This version seems more rough and has a strange sense of pessimism of the unknown, while the final version is more smooth and focuses on the wondrous awe legends have.
I get the feeling that they've lost. Like, either it's a bad ending, or the villain has caused so much trouble that the heros have no choice but to become the thing they tried to protect themselves from.
If you all think this is the dark version of the song just listen to the Cosmo sheldrake version. In my opinion, it's the real dark version of the song!
This gonna sound stupid but I get a kinda get an image of rusty machines and steampunk schtick with the demo and more a mystical forest vibe with the final version
Maybe the machines eventually broke down and the mechanics started to rely on magic and music, and because of all the energy, a mystical forest grew in the place of the town or city and the mechanics became fae folk
@@missycat7598 Kinda like the dwemers? but the dwemer machines run on gyro cores instead of magic and I don't thinks theirs a forest in their "lair" but the dwemers mysteriously disappeared all of a sudden. and their machines continued to work If you want to know what dwemers look like heres some drawings www.pinterest.com/arcanes37/elder-scrolls-dwemer/
Somehow the two different versions have different energies for me. The first one makes me think of someone experiencing something wonderful after only being told the raw facts about it, like an alien learning the science of how our planet works (like about how plants grow and how the earth orbits) but only upon visiting do they discover culture, and become immediately more fascinated. On the other hand the demo has a much more mysterious and playful feel. Not necessarily dark per say, more mischievous. I feel like I’m being spun tales by some kind of trickster storyteller who seems to hold knowledge of the world but will only give it in rhymes and riddles. Both songs have the same message/moral, that stories can be just as important to this world as the facts, but deliver it in very different ways.
Similarly, the finished version is more playful and out loud, sort of like parent telling their children about all sots of stories and such, or like you said, an alien being told facts about the earth and then experiencing them, and the demo has a kind of hushed and secretive tone, as if the trickster storyteller has been imprisoned for some reason related to their stories, and you're the guard watching them and the storyteller is trying to convince you to let them go by telling you about the things they know in a kind of "You couldn't possibly throw all these years worth of knowledge into the dark, muddy dungeons, could you?" way.
This feels more like a reprise from a musical, you know, the lyrics and melody are the same or almost the same but the energy changes a lot, well, not always, there are many reprises that are meant to give the exactly the same energy as the first one, but I mean those cases where the emotions in the characters or in the scene change.
The moss is unironically my favorite song so to hear a demo version is really something else, especially being so different sounding from final product
It is interesting just how much the same exact words (well, except for that one small bit), sung by the same person, can produce a completely different vibe depending on the sounds you use to support the voice. I don’t know why I just stumbled across the demo version now-I’ve known the final version of this song for years-but I’m glad I did. It sounds very cool :D
bro was the youtube algorithm on something and just pushing this to asexual people, second comment ive seen within this year from a fellow asexual saying they just discovered this song 💀
So, I made a comment on the final version, a story idea. This kinda just gives me epilogue or..bad-ending vibes. For the bad-ending thing, I imagine it as like..the main theme, but it has elements of the villain's theme in it. For the lines, "This is just how things are, how things have always been. And how things will continue, to be for you and me..." and/or "Now listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes:" I can imagine those lines being spoken, or sung by the villain. In a calm, quiet tone. It shows them in a pure dark room, with a spotlight on them. Arms behind them, as they say those words, and after, they raise their arms menacingly, spikes appearing all around them as they show an ear-to-ear grin. Honestly gives me the chills. For the epilogue-vibe thing, I'm thinking..it's still the bad ending. The villain in this story has caused so much damage the heros have no choice but to become the thing they tried to protect themselves from. A sense of dread, loss. They've won, in their minds. Really, they've lost.
I like to think of the demo and final version as a single story, where the first is the childish wonder and mystical views whereas this version is the more adult, gloomy, and pessimistic view.
Or, perhaps the other way around? A pessimistic adult starts to realize that it's okay to be childish sometimes, and they slowly notice how their life starts to feel happier and more full of wonder
And this one is maybe a child beginning to realize the pessimism of the world, what it holds, where it ends, who he is in the infinitely great universe, bounded by the limited time he has in this world that will eventually ends like everything else has always been, is being and will be
Awh man, I wish this was also on spotify so i could seamlessly listen to it whenever. Such a different tune and tone from the polished version, and oddly i really love it!
This seems to be like a place were everything is made of mechanic, were everyone is robotic and programed to function by orders of a superior one. And then one day, a stranger traveller, who came from miles and miles away to tell about how everything was in the past. How much more colorful it was and how nowadays is just poor... and sad... and so caged in. The stranger storyteller begin to gain attention of the others robots, who became curious and atracted to the wonderful words he was telling. As soon they heard him, they look around and saw that the world were they lived in... looked nothing more than a horrid dream full of control and submission. "This is how things are..." The traveler would say with a sad tone in his voice. " How things was always been. And how things will continue to be for you... and me." Yes. Even the strange storyteller were one of them. He once was part of a comunity just like that one. A society were everyone was controlled and forced to submission by the superior ones. But one day, he wondered if the world was like that since the beggining. If it weren't something more... He then, going against the rules, gains the knowledge of how the world one day was like. He learned about the legends, the myths, the tales... Everything. And after all that, he decided. No one can't be in that town, they hace to know the truth. They have to know! Alas, it would be easy, but the other robots were ignorant and blind by the program. No one believed him. No one cared. He was just a crazy robot under a virus or something. Well, since no one in his town will believe him., someone out there would. Then he jump the wall that separated the town from the outside world. He travelled for days, weeks, years. Telling everything and everyone about everything. By the time, his metal begin to get old, muddy and rusted. Moss apearing everywere in his body. This same town, could be his last one... His last stop. And by the time he finished the tale, his mechanic heart would stop as well.
I listened to the final version after my friend showed me your music and now I have listened to this one and you my friend have gotten a new subscriber, I know I'm 4 years late but still I'm loving your music so far.
I imagine this, this song seems more mechanical than the more whimsical tale of the final version. I imagine man in old steampunky city telling children about the world before and even telling their old fairy tales and stories
i love both this and the finished song so much. the demo definitely gives a good insight into how the song was made and finished. still though, I LOVE this song.
this shit made my jaw drop cause the moss was the first song i heard by cosmo and i know it by heart but i heard a different version holy shit wtf this go crazy 🔥🔥🔥
Ok I know I'm years late but here is how I imagine this song: there are a bunch of workers at a factory. Their lives? Not so bright. They can only dream of something other than the sad, depressing, workplace they are stuck in. They start singing tales and myths they had heard in their childhood. As they are singing and telling of these stories in hope of change, someone else says that they will be forever be stuck where they are now. This is the part where they say "this is just how things are, how things have always been, and how things will continue to be for you and me." But the workers dont believe this, they still think there is some place better than this. The person who originally didn't believe of these stories starts to see what could possibly exist. They decide to see if this place is real and go to find out. (Moving on to the final version of the moss.) This place turns out to be a magical forest full of beings of what we do not know of. As they sing the tales and stories of the creatures they heard of, they too become one of the spirits that were trapped by the forest.
This makes me think of a parade of myths while the other version makes me think of a slideshow that you would watch as a kid on town square but made by a witch or wizard.
Still like the final version much more, but I can appreciate how different this one feels. A great example of how instrumentals are just important for setting a mood as the lyrics.
Honestly i prefer how it ends on instrumental part here, in the release version after that guitar part song seemed to go for a bit too long. Still a good song though
I like the kinda steam punk vibe, but both in emotion and technical sense, the finished song is far better. This demo just feels and sounds so flat, but the released version is amazing and vivid
the comments make this song even better, it puts ideas in my head and makes me visualize the song in a way, i already have a visual for the finished song, but not for this one, i hope to animate both some day
The development from demo to the album version is stunningly progressive. I`m glad demo was reversed. The Moss is my favourite from the album and otherwise I`d not become a fan of it.
I imagine a mechanical version like the steampunk future/past of the original, heck, it could be a Civilization of animatronic like replica's of the characters in the original. Something like Epic Micky, and how the wasteland relied on both magic and machines. But that's just me I guess.
this is the demo lol so maybe u heard the original (they have the same lyrics, this one is just a lot more... mechanical sounding and.. clunky but in a good way)
Wow this is so bad I already listened to the finished version and got curious about this demo because i really like the song This This is really something tho It's so similar but at the same time It's so different
This is just how things are...
How things was always been.
And how things will continue
To be for you and me... 🎵
wish these lyrics made it into the new one
@@nope.5028 same
I think that that is tho only part I prefer about this over the original, but it’s still good
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@@fiandg5073 this is the original though..
This version seems more rough and has a strange sense of pessimism of the unknown, while the final version is more smooth and focuses on the wondrous awe legends have.
Lord of Cats those are words of a storyteller if I have ever heard it.
Absolutely couldn't have said that better.
Woah I need to make a word to describe that *As there isn't any!*
This is like a dark version of the final version
Nota Word the reprise in a musical where the main character turns evil, that’s the vibe I get
@@cl5uo we need more things like that i literally made a webtoon off of that topic
I get the feeling that they've lost. Like, either it's a bad ending, or the villain has caused so much trouble that the heros have no choice but to become the thing they tried to protect themselves from.
If you all think this is the dark version of the song just listen to the Cosmo sheldrake version. In my opinion, it's the real dark version of the song!
Did you mean the chonny jash one or is there another version I don't know about@@makalasisty8813
This gonna sound stupid but I get a kinda get an image of rusty machines and steampunk schtick with the demo and more a mystical forest vibe with the final version
Grimanca Lethel actually I can kinda see that
yeah, this version needs some big metalic sounds
Maybe the machines eventually broke down and the mechanics started to rely on magic and music, and because of all the energy, a mystical forest grew in the place of the town or city and the mechanics became fae folk
@@missycat7598 Kinda like the dwemers? but the dwemer machines run on gyro cores instead of magic and I don't thinks theirs a forest in their "lair" but the dwemers mysteriously disappeared all of a sudden. and their machines continued to work If you want to know what dwemers look like heres some drawings www.pinterest.com/arcanes37/elder-scrolls-dwemer/
Missy Cat but that’s just a theory: A COSMO THEORY
Somehow the two different versions have different energies for me. The first one makes me think of someone experiencing something wonderful after only being told the raw facts about it, like an alien learning the science of how our planet works (like about how plants grow and how the earth orbits) but only upon visiting do they discover culture, and become immediately more fascinated.
On the other hand the demo has a much more mysterious and playful feel. Not necessarily dark per say, more mischievous. I feel like I’m being spun tales by some kind of trickster storyteller who seems to hold knowledge of the world but will only give it in rhymes and riddles.
Both songs have the same message/moral, that stories can be just as important to this world as the facts, but deliver it in very different ways.
Similarly, the finished version is more playful and out loud, sort of like parent telling their children about all sots of stories and such, or like you said, an alien being told facts about the earth and then experiencing them, and the demo has a kind of hushed and secretive tone, as if the trickster storyteller has been imprisoned for some reason related to their stories, and you're the guard watching them and the storyteller is trying to convince you to let them go by telling you about the things they know in a kind of "You couldn't possibly throw all these years worth of knowledge into the dark, muddy dungeons, could you?" way.
@@missycat7598 I want to make an oc based on this 😭
"I like the original better" this technically is the original lmao, that's why it's a demo.
I like the original better :) it has "this is just how things are, how things have always been and how things will continue to be, for you and me!"
your music is pure art, It stands out from all of the other artists/singers and is just amazing, keep doing what you do!
thank you!!
This feels more like a reprise from a musical, you know, the lyrics and melody are the same or almost the same but the energy changes a lot, well, not always, there are many reprises that are meant to give the exactly the same energy as the first one, but I mean those cases where the emotions in the characters or in the scene change.
The moss is unironically my favorite song so to hear a demo version is really something else, especially being so different sounding from final product
It is interesting just how much the same exact words (well, except for that one small bit), sung by the same person, can produce a completely different vibe depending on the sounds you use to support the voice. I don’t know why I just stumbled across the demo version now-I’ve known the final version of this song for years-but I’m glad I did. It sounds very cool :D
bro was the youtube algorithm on something and just pushing this to asexual people, second comment ive seen within this year from a fellow asexual saying they just discovered this song 💀
So, I made a comment on the final version, a story idea.
This kinda just gives me epilogue or..bad-ending vibes.
For the bad-ending thing, I imagine it as like..the main theme, but it has elements of the villain's theme in it. For the lines, "This is just how things are, how things have always been. And how things will continue, to be for you and me..." and/or "Now listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes:" I can imagine those lines being spoken, or sung by the villain. In a calm, quiet tone. It shows them in a pure dark room, with a spotlight on them. Arms behind them, as they say those words, and after, they raise their arms menacingly, spikes appearing all around them as they show an ear-to-ear grin. Honestly gives me the chills.
For the epilogue-vibe thing, I'm thinking..it's still the bad ending. The villain in this story has caused so much damage the heros have no choice but to become the thing they tried to protect themselves from. A sense of dread, loss. They've won, in their minds. Really, they've lost.
It was really interesting to see a little bit into how this song formed, and how it changed. Thank you so much for posting this!
I like to think of the demo and final version as a single story, where the first is the childish wonder and mystical views whereas this version is the more adult, gloomy, and pessimistic view.
Or, perhaps the other way around? A pessimistic adult starts to realize that it's okay to be childish sometimes, and they slowly notice how their life starts to feel happier and more full of wonder
And this one is maybe a child beginning to realize the pessimism of the world, what it holds, where it ends, who he is in the infinitely great universe, bounded by the limited time he has in this world that will eventually ends like everything else has always been, is being and will be
I love how raw it sounds, it is interesting to appreciate how the song developed!
sending much love from the other side of this planet
This feels like a person living in a dystopic world clingling to legends and facts about a world destroyed
Awh man, I wish this was also on spotify so i could seamlessly listen to it whenever.
Such a different tune and tone from the polished version, and oddly i really love it!
I haven't listened to your music in so long and it feels like I've come home
Oh wow, this sounds amazing! I can't say I have any preference over either version, but I definitely like that extra line at the end of this one.
I love both versions demo and finished. Like, best song I have heard :>
This seems to be like a place were everything is made of mechanic, were everyone is robotic and programed to function by orders of a superior one. And then one day, a stranger traveller, who came from miles and miles away to tell about how everything was in the past. How much more colorful it was and how nowadays is just poor... and sad... and so caged in. The stranger storyteller begin to gain attention of the others robots, who became curious and atracted to the wonderful words he was telling.
As soon they heard him, they look around and saw that the world were they lived in... looked nothing more than a horrid dream full of control and submission.
"This is how things are..." The traveler would say with a sad tone in his voice. " How things was always been. And how things will continue to be for you... and me." Yes. Even the strange storyteller were one of them. He once was part of a comunity just like that one. A society were everyone was controlled and forced to submission by the superior ones. But one day, he wondered if the world was like that since the beggining. If it weren't something more... He then, going against the rules, gains the knowledge of how the world one day was like. He learned about the legends, the myths, the tales... Everything. And after all that, he decided. No one can't be in that town, they hace to know the truth. They have to know!
Alas, it would be easy, but the other robots were ignorant and blind by the program. No one believed him. No one cared. He was just a crazy robot under a virus or something. Well, since no one in his town will believe him., someone out there would. Then he jump the wall that separated the town from the outside world. He travelled for days, weeks, years. Telling everything and everyone about everything. By the time, his metal begin to get old, muddy and rusted. Moss apearing everywere in his body.
This same town, could be his last one... His last stop. And by the time he finished the tale, his mechanic heart would stop as well.
damn
I really love this one but it is hard pick which I love more. They are really good!
Love to see how it changed. Both are different feelings yet both are equally good at betraying the lyrics
Love this version as well! Both are giving me serious fairytale vibes and it's lovely.
I listened to the final version after my friend showed me your music and now I have listened to this one and you my friend have gotten a new subscriber, I know I'm 4 years late but still I'm loving your music so far.
the other version I better but this is good haha still over the garden wall vibes
does this have anything to do with OTGW?
@@karolinamikeskova8043 no...but yes
ITS SO DIFFERENT
This is so underrated
I've been listening to all of your songs and this one has taken my soul and forced me to loop it over and over again help
Cosmo. me, my girlfriend, and my mother are huge fans! I listen to your songs almost everyday, all day.
I like this one a lot especially the "this is just how things are, how things have always been and how things will continue to be, for you and me" :)
This song feels like you are fighting a old friend who's song remains the same but is some how different
I imagine this, this song seems more mechanical than the more whimsical tale of the final version. I imagine man in old steampunky city telling children about the world before and even telling their old fairy tales and stories
This demo ain't half bad at all.
Loving this but sad I'll probably never get to see you love since I'm in the states
maybe next year. one day for sure !!
This ain't The Moss, this is The Algae.
For real though, it's interesting noting the differences between this and the final version.
I
I love this
make an instrumental version for both please, i want them for D&D, this is just plain art
This one's got a bit of an ominous feel
I LOVE THIS ???? OH MY GOD
This is so cool, I love this as much as the final version
this sounds so raw. I love it
i came here so fast and ive been playing it on repeat over and over,,, very nice
Dis is my type of music
Keep the good work! It's awesome!
its really interesting to see how much this song developed! I really enjoy both versions! 😊
This version : Greenish-yellow
The final version : Greenish-blue
Am I wrong?
I disagree. I feel like this one is a less saturated, gray green. the final is a deeply saturated green-cyan
i love both this and the finished song so much. the demo definitely gives a good insight into how the song was made and finished. still though, I LOVE this song.
When will a new album be coming out? I need more of your music honestly
my first album will be out in 2018. working on it now
Glad to hear it! You do good work and I love that you are obviously having a lot of fun making it, too.
oh yep. will have the first track ready later this year!
Holy crap this is completely different and I love both v
This sounds really epic!)
This brings a smile to my face
??? This somehow sounds like the song equivalent of a skeleton?!?! How?!??!
this shit made my jaw drop cause the moss was the first song i heard by cosmo and i know it by heart but i heard a different version holy shit wtf this go crazy 🔥🔥🔥
This version of the song sounds like accepting punishments you know you never deserved.
This is good though I like the original better.
ZzCrimsonzZ this is the original
This IS the original. xd
This is the original, it says demo.
Ok I know I'm years late but here is how I imagine this song: there are a bunch of workers at a factory. Their lives? Not so bright. They can only dream of something other than the sad, depressing, workplace they are stuck in. They start singing tales and myths they had heard in their childhood. As they are singing and telling of these stories in hope of change, someone else says that they will be forever be stuck where they are now. This is the part where they say "this is just how things are, how things have always been, and how things will continue to be for you and me." But the workers dont believe this, they still think there is some place better than this. The person who originally didn't believe of these stories starts to see what could possibly exist. They decide to see if this place is real and go to find out. (Moving on to the final version of the moss.) This place turns out to be a magical forest full of beings of what we do not know of. As they sing the tales and stories of the creatures they heard of, they too become one of the spirits that were trapped by the forest.
This makes me think of a parade of myths while the other version makes me think of a slideshow that you would watch as a kid on town square but made by a witch or wizard.
Still like the final version much more, but I can appreciate how different this one feels. A great example of how instrumentals are just important for setting a mood as the lyrics.
Honestly i prefer how it ends on instrumental part here, in the release version after that guitar part song seemed to go for a bit too long.
Still a good song though
I like the kinda steam punk vibe, but both in emotion and technical sense, the finished song is far better. This demo just feels and sounds so flat, but the released version is amazing and vivid
the comments make this song even better, it puts ideas in my head and makes me visualize the song in a way, i already have a visual for the finished song, but not for this one, i hope to animate both some day
Honestly me too, the two versions both make me imagine what stories could be told with them
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The development from demo to the album version is stunningly progressive. I`m glad demo was reversed. The Moss is my favourite from the album and otherwise I`d not become a fan of it.
I can imagine frankinsteins monster vibing to this
I imagine a mechanical version like the steampunk future/past of the original, heck, it could be a Civilization of animatronic like replica's of the characters in the original.
Something like Epic Micky, and how the wasteland relied on both magic and machines. But that's just me I guess.
this sounds like a My Singing Monsters island
This reminds me of that one scene in lion king when the hyenas walk in front of scar while scar is singing
The beat gives me portal vibes
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this version is great for when you love the song but youve listened to the original way too many times 😂
First time I've seen the demo to a song
I don't know though, I found this version grows a lot more fonder and intimate to me than the original, which is nice and a bit bombarding
So different but still good :3
imo this is better than the final version
Koooooollll!!!!
I actually like this more than the finished version
I thought the first one I heard was great, but. Wow. Just wow.
When I heard this I felt like I heard it before but I haven't 😭
this is the demo lol so maybe u heard the original (they have the same lyrics, this one is just a lot more... mechanical sounding and..
clunky but in a good way)
I prefer this version
Cosmo Sheldrake where are from and is there a chance to see you in Germany?
should be back later in 2017
Berlin November 23rd at Rosis. Will be on sale soon!
This is better than the original in lots of ways
This is the original bruh
@@grojdoomer I meant original as in the full release version
Wow
I prefer the original so far
Gaku Kujoh
Me too
this- This IS the Original, This is the demo of the song, early stages of development before it became what it is today.
Harmony Sketch
I'm pretty sure that's what they're saying.
This is the original, it says demo.
This is the original
🧠n't
it kinda sounds like carnival music. and i love carnival music.
It's weird but I kinda like this better than the final
Nice
This song does feel like a bad ending of some kind, but honestly the completed version seems like a... neutral ending of sorts.
It's very coriouse, fuck i love it,
guess im one of the few that like this better than the final version.
The work song
The Moss- Reprise
I like the way this version is structured; the final version is a bit too long for me
I keep hearing a doorbell ringing
the moss - 2019
The moss(Demo) - 2022
bro what
i like the clickclickclick
lyrics in the description are wrong.
This is the guy who made the song how are they wrong?
🧠n't?
@@grojdoomer the lyrics used to be the ones from the full version, rather than this version, bruh.
Wow this is so bad
I already listened to the finished version and got curious about this demo because i really like the song
This
This is really something tho
It's so similar but at the same time It's so different
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