(sighs)
- Hi, so if you don't know,
I posted part one to a video
called Cavetown Archives about eight months ago.
I think. Probably longer than that now.
This is part two, sorry. I'm so sorry.
Welcome to Cavetown reacts to old songs.
I'm wearing my headphones.
In the last video we left off with "Ghost Boys (Prequel),"
which I actually posted on my SoundCloud, finally!
I initially said I'd put it on my new album
as a bonus track, but I didn't do that.
Today, we're going to get started
with a Twenty One Pilots cover of "Goner."
You guys are gonna love this.
Let's take a little listen
(Cavetown cover of "Goner" by Twenty One Pilots)
I remember the piano is pretty good on this one.
I think it's when I first got my mini keyboard,
so it sounded pretty legit piano.
Harmony time.
I remember there was a bit of like distortion
in the vocals that you can hear, but I like it.
That wasn't intentional, but that sounded all right.
Got a decent start.
Not bad.
Okay, next one is a beat.
No vocals here, so that's a great sign.
It's from the 27th of November, 2015
and it's called (scoffs) "Halloween Beat."
I remember making this,
I think I just thought it sounded spooky.
Let's see how that goes.
("Halloween Beat" by Cavetown)
(laughs)
(new beat track begins)
Fairly weak bass drop.
(scoffs)
Oh, lax. (laughs)
(sings along to electronic tune)
Oh this is spooky as hell.
It's giving me the creeps.
(beat picks up)
Oh Jesus, that was like a jump scare in music.
Oh! Wait, shit, I gotta hear that again.
Oh yeah!
If there is anything that you learn from this video
is silence is a simple, but beautiful musical element.
"Hands first draft", 28th of May, 2015.
If you don't know "Hands" is one of my songs from
"Everything Is Made of Stars" album, I think.
(sings) Raise your hands!
Yeah, so. (laughs)
("Hands (first draft)" by Cavetown)
These all have very old school Twenty One Pilots vibes.
'Cause I was a piece of trash.
That's a nice line.
I don't know if I even use that in "Hands."
(sings along)
I like this better than the actual "Hands."
Why didn't I use this?
Yeah, that was all right.
I don't know what to say (laughs) about these.
Anyway.
Next one's called "I Don't Wanna Talk About It."
29th of July, 2015, let's have a listen.
("I Don't Wanna Talk About It" by Cavetown)
Okay, wait, no, (laughs) I wasn't ready.
("I Don't Wanna Talk About It" by Cavetown)
Very abrupt start.
I'm a drama queen apparently.
All right, I guess that was it. (laughs)
The lyric ended on the word "but."
That's not correct.
I guess I was like, nope,
I've had enough of this song.
No more, you don't get any more.
I put like a telephone...
I thought I was going to sneeze, sorry.
I put like a telephoney key on my vocals,
'cause I couldn't make it sound actually good.
So I made it sound lo-fi,
so that it sounded like I meant it to sound bad,
but I actually didn't know how to mix anything.
Next one is a cover of
"If My Heart Was a House" by Owl City.
I love this song actually.
I don't love this cover, I love the song,
actually this cover was all right.
I remember listening and I was like, whoa
that's a high voice.
That was me, I know it's hard to believe,
but that is my voice from 2015.
(Cavetown cover of "If My Heart Was a House" by Owl City)
This one is captured really well.
Aw, the guitars really sweet.
(sings along)
Aw, this is so nostalgic.
This was like the first Owl City,
I used to listen to Owl City, like when I was really little.
(singing along)
That's so weird thinking that's my voice,
that is so high, dude.
Those are some nice vocals, hell yeah.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm proud of that.
Even though that was a long time ago, I'm proud of that
and I think it sounds good.
(shouting) If My Heart Was A Hou-- (voice crack)
Next one is called "Jack Frost"
from 18th of January, 2015.
("Jack Frost" by Cavetown)
Okay I'm bored.
Mediocre.
Two out of five.
Do better.
Oh god (laughs) okay.
Okay, you guys are gonna wanna hear this.
I don't want to play it,
I don't want to listen to it at all.
Oh, I don't even have to introduce this one,
you'll know as soon as it starts what song this is.
17th of February, 2015.
This is a cover, I'm just gonna play it.
(Cavetown cover of "Migraine" by Twenty One Pilots)
Ugh, no.
Try not to cringe challenge ultimate boss.
(groans and laughs)
Don't do it Robin, please, don't.
Don't rap, please don't do this.
(sighs)
(deep distortion)
(laughs)
That's it, that's all you get. (laughs)
Why didn't I finish it?
Why didn't I even finish the line?
That was awful, that was really bad.
This one's called "Mr Bees Knees" 7th of November, 2015.
Oh no, no, oh no.
I think I rapped in this one as well.
(groans)
("Mr Bees Knees" by Cavetown)
(sings) I say!
Although that was kind of a funky jive
when the melody came in, rapping is something I should know
I should not do, and I will never do again.
There's gotta be a honey company called Bees Knees.
If there isn't, I'm taking it.
Come buy my bee juice.
This one's called "No Builder or Handyman"
from the 5th of April, 2015.
("No Builder or Handyman" by Cavetown)
Not a bad, core sequence.
(laughs) Wait a sec.
He's taking a sip.
He only drinks from other people's glasses in the house.
Never from his own water bowl.
I've never seen him drink from his own water bowl,
for some reason, he'll only...
I'll wake up and I hear like a (slurps repeatedly).
He's just taking a sip.
Are you sipping a drinky?
Good boy.
("No Builder or Handyman" by Cavetown)
Oh I did, I fixed it!
(hums along)
Bass drop! Oh, come on.
This mans.
You're messing up my video.
Is this your computer? Are you Cavetown now?
No, are you Cavetown?
No, you're not Cavetown, I'm Cavetown.
He loves to stand on my keyboard
and delete everything I'm working on.
I appreciate the thought, but I'm not, I don't...
don't do it.
("No Builder or Handyman" by Cavetown)
Not a bad beat.
It's okay.
I love my "oohs."
Even back in the day, I was a fan of "oohs."
(sings along)
That's all you get, I guess.
That wasn't too bad.
This one's called "Pinch Yourself"
from the 6th of May, 2015.
("Pinch Yourself" by Cavetown)
That's a pop punk sounding sequence, core sequence.
That's true.
I like that lo-fi beat, though, that's nice.
(sings along)
Yeah, I don't like that song.
Moving on.
This one's called "Rather"
and it's from the 11th of November, 2014.
So this is an oldie.
I don't remember how this goes.
("Rather" by Cavetown)
Oh I do remember this!
Okay, I really like this riff.
Can anyone tell me if you've heard it in a different song,
'cause I feel like I've heard it already.
(sings along)
Isn't that nice? I like it.
I think I wrote this like
mid slash end of emo phase,
when I was realizing,
enough of all this negativity, you know?
Aw that's nice!
But I was like, yeah I'm ready to be positive.
It's so weird hearing really old songs,
singing about things you cared about so much back then.
I remember all these things,
I remember how much they mattered to me, and
how much
how much time I spent...
I wasted thinking about these things,
and it just doesn't matter at all anymore.
And that's just really weird,
like it feels like a different life.
'Cause I know what I was singing about,
and it was some sad stuff and messed up stuff
that I thought that was my life, you know?
I thought that was how it was gonna be forever,
and today I don't even care, like it doesn't...
Yeah, I feel like a different life and different person
that went through that, that is really really weird.
I think that's enough, I've had enough, at least.
And Fig probably wants to play.
Thanks for watching, I'm really sorry it was such
a long wait to see part two of this video.
I hope it was worth the wait.
If you haven't seen part one,
there will be a link in the description
and also at the end of this video.
Go click on that and hear some other
old doodlies that I made.
Tickets for my tour are still out,
there's a link for that also in the description,
so go snap those up.
I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone,
(cat meows) I've already like...
Fig is crying, I gotta go.
Thanks for watching, I'll see you next week.
(laughs) Bye.
- There you go.
- [Cavetown] (laughs) Look at my boys.
(cat meows)
Yeah! What?
Yeah, that's my boy! Stretching.
- [Cavetown's Dad] Look at his belly button.
- [Cavetown] (laughs) Why does he have a belly button?
He's also got a lot more fur now, if you notice,
it's going up on his back legs.
On his back legs.
Oh! See you later.