be the closure of my rough, and meaningful high school years. So many ups and downs it's brilliant how much I've grown and became stronger through each mistake. I've faced bullying, rejection, lies and more, and i managed to get through them by standing up against these problems.
I'm grateful for the friends that I've made, I'm grateful that i've discovered myself, i'm grateful that i've experienced my first relationship, i'm grateful for being alive.
I know that in college, everything will get better. It's only just the start of living life.
Whoever you are, if you're going through something horrible, I believe in you and trust that you can overcome any sort of grief. If i could pull through my worst years as a teenager, by knowing my worth, so can you. I believe in you. Never give up, you're only just starting to live life. I love you.
Dude. Fantastic. Amazing. Much love ❤️
My mum passed away four weeks ago. I imagine this track playing when I meet her again.
I'm sorry for your loss x
I am so sorry for your loss, may she rest in peace❤️
My mother passed away at a similar time, its hard to describe how much she was loved down here.
Lost mine too on xmas eve after 6 years battling cancer. She's in a better place now without any pain or suffering. Hope everyone is doing well and I pray for each and everyone of you out there. Stay strong,never give up and always smile. It sure helps 🙂
I hope it is playing for you! What a great song to meet dear loved ones. Sending love
It is unlikely that anyone will read this or care, but I really hope that my life will get better soon. This song gives me hope, that I can better myself as a person and open myself up emotionally. I love you all.
Of course it will, you want it to happen, and we're all wishing it too, so it will. You'll begin to notice things getting better soon.
it will.. trust the process!! 1212
i hope that works out for you. have a nice day.
I read this and I do care. I recently had went to a club out in Miami by myself to break out of my comfort zone, to meet new people and find new textures to add to my life without depending on a group of people to help ease me into conversations. I am going back to college and leaving one of my jobs, I have been struggling my entire life to find some sort of answers for so many things that troubled me. It almost feels as if things are starting to go in the right direction for me finally, EVEN THOUGH I had so desperately wanted these things and tried so hard early on in life. I wanted to tell you I met this guy in the club who poured his heart out to me about his problems and how alone he felt, he came to the club to be around people but it is all anonymous to him and no one cares is what he said. no one understands him even though he wants to so desperately express himself and make people truly understand him through out life, he puts on a face and hides behind it, much like most people. We all are struggling with ourselves, But you can and will find a better way for yourself and emotionally find yourself. I love you too.
Thank you! I love you too. Good luck for everyone ^-^
My younger brother committed suicide last weekend by overdosing on something. He was found with headphones on, presumably listening to something. This is his youtube account. He made a playlist containing 6 songs that was edited the day he passed. This is one of the 6 songs. With the method he used, he was dead after about 30 minutes, probably unconscious around 12 minutes. I like to think that it was peaceful for him with his music on. I love you Darius, I'll miss you everyday for the rest of my life..
I am so sorry about your loss, I hope it gets better for you. Cherish everything good that comes your way and live the life he couldn’t.
Merry Christmas ❤️
I’m sorry, i hope Darius is in a better place now
Sorry for your loss man
Im so sorry he left you. The world is a scary place and some of us can’t take it anymore.
i'm on the post-operatory period of an ear surgery where i could lost my hearing, and this was one of the songs that I played before and after the process. words can't describe how grateful i am for hear it again and for all the care that aphex music brought me in this last year of my life. it feels unearthly how music can connect us so deep, like a common root for the entire humanity. love u all, take care of yourselves.
I’m so glad
Much love
love ya back, all the best :))
fkg wrong choice
Tsuna Awakens beats everything he made added together
@@szymonbaranowski8184 big words from someone that clicked on an Aphex Twin video
This track instantly takes me back to the loneliest time in my life. I can’t describe how wretchedly sad and isolated I felt at the time. The music is a permanent time stamp of those days, and important to me as a low water mark, reminding me of how much has changed during the past twenty years. I’m thankful that this exists, for there is nothing else from that era that serves as such a stark reminder. It feels almost like a form of time travel, and is such a shocking change in my psyche the moment those first five notes play. If you’re having a hard time right now, hang in there, things will change.
Beautiful words, glad to hear you're doing well
Thankyou for this
time machine, shit, I wonder how I'll feel listening to this 20 years from now bc I'm nearing the end of high school and I associate this track with blissful times with friends (whom I don't really see much these days bc of the rona :/)
Wow dude who hurt you
Saturated Neō Wax
I’m 26. Not too much older than you, still young, but with a few more years under my belt. Many songs you listen to now will become fossilized in a way with the passage of time. Many of my favorite songs, ones I listened to when I was your age, now carry the memories of those earlier days. They’re like an artifact from a different era, something from the past, capable of taking me right back to those moments with all of the accompanying sounds, emotions, feelings, and more.
I hope your story is a good one, friend. Enjoy these young years while you still have them.
Amazing to think selected ambient works vol II was based off Richard’s experiences lucid dreaming. Can only imagine what dreamscape inspired rhubarb
If you believe that you're an idiot
I can’t explain… at least right now
i feel like he saw the bombs dropping and just embraced it before he woke up
this comment remined me of a dream I has a few weeks ago. it was one of those dreams that seemed realer than realty itself. I was in a plane flying over a stormy sea. the sky was black and the waves where higher than skyscrapers. I though to my self "how could I possibly survive this". then I looked up to see 100s planes in a v formation flying overhead and instead of con trails behind them spread clear blue skies. then in the light of the brightest summer sky I saw that same ocean and the same waves and it was the most beautiful thing id ever seen. the sun reflecting , refracting, and diffusing through Himalayan sized mountains of water was breath taking.
@@kingfriday555 fuckkk me that sounds transcendent
Tears on my eyes. Don’t try to listen this at 4am while overthinking, its dangerous and also filled with emotions. This isn’t just music, its a life, because it makes you think about everything in few minutes and nobody can find words to describe the level of this art. It’s interesting who was that person who created these sounds, its straight from heaven. We should be so thankful to god that we witnessed Aphex Twin. Absolutely masterpiece.
thats the best way to describe it, no amount of diction can express what music does to us, specifically this song. I hope you're doing ok brother :)
Doing it now... 😔 It's odd and bittersweet. I think about everyone and everything I've lost. Tears come pouring but it feels so good to reflect on my awesome past with awesome people that helped shape me to be who I am today. Such a song... Wow.
It's crazy that this came from the same mind that created Windowlicker and Rubber Johnny.
ასე ზუსტად ჯერ არავის აუღწერია ის გრძნობები, რომლებსაც ეს საოცარი კომპოზიცია განიჭებს... blessed and grateful
hahaha music from heaven
March 18th 2023
exactly almost 2 years ago i found myself listening to this song in my bedroom, so alone and isolated from everyone i know it was a hard to time to be alive for me but i know one day if i pull through something great would happen, no matter how long it takes. At the time there was this girl, i liked her something about her is very amusing to me and i couldnt help but to eventually crushing on her. I knew i was at a very low point in my life so i knew i had to get myself together and change for the better, and i did very slowly. After a while i decided to tell her that i liked her, little did i know shes also in a low point so i wait, and i waited and i waited and i waited. And in the end she eventually accepted me and have the courage to go on with me. And now today as this song played in the background, ive never felt such intimacy before with another human being. I learned to love, as much as i did lost. I will try my best to keep what is us as us. Im happy now and i never felt happier, i love her.
Darn man, this is super sweet news. I wish you the best, no matter the outcome😊
The good ending
Crying man. I resonate.. so much. I’m so happy for you.
Love to hear it man
the true experience of Man
just when i thought i couldnt cry anymore, this tune makes me think of you and the fun times we had. Forever in my heart babe. forever in my heart. Jay..17/02/70 -12/04/19
:'(
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❤️
Rest in peace🧡
rip
I love the concept of you reading my comment. Just know that in this space of time I am thinking of you, and me doing so is forever immortalized within this comment. I love you all so very much. The human race is such an amazing, twisted thing... and I love that you and I are a part of it. Unified.
I love the way your brain works. I love that you’re sharing love, for you are loved. I hope you’re conquering life’s struggles and continuing to see the beauty in it 🖤
This brought tears to my eyes, thank you for being here 😘
This comment might’ve just ended racism
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I used to listen to this song constantly when depression hit me. after years of just surviving I went to psychotherapy and it changed my life forever. Now I'm slowly tasting my life. Just like cats do with paws on unknown ground. Carefully, with patience and focus. And boy I'm crying. It's the first time for me to just be happy to be here and now with myself. I feel like it's the first time I'm in safe place. I made peace with myself. I'm no longer fighting. I still recover but it's stated to feel good. I have never felt such a joy. And I can't believe it's just starting. It's like mania for me just to feel safe and good with myself. And this song also changed for me. It's now giving me a hope. I survived. I made this. Now I can just sit and stare at clouds and be happy just because I'm here and now with all me.
I'm so happy to hear you are starting to live life again, exploring and curious. So proud of you.
Beautiful!
Wow. Hopefully one day I'll get there.
Welcome back friend.
I had a very similar experience to you. I had been depressed for years in a deep dark hole, I started therapy and anti depressants, and I was staring at the sunset, the clouds moving along listening to lichen and I was in tears, as I was finally free. It feels incredible to share this moment of likeness with you.
This song healed my inner child. I closed my eyes and thought of myself as a child… walking up to me… I gave her the biggest hug she always needed. I assured her that she wasn’t alone, she wasn’t worthless and so on. The most important, I said she was loved. I love her and I’m so proud of her that she came this far. That I came this far. I put myself first for her. I am my first priority. My therapist told me to do this once I came home. When I was done I opened my eyes and saw that I was crying without realizing. I recommend anyone to do this.
I love you earthling, whoever you are.
I love you too, thanks for sharing.
Thank you
Beautiful
wow... i had the same experience as you did. I saw myself when i was a kid and had a very strong feeling of abundance.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing this
I’m dreading the day that this video gets deleted or taken down. The song and video are beautiful in and of themselves but this comment section is one of the brightest corners of the internet, a kind of refuge for my soul when I want a break from the toxic storm all around us.
I wish I could save every single comment, and tell each and every one of you how thankful I am for you. The most interaction we will ever have is reading a few words on a screen, but I hope you all have wonderful lives, truly.
-Reupload it when it gets taken down-
Fortunately, warp records is independent and doesn’t care about petty things like that. We’re safe.
I hope you have a wonderful life too! May your life be blessed.
Hopefully it stays for a long time but nothing lasts forever, friend
There's a billion covers, so your safe there mate...
last year was one of the worst years of my life, I was depressed, uninterested in the things I loved doing and had no friends. This year has turned around and I've never been happier to be alive. Do not give up. I am so glad I didn't.
Everyone has pretty much already pointed out something about this track that makes us nostalgic. But do you realize how crazy it is that so many people feel the same way? How a few repeating chords of music are able to give each of us memories of a simpler time, even though we are all vastly different people of vastly different personalities and ages, along with having vastly different memories. That is amazing to me.
I have also wondered about this.
To me, it is evidence to suggest we all come from the same space dust
Good shout
Good one dude
I was just thinking the same about another track earlier. It's fascinating. Some tracks just make people go into a reflective mood. The repeating theme seems to be one of loss. I'd be interested to see if this is cross cultural, and I don't mean across cultures within the sphere of developed consumer culture nations, I mean wider cross cultures. Did we learn to associated this kind of sound with nostalgia or is it innate? I'd like to see how people in remote regions of the planet would receive this.
i will forever hold this song and this comment section in my heart. even though i don't know and probably will never know you all, i'm glad you were all able to share comfort messages and life stories here. thank you all so much. and thanks to Richard for creating one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.
this song is our safe place, hope you're doing great out there
thanks for being here with us, I’m glad we could listen to it together
This song makes me think of my grandpa. Growing up being his only grandson we were inseparable. I was his pride and joy and he was my biggest inspiration and hero. When I got older I ended up getting in a lot of trouble around 18. After that whenever I would see him I could tell he was ashamed of me. Something was different and I could tell by the way he looked at me that our relationship would never be the same again. Later he would get dementia and continually ask my grandmother where I was at. When I came to visit he wouldnt recognize me and still ask where I was. It was as if he was looking for my younger self who was no longer there. I never had a chance while he was still coherent to tell him how sorry I was and how much he meant to me.
Moral of the story, say what needs to be said to whomever NOW. No matter how hard it is to say. Tomorrow is never promised.
He would be very proud of you for coming to that realisation, I'm sure of it.
This music. It runs back to 2013, my little enchanted box of a room I had as a student in Manchester. The view on the empty basketball square. The late evening in the campus library, everywhere smelt like moist wood with personality. Someone left an old hard cover book on the table. Earplugs in, while this was playing- I open and read a verse on random pages, I will never forget it: "Within us, inside us a battle rages". This message carried even more intensity in the middle of a silent studious yet eloquent library.
My wife is about 2 months from giving birth. I chose this song for my baby girl to listen to for her first song. I hope one day it'll mean as much to her as it does me.
One more month to go, buddy! Scary but also really beautiful to think that you're putting someone into existence, on this very planet, to experience all the things that there are. Taking this as her first song to listen to is an excellent choice, whether she'll like that type of music in the future or not. I wish ya'll all the luck and good things there are for your future of being a family.
@@slomo3035 my wife's actually being induced, Vera will be here next Monday. Super excited!!!!
@@MrDjLights congrats!!!
grats brah
I wish I could show y'all a picture of her, she's so beautiful
No matter how many times I listen to this track, I’m never ready for how it makes me feel.
Reminds me of the days back at my grandma’s house. She’s not dead or anything, but she lost the house because the bank kept overcharging her. I still dream about that place often. It makes me happy knowing I have those memories, but it also makes me sad knowing I won’t ever experience them again. The era of childhood is long gone for so many of us. If you’re still a kid, enjoy it as much as you can. I spent my entire childhood trying to grow up too fast, so don’t make the same mistake
A powerful lesson that I hope many youth begin to understand. You have time when you're young. All you need to do is just take it.
I didn't mean to grow up fast. I had a lot of things thrown at me that made me. I'm 18 now and I feel I missed out on so much growing up. I was just trying to get through every day, most the time.
Reminds me of hell or high water
Children will keep on trying to grow up faster, they'll regret it later but their own children will do the exact same thing, that's just the way it is
I think we all make that mistake.. Growing up can't come fast enough at the time but as soon as you get there you want to go back
Human life is temporary, life isn't. It will flourish somewhere and it will. Sit with me for a while, as we stroll each other's untold thoughts and feelings. We are in this together, never separated, neither attached. We too will die someday, let alone give this moment our exchange of words and feelings. Let this moment and next be as it is. Let go. It'll be beautiful - just as creation itself, with you included in it.
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist.
I composed, mixed and made the cover of
this album over a year, thinking about
the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness.
It is a 28 minute album with two songs.
I wanna be heard by people who connect
with ambient music. Aphex was a big inspiration.
(I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work.)
This is very special. It means a lot to me.
Enjoy.
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I love you, whoever you are, wherever you are I hope your life is going fine and you’re at peace.
It's scary how much truth this track has. The truth about impermanence. About all the fuss that we create about our everyday lives is all but temporary. A small insignificant activity on a small insignificant unit of time. I hope whoever is reading this, I hope you have lived a good life. I hope you've met some good people. I am sure you must've lost some as well. I hope you've had beautiful realisations in all the changing seasons. I hope you must've overcome all your ordeals before they broke you completely. I hope the light swallows you with ease.
Thank God for you. I needed to read this..
Praise be to Jesus Christ the King eternal, amen.
Cheers all, let's walk each other home with grace and humility
😭
This song is so inspiring and comforting ✨🤍thank you for this comment
I remember exactly the first time hearing this song. I had spent the evening with 3 friends playing card games, the hours were passing by and the night was such a bliss... When we decided to go to sleep, one of the guys asked us if he could put some light music, and everyone agreed. Then this song came to us, and I still remember the calm and peaceful feeling I had this night.
I miss this time a lot, but I'm so glad it happened once
This track is something else... I played it while going to my Grandmother’s grave.. she passed away in 2015... and On my way to her I just get a rush of memories and emotions.. I remember her laugh.. her smell.. her jokes.. she knew all my secrets..i was her favorite grandson :) I cried a lot while listening to this beautiful track.. truly amazing. Pray for my Grandmother please🙏🏻
I love you and im sorry for your loss. We are still here and we must make the best of it while we are. Love and care for those close to you.
Hasan Abdulla Hoping you see this comment because I have a very similar experience man. I’m 18 and my grandmother passed away suddenly of a stroke in October of 2019. My grandmother was the most important person I had the privilege of meeting, teaching me to be patient with impatient people and to be genuine.Up until she passed, we would talk for hours just the two of us about a multitude of things.I would always come over and sleep over at her place. My grandfather passed away in 2015, four years before her like your grandmother. She was heartbroken, but I always remember her telling me that whenever she passed, sooner or later she would be watching over me somewhere with him.I’m not a believer in god or anything per say, but I’ve had these vivid dreams were she is telling me everything will be quite alright, so maybe there is an afterlife somewhere who knows. I can definitely feel her presence.Like you, I was her “favorite grandson” and I figured I’d share my experience because it is so similar to yours, hope you’re doing well, we’ll all be okay ❤️
@@lukeshen49 God bless you my friend, may she rest in peace
@@dannylogan7461 thank you and you are absolutely right
I was listening to the whole of SAW II and it moved on to Hanky (#4) as I read this. Gave the comment a whole other vibe to say the least. Bless you and grandmother.
This song makes me think hard about what really matters in life. My uncle lived on his own for most of his life and didn't have much money but he made it his purpose to live for others. He would constantly do favors for the older people in his street, cutting their grass or doing their shopping for them because they couldn't do it themselves anymore (in spite of his own age). One day he collapsed in his house and died. The street banded together and found him after they became concerned. They all said he was one of the kindest people they're ever likely to have met. I only met my uncle a couple of times but I still travelled hundreds of miles to his funeral where I was one of the only people that showed. To me, my uncle is the perfect example of what it is that matters. Not success or wealth, but kindness. We all die in the end, but so long as we're remembered for what is right, we have nothing to fear.
R.I.P. My uncle, Norman. I still think about you and you still inspire me.
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing
Think about what matters in life’ - this is So inspiring ✨🤍
Thank you for your story and for the support of life. It's people like you that give me hope for this wretched world.🕉
Wonderful message
Enjoy your time here. It wont last forever.
The fact that it wont last forever is what makes it beautiful
7 minutes and 44 seconds to be precise.
It does, we just go along with the flow over, and over and over.. and over again we just have trouble remembering it the universe is kind it gives you not two, but many chances.
No
Time is a human construct. There is no end or beginning, everything is now and one.
My father passed away two days ago, and I have never missed anyone more than this. My heart is falling apart. There is no words to describe the pain I am currently living with. But he was so beautiful, and he was so smart, and so funny, and meant more than anything in the world to me. There was no telling how much pain he was going through. He was living with one kidney his whole life, and was very heavy, and his dialysis wasn't cutting it, and he was unable to make it through the fight, he fought so hard. I saw him just the other day, he was hurting so terribly, and I could tell, but I didnt think he would be gone just a few days later. I miss his voice already, I miss him calling me every day just to say goodnight or tell me about his day. It hurts so bad, but he was proud of me, and thats all that is getting me through the day. That is all I can think of. I love you Dad, you were my best friend, ever, forever, always.
Stay strong, sorry for your loss 🧡
I’m shre he was an amazing man. Best of wishes for you 🖤
🖤🖤🖤 🧡 🧡 🧡
Keep on going brother.
Condolences for your father , I know what it's like to lose someone so near and dear to your heart. I lost my uncle back in 2012 and I still haven't gotten over it. As long as you have love in your heart for them they are never truly gone. I wish the best of luck to you on your journey my friend. Take care🕉
Everybody feels the same because this is an experience, not a song.
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for me it s a moment..... a place to be.....love it.....
Alin N. yes.
@@APitchkock damn nicely said..a really relaxing moment..
All songs, all music is experience..
2024, this is still the most beautiful piece of music ever created
This song gives me the chills but only when I'm drunk.. lol
onenightinminsk Just like my favorite classical piece is still Gymnopedies No. 3 Orchestrated by Debussy more than a hundred years ago - the best songs never get old.
I love playing this at work so calming
just endless
well there is a version of clair de lune by
A.Krishna u might like it
My daughter told me this is a song from the olden days, when the mountains talked to each other.
She high ?
Beautiful
Beautiful ,your daughter sounds special. Join us as we do our little bit using our music to shine some light in these twisted and upside down times. May the land BE HEARD again. TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER.
She must have a beautiful spirit x
Amazing
Depression is a weird thing. I've been suffering from it ever since I was a child. It's not like anything people say it is. You dont feel sad; you feel this overwhelming sense of emptiness. Things don't have that childlike glow to them. You don't see the good in things, or the point in anything. All you see is a monotonous shade of gray coating everything. As you get older and it worsens you start to lose hope in everything, in yourself. Sometimes the sadness does come, but it is so unbelievably painful, like your brain is trying to push out of your skull. But you get addicted to it. Feeling pain is better than feeling nothing at all. You end up isolating yourself out of fear and disinterest. It forces you into being alone, and feeling alone even amongst other people. This song helps me in times of great pain, it feels like a warm embrace of someone who isn't there... the only sense of warmth and compassion I have felt in a long, long time.
Since 9/11 I've never felt the same way
Thank you for describing this pain, I hope you find peace
this comment section is better than therapy. reading and feeling all of these stories people are telling makes me feel comfortable. i also love how everyone feels safe to tell their stories to unknowns. thank you for this.
Danke Carolin ❤
It is really really touching and healing
It is interesting how ambient music like this, or William Basinski, brings out the real warmth and human vulnerability in people. No negative comments, just a sharing of life. The poetry in these comments is so moving..
Bruh i just randomly came across this video right after crying real hard.
If you're wondering why i was crying, it's because i was thinking about how my dad was never there for me, and how much i want to be a good dad some day.
It's the people like you that will be, you'll pick up where he left off and give what he never could x
Do your best. We love you.
Same
You will be a good dad, king. Keep that crown on top of your head. Even if no one else can see it, your children will. You'll be able too tell by the way they look at you.
Be safe bro 🤜🏼🤛🏼
lol
Universe: "I need a theme."
Richard: "Say no more."
i would say Stone in Focus is the universe theme and this is more the earth. to me at least.
I was just thinking if this is his manifestation on his experiences from some kind of awakening
@@pun2961 I could see that-either way his songs are like all themes for little bits of the universe
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@@ItsMeTheMoon This song is the simple manifestation of the infinite sadness.
Van Gogh's last words were "The sadness will last forever." And that's that.
When i think about suicide , i listen to this song , and tell myself that everything doesn't matter , so i shouldn't stress out
I was just passing through. You Aphex Twin fans are so good to each other. Very moving. Peace.
Despite everything that happened, I truly hope you're healthy, at peace, and even in love again. You'll almost certainly never read this, but I wish you all the best.
*hugs*
*hugs* x2
hugs x3
"...and even in love again." Man, I wish the best for all of us. Peace.
hugs x4
Don’t be scared when we die.
Be happy that we lived.
Thanks
no
@@nehalarafa8260 first negative comment ive seen here
@@s3renity37 and it was made because i wanted internet attention
I found this a few months ago. This song encapsulates the nostalgic wonder frequency I seek so often as well as nailing the sense of anguish I feel when I say goodbye to my past. It is despair and hope at the same time. It is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. It takes me to my bedroom window as a child looking out at the snow falling in the street light for hours. Sitting and staring at a stream as a teenager while trying to picture as much of the infinite as I could; every molecule of water, every blade of grass, every particle of sand. Standing on a beach in India with Abdul, who I had just met staring at the sunset on the Indian Ocean. No words were needed. The sensation I felt when I held my children for the first time. The moment my wife and I locked eyes at our wedding and I had to take a deep breath to keep from turning into a puddle. Looking at old photographs and connecting with those feelings, smells, sensations.... As well as taking me to the foot of my mother's hospice bed as I found her cold and arms spread wide 1 month and 16 days ago at my home. Two years of suffering over. I wailed at the ceiling. Making sounds I didn't know I was capable of making. The last time I spent time with my best friend who died of cancer at age 24 and how we just stared at each other in silence and cried, herself a shadow of the powerful woman I knew. We used to split bottles and tell each other our deepest darkest secrets and talk for hours. Now we had nothing left to say. To the floor of my daughter's room where I slept for weeks and drank and cried after her mother and her moved out. In my car as I drove away from the woman I loved sobbing because I finally accepted that she didn't love me anymore. Finally seeing my father at age 10 for the first time in 5 years and the feeling of standing in the empty room I was to sleep in on the floor with a blanket and a couch cushion and realizing that this visit was an obligation, he didn't care if I was there or not. He did not accept me. - This song is the all. Both sides of the sword. It is awe. The beauty in the suffering and the decay. Joy and it's relative price. - I played this for my wife last night and read comments to her. I wanted her to see how beautiful it was and I unexpectedly cried. My grief's path needed this. I miss you so fucking much Mom. I'm sorry and I love you.
This is beautiful man
Wow- sending love & positive vibes
This is beautiful. You're a beautiful person for experiencing life this way. A true person who isn't afraid to hurt and swim in it. Not everyone can do that. Stay strong. Sending you love.
This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read on the internet
This comments section made me cry. I hope your all doing ok.
Elfelectric i hope you are doing better my friend
Stfu
Me too.
This comment section reminds me that beautiful people are everywhere. Especially the person reading this.
This is my original cover on Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Hope you like it 😊
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Shut up arse hole
@@matthewjury4385 Don't be a dickhead
@@XPOSEDTruth Way to go
@@ThomasBoyce5000 do you like it?
This exact URL is what I visit when I want my faith in humanity restored. I hope you are all doing ok .
All clear on this side. Yours?
@@ThomasBoyce5000 ExiSTEntIAL CRisIS IMmoneNt!
i hope you're doing alright, too. i haven't been having the best of times, but they've been decent.
Corny dumbass
Lovey You also
I am so very tired, I want nothing more than to crawl into a nice warm cozy bed and drift off to this
You know that line from the Beatles' Eleanor Rigby: "All the lonely people, where do they all belong?". I feel like it might be here in the comments.
That's perfect.
I feel incredibly lucky to have been in a lifetime where this masterpiece existed.
Very risky statement ;)
I respect having to hear this from someone who experienced the same, brother. We humans unite when time comes.
“If the world was about to end, and you had one more song that you could listen to, what would it be?”
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I was scrolling through Disney+ when this song came on on spotify. I ended up watching the entirety of Car 2 on mute, no subtitles, with Rhubarb playing over and over again and I cried the entire time. Don't miss out on life, kids. Don't let the flame die out.
Why even watch it at that point
???
Lmfao
ok but why cars 2
an hour and 46 minutes btw
I wish I could meet everyone here in the comment section. You all seem like wholesome people.
Right? Alberto Balsalm comment section is exactly the same. Very cool.
I'd go for a pint or two with anyone here
maybe more
There are so many good ambient sounds on Yotube nowadays, and so many comments expressing a yearning for this kind of music. On that basis some of the people we don't talk to on the train, or in cafes, probably listen to the same sort of music and also wish they could find someone to share their love of it with.
Reconnect with the humans we come across every day, but who we've trained ourselves to ignore.
Do you know what? I think this is just average people. The same ones making frustrated and angry comments elsewhere. Here we just find a little peace and remind ourselves for a second what's important.
My partner used to sit listening to this song, he'd tell me to read the comments as they were so beautiful. He passed away suddenly last month, I miss you so much B ❤️ My love will never fade.
Sorry for you loss. What a beautiful thing he left with you though coming back to listen to this masterpiece and read these comments. He’s still with you x
We are with you! ❤️
I'm so sorry for your loss. This song now is my daughter's song. I used to enjoy it differently but since she passed it just makes me feel her somehow.
All the best to you, thanks for sharing your experience with us . Take care of yourself
Condolences... May you find innermost peace as you recant your memories & not hurt...🎶🙏
❤
I feel lonely and this is the only thing is helping me now
Thank the gods for TH-cam. And Aphex Twin.
And maybe Steve Roach too.. check out Sentient Breath on TH-cam for a starting point.
I feel the exact same way. It's comforting to know that I'm not alone.
We all do especially now
art is love art is live. im with yo! greetingz from germoney.
hope your doing ok
Every once in a while I go there, I listen to the recording, read the comments, and every time after around five minutes of doing so I find myself crying and smiling stupidly. Usually I can't force myself to cry, so I return there from time to time to check if I'm still able to feel anything, and every time my tears give me some hope, hope that some day everything will be fine again and life will become bearable. I know there's a lot of people who are in pain here, and I just want them to know that life is about balance. One day you will wake up and realise that everything is perfect and you are as happy as you could ever be.
1.) Put on Rhubarb
2.) Meditate
3.) Levitate
This song makes me feel grateful for hanging on.
Hello everybody! My name is Welcome...
w e l c o m e
It's the first time an entire comment section makes me cry, wow.
Yeah it does that to you... it makes you feel with some of the people here.
Enger Stardust same
yeah man...
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist.
I composed, mixed and made the cover of
this album over a year, thinking about
the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness.
It is a 28 minute album with two songs.
I wanna be heard by people who connect
with ambient music. Aphex was a big inspiration.
(I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work.)
This is very special. It means a lot to me.
Enjoy.
th-cam.com/video/Tp2P5S-txVI/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/P8zQEyN43UY/w-d-xo.html
i wish everyone in this comment section could give me a hug right now.
*hug*
Here's a hug dude
What if Im super fat and hairy
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist.
I composed, mixed and made the cover of
this album over a year, thinking about
the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness.
It is a 28 minute album with two songs.
I wanna be heard by people who connect
with ambient music. Aphex was a big inspiration.
(I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work.)
This is very special. It means a lot to me.
Enjoy.
th-cam.com/video/Tp2P5S-txVI/w-d-xo.html
Y.T. Sobriquet not creepy, just here to emotionally support the homies
Hey, you reading this.
I love you.
We will likely never meet, but just know that someone, at least one person on this earth, living somewhere you'll probably never be, loves you for who you are. Just know that someone cares about you, personally, hoping that you make it out of whatever situation you're in alive and well. You are human, I am human. Is that not enough for love?
🤍
ly2
Love you too, good friend.
Give kindness and love to all things; save the little bugs in your home, give the homeless guy some cash, reach out to your loved ones. We’re all scared and lonely creatures but we have the capacity to push back the darkness, even if it’s only a little bit.
Qué hermosas palabras. Muchas gracias por ello.
warm hugs from a female human from Poland
"on the first night, the games are usually not that bad"
-markiplier
hello everybody my name is welcome
you're so portuguese
@@blue-halo-elite zimbabwese
Hey, you.
Everything will be okay.
EvverggreenYT Memes Hey, I love you.
@@remybutler6473 stay safe!❤
A soul at rest is the best medicine for all souls.
When that medicine is experienced in the afterlife, we will feel how peaceful everything is.
I wish you the best.
This comment literally made me broke, thank you
Here's to forgotten dreams and lost hopes.
Hope all is well with you guys.
+Gulag Monk I hope that after 5 months, everything is well with you, also
15 today. Sitting in my room with a beer and this playing appreciating the good things and looking forward to the future. Hope you're all well, especially at the moment
-Luke
Enjoy your teens Luke, as much as you can. Its ok if you do anything stupid, thats what those years are for.
hope your doing well luke
Put down the beer.....
luke i pray for u everyday
You are safe here.
Life is fucked. but there are little things that make it worth living still. like this kind of music, skateboarding, getting drunk and high with good friends, watching the sun rise, watching the sun set, family, etc
Life is precious. To all the young - take a deep breath. Live for the moment. Smell her hair, touch her skin. Your whole life in front of you. Enjoy it and be happy. It goes so fast. To anyone struggling right now, stay strong - “this too shall pass” - better times are ahead x
James stated that the sounds on Selected Ambient Works Volume II were inspired by lucid dreams, and that upon awaking, he would attempt to re-create the sounds and record them. He claimed to have natural synaesthesia, which contributed to this album.[7] James described the album as being "like standing in a power station on acid"; he continued that "if you just stand in the middle of a really massive one, you get a really weird presence and you've got that hum. You just feel electricity around you. That's totally dreamlike for me. It's just like a right strange dimension."[7]
This Is advanced darkness
-Spongebob
I walked past a generator one day on my way to school and its humming harmonized with the song I was listening to (probably aphex or spacemen 3 I forgot)
“You will grow up, travel, and work. Over the years you will try to make sense of that happy-sad-full always-shifting life you were in, and when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.” - Claire A. Nivola
I used to listen to this on heroin and im 7 years clean from smoking black tar every day.
This music gives me a free heroin high everytime i listen to it.
There is hope.
Sobriety is possible
❤
So proud of you❤️
3 months clean for me:)
💪🏻well done mate
Well done everyone! I’m down to 8mg of methadone and should hopefully be off it in 6weeks once I get down to 1-2 mgs!
I cannot find my original comment that I've posted almost a year ago. I heard this song while i was dealing with the mental anguish of my father's declining health. This song triggers intense sadness as well as peace in me. I take solace in that my father doesn't suffer any more. Forever in my memory
He has since passed. It hurts. It still hurts me
@@gardenboydon god rest his soul. I hope you live a life that would make him proud
I remember listening to this song coming back from my great aunt's funeral. My tear-stained face was leaned against the window and the clouds looked just like the ones from this video
I wasn't so sad over her death anymore. I felt this peace, as if the universe told me that my Aunty was going to be okay. Wherever she was in the universe, she was happy.
I love this song so fucking much. It's just beautiful.
So recently I’ve been seeing this girl and she’s everything I could’ve asked for but it’s weird cause I remember at the end of last year I sat down with a good mate of mine and we were talking about if we had the perfect girl, what would she look like, how would she act and starting listing all there traits and fast forward 8 months later, I’m literally looking at her every time I see her. It still doesn’t feel real to me but man she’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me, I gave up on looking for anything and haven’t talked to anyone real in years but man after crossing paths with her, it’s all been worth the wait. Good things happen when you least expect it and take it from me, I wasn’t even looking at all and remember seeing her and she lit up the room and can still picture it from the night we met. Every time I’m with her, it’s like the whole universe goes quiet and it’s just me and her. I love you Ruby forever and always ❤
Im happy for you man. I hope this happens to me.
@@ScottsShots hope so too bro appreciate you man
Oh yes, this is Aphex Twin. Either super weird or full of melancholy. And this track is one of my absolute favorites.
I love the atmosphere and the simplistic floaty way our world is portrayed in here. It's bringing realisation of how connected we are. And we need this, especially in these hard times.
Take care everyone! I really enjoy reading all of these comments.
“Either super weird or full of melancholy” You just described me as a person
to everyone who reads this, you're listening to rhubarb and you're doing it right. i love you all!
light and love!
you sir are a great person
I love you back!
Right back at ya.
Lars Haugen y
this is what u hear when ur floating in the air entering heaven
i vote midair thief - why?
I’m going through the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through at the moment and aphex twin is about all I can listen to right now. I didn’t expect the comment section to be like this.. but I’m happy I’m here. and I’m not alone
You aren‘t alone man. Never. We are all here for you
There are lessons in the pain. In the hate. In the moments of sadness. Don’t bottle them up, express them and feel them. Go through the storm. But learn from them. I love you, we all do.
I hope everything goes well if it hasn’t already. Take care. ❤️
@@reaperwolf7464 thank you I needed to hear this because I’m just now learning it.. it’s better to feel to heal and grow from it.
Same here , and you are not alone✨🤍
We are here for you whenever you need us. Life is very strange in many ways yet along the way you'll find that you're never truly alone. 🕉