It's tradition to come back here every once in a while

Shared this with a choir friend like "Dude, you need to see this, these guys are incredible!"and his reply was just : "Oh, I know. I was there."

Parents: "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Me, a 30 year old: *points at the man with the funny hair and the voice that can do anything* "that"

As a baritone, I can say we don't tend to be the life of the party... This one nailed it, incredible.

My friends: what’s your favorite song? Me: it’s complicated

The bass in barbershop quartets always look unique, you can tell usually just by looking which one is the bass.

Check out 2:36 - the guys at either end raise their hands and hold perfectly still - just like the gargoyles on the outside of Notre Dame. And it creates a mini-cathedral for Quasimodo to begin his solo. Flat out brilliant.

It's 2024 I'm watching this for the first time and I find myself clapping at the end of the performance. Amazing.

Notre DAMN!

This song has kind of ruined the rest of Barbershop for me. It's just too good. Nothing else comes close.

The perfect octave between the lead and the bass at 6:00 is one of the most satisfying things I've ever heard in my life

I'm finally glad to see people realize that Hunchback has a great soundtrack.

6:18 the man on the left covering his face is such a reaction. This performance is simply one of the best I've EVER witnessed. The arrangement, the voices, the performance, all of it is a exemplary form of the art.

There's no punch line to it; this is one of the best barbershop performances in the history of the institution. Quasimodo himself shedding a tear even comes to mind

Came for the hair, stayed for the talent

I’m Japanese student studying English so I cannot understand what they say well. But I can find that their sang is so Beautiful.

That 22 second long tag at the end gives me full body shivers every damn time. Bravo, you freaking madlads.

5:08 is probably the best thing I've ever heard

I love how everyone laughs when they do the tag for the 2nd song and then go back and finish the first song tag.

6:16, the tenor on the far right turns, with his very last note, a dark minor ending into an enlightening major. Fantastic. Look at the guy sitting just to the right with the green shirt... He immediately recognizes that this is something outstanding and nods to full approval of what he just witnessed. And can't stop grinning.

This is insane human power

This song is my main source of serotonin

We appreciate a sOLID BARITONE IN THIS FAMILY

Let’s give some serious credit to the tenor in this group. I’ve seen comments on the lead, baritone and bass (here and in other vids of the same performance) but none of them would shine quite as brightly if there wasn’t someone covering the upper register for those harmonies.

6:00-6:20 holy shit how long he could sustain that high note. Impressive and mind-baffeling. Overall perfect pitch, not a single tone felt out of place, great chemistry and harmony you guys got running there!

So nice to have a baritone take the lead for a portion of the song! I think this medley shows how the baritone plays a critical role completing the chords and sound of barbershop

A nice set of headphones and this is easily the greatest audio recording in existence

Yep, it's still insane. Probably come here a hundred times, but it's just as mindblowing every single time

The way he sings “vice and sin” makes me want to commit vice and sin.

the amount of joy that the chord at 4:52 gives me is inexplicable

To anyone coming back to experience this magic again: blessed be. To anyone coming to experience this for the first time: Hold onto your butts.

This is the number one absolute best barbershop performance ever done and my mind will never be changed. I KEEP LISTENING TO IT. I’ll come back to it then listen to the last 2.5 minutes of the song over and over and over and over and I can’t get enough. Untouchable. Unbeatable. THE OVERTONES IN THE LAST NOTE. I die every time. And somehow am more alive every time.

Favorite parts (edited because I mixed up some of their vocal parts, partially because I didn’t know lead was a vocal part in barbershop): 0:24 bass’s first D2 0:45 descending chords on “Notre Dame” & the imagery of the big bells & little bells 1:31 “Kyrie Eleison” 1:44 the simple but stunning open 5th on “Quasimodo” 1:50 “Dies irae, Dies illa” - LOVE the ominous tone to emphasize Frollo’s religious hypocrisy 2:33 the outside singers’ hands freezing in gargoyle claws is GENIUS 3:00 the chords created by the bass pedal - *chef’s kiss* 3:10 from here to the start of the chorus I just LOVE the bass line so much 3:22 bass note on “high” - also the fact that it’s such a low note and the word is “high” always makes me chuckle 3:41 beautiful chords & resolution 4:05 love how everyone has independent backing harmonies 4:15 THE TONE SHIFT- this might be my favorite part 4:29 flawless key change, & love the tenor’s high note on “there” 5:00 LOVE how the bass leads everyone into the chords in this section 5:16 Lead’s 1st long note- if you count “out” as part of it (which I do because it’s on the same breath), he holds this E for 19 seconds 5:30 the bass sliding down!!! 5:50 the subtle key change during “bells, bells,” so they end in A instead of D 6:00 Lead holds the final A for 20 seconds less than a minute after holding a note for 19 🤯 6:08 the final resolution. No words necessary! This is probably my favorite video on the entire Internet, if that wasn’t already clear haha

Everyone else is praising their voices, so I'll take this opportunity to praise how into it they clearly are. Their stances are always so enthusiastic and they bob all over the place (especially the lead holy moly dude do musical theatre already lol), it's so fun to watch. On top of that, unlike other medleys I've heard, this one is actually smoothly-transitioning and seems to follow a narrative, making it far more enjoyable to listen to in my personal opinion. Great performance! (Edit: Sorry for the confusion, I called the Baritone the Lead because he sings the melody a lot of the time)

WELL WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE RECOMMENDED THIS

I had no idea Piers Morgan could hold a note for that long.

It's so much fun following the baritone part with headphones. He is absolutely all over the place.

THE KEY CHANGE!! THE HARMONIES!!! THE FREAKING BELTS!!! ARE U KIDDING ME . literally the best performance i’ve ever watched.

Today is march 26th, 2020, 11th day of the COVID19 quarantine - I now watch this video at least 3 times everyday

Whoever arranged this is a genius. (I read the description, the genius is Aaron Dale) And they are the perfect quartet to pull it off. What I wouldn't give to be there...

Almost forgot to watch this today

this is my roman empire

I'm no choir expert, but I did do band to know enough about music, and the way you can almost here more than 4 voices at the final chord at 5:35 shows you the chord was so in tune it RANG

Legend has it he's still holding that note

I literally come back every night, the part where they sing "Out there" I swear I've felt that all my life, I've felt every word ever since I first seen this movie, and even more in their rendition

Convinced the bass's sequence from 04:49 is what takes this to another level

5:29 the way that chord just LOCKS into place oh my GOD

Ever wandering around the web and then remember this performance and get sucked back in to watching it on repeat for hours? No? Just Me?

6:09 As the bass descends towards his final *A2* , pay attention to the scale sung by the bass, *F3 - E3 - A2* , which of cource is a minor scale! This scale combined with the *E4* and *A4* sung by the baritone and lead foreshadows the final harmony as being a "dark" minor chord. Then right as the bass hits his final note, the Tenor (guy furthest to the right) steps in to save the day, shifting his *B4* into a *C#5* , which in turn completely changes the structure of the entire harmony from a minor to a perfect major. Had the tenor simply stuck with the *B4* , it wouldn't have been a happy ending! Instead a somewhat apocalyptic ending. This is musically speaking a true silver-lining, leaving us with a sense that in the end, light prevailed over darkness. And all it took was for a Tenor to go up two half-steps.. This is by far the greatest barbershop tag I've ever heard!

I wonder if they were aware while they were singing that they were making history right there.

That last harmony just saved all the shelter dogs from euthanization.

When people tease me that barbershop is my guilty pleasure music...I direct them to this video

5:30 that glissando like crack for ur ears

Their group stance in the tag is physically powerful. It feels like a large, imposing wall of sound coming crashing forward in the most delightful way. I love how in this quartet you can watch a member and isolate their part, and understand just how the pieces fit together and how the song is just wonderful. Excellent job, this is my favorite barbershop piece for so many reasons.

I guess you could say the audio was... Ringmastered

6:16. Just in case you guys have listened to this 100 times and want something else to be impressed by... the gentleman on the far right jumps up like 9 million octaves to sync it perfectly right as a finishing touch. So beautiful

The greatest arrangement for one of the greatest quartets and the greatest performance. There is no other song quite as difficult and busy as this one. This is the culmination and climax of all barbershop.

I cry every time I remember that this isn’t on Spotify 😭😭😭

imagine being there in person

First 5:15 of video. The single best song I have heard to date. Last 40 seconds. ***Complete brain shutdown*** Absolute insanity in vocal form

I've only watched this 14K times. It never ever gets old.

I've lost count how many times I've watched this. Still here 2018

Anybody else notice how the lead looks really light headed 6:22. Thats what an A for 30 seconds straight will do to you.

What I wouldn't give to go back in time and hear this live....

Holy fuck.

The end just seems like a competition of who can get the last ‘Notre Dame’ 😂

Haha, I love how you can hear Marty Monson laugh at 5:43

Can we just appreciate Emmanuel's dancing and hand gestures. I guess you could say I'm BARI into it

I just gave a standing ovation in my living room...by myself.

I think youtube keeps suggesting this to me because it knows I will click on it the second I see it

How he belt A4 for 20 seconds, what a freak

I just cannot. Stop. Listening. Again. And again. And again. Morning in Paris...

"Every day they shout and scold and go about their lives, Heedless of the gift it is to be them..." The Quasimodo soliloquy is incredible, the melodic complexity and accompanying harmonies are immaculate

I’ve never jumped to my feet so fast at the end of a performance as I did that night. Could not believe what I had witnessed. A moment that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

The best a cappella performance I’ve heard - by some distance.

Something about how his accent at 01:25 ("purge the world") is very addictive

What the hell did I just watched?! I just’ve shouted in amazement in the middle of a cafeteria!

Very well done. Still always disappointed when there's a Hunchback medley without Hellfire.

The counterpoint part from 4:07 is just slept on... such immense satisfaction when the parts merge together again in unison.

Watching this on April 15th, 2019. Notre Dame burned today. The bells will ring again, and again, and will always be the soul of the city.

4:24 Goose bumps when listening to this harmony

My choir director and I are massive barbershop nerds and on a bus ride to a concert he asked what I was listening to and I happened to be listening to this, and he begins to brag that he watched them live.

That bass slide has me in tears

Still one the greatest things I've ever heard!

Almost forgot to watch this today.

That bass at the end hit me in my soul

Coming back regularly to hear this masterpiece of harmonies is always a pleasure for our ears and heart 😇

I have watched this many times and it is the greatest barbershop performance I have ever witnessed. It’s not just the singing, but the performing too. Let’s not forget that this was live and in front of all those other champions and still they brought this. People on here may nit pick tiny tiny things, but this is about as close to perfection as is possible. It has gone down in barbershop history and rightly so.

The tritone at 6:09 is so good. It gives me chills every time I hear it.

The absolute pinnacle of Barber Shop singing.

This is the greatest barbershop performance I have ever heard

Yep, I think Kip Buckner's 'Oh My GOD' facepalm speaks volumes. Even after all this time, I still get goose bumps just listening to this.

Martin is just a beast on bass!!

I once tried to sing along with the post while driving and nearly passed out lmao

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the perfectly tuned octave between the baritone and bass at 6:00

Imagine having to follow this up. I know everyone behind them is a champion, but thats just a lot of pressure out of nowhere.

Why is there so much dust in my eye 🥺

1:24 lets appreciate those Os in the background

I wish this was on Apple Music…. So badly

Sad that these bells will not ring the same again.