Hey Ben Levin. You probably won’t see this comment, but I still wanna say that the depth and power of this music and these lyrics literally left me speechless with chills. You’re a true artist and I can’t can’t stress how much I appreciate the art you create. This has really moved me.
Hey Kevin, thank you so much. These people brought out the best in me and in the song and I’m so honored and grateful for this experience. I hope to make lots more music for you in time!
@@BenLevin Hi Ben. I'm sure I've said this before somewhere, but I can't begin too say how grateful I am for your music. There is loads of music out there, with absolute technical wizards that I love... but it leaves me thinking "Man, I could never be [x musician]"... Not a nice feeling... but when I listen to your music. There's something so honest about it, I never think "I could never be Ben Levin"... it always leaves me inspired to be an authentic me, "I can always be me". It always leaves me inspired to pursue whatever *I* like in my own music making. That is a nice feeling! Thanks Ben!
Last time I watched this video, I was in middle school. Watching it now and college student, while not really *that* old yet, this definitely hits harder. Gorgeous music 💜
Ben has a video on his channel that explores the processes involved in this session (with interviews with the arrangers)! th-cam.com/video/Sm4KH0KfaEM/w-d-xo.html
Lyrics posted by Ben Levin on dbates314's comment: Snow hair, frost brow, brick house move out, stuffed box, moth balls, drove so far to rock out When flat screens were a new thing No car self driving Wait online for grocery Screenshare bad latency Bow our heads at punk shows Push forward to the front row Fingers tap on smart phones cause we’re forgetful when we’re old Punk bands be sweatin’ Ingest carcinogens and estrogen Misfits gender morphin Everybody mess with them Punk bands be freedom Jailed cause they got weed on them Inhaled cause we beat on them Before losers were users and safety pin abusers Raging out on headphones Writing songs with 3 tones Cranking shaking cracking bones Not pretty just pugnacious Take a shit they rub your face in it Hunting down the hypocrites and flailing at the government Had enough of it tried to quit Addicts in the attic Teen center pussy was inadequate Need something deeper for habit before the hard shit sees the gap and inhabits it Stick a static steel ring through your nose and let the vultures grab at it Snow hair, frost brow, brick house move out, stuffed box, moth balls, drove so far to rock out We say hello, we say goodbye Grown up fast and bitter Sex came easy Cars and Xbox freebies 1000 shares of GE Gee golly is that for me Crashin’ parties stashin’ molly glitter bodies no apologies, we’ll see Go to the same place when we elderly Put on the same face in the box they bury The room twisted with our energy And kids of celebrities hear the hum of generations heckling me Follow your genetics closely Mammograms just for comfort mostly Likely to occur but not for sure 40, 50 age is a blur next to one word that aches when you speak it And makes people whisper, spirits creaking Memories of a hairless sister brother mother lover father daughter dead grandmother Everyone can relate in some small way so they scared when you mention its name Think about it on the regs, regulate it like my pain meds Don’t let it get to my head We say hello, we say goodbye, and through it all we wonder why Just barely getting by, growing brittle, waiting wild Changing shape and looking more like the ones the young ignore I’ve given up on staying young, I will bare the bruise with love There’s wisdom in the children Push their limits till their prime Who am I to judge them We’re all running out of time.
To Ben Levin, and all the arrangers: I don't usually (hardly ever) get goosebumps from songs, but this arrangement is an exception. The climax from 3.25-3.50 is amazing
This is one of those videos that just keeps drawing me back to it every few weeks. And every time I return, this piece breaks me, relaxes me, and leaves me awestruck more than the last.
Wow! In my opinion, the fact that you are playing in little places makes it even better because it makes me feel through the videos the best feeling of the world, having fun while making music with others.
The ending reminded me of "Surf's Up" by the Beach Boys. I loved this so much, the raw emotion from Ben's delivery, and the willingness of everyone to put their whole self into making his music come alive.
In Germany we have a saying "I don't need no bassdrop, thank God I already got Doppelherz!" It's funny because "Doppelherz" is a German medical... thingy (www.doppelherz.com) and can be translated to "double heart" - which isn't the fun part actually, it's that "Herz" is pronounced the same as "Hertz". Sooooo.... might be a bit far out but you know? "Double Hertz" ... 2Hz? Hahahaha. Did I just prove to everybody that Germans don't have humour? :/
I'm German and I've never heard that before. The only saying about bass that I know is: "Erst wenn der Subwoofer die Katze inhaliert, Fickt der Bass richtig übel", which would approximate to "Only when the subwoofer inhales the cat, is the bass brutal enough"
Ben is an amazing talent as is everyone participating in this song I guess say song series .. I'm 40 years old taught music since I was 15 and I sent this song to my retired High School music teacher and he commented how it gives some faith in Young Generation sing kids getting together not kids but you get the idea ..making music what is about it's about passion Art and Love not selling a bad lifestyle wet dream 2 a teenager for a few dollars to buy mansions for some record executive. but the change has to start somewhere.. It's people like this are going to be the ones who do it. I believe it was the Great American poet The Notorious BIG in his masterpiece 10 Crack Commandments that said " I have a dream.........."
PS this is not my professional TH-cam account this is an account I just made for random stuff but I hear there's a guy with an account called "frettiyeti" he plays guitar more like I do but I tend to do more djent banjo than he does..
Hey, Adam's there. Adam Neely. Dude, that's a lot of musicians. You have like a whole string section, a whole brass section, a whole choir, a whole orchestral percussion section and then some. This is one cool orchestra. You should tour with this many people. I'd go see it. It's not like you'd have to worry about having enough material. I'm sure the others would love to do some of their stuff. What a sound.
Please keep making more and putting these out to buy! I adore this music. You guys have inspired me to try something like this myself with a group of friends.
Discoloured Buttflaps if I may speak with himility to the great Terryfold. From my humble human view its all just variations conveying the same meaning. Please excuse this erroneous servant. May they find a foldier path.
Adam freakin' Neely brought me here. But, this setup is amazing!!! Like, indescribably amazing!!! The rap is giving me some Lin-Manuel Miranda vibes. I'm sorry.
I can't stop watching this, it made my mom cry happy tears
You're a genius Ben! This was incredible, congratulations and thanks!
sounds amazing Ben! Keep going!
It's exactly what I expected, and yet completely original and compelling man, great work
aaaaww =) thanks for the wonderful music
You deserve it Ben! Really great stuff, i love the song and the arrangement is astonishing!!!!!
Rage Against the Apartment
Yeah, more like rage against his neighbors.
@@PaulTheSkeptic More like rage against him from his neighbors...
This was awesome. It's like Frank Zappa featuring Rage Against the Machine.
Ben even kinda looks like Frank a little.
It reminds me a bit more of Kanye ft. Frank Zappa.
Hey Ben Levin. You probably won’t see this comment, but I still wanna say that the depth and power of this music and these lyrics literally left me speechless with chills. You’re a true artist and I can’t can’t stress how much I appreciate the art you create. This has really moved me.
Hey Kevin, thank you so much. These people brought out the best in me and in the song and I’m so honored and grateful for this experience. I hope to make lots more music for you in time!
You're the man dude, from 3:10 onward I could not believe what I was hearing, superb composition and orchestration!
@@BenLevin Hi Ben. I'm sure I've said this before somewhere, but I can't begin too say how grateful I am for your music. There is loads of music out there, with absolute technical wizards that I love... but it leaves me thinking "Man, I could never be [x musician]"... Not a nice feeling... but when I listen to your music. There's something so honest about it, I never think "I could never be Ben Levin"... it always leaves me inspired to be an authentic me, "I can always be me". It always leaves me inspired to pursue whatever *I* like in my own music making. That is a nice feeling! Thanks Ben!
@@alicec1533 I really love to hear this DrPenguin! That's all I want - for everyone to be the most themselves they can be in their art!
Last time I watched this video, I was in middle school. Watching it now and college student, while not really *that* old yet, this definitely hits harder. Gorgeous music 💜
"what do you play?" "oh I play the one-way sign"
This is so cool! Adam Neely's vlog brought me here!
Awesome, thanks man!
Ben is quickly turning into one of my favourite musicians ever
Forreal
Wow, that’s heavy, I’m glad to see Adam, Ben and Luke together in a project
Neely Crew where you at?
D E F G E C D
Neely led me to this, which led me to Ben Levin, and for that I am most grateful to him.
It is mind boggling that the density of sound actually works without being too much and everything is heard. Amazing arranging skills.
man...how do you even arrange something like this? this is a masterpiece
Ben has a video on his channel that explores the processes involved in this session (with interviews with the arrangers)! th-cam.com/video/Sm4KH0KfaEM/w-d-xo.html
It is definitely a difficult process
Lyrics posted by Ben Levin on dbates314's comment:
Snow hair, frost brow, brick house move out, stuffed box, moth balls, drove so far to rock out
When flat screens were a new thing
No car self driving
Wait online for grocery
Screenshare bad latency
Bow our heads at punk shows
Push forward to the front row
Fingers tap on smart phones cause we’re forgetful when we’re old
Punk bands be sweatin’
Ingest carcinogens and estrogen
Misfits gender morphin
Everybody mess with them
Punk bands be freedom
Jailed cause they got weed on them
Inhaled cause we beat on them
Before losers were users and safety pin abusers
Raging out on headphones
Writing songs with 3 tones
Cranking shaking cracking bones
Not pretty just pugnacious
Take a shit they rub your face in it
Hunting down the hypocrites and flailing at the government
Had enough of it tried to quit
Addicts in the attic
Teen center pussy was inadequate
Need something deeper for habit before the hard shit sees the gap and inhabits it
Stick a static steel ring through your nose and let the vultures grab at it
Snow hair, frost brow, brick house move out, stuffed box, moth balls, drove so far to rock out
We say hello, we say goodbye
Grown up fast and bitter
Sex came easy
Cars and Xbox freebies
1000 shares of GE
Gee golly is that for me
Crashin’ parties stashin’ molly glitter bodies no apologies, we’ll see
Go to the same place when we elderly
Put on the same face in the box they bury
The room twisted with our energy
And kids of celebrities hear the hum of generations heckling me
Follow your genetics closely
Mammograms just for comfort mostly
Likely to occur but not for sure
40, 50 age is a blur next to one word that aches when you speak it
And makes people whisper, spirits creaking
Memories of a hairless sister brother mother lover father daughter dead grandmother
Everyone can relate in some small way so they scared when you mention its name
Think about it on the regs, regulate it like my pain meds
Don’t let it get to my head
We say hello, we say goodbye, and through it all we wonder why
Just barely getting by, growing brittle, waiting wild
Changing shape and looking more like the ones the young ignore
I’ve given up on staying young, I will bare the bruise with love
There’s wisdom in the children
Push their limits till their prime
Who am I to judge them
We’re all running out of time.
This has quickly become one of my all time favorite songs
Ben Levin is AMAZING! Also the percussion is outta control! #OneWay
Justin Berling one of the kit players teaches at my college
The beatboxing is so cool here that guy is an unsung hero! :D
TheOddKris there’s an apartment on Gene’s composition!
"I've given up on staying yound, I will bear the bruise with love."
Ben Levin, You absolute madman, that was so beautiful :D
I have never been so excited for an apartment sessions video
I love at the beginning where the listener is literally moving throughout a three dimensional musical space
I was wondering when someone was going to play in the tub!! Fun to watch!!
The Punch Brothers video had an upright bass in the tub as well!
I will have to watch that!
they could have cleaned it first though...
I had never heard any of Ben's stuff and I have a feeling that I'm gonna be listening to a lot of it now. This is a wonderful piece.
To Ben Levin, and all the arrangers: I don't usually (hardly ever) get goosebumps from songs, but this arrangement is an exception. The climax from 3.25-3.50 is amazing
Fantastic! Love the "restroom" trio!
This is one of those videos that just keeps drawing me back to it every few weeks. And every time I return, this piece breaks me, relaxes me, and leaves me awestruck more than the last.
Wow! In my opinion, the fact that you are playing in little places makes it even better because it makes me feel through the videos the best feeling of the world, having fun while making music with others.
this is the most inspiring thing i've seen in a long long time
I love solo artists and all but MAN! This is how music was meant to be played!
The ending reminded me of "Surf's Up" by the Beach Boys.
I loved this so much, the raw emotion from Ben's delivery, and the willingness of everyone to put their whole self into making his music come alive.
3:21 that bassline came from underground the hECK
That's called a S U B B A S S D R O P
yeah that bass hit hard, I could feel it come through the floor even though I don't have a subwoofer
In Germany we have a saying "I don't need no bassdrop, thank God I already got Doppelherz!"
It's funny because "Doppelherz" is a German medical... thingy (www.doppelherz.com) and can be translated to "double heart" - which isn't the fun part actually, it's that "Herz" is pronounced the same as "Hertz". Sooooo.... might be a bit far out but you know? "Double Hertz" ... 2Hz?
Hahahaha. Did I just prove to everybody that Germans don't have humour? :/
I'm German and I've never heard that before.
The only saying about bass that I know is: "Erst wenn der Subwoofer die Katze inhaliert, Fickt der Bass richtig übel", which would approximate to "Only when the subwoofer inhales the cat, is the bass brutal enough"
I just made that up to show that Germans sometimes do have a special kind of humour :D
Also I was pretty drunk when I wrote this :v
Ben is an amazing talent as is everyone participating in this song I guess say song series .. I'm 40 years old taught music since I was 15 and I sent this song to my retired High School music teacher and he commented how it gives some faith in Young Generation sing kids getting together not kids but you get the idea ..making music what is about it's about passion Art and Love not selling a bad lifestyle wet dream 2 a teenager for a few dollars to buy mansions for some record executive. but the change has to start somewhere.. It's people like this are going to be the ones who do it. I believe it was the Great American poet The Notorious BIG in his masterpiece 10 Crack Commandments that said " I have a dream.........."
PS this is not my professional TH-cam account this is an account I just made for random stuff but I hear there's a guy with an account called "frettiyeti" he plays guitar more like I do but I tend to do more djent banjo than he does..
Probably one of if not my favorite apartment sessions I’ve seen
Love all the percussion on this one
Hey, Adam's there. Adam Neely. Dude, that's a lot of musicians. You have like a whole string section, a whole brass section, a whole choir, a whole orchestral percussion section and then some. This is one cool orchestra. You should tour with this many people. I'd go see it. It's not like you'd have to worry about having enough material. I'm sure the others would love to do some of their stuff. What a sound.
He arranged most of the music for this version
@@MongerOfStrings8222 Adam did? Or Ben? Whichever, cool.
No freaking way you recorded this all live no freaking way holy shit it's so good
Holy SHIT!!!...... I am in awe. I love this song and I love Apartment Sessions, never thought they'd sound so beautiful put together!!
Ben Levin. Your creation and arrangement, your musicality are just out of this world, no words. Keep up the good work man.🎸🎹📯🎤🔔🎛
Well, that was all over the place but it worked
20 cent productions It's what Ben goes for, I never used to like it but its grown on me. Love him.
The chorus makes this for me. You already have my brain and spleen but those voices take my heart and spirit too
One of my fav Ben levin songs. This is so good
this is insane, and one of the best music performances i've ever seen. so creative and crazy. like an orchestra with every instrument imaginable.
I love the original album version of this and this just blew me away, absolutely amazing in every way
Please keep making more and putting these out to buy! I adore this music. You guys have inspired me to try something like this myself with a group of friends.
Amazing!!!!!! Love the way this song makes you feel uncomfortable, but at the same time, like if you belong...
@5:22 BASS!
*ADAM NEELY'S BASS LESSONS*
*A-DAM NEE-LY'S NEW HORIZOOOOOOOOOOOONS (in music)*
I've always adored the song, but with a full apartment band it sounds INSANE. Amazing as ever!
Keep coming back to this
Apartment Sessions - Being Human (Bent Knee) *WHEN*
That. Would be awesome.
Brilliant! I think Ben Levin is about to become one of my favourite new musicians all in the space of a few hours!
My favorite apartment session
What a coincidence to find a TH-cam creator with the name of both of my sons Ben(jamin) & Levin. Keep jammin'!! 😀
2:12 is so freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a preposterous, wonderful, stupid, expensive, original idea!
I love it!
Goooooooooooood I always loved this song, thanks for letting this song live through all of you !!!
This put a smile on my face. Thank you
Amazing, fantastic, such good fun just to watch, it must have been great to be there.
Big big love for this song, amazing arrangement
i know that a serious @#&% ton of work went into this, and the end result was magical. THanks to all the players
I can only imagine what the noise complaint must be like..
I hope it's "Why was there no noise yesterday?"
"Turn that noise up, ground isn't shaking enough!"
#adamneelygang
Hell yeah! Great music and great persons!
I love everything about this.
Wow what an insane production! I also love how this ties into Adam's recent discussion on (non)-acousmatic music
That was a fun one :) Now to watch Adam's behind the scenes!
Great song Ben.
wow wow wow wow wow and one more time wow
easily one of most amazing things i have ever seen and heard
loved the authentic bathroom reverb :)
I am crying now, thanks.
This mix is t h i c c
this should have a million views, love this
This is beautiful. Thank you all.
Hah, that is awesome! Nice work, everyone.
Very cool session. Top. 💎
Amazingly inspiring
you must be a fun neighbour to have
Grab on mah foldy holds
Dismoeyy
learn the actual lyrics human
Discoloured Buttflaps if I may speak with himility to the great Terryfold. From my humble human view its all just variations conveying the same meaning.
Please excuse this erroneous servant. May they find a foldier path.
Coming from the Game Dev community, this reminds me a lot of hosting game jams
I wish I could explain the genius of Ben Levin to other people.
One word: EPIC (gamer win)
I'm a little surprised. This is excellent
I'll be coming back here forever
This is pure insanity haha. OMG. Genius!
Adam freakin' Neely brought me here. But, this setup is amazing!!! Like, indescribably amazing!!! The rap is giving me some Lin-Manuel Miranda vibes.
I'm sorry.
I just discovered this thanks to Adam Neely and this is a reeaally cool video format!
cool song, cool artist, cool choral performance, cool sounds, cool everything :)
Ben Levin is win.
This is the best thing I've ever heard
Masterpiece!!!
Many thumbs up guys!!!
Wow! This was actually beautiful.
This needs to be on spotify! XD
You are Great, Apartment Sessions.
Am I dreaming? This is stunning! :D
Yeah! Ben levin let's go
Awesome, this is Ben Levin's big Daniel Gildenlow 'Be' moment.. (Pain of Salvation) Snarky Puppy will be worried also!
Ohhhh !!! *love* *love* *love*
Ooooof that harp was precious
Once again amazing!
The rap parts are what I wished Kendrick would have gone for after TPAB.
That's one hell of a compliment
Dope song, I do wish they turned up Ben tho. Was a little hard to hear him above all the beauty
This is absolutely fantastic!!!
A song I think would fit you is Dream Sweet in Sea Major. I hope you will do with one day.
goosebumps everywhere. damn! great stuff
The One Way sign is my new favorite instrument
This is oddly amazingly good
Ben is incredible :)