Fun video idea you didn't ask for: comparing old versions of songs to their remastered versions and explaining the differences in production and how it might have been done.

I read a bit about the band while listening to this, and discovered Aaron Bruno, the main guy behind AWOL is mostly deaf in his left ear, so he tends to mix certain instruments/parts he likes more to the right side, leading to the kinda weird L/R splits all over the track

just realized this song is a decade old o_O

Awolnation is crazy versatile. Became one of my favorite bands real quick.

Knights of Shame MUST be your next AN song. Trust me.... Thank you for what you do, sir!

Whole album is a masterpiece.

Whenever this song come on, I automatically turn the volume up as high as I can stand. Listening to you break down songs is something special.

In it for a minute to win it... as you would say.

A lot of people seem to think AWOLNATION is a one hit wonder, but they actually have a lot of great songs. I love Mayday!!! Fiesta Fever

I have two 12" subs in my Cherokee this song vibrates my freakin lungs 😍🤣🤣🤣🤣

Every time I hear this I remember Jeb Corlis's "Grinding the Crack" BASE jumping video

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Tron: Legacy OST, composed by Daft Punk. Arguably some of their best work, and easily my favorite of their albums. In particular, End of Line is phenomenal.

Thank you and special thanks to your brother for asking this! I can never listen to this song without listening to WOODKID Run Boy Run next, so I'd recommend that for decomposition.

One of the best of the 2010s. I think this one is gonna be a recognizable classic years from now.

One of the most unique songs ever made! Good choice!!

"Woman woman", "i am", and "not your fault" are a few other great AWOL songs. Also, you talked about dynamics in this so much that I can't imagine you don't know thomas dolby. Pulp culture is an incredible example of great mixing and engineering.

I really enjoyed this video reaction. Please do their whole album, Angel Miners And The Lightning Riders. It’s such an awesome album. I’ve only discovered Awolnation during lockdown. Rivers Cuomo (big Weezer fan here 😊) had him on his webinar to promote that album and their collaboration on one of the songs, titled Pacific Coast Highway In The Movies and upon listening to the entire album, I became a big fan. Can’t stop listening to them. When I heard they were touring last year and coming to the Bay Area, I dragged my husband to go with me and he was quite impressed, he’s a big metal, Rush, AC/DC fan.

Geebz....got to check out Clutch. Great rock/blues/metal. Thanks for what you do man!!

First time I heard them. I knew they were going to be big

Geebz, how about some Highly Suspect? They're so clutch and I know there's gotta be folks here bringing them up. Lydia is a spicy chef kiss of a track. Also, another brilliant decomposition, bro ❤

They're such a great group - please please please listen to their song "All I Need"

Haven't been a big radio music listener for many years, but this is one of the great songs getting its deserved recognition.

Love it Geebz one of my favorites glad you enjoyed it

Totally hyped me up! Good vibes 😎

It definitely sounds like a live kick, I have always LOVED how synthetic 90 percent of the track sounds with the contrast of the very organic sounding kick drum

This song was so huge a few years back. Couldn't escape it. Still super catchy!

I love this! Thank you for turning me on to something new Geebz!!

Throwback thursday, want to get a bit of Rolling Stones for everyone? _Gimme Shelter_ is without a doubt my fav song from them, and so many artists have done great covers of it. If you don't get around to doing a vid on them Geebz, you should check out Stone Sour, especially their trilogy of EP's of covers. They do _Gimme Shelter,_ _Love Gun,_ _Creeping Death,_ and so many others from various rock and metal bands throughout the decades. *btw, Corey Taylor, whom is the lead singer for Slipknot, is also the lead singer for Stone Sour. And up until a few years ago, James (Jim) Root from Slipknot was one of Stone Sour's lead guitarists, too.

I keep expecting to see the cat jumping off the wall, lol

Really love hearing your break downs, super interesting to dive into these songs in a new way.

Requesting: VAST - Touched (It has quite an abnormal musical arrangement with a chanting choir and acoustic guitar breakdowns)

You need to do the cover version also devildriver-sail

AWOL is great, they are a full band, you should see the unofficial music video for Sail. Fanmade but imo better. Please do more AWOLNATION

Love this

Cheehoo🔥. Great reaction my braddah. Aloha. Auuuurite🤙🏽

The human abstract, "digital veil" album, just throw a dart and you'll find an amazing song

I love this album!! One of my favorite engineered album. So great. The album is like synthpop meets metal meets orchestral... weird and awesome

Very cool. I would love to hear your take on more Awolnation, please. Liked and subbed!

I think your channel is great! Thanks!

man i love this song! great vid :D

Yes! Great song!

Jammed this song so hard when it came out, some really great remixes out there too!

Love this song!!!

Geeeeeeeeeeebz. Just say screw it and do Dragonforce. Through the fire and the flames. Just make sure it's the full version

Very nice, thanks!

I love this type of music.

Ugh this song is always so good 🖤

This was a one hit wonder for me, its a cool song , ran so much on radio I got tired of it and haven't heard anything else by them.

Royal Blood - "out of the black" just two guys

I always liked the track "Kill Your Heroes" by AWOL Nation.

Love this song

I love when I get a "big fat sound in my head", makes my day...🙃

great 4/20 vid geebs

Aaaawwee right...on of my favorite "dubstep" tunes. This should be fun...

Been watching you from the shadows for a while and it’s funny to me how long it took you to hear and review these guys but I’d recommend there latest two rock albums

Oh WOW I remember this song!!

As a sound artist i love your videos. And as a listener of music i love your videos. ;)

You could do every Awolnation track! All are unique and flippin fantastic to decompose! Thanks again

Loved ths song since the first time I heard it as the intro to the Red Bull Rampage broadcast.

The band DevilDriver did a legit cover of this song. A little context, the singer of DD was the singer of Coal Chamber.

Enjoy going through some these song I've known and the one I haven't known before, keep them coming, I'd like to suggest the garden by July talk

My man! Your bro has good taste. I'm usually here for the Tool stuff but this is one of my favorites.

--- From first listen, this song reminded me of people dancing, sweaty, bodies heaving to all of the separate structures, in a modern speakeasy during a thunderstorm while lighting conducts the light show. I always appreciated the under produced shots of drum play, and piano introduction layered in with the heavily distorted and otherwise obvious engineering of the other layers. I thought the hypnotic use of the overriding melody was clever, because it enhanced the allure, and surprise engagement of those elements, and even the repeat of "sail" although the emotional intonation changes ever so slightly from time to time also has a hypnotic quality. This was a great album, but I would love to see you do Drinking Lighting

Gonna live in the woods for five months after this week and I have to say, I'm excited to see what songs he'll do. Maybe Geebz will do one of the songs I suggested, maybe not hahaha. Still going to come back regardless. Mahalo Decomposer 🤙

Might I suggest Heart for your "face melter" series? Really underrated band IMO, Crazy On You would be perfect for a breakdown!

Nice! I saw these guys live. This song makes me think of wing suit flying.

Gotta do Infected Mushroom - Heavyweight!

Came to revisit the Nanalew unofficial video (with even more views than the official one). Stayed to hear your breakdown. Thanks!

Always loved this tune. Aviations, Outliers. Best progressive metal song I've ever heard, and I've listened to a lot.

Between the Buried and Me - Selkies: The Endless Obsession Pleeeeease 🤞

Oh the nostalgia, I was heavily into this song when it came out The album this song is from is quite good

Love what you do man. I gives me a new appreciation for some of my favorite songs. You should listen to the Devil Driver cover and compare the two. Keep up the great work 👍.

Any love for Silverchair in here? I think anything from their catalogue would be interesting to hear about, but specifically “Emotion Sickness,” “Do You Feel The Same,” or “One Way Mule.”

Had only ever seen the fan video for this song prior to watching this.

Happy 420!

That was a really cool vid Geebz. When this song came up it hooked me - it came a lot on the radio and I liked it very much because of the emotions it gave me. This is what I react most to. And thanks to your vid and decomposing it's the first time I really pay attention to its engineering, and now I realise that at least 70% of that emotional charge carried through the song actually comes from an out of this world engineering. The layering is very powerful, the synth pad is gut-moving all while the plucked harp or synth is very hooking. Also, it seems to me that the vocals on far left and far right are actually exactly the same take, with only a different distortion/glitch applied to the voice on each channel. it feels like the effect comes with a little bit of delay on the right side. Definitely not listening to this song the same way now, and I hope I will pay more attention to these details in other pop songs too. By the way, could you maybe review some Lana Del Rey? I find the way her songs are produced is very unique. Would love to hear your views on this. Thank you for the great content!!!

This was an interesting song to see. As a predominately rock/prog/netal fan, I bought the album this was on and really enjoyed the songs on it! Was the beginning to me opening my mind up more to music leaning more towards pop. Something similar to this pop-sort-of-rock, would be a band called Everything Everything, song like To The Blade or No Reptiles.

Geebz? You played Hockey? Not sure it is possible for me to like you any more than I already do!

I really hope you do Descending by Tool. Also, it’d be killer to hear your take on Saferwaters by Chevelle

The first time I haeard this song, I was watching a video of them taking a tree down from the top. It starteed with the chainsaw guy at the top and you are looking down as he cuts the tree layer by layer dropping each cut section. It was so cool listening to that song while watching the man cut from a gut churning height. Have loved this song since I first heard it. Good critiquing on your part. Makes a listener understand just what it took to make this songs sounds.

AWOLNATION is an interesting band. I never really listened to them until I saw them open for Prophets of Rage. AWOLNATION won me over that day.

I love watching these! I wish you would do Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

You know, for some interesting layering, you might like the Crowded House track Together Alone. Toward the end, it gets kind of amazing, it's goosebump stuff for me - there's a Māori choir singing in beautiful harmonies about the separation of Rangi and Papa (which is hinted at in the English lyrics), Pacific-style drums, a brass band, all building up over this slow, deceptively simple, melancholy song. The, like, organic depth to it is really quite something. It's actually made me teary before now, it'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on the arrangements etc.

Totally different kind of music but I haven't seen you do any Amorphis songs. Smoke, Death of a King, Tree of Ages. Amazing prog metal from Finland.

Great review, love this song & band In terms of production and strings arrangement, you will be BLOWN AWAY by Radiohead - Daydreaming, or Burn The Witch. Incredible tracks

Came in on the left and left on the right. =)

You should give Cold War Kids a shot...🤘

That threw me. Whenever I listen to this, it's with the Nanalew video.

Have you heard Mars Volta's The Widow, it's one of my favourites by them. I also like Vermicide.

If you're still searching for new band suggestions, do please give a listen to Rishloo! Super progressive rock, a.l.a. Tool, with an amazing clean vocalist who nails addictive melodies and lyrical complexity, with very unique song structure through their whole discography. Scissorlips, Landmines, Feathergun in the Garden of the Sun, and their amazing long-style rock anthem Dark Charade (akin to that of a Pink Floyd shine on) are all great options to start with. Thanks for everything geebz! Still here, awwright

Never expect you to get to them, but Saintseneca is a band I think you would enjoy. Keep on keepin' on good, Sir!

When I hear this, all I can think of is grinding the crack video by jeb corliss.

Good song. I prefer the cover by Devildriver as it's more my style. Please react to some Devildriver! Maybe 'End Of The Line' or 'The Fury Of Our Makers Hand'

Sail was definitely their biggest hit. A lot of people were disappointed when they heard the full album, because it’s completely different than anything else they did. I love it though. Try “Jump on my Shoulders” and “Burn it Down”.

That distorted note/ sound is called dub step. Please react to Deadmau5 song Raise Your Weapons. I'm not a big dub step fan, but this is a really goog song. Thanks.

Strapping young Lad - Almost Again Please react to this you will love it. some amazing guitar work, an unbelievable vocal performance from Devin Townsend and some of the best metal drumming there is and my favourite groove of all time!

I'd like to humbly recommend the band Foals, specifically their album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part II. They've got a very tight indie-rock sound on that record, and masterful production quality and mixing. Thanks Geebz!

43% burnt by the dillinger escape plan! Surprisingly intricate arrangement. There's a strongs cover that really highlights the details of the composition

When I first met my girlfriend, I stalked her IG and the was a picture of her, next to a quote from this Song. Still in love with her today and also with the Song. 🥰

How is it possible that you haven’t heard this before