s1ocki's Sad YouTube project

no problem

kot00100
3 years ago

I have been looking for this song for a couple of years - not remembering either the title or the artist. We used to listen to it. Now it is only the song and my memories. Thank you very much for this moment.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/how_we_watch_tv/2013/11/bob_seger_s_night_moves_and_the_poetry_of_youtube_comments.html

love this:

The old saw is that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, but writing about music on YouTube is like clambering up on the architecture, hanging banners and family photos on the window ledges, or tossing garbage from the gables. Its anonymity makes it all the more like a group portrait, hauling us into visibility in all our bedraggled need. It’s not that you can’t or shouldn’t formally analyze or evaluate a song, but YouTube’s intimate entanglements make it plainer that doing so is no more the end of the process than gossiping about your family, even to your therapist, is a resolution to the relationship.

way to get name dropped dude! saw this when one of my non-ilx affiliated friends posted this on FB!

s1ocki writes about it all for Buzzfeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/markslutsky/how-the-youtube-comments-section-became-our-cultures-secret

Now listening to Telstar.

wow, this is excellent

Yeah, that was a great read.

Loved this, thanks S1ocki.

thx dudes!!!

did this spawn off an ilx thread?

Alex De Capua
4 weeks ago

This was playing first time I went to a big night club. All dressed up smart clothes only, shiny shoes. It was a night club called chevaliers in stanmore. It was with a flame haired girl who was in a leopard skin dress. Debbie was her name. It didn't last. The night club has gone. I had this tune in my head for better part of 30 years. I only tracked it down this year. I hear this and I'm back there. That's the power of a song. No a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bc65K9N5LI

nice

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/366364/Screenshots/h9zr.png

wha?!

"Joke's on you, you heard a bitin' ass crew"

Lol

This is like something out of a movie

:|

ok this is why http://fusion.net/Culture/video/sad-youtube-turning-mans-trash-treasure-513604

why ^^^ this man

why what this what

Bonnie Speeg
1 year ago

The name: Williams Mix, made in 1952, eerily represents my family. We five children growing up in the 50's amidst parental chaos, the atom bomb, increased modern media, McCarthy, the Red Scare and Rock n Roll. Our name was Williams, the grown ups drank, there were many secrets, much music and a lot of disconnectedness. I vote this John Cage to be the background if there were movies of my family . There aren't. My parents didn't even think to buy a movie camera to capture their 5 beautiful kids

"I had a little room in the east end of london in 1978 just after my marriage had broken up.. I had a little old record player and this single.. I put it on repeat and cried and cried and cried..."

romeo garcia 2 years ago
Yeah..i was 6 when this movie came out and a simply love it...They don't make movies like this...I show to all my friends and everyone loves it..specially this very touching scene...Thanks dad...The best movies i see in all my life was with you,,,

awww

Was the movie Predator?

no, universal soldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVetTbHiwjw

Cameron White4 months ago

Nancy, You walked in and my life began again. Thank you for being here. I miss you. Rest In Peace my darling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9B6KaIRQ&feature=kp

John d'Arke9 months ago

I used to entertain ideas of suicide throughout my teens. Attempted it once and indulged in lots of reckless behaviour in the hope I might not survive.

Years later I lost my best friend to it. I was the one to find him, and cut him down from the ceiling then cradled him in my arms while crying like a baby for what seemed like an eternity (probably only ~5-10 minutes) for the ambulance to arrive.

Even writing these few words brings tears to my eyes...about 8 years later. I really am shattered by these events even now. I found out later he was having marital issues and struggling after the arrival of his first child. I didn't even know.

This event tore my life apart, and his wife and daughter's, and touched many more. It being suicide made it feel all the more tragic and pointless. Much more than any other friend I've lost to car & motorbike accidents and drugs and cancer etc. I'm still hesitant to make new friends to this day.

I don't know if it'll help to share, but I how it might help someone.

Take care and talk to someone you trust - friend family or counsellor if you feel this way. 

i wonder about those

Yeah, the user name adds to the suspicion. This is a well-intention fiction. The opposite of trolling. Llorting.

i feel like i have a pretty good smell test about these, and there are a lot of ones that play out like fantasy melodramas that im suspicious of

devilkyn13 months ago

This song literally changed my life. When I was young I was afraid of coming out in the small town I lived in. After buying the Empire Records soundtrack I listened to this song over and over until I had the courage to move out on my own and start living my life. Happily things worked out fine, but like i said this song literally was my catalyst to change my life :)
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^ happy youtube

A friend sent me a link to this site a few months back, and I gotta say what's already been said: this is an amazing project. It's heartwarming to see people other than myself get all nostalgic over "I.G.Y.", one of my all-time faves

you're right people kill but they don't get imediate death penalty! no i don't have kids i got tons of cousins and yes some already were atacked by dogs and as always the dogs are always killed , makes me wonder if one day there aren't enough dogs to kill!

(post the youtube link too pls guys)

A recent interview...

http://www.nosuchthingaswas.com/2014/11/how-we-talk-about-ourselves-and-music.html

...which just now led to a mention by Andrew Sullivan.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/22/the-little-stories-of-youtube/

h/t man alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtnwcv-quE

Trevor Ferguson6 days ago
When this song was released. I was 9 years old(1997). It was the day of my grandfathers funeral. Heard this song just before the graveside service
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AxrOUJ62E

1969pontiac13 weeks ago

My wife passed away, she was no mistake. I miss her very much. Cherish the time you have with your loved one. We never know when it will be over. Happy New Year to all.
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Érica Ferreira Mazarini Kika2 weeks ago

Leste go
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Jader Loki1 week ago

Very sorry for your loss. All we can do is think about the good times with those we lost that we loved and put in a little extra for those we have not lost yet... We may be next. Too many to count for me
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1969pontiac11 week ago

+Jader Loki
Thanks for your kind words. I am sorry for your losses.. Take care, Bill
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOn6Am_opk

James Robo
6 days ago

Jim reminds so much of a man I called a friend, they looked so much alike. but my friend drank himself to death, i guess Jesus wasn't enough :(
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wow @ "I guess Jesus wasn't enough"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAriDxTeed8&list=RDVSQWcQXPtmA&index=5
Tdot heisenberg3 months ago

Rip to my late friend Doug, I miss you buddy I wish I would have known how you were feeling, I wish I could have saved you man, goodbye brother
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so good:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-220-1.2957497/sad-youtube-music-and-memory-1.2957500

Came here to post that. Heard it on the radio this weekend. Nice one, S1ocki!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuz5TKzaJoE

needfulthingsTYify 4 years ago
Why have I been early so late ... why have I not been there ... why do I have to carry on life knowing I will never see this magic with my own eyes ... life has become futile :-(

lol what was the video