Hello.
Today we are counting down the...
Oh yes!
That's right.
Let's see how they compare to...
Eddy: ...the pop music videos that always get
hundreds and millions or billions of views.
But here they are!
See if you can guess along.
Eddy: Coming at 10th place is...
Whoa...!
Brett: Whoa!
Wait, is that only 10th place?
Eddy: Yeah.
Coming at 10th with 65.9 million views...
- That is very impressive. Yeah. - Wow actually, it's bigger than I thought it would be.
- That's what she s- - I'm impressed.
That's what... yeah.
Never mind.
We're a classical music channel.
- Yeah, we're a PG channel. - PG.
Keeping it friendly for family and friends.
Eddy: This is a very cool painting of Beethoven as a kid.
Eddy: Dude, I did not know Beethoven looked like that as a kid.
Brett: Yeah.
I'm surprised actually
'cause Beethoven 5 is like...
You know, probably when people think classical music,
people usually think Beethoven 5.
- 100%. Yeah. - Right?
But it's actually only at 10th place,
- which is quite surprising. - I know...
I'm already thinking what is the other nine?
Like, "How is this 10th!?" Like...
Actually, I'd be curious if anyone watching this...
...if there's any on the list that you don't know.
Yeah.
By the way, this video is probably gonna get copystriked.
- But go check out TwoSet Apparel for the support. - Mhm!
Thank you, guys!
Repping classical musicians!
Eddy: All right.
Coming in 9th place is...
your favourite!
"Patchabel-"
No, I'm just kidding.
Pachelbel Canon in D is only 9th place?!
How?!
I am actually super surprised.
I thought it'd be like No. 1.
This is the piece that every second-
Not every second, like, 90% of people play at their weddings.
- Yeah! Oh! - The piece that I will never play my wedding.
- Yeah. No, I'll play- - Unless it's as a joke, ironically.
I'll play it at the funeral.
All right, that's enough.
Yeah, I'm starting to get...
I was already getting impatient.
- Yeah, I was like, "Nah." - I was like, "Nah."
- Too much PTSD. - Yeah.
Eddy: All right, coming in on No. 8 is...
The comment.
Brett: Ha ha ha!
Eddy: 'Cause Mozart couldn't finish his requiem.
I'm so impressed.
Are you practicing?
Have you subscribed to our channel?
If you haven't subscribed...
how does that make you feel...
- ...watching our content? - You're not educated.
I don't know, I just associate this music to like, a villain.
Yeah, villains. "Are you sure?"
- That's awesome. - I'm impressed!
- I love it. - Yup.
...more than Pachelbel's.
Actually, that's kind of a good thing.
- Nice. - But I think-
I feel like Mozart Requiem is also so different
from all his other pieces, right?
It's like... It's the opposite.
- It's like this dark side of Mozart. - It's a lot more...
- ...serious than the typical, just elegant... - Yeah.
*sings Mozart's Symphony No. 40*
It's just Mozart showing the world. He's like...
- "No, no, no, I can also write this." - Yeah.
Eddy: 7th place is...
Mm...
Okay yeah, this is huge.
Mm...
It's a bit overplayed. I think of busking times.
But,
- when I do listen to it, it is a beautiful piece. - And also wedding as well.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Busking, wedding, every single occasion.
- It's pretty like... - Oh... so good!
- ...wholesome. - Yeah.
It's like, "Ah..."
I'm just picturing like, walking into like, a...
- grand historic chapel, you know? - Mhm.
- Wearing some TwoSet Apparel because you're cultured. - Yup!
- Yes. And all the... - And you're just so-
- mosaic, glasses, all the colours. - Yeah...
And you're just like, "Wow..."
By the way, that video we played was the Berlin Phil version.
Because you know, we like the Berlin Phil recording.
Eddy: The most viewed version is this one.
Eddy: All right, coming in at 6th place!
Oh dear...
"André Rieu."
Who's that?
Pffttt!
"...performing the Second Waltz."
Oh!
Yeah, Shostakovich.
Damn...!
I remember I've learnt-
I realised this, like, few years back,
that the Second Waltz is huge.
'Cause it's weird. I've never h-
No one talked about it at the con or in high school.
- But Second Waltz is apparently a big thing. - Wow...!
I'm impressed!
The only thing is...
The Second Waltz, to me, doesn't feel like Shostakovich.
I mean, that's probably why it's number...
- Yeah, it's up there, right? At 72 million views. - ...6, right?
But let's listen a bit.
Sorry. Look at that guy.
Brett: He's like, "Yes..."
Eddy: "Part of my contract said I must smile."
Yeah! Yeah!
- I must look like I'm really getting into it. - Yeah.
Respect for, like, smiling, but like...
- I'm not sure about- Yeah. - You're playing 2nd violin, mate.
You're not supposed to smile at that part.
Yeah, I mean, I guess it's got that Russian feel.
I think my old Russian teacher told me
Shostakovich had his...
you know, the music that he wrote,
finding the line between expressing his ideals
- versus the political pressures. - Yeah.
But then he also just wrote a lot like, more pop-sounding stuff.
- And this is one of them. - I mean...
- He can, clearly, he can, you know? - Yeah.
*gasps*
Eddy: My favourite coming in on No. 5!
Okay, this is the one where I think it's like ok-
What was that?
Oh, what the-
- Whoa, what is this? - Oh, whoa, man, dude, guys.
- Whoa. - This is weird.
It's visual-
- Okay... - Ah, okay...
- Dude! - I was like, "What is this weird th-"
Brett: It's like, this intro does not make sense.
Dude, Clair de Lune is still, to this day,
one of my favourite pieces.
I always play it when I get on a piano.
- It's such a great piece! - The first thing I play.
Actually, you know, interesting though,
Debussy himself was not very proud of this piece.
Really?
Yeah, he thought Suite Bergamasque was...
basic.
You can imagine, right? Like, he's a composer.
This is too easy for him.
So he went on to go to explore even more...
like, difficult tonalities and ****.
He was just...
"Yeah, this great piece!"
And he's just like...
- "Uh, it's a bit basic." - Imagine all these composers...
If they were alive today, they would just be like...
"Huh!?"
- They will legit be so confused. - Yeah.
Like, how much more basic things have become.
- Just compare Clair de Lune to any popular... - Yeah.
- songs or pieces these days. - Yeah.
- Oh, I would- - Yeah, it's like...
The first melody already has like 6 different harmonies in there.
I wanna share my favourite bit.
Wait, jokes. The whole thing is my favourite bit.
- I forgot. - It's all so good!
Yeah, I couldn't find my favourite bit.
But then when you said your favourite,
I'm like, "That's pretty good- oh, oh, there's more."
"Oh yeah, that's pretty- Oh, there's more? Oh yeah."
I didn't say it, but I was like,
"That was all pretty ****ing good!"
Brett: Oh...
Eddy: Ooh, coming at No. 4...
Dude, imagine one album of yours makes it-
- Two singles makes it twice. - Twice. Dude, in the last 300 years...400.
That's insane!
99 million 9...
Dude, it's almost 1 billion!
- 99... - No, 100 million.
Oh yes.
Pfft! Dude...
- Dude, your math. - I suck at math.
- I...just wished it was 1 billion. - Yeah, I was like...
Okay, let's get it to 1 billion views, guys!
Dude, I think this is a few of the movements in this piece,
but not the whole requiem.
- This is like the highlight reel of the work, requiem. - Yeah!
All right!
Eddy: Now it's the top 3. Ooh, I'm excited.
Coming at No. 3.
- Oh, good old Beethoven! - Dude! Hitting two!
Back at it again, breaking the 100 mil mark,
with his Beethoven 9.
Yeah, okay, look.
I couldn't expect less, to be honest.
Beethoven 9 is... I think, one of the...
I almost said Rosetta Stone, but that's not the word.
The pinnacle...
- Yeah, like the pinnacle monument... - It's a pinnacle-
The monuments.
- Monumental composition for symphonies. - Yes.
Like, every composer has looked up to that.
- Yeah. Yeah. - I'm sure.
And Brahms, like...
Dude.
The cool thing about the symphony, too...
I remember when I was playing it with...
I don't know, with AYO for sure...
...is that they said the symphony tracks going from
pure despair to kind of revelation.
Oh! Okay, yeah, it's like...
You're going from one end to the other.
Yeah, so if you listen, like,
his 1st movement is pure despair, like...
- Like, it's some heavy dark stuff. - Oh yeah...
Especially if you listen to the coda.
- Dude, that's dark, man! - Yeah.
It's like...
It's like, "Man, I can't hear. I'm deaf."
And then the 2nd movement is kinda like...
Eddy: ...this kinda like...
It's still dark minor key, but there's a bit more like
light spirit there somehow?
I think of like, an excerpt when I hear that.
- Yeah, It's an excerpt bit. It's a very famous excerpt. - It's a huge excerpt.
And then the 3rd movement,
he finds kinda like...
...some kind of love and peace?
- Inner... - Yeah.
Tranquility. And then the last movement,
of course, is like enlightenment.
Ode to Joy!
This is an ode to joy.
Yeah! He finds joy.
Bro, it gives you goosebumps, man, seriously.
- I know it's overplayed. - One of the best experiences.
Yeah, you play it as a beginner, in like, every beginner...
Everyone plays it, but seriously.
Eddy: Last two!
- Oh, Beethoven is just taking the charts! - Dude, Beethoven...
...just dominating the...
This is... This is the...
...of the...
...the last 400 years.
Yeah.
Okay, Moonlight Sonata, you...
- I'm sure you guys know this. - Yeah.
Okay, is this just me or is it like-
Personally, I think Moonlight is a bit...
- You know what I thought? - ...cheesy.
I thought it's like some pop songs
- that are already taking this motif already. - Yeah.
I mean, don't get me wrong. It's a great sonata.
- But it's so... - I feel like it's been killed by a lot of other...
I don't know what pop songs use it,
but that's the impression I get.
- A lot of people just use it for different scenarios. - Yeah.
Bet you didn't know how the 2nd movement sounds, right?
That's right. 'Cause no one ever made it that far.
It's so true though.
- It's all right. - Yeah.
- That's cool. - I mean, still,
- 170 million views. That's represent! - That's crazy.
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Brett: Oh, guys, yes!
Holst is also one of the great composers,
wrote The Planets.
Yes, and... practice.
It's something that you must do
- in order to become a great musician. - Mhm.
Thank you.
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- Yeah... - I mean...
It's... great. I mean...
- Look- - If you've been to our channel,
you know how we feel about the piece.
It's a great piece. Just very very overplayed.
It's very hard to remove all the images
- I've associated with Vivaldi Four Seasons now. - Yeah.
Brett: Kicking stands, stripping...
Like, people wearing different attire,
- playing like two lines of it. - Yeah.
And then playing all rhythmically wrong,
and then everyone goes...
"wOW..."
Yeah.
Don't get me wrong. It's a great piece.
- We used to busk with it as well. - Yeah, it's-
I love playing it. I actually don't mind playing it.
- It's really cool. - Yeah.
But um...
I mean, but still, it's a testament...
- to how great of a piece it is, I think though, that... - That's true.
Because I think it's one of the first pieces of classical music
- that was so effective in painting imagery with sound. - Yes!
Yes, the bird sounds, the seasons...
...fire, winter, cold, everything, yeah.
- He was the OG Violin Charades, man. - Yup.
Guys, this is it. Top 10.
What do you guys think?
I'm okay with it, actually.
It's not like...
...that bad.
It wasn't like Canon in D was 1st place, so...
Yeah! So yeah...
- I got this sense of relief when it was like No. 9 or something? - Yeah...
- I was like, "Okay, okay." - Yeah...
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