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Hi I don't deserve this praise

I didn't imagine Schlatt being here

I haven’t heard anyone who doesn’t vibe with Wet Hands.

jschlatt: I wrote a high quality video essay that details the importance of- also jschlatt: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAПРОСНИСЬ И ПОЙ!

My main man jschlatt pops in for a collab

Oh man, that let's play clip at the end felt like the snippet of a voice message you hear at the beginning or end of a rap album.

that last part makes me want to cry man wtf

The Minecraft Soundtrack is a Strong 10 To A Light 11

i think “why am i depressed” and “why doesnt jschlatt call me back” go hand in hand

Fact of the day: The opening notes when you launch the game floods everyone with emotions and nostalgia

I’m actually on the verge of tears. I have a lump in my throat. I’m trying so hard not to cry.

The video opens with Stal, then he proceeds to get berated by schlatt. Very fitting.

I'll never get tired of videos discussing minecrafts soundtrack

This video is more than about music. It's more than a video, in my opinion. This is the analysis of one's self through childhood, guided by the genius of C418. Thank you, Volksgeist. This is amazing.

thanks for letting me be a part of this :)

Schlatts appearance just made my day

My brother and I discovered Minecraft when I was five and he was seven in June of 2009. Ever since then I've been playing the game obsessively, and like many of us, the game became an essential part of our childhoods. Throughout the rest of my early adolescence I continued to play the game, and like most people my age I started focusing on servers and SkyDoesMinecraft's letsplays. Though I continued to play the game, I turned off the music entirely. Minecraft became just another game to me, one that I only played on my phone during long plane rides, or when I got bored in the car when my mom drove me home from school. Consequentially, the game lost meaning to me, I ceased to care about something that was so essential in my development. In July of 2018 I was scrolling through my youtube feed when I found a video called "a Tribute to Minecraft" by a small youtuber called Jschlatt, a youtuber that up until that point I had never heard of but would become alto familiar with as time passed by. I clicked on the video out of curiosity "why is a Minecraft video in my reccomended? I haven't watched a Minecraft video in years" I thought to myself. Little did I know, I was about to watch my favorite video on the internet. Though I was apprehensive about the video at first, but as it continued I began to realize something, the video I was watching was of a man who's experiences with and feelings regarding Minecraft almost perfectly mimicked my own. Finally, as the video ended, as the music faded in, I began to cry. I cried more than I had for things that were far far more important.Like many people who had watched the video, I was crying because Minecraft's music was helping me to feel things I hadn't felt since I was young, since before I was depressed, since before my grades in school mattered more than my well being. Minecraft was something that I could escape to when I felt sad or when my parents fought, something I could play to escape my crippling childhood loneliness. When I watched that video, all of those emotions, the sadness, the joy, the pain, the anger, all of it came back to me. Minecraft didn't die, my innocence did. Even though I was only 14, my childhood had already left me, my fear of high school grades, and having to think about what to major in or what college to go to represented my quickly approaching adulthood and the responsibilities that come with it. Minecraft was changing too. The game is now almost unrecognizable from what it was back in alpha, but its music will always remain the same. The quiet piano melodies of Sweden and Wet hands will always be there even if they add random useless mobs or change what a zombie pigman is. Minecraft will always be a part of me, It will always represent my childhood, and the blissful ignorance of being too young to understand the pain of growing up. Thank you Mojang for making my favorite game, and thank you C418 for playing your piano into my heart.

video as a masterpiece as the minecraft soundtrack.

i came upon this video becaue apparently schlatt was in it, and from the title, it seemed like it was right up my alley. what did i get out of it, you ask? tears.

14:00 onwards is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time

i feel like everyone in this generation has been having a nostalgia trip for the last 1.5 years

I’m a simple man I see minecraft I click

Volksgeist has to be my favorite KZfaq channel of all time

WHEN I HEARD STAL IN THE INTRO MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS "Schlatt would hate this video already" AND THEN THERE HE WAS IN THE VIDEO YELLING I LOVE HIM AND I LOVE YOU GREAT VID IMMA RELISTEN TO THE SOUNDTRACK AND CRY BUT ITS ALL GOOD

> Schlatt appears in the Video > he discusses the music theory of minecraft with patchymate > patchymate recently released a Song together with abbot (it's called "violet" and i love it) > abbot (or Anthony) was long believed to be the face of jschlatt coincidence? I... I don't know tbh but it fascinates me

It's a cool summer night in the early 2010's. You're playing minecraft on your parent's laptop or XBOX 360. Everything is silent, except for the quiet hum of the machine, cars passing by your house, crickets, and the desolate piano strokes of the Minecraft Alpha soundtrack... This... this is nostalgia...

I was expecting a skill share ad when schlatt can't build a farm

Your deep words hit deep my heart , i feel alive in a weird way. Thank you.

"Why won't jschlatt call me back?" Same

Back in 2010-2012 everyone called the soundtrack lame and boring. It's funny how years later everyone suddenly loves it but I'm totally here for it.

I love how Jshlatt just shows up in the video chaotically out of no where. That’s kind of a reflection of his presence on KZfaq chaotic, but yet beautiful at the same time. Kind of like Minecraft.

Came here for musical analysis of the entire soundtrack, left with streams of nostalgic tears running out my eyes and thoughts about my entire life. This video was better than i hoped it would be just from the title. Thank you for this video

The music in The End is my favourite... it goes on for 15 minutes, and is a combination of the overworld music and it being "corrupted".

Damn, I didn't expect to cry today...

Hey that schlatt guy is pretty funny, he should start a KZfaq channel

0:14 SCHLATT POG

Volksgeist: delivers a heartwarming and inspiring speech about life Jschlatt: *demonic scream*

Hey Volksgeist, I‘ve been following you for a while now and your videos always amazed me, however none of your previous work has moved me like this one, it really hit close to home. Im 20 now and played a lot of minecraft throughout the last 10 years. This video made me realise how big of an influence this game has had on me, not just as a place to sozialise, but as a whole new world to discover. The music always started at just the right moment, feeling familiar and comforting and letting you rest for a moment to look back on what you‘ve already build. Im currently in my childhood home, because of quarantine, sitting in my bed at 2 am and watching this beautiful video. It actually made me cry and think a lot about childhood and how quickly you become an adult without realising it. Hearing the Minecraft soundtrack helped me to get rid of the anxious felling of having missed something in the last 20 years and made me appreciate the good times i had. I hope i can discover the real world with the same curiosity, that i felt while walking through the blocky worlds of minecraft. Keep up the good work! You really move a lot in people, more than you might think.

The music is just so perfect

I’ve never thought I would reconsider all my life choices because of Minecraft music I’ve never felt better and worse at the same time,I really don’t want to grow up,I feel like all this adult life is really scary and I feel like like I’m just useless nothing I don’t know,its starting to get really hard to deal with all those bad thoughts,but i’m really happy that I still can find happiness in such things as music,I guess it’s the only thing that saves me

Don't mind me, just trying to recover from the existential crisis I'm currently in because of that final monologue.

Crazy how all the views are people watching now

"how can you miss something you haven't experienced yet" makes ya think

volksgeist: smart music talk schlatt: *F A R M*

beginning of the video: funny, laughed end of the video: not funny, cried

Damn man, I love video essays but this one was just excellent. Thank you for making this, I got to go through the same self reflection you went through in the video in under 20 minutes and that deserves massive credit. I hope many more people get to watch this, and thank you again.

Bro, you’re amazing and you released this video somehow right when my immense love for this game and it’s music reached its peak. You’ve earned a subscriber and it’s much deserved my friend.

I think everyone needs to appreciate how well thought out and presented Volksgeist videos are

now I need to go back and load up a server

It's enough of a proof that every video about Minecraft's music end up in people describing their nostalgia and sharing philosopic thoughts.

Minecraft itself was my childhood, It'll forever be apart of me. Heck, it's even in the name that I go as 'Endy'.

Abelton? FL? *Laughs in evaluation license of Reaper*

Last time i was this early steve said oof when he got hurt

Man, that choppy, laggy clip in the jungle at 10:05 really sent me back

I first played minecraft around 2011, from the first moment I played this game, I knew it was different. The music from this game brought back a beauty that I slowly stopped seeing long ago. The world seemed colorless and dull, but this track helped clear the darkness that creeps in so slowly that you do even realize that it is. These tracks will always be one with my childhood. The joy and peace I had as a kid is still in there somewhere deep, even though I thought I had lost them. I forgot how beautiful the world could be.

Wow you even included Xs Adventures in Minecraft. This really brings back memories

it’s hard to vocalize how powerful the minecraft soundtrack is. thank you for doing it perfectly

Wow I feel like tearing up. Your words on life and how we should spend our time and explore more- I needed that. A lot. Thank you.

Hey Volksgeist, minecraft played a huge role in my childhood growing up and I could never wait until I got home to play on my friends minecraft server with him and my other friends. A couple years later, I've moved across an ocean and playing minecraft is one of the few ways that I can still interact them. I'm pretty bad at making friends, and I was super close to all my friends back in my hometown so it's something really important to me. I'm still pretty young (15 rn) but the bit at the end about letting go about childhood hit home with me. These past couple of months I've been thinking more about what college I'm going to, money and what I'll do in life and as much as I hate to see it, I miss the good old days when I would just mess around with my friends and I would only think about the next way to have fun with my buddies. Watching this end of the video made me tear up a bit, love you Volksgeist and your beautiful content

oh yuh my boi schlatt and volksgeist collab🔥🔥

Why wont jschlatt call me back? *Big time rush intensifies*

Man, I seriously got goosebumps from watching the end. It's so amazing how a games soundtrack have such a big impact on us who played the game a lot as kids. Amazing video as always!

I love how everyone making these Minecraft soundtrack videos (which are all great and different from one another, watch ALL of them) is more or less my age, give or take a year or two. We were all in sixth, seventh, eighth grade when Minecraft peaked in popularity, had nothing to worry about except school and the games we played. We had endless time to spend playing the game that shaped us, made us friends we still have today, that we have neglected for some years now and now start to play again from time to time. It's such a wonderful thing that happened to us, and I'm incredibly thankful I was born in the right year to get to experience this. Had I been born three years earlier or later, my experiences would have been so different. I couldn't relate to these videos so much today, I wouldn't have some of the friends I have today, the memories of times of innocence and happiness that stem from this game. It gave me so much, a place to be, to connect with people, when in real life, I couldn't connect with anyone, because I was too different, too awkward. I'm so thankful I grew up with a game as wonderful as Minecraft, with social media only gradually becoming part of my life as I grew older, having spent most of my childhood playing outside... And not with Fortnite, Snapchat and TikTok at the youngest age. I clicked on this video searching for another great one about the Minecraft soundtrack I watched a few weeks ago, a much more analytical one, to show to my dad. I didn't expect to cry today. But... I did. Your video really hit home with me. Thanks for this piece of art only people around our age can truly appreciate.

who would have thought this video would finally happen? 😂 the intro is funny asf 😂

I puked when I heard stal playing over Schlatt

Wow. Once again, an amazing video Volksgeist. Especially the way you told that video‘s story. Brilliant. And since I’m of similar age, having bought Minecraft around the same time and having experienced the same things with my friends, I want to say thank you for letting me remember that time in my life I thought I’ve had forgotten already. Thank you

Don't forget to follow Patchymate and I on Instagram: instagram.com/volks.geist instagram.com/patchymate

In film there’s an idea that if your film has good audio, it’ll come across well. Even it’s filmed on a phone or a go pro- with good audio that filming technique comes across as a stylistic choice. I think there’s something similar here with Minecraft and it’s music. :)

I think the reason why Minecraft is such a nostalgic game is because of how much the world has changed from when Minecraft was released, and how we all have grown up with it. There will never be another game like Minecraft, the simple sandbox that was able to let kids be, kids.

Thanks for this man. This touched me. Brought me so much nostalgia

I love how so many soundtrack review videos have Jschlatt fucking tearing people apart in the intro, he's seems to do a good amount of collabs. Also, this video was really cool in the fact that you included details on the history of C418 as well :)

Mr Volksgiest you make excellent, well crafted, oddly calming videos. I appreciate it and maybe we should share an open mouth kiss sometime.

If you love his Minecraft work, I’d recommend listening to C418’s more electronic albums like 148 and Excursions. They’re phenomenal

Only stumpled upon your content this week. Loving it so far! You're inspiring!

I’ve had this on repeat while finishing up with uni for the past month and it’s been so calming and nostalgic

Whoever dislikes this hasn't lived life to the fullest

Ah yes, the best song of all time S T A L

Videos like these always get me in my feels. The fact that we were making the best memories in our lives without knowing it saddens me that we weren't able to fully cherish those times. Video games really aren't just games, these games make us the people who we are now. The freedom and peacefulness of the past still breaks my heart with my parents not on good terms like they were back then and school not being stressful. Minecraft really is a game that changed me.

Alpha hits the same every time, probably my favorite one out of the entire soundtrack. great vid!

Expected a whole technical analysis on Minecraft's soundtrack Got an existencial crysis

what a beautifully put together video. Very impressed, keep making content I will be here to watch it all

Man you really got me here sitting, crying in the end. I really needed this. Thank you.

I have no words wow. This captured everything I’ve been feeling recently since rediscovering the game. I’ve come back in contact with old friends, my old worlds, and the music has been such a huge part for me. Thank you for this video.

why must this video make me feel so many different emotions at once thank you Volksgeist we all needed this

Good stuff man. I've never seen your channel before but it sounds like you and I are in very similar stages of life. I appreciate that you took the time to articulate so clearly that feeling that many of us have and can't quite put a finger on.

your videos are so heartfelt and introspective, thank you Phillip

This is the first video I’ve ever watched from your channel. It made me cried because it made me finally realize why I love this game so much. I agree with every word.

this brought me to tears man,, thank you for allowing me to remember what i had forgotten. the minecraft soundtrack holds a special place in my heart and the hearts of so many others. amazing vid my guy

Man this hits me in the feels.., amazing video. Keep up the good work man!

The taking shortcuts part is painfully accurate, just a few hours before I watched this video I was searching for a hack to build my base for me(using a blueprint I had built in creative)

Some of the most relaxing music ever! Great video!

One of the best videos I’ve seen in a while, great job. Your writing is honest and beautiful. You made me realize how truly important this album is to me. Thank you

I think the best way i can describe the soundtrack is how schlatt puts it in A Tribute To Minecraft, it’s not brilliant music by itself, it doesn’t blow you away the first time you hear it. The reason it’s so beautiful to everyone is simply the memories we have tied to it. A reminder of our childhood. We didn’t know listening to it that later in life, these songs would make us all suddenly feel such a strong emotional reaction, either hearing it for the first time in years or when we’re going through something , for lack of a better word, rough. minecraft’s soundtrack will be a staple of our generation. a soundtrack that single handily raised thousands of kids. and years later, being able to make us feel things and remember things we haven’t been able to in years. personally, listening to the soundtrack reminds me of a time when i was genuinely happy. when i didn’t have any responsibilities, stresses, horrible mental health issues. it reminds me of something i haven’t genuinely felt in years. long lost friends, playing with my cousins for hours on end, being able to handle life, and sometimes, i can transport back to that time when i’m listening to the soundtrack. i can go back to when i was actually happy, and even if it isn’t for long, it’s beautiful.

I've had so much fun listening to the music of Minecraft. I first played it at age 13 in 2011, but starting late 2013 I really got into creative mode and I spent most of my spare time in 2015 and a bit of 16 working on project maps, and not once did I mute the music. It's an incredible soundtrack, I can hardly explain but it's so moving. Sometimes I would just sit in the Nether and listen to the soundtrack there. It's such a good listen and Volume Beta is criminally underrated

the editing on this blew me away, great content my man

Every time I hear the calming tunes of the album I get transported back to staying up late building endlessly with my friends. Friends that I have lost contact with but will always cherish, they are some of the best memories of my life. What I would give to just have one more game with them, and have the childhood freedom that’s long gone now

Entered this video to learn about my favorite video game soundtrack, left with tears in my eyes. I’m definitely subscribing to you

Man it went from understanding musical composition and reasoning for the creative choices of a sound designer and a videogame creator and progammmer, to hearing about life and happiness and freedom and imagination and being able to do anything, just having the means, and thinking about what those means were, are. Great video. A bit of a segue but that is fine, it all came together nicely.

This is a beautiful video. I needed this. Thank you