What Makes Minecraft's Music So Great

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[CharlesCornellStudios]

Insert your Minecraft track and/or other video game music breakdown requests here! And go listen to Bill Evans. Do you some learnin. You'll love it I swear.

[OneAndOnlyYesMan]

“We’re settled but never truly home.” I think you just described Minecraft

[samcrowder]

“We’re obviously in the key of Gb” Yeah...yes...of course...obviously.

[spicy.d]

Made me think of this quote:

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
― Frédéric Chopin

[merakimerakimeraki]

Thanks for the kind words about my video! I’ve been a fan for a while so it was surreal to hear my name!

And great work as always :)

[nickoliva]

I think Jschlatt put it best when he said “you can put me in some random world i’ve never explored, you can add weird new items i’ll never know how to use, but to me, it’s not really minecraft until that music starts fading in. I’m pulled back into a world where nothing mattered, and when i was happy...”

[lanimeyl]

Charles: simple sometimes is just better

Jacob Collier: *triggered*

[maphu]

Pigstep is a bop, Stal is unironically good, and wet hands/dry hands/Sweden and those other songs are so memorable and nostalgic and still so perfect for the kind of game minecraft is. I love it

[lasagna.noodles]

Please talk about “Wet Hands” from Minecraft. It’s a gorgeous piece!

[LiamBarnwell]

11:14 Let's play an E chord
**Plays magical E scale that will take me a year to execute**

[oslal]

"Mice on Venus" has to be one of the greatest on the record. Simply put, it's nostalgic and beautiful, yet powerful, sad and weird. I feel like this one particularly enhances the gameplay and the general experience of actually enjoying Minecraft as a whole. The instrumentation on this tune has always made my time on this game truly special. No other game soundtrack has had the same impact on the player's lives than Minecraft, and I deeply think that Mice on Venus is one of the reasons why.

*The year is 2014, you're chilling on Minecraft and after a long and fatiguing mining session, you finally come home to your house made out of oak planks ; Mice on Venus is playing... "We're settle, but not truly home"...*

[arocinglife]

i think my favourites might be "wet hands", "dry hands" and "sweden"...Heck, ALL OF THEM ARE INCREDIBLE

[ruki]

"We've settled, but we're never fully home."

That's exactly what the entire soundtrack feels like.

[VocalBrony]

"We're settled, but we're never fully home... It can go on and on and on and on. We never hit a point where the song feels fully resolved."

Said about a game where the story goes as far as you want it to and the creative possibility is limitless.

Perfectly apropriate.

[GorillaCanon]

I can't believe Minecraft is only 10 years old. Feels like I've been playing it for more than 20.

[michaelscott]

Sweden definitely gives me vibes similar to Satie’s “Gymnopedie No. 2”

[rectangleboy]

Have you ever noticed how wind chimes are generally pentatonic? It's like no matter how the wind hits the chimes, it just sounds peaceful and calm -- like Minecraft.

[elliejf]

EVERYONE FORGETS THE NETHER C418’s Nether songs are great at making you feel dread (concrete halls & ballad of the cats) or lonliness (warmth & dead voxel), and Lena Raine’s can make you feel dread (so below), lonliness (rubedo), and strangely life as well (chrysopoeia). Also, Pigstep is an absolute BOP

[breeze_j]

I gotta say: I’ve watched this video so many times and every time my mind wanders back to my favorite by C418: intro. A couple of months ago I listened to it just because right before I went to bed and I actually cried because of how many amazing memories of my childhood it brought back to me (even though I’m only 17)

[clarqu]

I gotta say, I really love how you fade out the piano examples while transitioning and talking over them. That's such a great editorial touch.