There is absolutely no way to guess where this video is going until it hits you in the face like a steel chair

He thought too deep and heard too far, but in the end it doesn't even matter.

When a PhD uses their expertise to prove their dumb thought was actually genius.

Level 1: the avengers music sounds familiar Level 2: The avengers music sounds like linkin park Level 3: All music is secretly linkin park

“You can hear music incorrectly.” Idunno, man. “I listened to the epic music at the climax of a 20 movie series and heard Linkin Park.” Ohhh.

My mind was moving at 100mph trying to keep up with everything and then the reveal of Linkin Park made it crash into a stone wall

Fun fact: Beethoven did not share the idea we have today, that the beauty of music lies with the holder. When someone would criticize his music he would think that it wasn't his fault, the listener just needed to adjust to liking his music

Well, my pleb mind heard that base drum and horn and thought “20th Century Fox”

"How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?" Sideways: "Yes"

Sideways hears music incorrectly but in the end it doesn't even matter

You think Endgame sounding like Superman or Linkin Park is rough, my first thought listening i heard "ah, Yu-Gi-Oh."

When you seperated out that opening part of Portals, it wasn't Superman I heard, or Linkin Park, but I actually heard Jurassic Park. Which kind of works because it's the idea of rebirth and restarting, which matches with what Marvel is planning to do with the MCU in the future

alternate title: "24 minutes of Sideways having a mental breakdown"

Sideways: _Endgame is Linkin Park_ Alan Silvestri: "Disney lawyers, I need you to make a certain channel disappear. He knows too much."

Here I am, 3 years after the video came out, watching for like the tenth time and that twist at the end still puts a stupid smile on my face. God I love this channel. I sincerely hope he comes back someday.

"maybe Silvestri's operating on a higher plane of reality than the rest of us?" No hon, I think you are. You managed to connect a Linkin park song to the Avengers score. Amazing

Small Brain: 'the portals theme was repeated earlier in the movie' Normal Brain: 'the portals theme is based on Superman's theme' Expanding Brain: 'the portals theme is a variation of Thanos' theme' Galaxy Brain: 'THE PORTALS THEME IS LINKIN PARK'

All that build up for Linkin Park. Hilarious.

Silvestri could have thrown the Linkin Park reference in as a joke for his own amusement, it's the sort of thing I do to amuse myself when I'm working on a big project never expecting anyone to notice.

Sideways: "Portals has 6 key changes which is representative of the Infinity Stones.: Me: "Okay, makes sense. That's actually amazing." Sideways: "Portals theme is secretly 'In The End' by Linkin Park." Me: "Wait what? *thinks for a second* That explains everything."

This channel is the definition of "and now you can't unhear it."

This is the most educational, comedic, and strange rant I've ever seen

absolutely adore the way you write your videos. Especially going "You know, the DUN. DUN. DUN DUN DUN. DUN. DUN DUN =insert the actual mission impossible theme="

First video i've seen from this content creator. 24 and a half minutes that basically amounts to " I think The Avengers Endgame theme sounds a bit like linkin park" and i loved every second of it.

"It's in 5/4" me, and anyone who plays music: terrified face

“I don’t think Portals is Linkin Park, I think it’s just a variation on Thanos’ theme.” Plot twist: *Thanos’ Theme* is Linkin Park.

Fun fact: I got the space vibe too from captain marvels theme, but more from it sounding like something mix of super Mario galaxy, and superman.

"Suck it Game of Thrones," Hmm... Well... They did.

In your defense, The Incredibles had a "spy element" to it The family was sneaking around an evil scientist's secret island - basically a Bond premise

This video walks a tight line between insanity and genius. I love it.

I played classic violin for 12 years and ultimately the main thing I took away was that all music sounds like something else. There are only so many ways that you can arrange notes so you end up with parts of songs sounding very similar to each other. Must be very frustrating to some composer trying to make original pieces only to wind up with, "Man, this sounds like Harry Potter" or "This reminds me of Skyrim".

I played this for my friends because I thought it was neat and they accused me of essentially rick rolling them

They really did try so hard and get so far.

“Lost my marbles” could’ve been “lost my marvels.” Missed opportunity.

Alternet title: reading a 500 pages long book out loud in just under 21 minutes.

My favourite tidbit? Aaron Copland wrote a fantastic book called “What to Listen for In Music” all about how to listen to music correctly!

Sideways is getting really aggressive in these videos lol

I absolutely lost my shit with laughter when it switched to piano, I 100% didn’t see where this was going and I adore it so much.

I....I'm .......I'm at a loss for how you saw linkin park. You had to literally show me this. Now I don't think I'll ever unsee it ever again

Dude, before you hit me in the face with the Linkin Park chair, I kept hearing Scarborough fair starting from the key change segment

"don't make me break out the 9/8, I'll do it, I don't give a crap" - next tshirt slogan

“Captain Marvel sounds like Star Trek!” Me: OMFG THATS WHAT THAT IS ITS LIKE AN ITCH I NEVER KNEW I HAD GETTING SCRATCHED

Listening to this music correctly or incorrectly In the end it doesn’t even matter

3:40 I am replacing the word romantic with saxy in my head and no one can stop me

This is like when the english teacher tells you that the blue curtain signifies the character's true feelings.

"What's-her-face" C'mon man how are you gonna dis Peggy Carter like that?

“That guy from Momma Mia” I am ded. You killed me 😂

“I didn’t have a stroke... I think.”

I've heard stories of how Adolphe Sax (inventor of the saxophone) was banished from towns by other instrument makers because his new instrument kept seducing all the local women.

Not only does the Endgame theme change keys six times. It ended on an E, which is a 6th above the G where the music started.

It’s interesting to think that thanos theme is in the deep strings (double bass and cellos) but the response is in the heroic brass. Like I definitely heard it as a response (only after my third viewing. First two times I was still floored with that scene)

*hears Fanfare for the Common Man* Me: *trying not to have a mental breakdown of the time I botched the opening trumpet line in high school*

Illuminati: This man is too dangerous to be left alive

Me: hasnt watched a marvel movie since ragnarok You: Endgames theme is Linkin Park Me:That Makes Perfect Sense Thanks

this the one kid that actually paid attention and tried in music class/ music theory

Once he said, let me repeat these note for “no reason” I was like oop 👀 that’s Linkin park. Wild how music works man lol

guess what the first line in "In The End" is: *"it starts with one"* you know, like it started with iron man? illuminati confirmed.

Nobody: Hank Pym: Mission Impossible! But with *ants* Composer: glad to see we're on the same page

This is finally my moment to share how I always hear the avengers theme "wrong". I hear it and always think I'm about to hear the us army recruitment song (like the one played in commercials) because, to me, they start very similarly. So instead of thinking of magic larger than life heros, I think of the Army vs. Navy football game lol

Sideways: Well, what are some classic heist films? James bon- Ad: watch out 007 fans, i’ve got something that might interest you.

If you call Peggy Carter "Whatsherface" again I will come into your house and steal all of your left shoes

I’m so disappointed in you, the real clickbait title is “LINCOLN PARK IS IN ENDGAME WHERE AND HOW AND WHY”

When you played Captain Marvel's theme my first impression was " hm, Back to the Future "

I literally leapt up out of my seat when I heard Linkin Park. Like... holy shit I can’t fathom that, and I can never unhear it

25 minutes is an awful lot of time to explain "Portals" sounds like Linkin Park

Everybody gangsta until Sideways breaks out the 9/8

Oh man I was so hyped at11:18 when he describes the minor 7th and I immediately thought "wait that's Star Trek" and got immediately validated

The bass drum from when the portal opens makes me remember the Elder Scrolls theme. You could also call it the beating heart theme, or the prophecy theme if you only consider the bass drum part because it's originally the beating of the Heart of Lorkhan but is later used to describe the Last Dragonborn in his prophecy to stop the end of time. But, yeah. This video is really good.

bruh this is basically english class overanalyzation but for music

me: **sees avengers on the thumbnail and clicks** also me: **listens to sideways talk about how sexy a saxophone is**

For what it's worth when magic: the gathering did its big end of a massive arc culminating in a fight between all the heroes and the supervillain where the multiverse itself is at stake... (War of the Spark) They just straight up used a cover of In The End for their trailer.

Maybe that theme you referred to as being present in Porch, Portals, and the beginning of Endgame could be seen as a sense of returning home, as that is technically what happens in all three instances (if you count the snapped returning as that same kind of idea). Great video, I love music theory and I’ve now fallen down a rabbit hole into your videos!

Most people: Isn't music subjective? Isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder? Sideways: Well yes, but actually no.

11:09 "hey that sounds like star trek" 11:45 "im a f'n genius"

@Sideways okay I know this a year late, but I have to bring your attention to this even greater coincidence. Around the time that Endgame was coming out, another multi-year story arch was coming to a close in nerd culture. Magic: The Gathering (the trading card game by wizards of the coast) was releasing the final set in the Bolas storyline (basically dragon Thanos but just evil), titles War of the Spark. It was *the* ensemble set, gathering all the old and new "superheroes" (planeswalkers) together to defeat the Big Bad™️. Among the cards in the set that helped highlight the story was one named Commence the Endgame. They also released a cinematic trailer for the set feature, and I kid you not, In The End (albeit a cover) highlighting heroic sacrifice and the end of a major storyline. It's a direct parallel to Endgame, and fits perfectly with so much of the discussion here. I doubt you'll see this any time soon if at all, but the moment you made the connection to In the End my brain ascended.

That’s awesome, man. It also is interesting that “it starts with one”, and the scene starts with Cap standing alone.

I’ll just go with Alan Silvestri is on a higher plain of existence

18:32 "Super recognizable Avengers Theme" Oh how far we've come since asking, "Why isn't Marvel music recognizable?"

My undergrad college roommate is my best friend. We lived together for four years and ended up pursuing different grad schools in 2016. She went back to England and I stayed in the US. I miss her dearly all the time. We still talk and she’s the godmother of my daughter but we haven’t seen each other in person since 2018. She plays the saxophone and I remember sitting in on all her music classes and etc and her talking about things I have no idea about. So when I miss her I come to your channel and I don’t feel as lonely because your content reminds me of the things she is most passionate about. Thank you for what you do

Lmao the Linkin Park connection cracked me up

i feel validated on my love of the antman theme

Refers to a James Bond movie as having "that guy from Mama Mia in it." Sir, you have earned my subscription.

Sideways heard Linkin Park, some heard the Thanos theme, I heard a slowed down and softer solo version of the Avenger's theme showing Cap as the last one standing there ready to fight before building to that bombastic climax.

The brief moment of pure, unfettered *understanding* after the last music sample plays is one of the worst things I’ve ever felt from a KZfaq video and I love it

6:28 I love to see that a music nerd sometimes has to resort to and enjoys just going "Duhn duhn duhn duhn"

I actually always thought the beginning of Portals sounded like Captain America's theme but now that you played In the End I can't unhear it.

Me as soon as you started talking about 5/4 time signatures: oh like the incredibles Sideways: It made me think of the incredibles Me: YES!

This channel is so cool because like, I don't understand music. I'm literally musically retarded and this guy explains things in a way that even I, someone who is literally too stupid to understand music can understand most of the time, even though he's talking about stuff I don't have a knowledge base for.

"Hears captain marvels theme in the movie" I hear Jurassic Park.

It would have been nice if you had used the ant man theme alone, it was fairly difficult to hear with all the other stuff happening

Personally I heard Are you Coming to Scarborough Fair in the portal scene, which, since it was one of the first songs i learned to sing/play on piano, massively amplified the emotional effect that it had on me

good example for the record. at 15:35 as your explaining all that i could swear you were going into deep space nine.

1:18 The fact that the song is “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” is beautiful.

My dream is that Sideways will ever talk about Cowboy Bebop's soundtrack

I audibly GASPED when u said next gen is the best star trek (very comical response on my part, especially giving what u do with editing right after that) and then started laughing uncontrollably when u linked avengers THE LINKING PARK. WHAT. I think u lost ur marbles. and thank u for that. bless u. awesome video like always.

He got to the "repeat this note a bunch of times" bit and as soon as he did, before he even switched to the piano, the penny dropped and I yelled

After this I found Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" in Hamilton's "It's Quiet Uptown" so . . . thanks? 😅

This video should be titled “The song at the end of Endgame kinda sounds like ‘In the End’ and let me spend 20 minutes making you think so.”

the funniest thing about the total sound of the example starting at 15:03 to ME is associated with this exhibit about the size of an arcade cabinet at my childhood science museum where there was a fossil nautilus that opened to show how the inside chambers had become opal when it fossilized, but ALSO if i recall correctly, it had a Pepper's Ghost effect to show a reconstruction sculpture of a living nautilus over top Wild how associations work!

22:08 As a Linkin Park fan as well as the MCU of course, yes you have changed how I perceive Portals now, I cannot unhear it 😂 I did not see that coming.