Just wanna say Tony: your musical analysis and the knowledge you spread has gotten me into writing music myself. I've been enjoying it so far, and learning how to listen to musical layers through your videos has helped immensely. Thank you.
Ah man, I'm hype for every Cowboy Bebop reaction you plan to put out. Can't wait until you get to What Planet Is This? and Too Good Too Bad. Also, can't wait to go see Cowboy Bebop Live from the Bebop Bounty Big Band!
Tony taking us to school with some very good digestible breakdowns of how bands work together and interact/listen to one another. You are the first person to actually take a swing, no pun intended, at explaining a "Walking" bass and "Locking in" with a drummer. Terms we hear thrown around but I think few really understand what the terminology means in the context of what the players are doing and listening to. Great Stuff DRT!!!
If anyone is curious about how the trombonist is playing those really fast licks at 17:19, it's a technique called "doodle tonguing", where you literally say "doodle" as you play, as opposed to the more traditional "tah-kah" or "dah-gah" that you find in orchestral double tonguing passages. It's noticeably less crisp than normal double-tonguing, but most people agree that the muddiness adds to the characteristic "jazzy" sound that we all know and love
I've been listening to this OST for literal decades & I'm often hearing something i hadn't caught before or had forgotten. It's so cool to have it be broken down by a pro & getting to learn more the technical part of music is really fun! Thanks Tony!✌🏼
This soundtrack really inspired me to get into a wider variety of music back in High School. I was a diehard metalhead and this led me to start listening to Art Blakey, John Coltrane, and eventually Harbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius and all that funky 70s Fusion and beyond.
Especially as a drummer just starting out rhythmic complexity just blew me away. I would say this sound track and Ghost Reveries by Opeth are the most influential records to me as far as pushing me to listen to new music. Once me and my buddies started listening to this shit we really leveled up as musicians. Unfortunately we had access to good weed and got a little too experimental so nobody liked our music aside from few old hippies. Good times lol.
RUSH is one of my favorite tracks on the OST. Every road trip/long drive I do it's one of the first songs that starts playing once I hit the highway haha.
I’ve waited for this reaction for a WHILE!! Yoko Kanno is a musical genius who forever changed the anime music scene in which people did not think that this kind of music Would exist in anime it was kinda unheard of back in the 90’s I always love seeing people’s reactions to her work!! 🤍🤍
Recommend going to a Bebop Bounty Big Band show if you ever get the chance, they're on tour right now. Saw them in Atlanta last month, was awesome to hear the soundtrack live.
I'm new to the channel, i love this analysis style and please don't apologise for pausing and appreciating each part of a song, that's the best part of the channel, i found you with you Ado Show reaction, this is some great content, i'd love to see what you think of some Yakuza/Like A Dragon music with "Pledge of Demon" or "Impregnable Triangle"
Cowboy Bebop predates the 3 episode rule. Episode 5 is epic. Episode 4 isn't my favourite, but the finale has "Too Good, Too Bad", which is similar in style to Rush.
The next piece you should listen to is from the Climactic intro to the 3rd act from the movie. Somebody help me remember what its called off the top of my head, "what planet is this"?
If you're looking for more Yoko Kanno to react to in a similar vein and vibe to Rush, I'd recommend Clutch from the cowboy bebop movie OST, another master class in composition, and one of my favorite Yoko Kanno tracks.
@@Bandit0 damn, one of my favorite shows but I guess it is quite cringy at times and is very ...weird I guess ? But dropping it at episode 15 is wild, that's literally the episode that hooks everybody and one of the best episodes lol. Edit: just saw on his patreon he is watching konosuba which I haven't really watched except for the first episode but that just makes his choice to drop it even weirder huh...
@sham00ly75 Its talked about in a few posts, but I think the distinction with Re:Zero and Konosuba (and FMA for that matter) is the levity/self-seriousness of each shows' overall tone and their conflict/synergy with their respective 'main characters'. In Konosuba the wacky/deplorable nature of Kazuma serves the tone. Whereas in Re:Zero some might see it as a nice break between the suffering, whereas others might see it as a tonal conflict that undercuts themes. And the nature of the MC's being a problem vs side-characters (like Zenitsu in Demon Slayer) means that there's little hope to just 'get past it' or hope it improves. And looking at it from that perspective, I totally understand it. Having recently rewatched FMA myself, I was also surprised at how much it leaned into that mid-2000's anime gag style.
@DrumRollTonyReacts Hope you enjoyed those trips. Keep doing what you're doing, your content and commenting is just wonderful, LOVE seeing your videos all the time. -Your average Greek fan Stefanos😆
PLEASE PLEASE AND I MEAN PLEASE REACT TO maisondes - アイウエ this song is so underrated just found it and highly and i mean HIGHLY reminds me of zutomayo. The drums and keyboard and everything is perfect u won’t regret this please nobody even knows this song
Sir please listen to solo leveling ending song by tk ling and especially both op and end of bleach tybw thank u for your hard work btw it’s actually 5th vedio where I am commenting 😂😂
I don't think he's gonna do Bleach the early bleach stuff got his ass copyrighted, sucks because both songs are great, the op got that stank face bassline and the ed got that ado delivery
Well.. I just wrote a very very long comment explaining how much this video meant to me. For some reason the comment isn't getting posted, so just know that I loved watching this in a way that is very meaningful and memorable for me. This song means a lot to me and was a big reason of why I loved this show back in 2001 at the age of 12, and it helped get me into music on more than a simply surface level. Thank you so much for this. I was literally in tears by the end. edit: Screw it, I'm going to copy and paste it piece by piece in the replies and see which part is getting automatically flagged. I've spent a lot of time on this already, I want it to go through
1. This one... Wow. I opened youtube and saw this thumbnail and I got chills. I was immediately physically excited, like had a little head spinning arm flailing moment, taken aback and then wide eyed to look at the thumbnail again. So this is gonna require a little bit of a story. I watched Cowboy Bebop for the first time on Adult Swim when I was 12, back in 2001. I had been watching (and loving) Dragonball Z on Toonami within a couple years of this, as well as others like Gundam Wing and whatever else was on the day time Toonami lineup, and at the time I still remember how sneaky and "dirty" I felt staying up to watch Adult Swim as a kid. Cowboy Bebop was what felt like my first REAL anime (it wasn't, but it's how I felt back then); It had style, seriousness, action, violence, it was sexy... And I still remember that first time... The very first episode of the show... The music box intro ("Memory"), directly into a momentary black screen accompanied by the perfect amount of silence to lull you into a melancholy relaxed state before Tank! assaults your senses in an amazing way... I didn't think in these terms back then, I was 12, but I remember how it all made me feel. How cool Spike was, how stylish and slightly depressing yet alive the world felt...
2. Anyways. This song really stood out to me, and I kept coming back to it over the many years of being obsessed with this show and rewatching it and showing new friends for the first time... Just thinking of this song fills my mind with images and memories. I see the awning, the bench, the poncho and the sombrero... I see the vial spinning in the air, the tables flipping, the fluid movements and spinning heel kicks from Spike, it just all floods in. It was THIS song that first inspired me to think about music in a way I never had before. I uh... "acquired" the full OST, let's say, and I would play this full song over and over, hearing something new every time.
3. You are by far my favorite music reaction and analysis content creator, and while I haven't kept up with anime for maybe a decade and, honestly, don't watch too much of your content on a regular basis (just because I don't have any attachment to a lot of the music you react to), I've binged everything I could find in your catalogue that is something I AM attached to. Your takes on and appreciation of the musical structure, and the almost imperceptible choices and details in the compositions that you point out, it's all so great to me; it's fascinating, and endearing, and educational. So when I tell you that while watching this I was an emotional wreck in the best way possible, those words alone don't even do it justice.
4. This video couldn't have come at a better time in my life, frankly. Things have been very tough for me lately, for a large variety of reasons, and I've been struggling to find things that really bring me joy in a way that isn't merely a dopamine chase and... I mean seriously, there were tears streaming down my face by the end of this video. If this video was an hour long I would've sat here enthralled and still wanting more. As usual you hit on and appreciated so many things that I also love and appreciate, and it honestly felt like I was there with you, like I was a kid again sharing my excitement about this show and the music in it all over again. I was beaming when you brought up the drummer's right hand (I am a lapsed amateur drummer, percussion and rhythm is always something I'm listening to and love in any music), that look to camera you did at @17:37 which hit on a phrase that I also love and found noteworthy, I mean.... Really, this was cathartic for me. It brought me back to a depth of emotion I thought I had lost.
5. So thank you, so much. I know this is A LOT to chuck into a youtube comment, trust me, but I just wanted you to know just how much you very coincidentally and unintentionally affected me with a simple song choice and your usual engaging and appreciative commentary and analysis. I'm really glad you enjoy this song so much, and I had a (nuclear) blast watching it with you. This upload threaded a needle in my life that I didn't know needed threading.
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I am very excited to hear massive content from Yoko Kanno!
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Just wanna say Tony: your musical analysis and the knowledge you spread has gotten me into writing music myself. I've been enjoying it so far, and learning how to listen to musical layers through your videos has helped immensely. Thank you.
That is good to hear 🎵
Ba dum tss!
An OST that has earned its right to be called Timeless.
Ah man, I'm hype for every Cowboy Bebop reaction you plan to put out. Can't wait until you get to What Planet Is This? and Too Good Too Bad.
Also, can't wait to go see Cowboy Bebop Live from the Bebop Bounty Big Band!
Amen
@@KazimaSensei it would be awesome if tony analize What Planet is this? its so good and so underrated
Tony taking us to school with some very good digestible breakdowns of how bands work together and interact/listen to one another. You are the first person to actually take a swing, no pun intended, at explaining a "Walking" bass and "Locking in" with a drummer. Terms we hear thrown around but I think few really understand what the terminology means in the context of what the players are doing and listening to. Great Stuff DRT!!!
Also the first time I heard the 007 quote in the string line
何年経ってもカウボーイビバップの楽曲は色あせないな✨今の時代、逆に新鮮にも感じる🎵菅野よう子さんは天才。
This is some high quality, in-depth analysis. As Gordon Ramsay would say, "Finally, some good fucking food"
👨🍳
If anyone is curious about how the trombonist is playing those really fast licks at 17:19, it's a technique called "doodle tonguing", where you literally say "doodle" as you play, as opposed to the more traditional "tah-kah" or "dah-gah" that you find in orchestral double tonguing passages. It's noticeably less crisp than normal double-tonguing, but most people agree that the muddiness adds to the characteristic "jazzy" sound that we all know and love
I've been listening to this OST for literal decades & I'm often hearing something i hadn't caught before or had forgotten. It's so cool to have it be broken down by a pro & getting to learn more the technical part of music is really fun! Thanks Tony!✌🏼
YW
This soundtrack really inspired me to get into a wider variety of music back in High School. I was a diehard metalhead and this led me to start listening to Art Blakey, John Coltrane, and eventually Harbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius and all that funky 70s Fusion and beyond.
Amazing names in your list
Especially as a drummer just starting out rhythmic complexity just blew me away. I would say this sound track and Ghost Reveries by Opeth are the most influential records to me as far as pushing me to listen to new music. Once me and my buddies started listening to this shit we really leveled up as musicians. Unfortunately we had access to good weed and got a little too experimental so nobody liked our music aside from few old hippies. Good times lol.
Okay, three, two, one, let's jam!
RUSH is one of my favorite tracks on the OST. Every road trip/long drive I do it's one of the first songs that starts playing once I hit the highway haha.
I’ve waited for this reaction for a WHILE!! Yoko Kanno is a musical genius who forever changed the anime music scene in which people did not think that this kind of music Would exist in anime it was kinda unheard of back in the 90’s I always love seeing people’s reactions to her work!! 🤍🤍
Man, I haven’t seen you this giddy during a video in a LONG time
Hell yeah
Cowboy Bepop music has such a great vibe. Really elevated the show.
The Cowboy Bebop soundtrack was actually retro. Released in 1998, it's a love letter to material that was popular in the 1960s to early 1970s jazz.
Well yea, bebop is literally part of the anime title 🤣
There's another rendition of this song called N.Y. Rush as well. Great varied version with some nice solos. You should give it a listen on your own. 😊
If you liked this you've got to listen to "What Planet is This" from the Bebop Movie OST. Another energetic brass piece with a great saxaphone solo.
Many names of the episodes of Cowboy Bebop are named after rock/jazz songs.
We all knew it was gonna happen. Damned good stuff.
look at nujabes work at samurai champloo too!
YES NUJABES. the grandfather of lofi hip hop
Man, would love to hear more deep-dives like this for almost the entire CB soundtrack lol
Recommend going to a Bebop Bounty Big Band show if you ever get the chance, they're on tour right now. Saw them in Atlanta last month, was awesome to hear the soundtrack live.
Should check the Darker Than Black OST next, its from Yoko Kanno as well and I guarantee that you gonna enjoy her work there too!
from the cowboy bebop soundtrack "real folk blues" is such a standout to me tbh would love to see you listenin to it
Hey, Tony. Don’t forget to change the title from “Coyboy Bebop” to “Cowboy Bebop” 😭
LMAO TY TY
guys don't tell him about the description
really coool, i love this ost, thanks a lot
I'm new to the channel, i love this analysis style and please don't apologise for pausing and appreciating each part of a song, that's the best part of the channel, i found you with you Ado Show reaction, this is some great content, i'd love to see what you think of some Yakuza/Like A Dragon music with "Pledge of Demon" or "Impregnable Triangle"
Welcome to the channel and thx 🎵
@@DrumRollTonyReacts thanks man, i've really enjoyed what i've seen so far :)
Hey, so there’s a guy on TH-cam who goes by Miracle of Sound you might be interested in. He makes music inspired by games and TV and stuff.
Hope we'll see Piano black and Call me at some point
Cowboy Bebop predates the 3 episode rule. Episode 5 is epic. Episode 4 isn't my favourite, but the finale has "Too Good, Too Bad", which is similar in style to Rush.
The next piece you should listen to is from the Climactic intro to the 3rd act from the movie. Somebody help me remember what its called off the top of my head, "what planet is this"?
Certified banger
I like Overlord, but Cowboy Bebop was the right choice.
If you're looking for more Yoko Kanno to react to in a similar vein and vibe to Rush, I'd recommend Clutch from the cowboy bebop movie OST, another master class in composition, and one of my favorite Yoko Kanno tracks.
YES, can't believe it took you so long to get around to Bebop considering how many anime you've now watched... You've watched more anime than me lol.
I'm glad it's finally happening
God I love jazz
Curious what anime did Tony drop for Cowboy Bebop?
Re: Zero
@@Bandit0 damn, one of my favorite shows but I guess it is quite cringy at times and is very ...weird I guess ? But dropping it at episode 15 is wild, that's literally the episode that hooks everybody and one of the best episodes lol. Edit: just saw on his patreon he is watching konosuba which I haven't really watched except for the first episode but that just makes his choice to drop it even weirder huh...
@sham00ly75 Its talked about in a few posts, but I think the distinction with Re:Zero and Konosuba (and FMA for that matter) is the levity/self-seriousness of each shows' overall tone and their conflict/synergy with their respective 'main characters'. In Konosuba the wacky/deplorable nature of Kazuma serves the tone. Whereas in Re:Zero some might see it as a nice break between the suffering, whereas others might see it as a tonal conflict that undercuts themes.
And the nature of the MC's being a problem vs side-characters (like Zenitsu in Demon Slayer) means that there's little hope to just 'get past it' or hope it improves. And looking at it from that perspective, I totally understand it. Having recently rewatched FMA myself, I was also surprised at how much it leaned into that mid-2000's anime gag style.
LOVE THE VIDEO! But why is bro wearing my country's Olympic's athlete outfit??!
I got it when I used to travel to 🇬🇷
Good choice in anime 100%
For some reason I was totally sure you already watched Bebop, guess an excuse to rewatch it ;)
Just wonder, when will we get all One piece openings 😂❤
You need to "Clutch" by them, you're welcome.
Sounds like a plan
Hey Tony, what's with the fancy Greek jacket?😅
I used to go to Greece a lot and I got it when I was there
@DrumRollTonyReacts Hope you enjoyed those trips. Keep doing what you're doing, your content and commenting is just wonderful, LOVE seeing your videos all the time.
-Your average Greek fan Stefanos😆
I hope you will continue Overlord after
Will there be a TK “un-apex” reaction soon? 👀. It’s definitely better than the solo leveling OP
Yea. I really like that song. I have heard it twice so far in the episodes
Somehow the track sounded different than I remember..... Is this an alternative version of the song? 🤔
I'm sure this is a full version vs the scene in the anime
PLEASE PLEASE AND I MEAN PLEASE REACT TO maisondes - アイウエ this song is so underrated just found it and highly and i mean HIGHLY reminds me of zutomayo. The drums and keyboard and everything is perfect u won’t regret this please nobody even knows this song
How come u still not listen to Blue Box OP1 by Official HIGE DANdism ????
It's like the best OP of 2024
I hope you do samurai shamploo opening
Day 8 of asking you to react to Blue Box opening 1
8 days
N.Y. RUSH
youtu.becom/YE_ofAg8POY
youtu.becom/zaI8vjriSVE
Sir please listen to solo leveling ending song by tk ling and especially both op and end of bleach tybw thank u for your hard work btw it’s actually 5th vedio where I am commenting 😂😂
I'm going to do a video on solo leveling ending. It's a GREAT song
I don't think he's gonna do Bleach the early bleach stuff got his ass copyrighted, sucks because both songs are great, the op got that stank face bassline and the ed got that ado delivery
@ Accurate. The Copyright strike SUCKED
Hey Tony love the videos. You maybe know Brian Culbertson already, but I would like to hear you dig into this th-cam.com/video/DCopcNpzc60/w-d-xo.html
Well.. I just wrote a very very long comment explaining how much this video meant to me. For some reason the comment isn't getting posted, so just know that I loved watching this in a way that is very meaningful and memorable for me. This song means a lot to me and was a big reason of why I loved this show back in 2001 at the age of 12, and it helped get me into music on more than a simply surface level. Thank you so much for this. I was literally in tears by the end.
edit: Screw it, I'm going to copy and paste it piece by piece in the replies and see which part is getting automatically flagged. I've spent a lot of time on this already, I want it to go through
1. This one... Wow. I opened youtube and saw this thumbnail and I got chills. I was immediately physically excited, like had a little head spinning arm flailing moment, taken aback and then wide eyed to look at the thumbnail again. So this is gonna require a little bit of a story.
I watched Cowboy Bebop for the first time on Adult Swim when I was 12, back in 2001. I had been watching (and loving) Dragonball Z on Toonami within a couple years of this, as well as others like Gundam Wing and whatever else was on the day time Toonami lineup, and at the time I still remember how sneaky and "dirty" I felt staying up to watch Adult Swim as a kid. Cowboy Bebop was what felt like my first REAL anime (it wasn't, but it's how I felt back then); It had style, seriousness, action, violence, it was sexy... And I still remember that first time... The very first episode of the show... The music box intro ("Memory"), directly into a momentary black screen accompanied by the perfect amount of silence to lull you into a melancholy relaxed state before Tank! assaults your senses in an amazing way... I didn't think in these terms back then, I was 12, but I remember how it all made me feel. How cool Spike was, how stylish and slightly depressing yet alive the world felt...
2. Anyways. This song really stood out to me, and I kept coming back to it over the many years of being obsessed with this show and rewatching it and showing new friends for the first time... Just thinking of this song fills my mind with images and memories. I see the awning, the bench, the poncho and the sombrero... I see the vial spinning in the air, the tables flipping, the fluid movements and spinning heel kicks from Spike, it just all floods in. It was THIS song that first inspired me to think about music in a way I never had before. I uh... "acquired" the full OST, let's say, and I would play this full song over and over, hearing something new every time.
3. You are by far my favorite music reaction and analysis content creator, and while I haven't kept up with anime for maybe a decade and, honestly, don't watch too much of your content on a regular basis (just because I don't have any attachment to a lot of the music you react to), I've binged everything I could find in your catalogue that is something I AM attached to. Your takes on and appreciation of the musical structure, and the almost imperceptible choices and details in the compositions that you point out, it's all so great to me; it's fascinating, and endearing, and educational. So when I tell you that while watching this I was an emotional wreck in the best way possible, those words alone don't even do it justice.
4. This video couldn't have come at a better time in my life, frankly. Things have been very tough for me lately, for a large variety of reasons, and I've been struggling to find things that really bring me joy in a way that isn't merely a dopamine chase and... I mean seriously, there were tears streaming down my face by the end of this video. If this video was an hour long I would've sat here enthralled and still wanting more. As usual you hit on and appreciated so many things that I also love and appreciate, and it honestly felt like I was there with you, like I was a kid again sharing my excitement about this show and the music in it all over again. I was beaming when you brought up the drummer's right hand (I am a lapsed amateur drummer, percussion and rhythm is always something I'm listening to and love in any music), that look to camera you did at @17:37 which hit on a phrase that I also love and found noteworthy, I mean.... Really, this was cathartic for me. It brought me back to a depth of emotion I thought I had lost.
5. So thank you, so much.
I know this is A LOT to chuck into a youtube comment, trust me, but I just wanted you to know just how much you very coincidentally and unintentionally affected me with a simple song choice and your usual engaging and appreciative commentary and analysis. I'm really glad you enjoy this song so much, and I had a (nuclear) blast watching it with you. This upload threaded a needle in my life that I didn't know needed threading.