Why Minecraft Abandoned C418's Music...

The Entire History Of Minecraft's Stolen Album...

C418 has had one of his three Minecraft albums stored in the back of Minecraft's Original Soundtrack Vault for Years and the real story behind it has never been released, Until now. I Spent about 200 hours creating this video and every element in it so if you could sub or follow elsewhere it would really mean a lot.

Narrators:
@Rabbert
@SailorsBounty
@steinful
@BursstyPlays
And yours Truly haha

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[MariaM]

Honestly good for C418 for keeping the rights to his music. Whenever you produce anything working under someone you don't hold the rights and it always felt so unfair to me.

[wiggle]

One thing is that if C418 ever did release the 3rd album, someone would immediately make a mod that puts it into the game

[randomcommenter]

The new artists did a decent job, it just sucks that C418 got cut out practically.

[mrspook]

I don't hate Minecraft. I just hate Microsoft!

[E.C.GoMusicandMore]

Keep in mind, this is Microsoft’s fault not the fault of the various new composers.

[mannis]

i genuinely believe without his soundtrack the game wouldn’t be widely regarded as on of the best videos games of all time. for me back in the day it’s what made the game feel special

[AsherKhughi]

it wasn't mojang that turned their backs on c418, it was microsoft

[xxgirlbyxx]

The only issue I have with this (otherwise pretty great!) essay is that the "per-biome" music was never an element of C418's music; only the new songs are assigned to specific biomes.

[paulhudalla]

I don't think any of the new music is bad, but there is something that's always been slightly off about it. C418 has a very specific sound that isn't like anyone else, and I really hope that someday, we get to hear his third album.

Also, I know that Minecraft Story Mode's soundtrack isn't really "Minecraft", but I still like it for what it is. Again, it's not bad music, but different from C418.

[Rabbert]

Great job on the video! I really enjoyed narrating the first chapter on this amazing project! Thanks for inviting me.

[Sigmicator]

If C418 came back I feel he could create the best piece of game music in history using the path he took through complications with Minecraft.

[Karabu_]

using the pigstep drop to show the poor reviews for it was WILD lmao

[iampinball]

Coming down on Pigstep I feel is misguided. Pigsteps entire goal is to be radically different from the C418 tracks. It’s a different dimension, and a different civilization. This formula could’ve worked had they actually stuck to the gimmick of ONLY having guest artists in separate dimensions

[sharkey_b]

my only problem with the new songs is that they seem to take priority over the older songs despite not entirely fitting. so far the best are the ones by Kumi Tanioka but they still don't fit as well.

[Aeonsteel]

I used to have music turned off, for years. One day a mod I was playing with dropped a music disc, which had Mice on Venus. I *cried* listening to it. Reminded me of the days on the Xbox 360 tutorial worlds, before they disabled achievements on them. We built a treehouse in the starting area of one, and mined out Stampy's pool for iron in another. Good times. The new songs don't do that for me. I use a resource pack to disable them.

[Ilikecatsll]

TLDR: microsoft didn't let C418 keep partial copyright rights to his songs so he quit

[pointlessviewer]

I am completely against the Idea of picking people into two categories, like "team change vs nostalgia". You can both have C418 doing the background soundtrack while new musicians trickle their music and art into music discs or new dimension themes

[comet.x]

honestly, i don't care if the music disks are very different. They're music disks, i think that's kind of their point.

Pigstep never plays naturally, you need to play it via the jukebox

[marljusweety]

When I watch videos like this I wish copyright restrictions were less strict. I hear references be made to music I either cannot remember or do not know and feel like Im missing a lot of the points being made. Having clips of the music added in would have helped a lot, but I get why its not done. It is difficult to avoid demonetization or strikes. ❤

[Bryzerse]

This video is so clearly based mainly on totally fabricated drama. Such a small minority of people actually flat-out hate the new music (though they've clearly found this video lol), and I'm actually yet to come across a single person who is actually opposed to C418 making more music. These nostalgia and change teams and completely imagined. The newer musicians have created to music that is completely within the style of the original tracks, and in efforts to prove otherwise this video comes across as extremely dishonest by comparing the newer music discs to the older ambient soundtrack. Please take a listen to cat and chirp and the rest of the original discs. They are not ambient. Saddens me that so many people will blindly hate people and their art just because it's marginally novel. Be mad at Mojang for their scummy corporate choices, not the musicians and not their music.