Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night...

[tetragon1000]

May the hell hounds be on you trail 30 ignoratn people!

[daydreamingsince1990]

forever alone T_T

[BrokenneckYgor]

Blind Willie used to say "Sighted folks think they know something. They know nothing. Dark eyes can tell you more than a hundred seeing folks."

[12stringjames]

You should understand that this is Blind Willie's musical representation/reaction to Jesus' crucifixion. That'll give you a little context.

[straaler2]

DAMMIT i meant voyager one!

[straaler2]

when i hear this, i picture 2 aliens opening up apollo one, playing the record, and hearing this. then, playing it over and over again.

[whaleeyes]

listened at least 500 times already

[simmysexymuffin]

I just like can't..can't..BWAAAAAA. This song makes me so uncomfortable..it's AWESOME.

[randombadger899]

......T-T

[proudmexican111]

if i was an alien id be like what the fuck is this?!?!?!

[MejoradaDj]

I would send out Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" that's one way to tell the aliens about humanity ; )

[lodvib]

This song

has left the solarsystem

isnt that wierd ?

[gorillazfan3]

Soundtrack of my life?

[pueblollblack]

" a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music "

[Starwars1442]

We can't even get along with each other aliens would destroy us. We don't even treat other races with respect no point in trying to warm up to aliens.

[CommissarBraxton]

@Starwars1442 Speak for yourself.

[Starwars1442]

@CommissarBraxton So you think you could run the world with no racism and achieve world peace?

[CommissarBraxton]

@Starwars1442 Im not racist and Im not violent. Its going pretty well.

[Starwars1442]

@CommissarBraxton You're missing the point. I was talking about mankind, not YOU. Plus who says the aliens wouldn't be assholes.

[Kodomeat]

penis penis penis penis penis penis

[OrganicKing]

well by now the aliens are freaking out

[6991james]

i'd listen to this every night if i was in prison

[ukilic86]

Probably this will be the first man made music which aliens will listen

[Neshuah1]

we're not only lonely. we're meaningless and so is life. i hope there are no aliens. i hope no one has to go through this meaningless life.

[CommissarBraxton]

@Neshuah1 I speak for humanity when I say, STFU!

[Neshuah1]

@CommissarBraxton i speak for the nihilism thats yet to overcome any other human belief.

[eammafan1]

@Neshuah1 mhmmmmm

[Neshuah1]

@eammafan1 its true. modern science has kicked God out of the universe. modern neurology has explained our "sins", love, and everything. there's nothing "bigger than life" left.

[MainTottenhamMan]

@Neshuah1 Life is not meaningless. Life is the ability to take in information, process it and take meaning of this vast and seemingly infinite universe. Life is to scatter information across the Universe. Life is to have fun, life is to laugh, cry, love, live, and finally die. Life is so rare that it should not be disregarded, even if it's that annoying fly buzzing around your head, or the rat that eats your rubbish. Life is amazing. Life is everything. Live it. I'm an atheist btw :)

[Neshuah1]

@MainTottenhamMan whats the meaningl of enjoying life? whats the meaning of life at all? do u think universe would notice if we disapeared right now? human life is like one second compared to the age of universe, how does it matter whether u enjoy it or not? life started as an accident. we are part of this futile evolution.

[pali4life48]

lyrics" MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM AAAAAAAAAAAHH AHH MMMMMMMM AH MMMMMMMM.

:p

[Neshuah1]

@pali4life48 really?? thank you so much for this information

[Scrivartha]

This is one of the songs on the Voyager record, rocketing through the cold darkness of space right now. Nothing I can think of is more appropriate to communincate to the universe who we, as humans, are.

[HansMolemanTheFirst]

These are the true organic sounds of blues. 

[THATF00LHARDY]

appears to be a pic of blind willie mctell in the vid

[christophedetiege]

Vsauce!!

[Sheetkenny]

poor man

[DoyenYoshi]

Blues in Space on board of the Voyager, how awesome!

[CgSixYearsOld]

thumbs up if you came here because of Vsauce!

[Mauroleiicus]

@CgSixYearsOld I came here because of good taste in music. NEH

[XzPrOzZx2]

i wonder how aliens would react to this ???

[calebcaleb2026]

let them know..Blind Willie.

[MercuryRebeL]

Aliens would freak out at this, its scary

[rankarandas]

vsauce

[townofed]

Haunting song. For me the imagery that comes up is a man mourning about a lost love. I love the blues, soulful stuff.

[TheAerieShow]

i respect the creator of this song but i don't like it

[xXClishamXx]

@TheDutchGame Me to

[xXClishamXx]

If anyone makes a skyrim arrow to the knee joke shame on you...

[TheRemixer05]

Can't believe this song is 84 years old...

[jlmood2007]

T.T

[mhalyc]

born alone, die alone - the aliens might as well know lol

[MrCanada144]

Its almost haunting.

[TheN00b4Lif3]

Think the aliens will ever understand this?

[hunte922]

I can imagine this as a radio signal coming from earth on other planets..

Also vsauce

[jooisgod]

i hope the people who reference the dislikes aren't retarded.

[bradleybooth95]

This actually made me shiver, just thinking about loneliness and the satellite/thing floating about space.

[Gletter7]

Vsauce?

[edytzuUndercover]

reminds me of l4d2

[Shock777423]

Something made me listen to the whole song, entirely, without interruption.

Weird.

[Awkwardtunity]

so this song...represents the human race. And earth...

nice.

[dancer20116]

@Awkwardtunity i think its the perfect choice.

[lalalalalaAilyn]

anthem for forever alone.



[ShinjiTomi]

My soul brought me.

[JJF10101957]

Lonesome,empty,and full of life.

[KittyInTheClub]

Loneliness... :(

[superjet444]

from the comments i can see most people here came from vsauce?

[138hyde]

this song makes me cringe everytime i hear it you can just feal the pain

[bernerer]

I hope the 28 dislikes are aliens

[iBtRolliN20]

does anyone know why they chose this song to represent earth on the voyager ship?

[wongabee]

@iBtRolliN20 Loneliness

[Illyria23alyssa]

@iBtRolliN20 Do you really have to ask?

[Illyria23alyssa]

@iBtRolliN20 It's not representing earth, it's representing the human emotion called loneliness.

[Oscar847]

Bald guy thank u

[superheroes17]

the man on the photo at 1:28 is Blind Willie Mctell not Blind Willie Johnson.

Not the same guy.

[Zandraweirdo]

Vsuace sent me here :)

[x0xpinkipodx0x]

It's amazing how this song was chosen. The idea of sending out a record into space is crazy to me. It's such a great but sad idea. Thinking of this record out there all alone in the darkness, just waiting for someone or something to find it.. It's mind blowing.

[heavenonthewaydown]

@jk 1927

[iBtRolliN20]

@superchey2118 vsauce ftw

[jkmades]

How old is this song?

[97ata]

Why did they chose this i mean its only humming

[ArgiranMardok9]

@97ata Because sometimes its impossible to express such feelings whit words.

[urpersonaltroll1]

@97ata thats the point...

[nntrebing]

wait, did they send a record player too? i dont think aliens would have those to play the record on

[kaih8941]

@nntrebing if you have a needle and a piece of paper you can play it. :)

[AlexPlaysRS]

@nntrebing yes it was sent with symbolic instructions on how to operate it also :p

[fleshymech]

@superchey2118 Assuming they have a record player.

[KiboRoYaL]

I feel this song...

[TheAttackOfPineApple]

Imagine if something somewhere out there discovered this and by the time they got to Earth it was already been destroyed by humanity. Imagine the further loneliness those other beings have...

[Alkhoren]

@superchey2118 actually we can still reach Voyager with our communication, so that golden plate never got took by anyone or anything. You just got got by science.

[Herrjulian]

cold was the ground

[olucaspc]

just me or there's someone crying in the music ?

[deanman007]

it made my eyes tear abit....just knowing where he came from

[tjrams73]

The comments on this video are truly disappointing.

[Runebert88]

@tjrams73 As usual, I'm afraid. This powerful piece of work might be better appreciated on another world.

[GristleMcFizzlebeef]

@tjrams73 This is Youtube, remember. Comment threads here are rarely not disappointing, no matter what the subject.

This has been one of my favorite songs for many years.

[calebcaleb2026]

@tjrams73 given our days level of intelligence and ability to appreciate good music.. it should be expected. I'd take Blind Willie over 70% percent of our current so called hip hop/rap artists.



[DarkBat006]

@calebcaleb2026 This.

Need I say more?

[FriarTuck1234]

@superchey2118 btw not sure if you know, Blind Willie was turned blind by his mother when he was younger, he later died from sickness he got from the wet newspapers he was living on homeless at the time. A truly lonely man.

[TheRedbear2000]

Too bad this song is only three and a half minutes.

[Churchy180]

@TheRedbear2000 unless you put it on repeat

[TheProjectMJ]

They actually talked about this in a video in our science class and I already knew all about it ^.^

[HEYitsPINNY]

this song made me feel weird until i took an arrow to the knee

[ArgiranMardok9]

@HEYitsPINNY Moron.

[Fonz674]

@HEYitsPINNY Wait... I know you.

[FriarTuck1234]

@HEYitsPINNY dont listen to ArgiranMardok9 someone stole his sweet roll!

[ArgiranMardok9]

@FriarTuck1234 Help I am being barraged by thousands of bad jokes.

[MrGameGov]

i hope if something finds voyager 1 they listen to blind Willie first :) u dont need words for this song. pure emotional sadness

[Z1cky]

This is where Ry Cooder got his Paris Texas groundings from. Not heard the soundtrack? look it up, some great playing.

[litmanenx]

this man is great this song repsisents exactly the lonlines (not withe the bad meaning)

lonlines is something that all we have fell.

i like this song because he saws me that he like music and it was his real love and his friend.

[DarkJoker99]

Why the fuck does Justin Beiber always show up in EVERY Youtube video? You all need to find a new subject to base your lives around.

[515742617000027]

i like pickles ....ballsacks....

[quit123100]

Vsauce

[comeondown12345]

why couldnt they send a justin beiber song in space?

[Saunga525]

@comeondown12345 we want to make peace, not start a space war.... I dont think the aliens would be pleased if w sent a nuclear bomb like Justin Bieber to space to destroy their hearing mechanisms. We want to love them, not torture them.

[comeondown12345]

@Saunga525 LOL Nice point xD

What i mean to say now was, lets just send justin beiber to space =D

[Saunga525]

@comeondown12345 lmao perfect plan! if the aliens arent friendly they can disect him!

[comeondown12345]

@Saunga525 HAhaha yessss

[goddamnkids75]

@comeondown12345 FUCK YOU UNLESS YOU HATE HIM THEN NO FUCK YOU

[comeondown12345]

@goddamnkids75 Yes, i hate justin beiber. 

[P4ND4filmz]

@comeondown12345 bcoz they dont want humans to be known as retards

[comeondown12345]

@P4ND4filmz true haha

[ninjacowboy]

I hope the 26 dislikes are human.

[Bloodraven216]

@ninjacowboy :L

[iBtRolliN20]

@ninjacowboy lol

[Nahiyan12]

@ninjacowboy

Then 2 of them are aliens?

[OblivionLoung]

From a third person point of view:

Loneliness-Simple lack of social interactions, causing withdrawal within the human mind.

Life-Simple procedure which consciousness is formed and a vital aspect to the maintenance of earth's ecosystem.

Human Life-Ordinary life, exaggerated through biased views of humans themselves.

We hold life dear to us merely because we are the ones who possess it, and in turn we have shaped life around this very belief that life is precious.

[MrBrendanisawsome]

@INMATE2468

I don't care what the odds are I think something has already found it

[eibi86]

Lol lego roller coaster

[gismoe86]

wtf does a Lego Roller Coaster have to do with this?

[FailDrummer]

This is the song that represents humanity, what else can you say?

[Marvelerful]

For the idiots who come to this song and make stupid childish remarks...i will not entertain you by buying into your little game of immaturity. For the people who actually came here for various reasons that concern the human race, loneliness, or just life in general...thank you for leaving respectful comments to the soul of this song

[donkeyazz2]

Penis

[MrCoCoNutRobot]

This song + Rainymood

[traktorBrum]

When I listen to this,I always think about the human race and how it suffered,how a human kills a human,how lonely we actually are.It's mindblowing when you think about your friends and family,how they love you and then you think how we feel alone thinking we are alone in the universe.Really amazing...respect

[zintosion]

Do aliens have record player?

[Flacksful]

@zintosion Probably not, but one is supplied within the Voyager itself.

[leonia97]

@zintosion Hence why theres one on board

[Aviatorsmith]

@zintosion If they were an intelligent species that we can communicate with, they almost certainly know that sounds are made of vibrations and would have some form of a record player.

[MATTHEWTHEINGRAM]

Walk the line ...

[nemanzo9]

If I heard this when I was all alone in space... I would put it on repeat and leap into the darkness.

[TheSonnyful]

if i should listen to this song, all alone in space...

damn, i would feel terrible

[GrilledCheese2theMAX]

Good shit but how bout we put more songs into space hm?

[INMATE2468]

Oh and btw the song trully means loneliness since the odds of voyager 1 being found by extraterrestrial life is like 1in 1,000,000. Even if it was by then given our ignorance we would have destroyed ourselves by then . I wouldnt be surprised if we found a billion year old massage from another civilization who has been dead for millions of years. Just goes to show it probably isn't only us humans who are lonely.

[g00hz]

@INMATE2468 "probably isn't only us humans who are lonely." Beautiful :)

[NickManor]

@INMATE2468 Imagine us being completely annihilated (from the sun's expansion or any such event) and this record still streaking, rather slowly in fact, across nearly empty space. It is quite possible and even very likely that this probe takes a path directed toward a star's surface; the probe and our existence will have been completely lost and not another wisp of dust in the universe will be aware of it.

[INMATE2468]

Dam just found out this is one of the songs on voyager 1, this Guy is at this second is representing humanity's loneliness, meanwhile the world from which this outstanding piece of work originated from is being torn apart by nazi freaks who haven't found out yet that all homosapiens( humans) are 99.8% related. So when freaks like "googletoolbar" down at the comments says " nigger" his insulting himself as well...

[INMATE2468]

Classics , can't beat them blues!

[TheDutchGame]

I want to have this played at my funeral.

[mikrd1]

I really cried a little. So beautifully sorrow.

[bassunterrockz]

Why is this terrifying to listen to?

It's beautiful though.

[Spartansrob08]

Vsauce didnt mention there was gonna be a racist war on the comment section :(

[ZzRvXzZ]

what? this is just moaning...

THEY SHOULD've put justin bieber song on the disc.

[NateDoesStuff]

@ZzRvXzZ Then the aliens would attempt to destroy the earth.

[ZzRvXzZ]

@NateDoesStuff

THATS THE PORPOISE.

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

[starsky1012]

@NateDoesStuff I'm pretty sure aliens wouldn't spend minimum +70 years to go to a habitable planet so they can destroy it.

[Netboy30]

vsauce haha

[bnz500]

@btawhen like my dick

[btawhen]

Vsauce .. damn .. i love this .. Can u see guys .. that after all we are all The same . we want to know .. we want to love .. we want to be loved .. we don't want to be alone . :D we are all the same ^^ ( sayin this while lestinin to the song .. CooL feeling ) ... Peace From Morocco ..

[g00hz]

@btawhen Morocco ? :D Hey dude !

[btawhen]

@g00hz Hey bro :) ^^ kayne man9diw :p :p hhhh

[g00hz]

@btawhen hh thalla :D

[PaleHorseApocalipse]

vsauce!!!

[MoonyPlusPadfoot]

@bnz500 Nigger? Wow.. He's blind. He can't sing, because he has no song to read. Please. Be mature.

[bnz500]

@MoonyPlusPadfoot derp, no one can teach him a song?

[TheKatyLady1]

mind fuck

[TheTwoGeeks]

Its odd to think that this is potentially the first thing an extra terrestrial civilisation ever hears of the human race.

[asaw1994]

@TheTwoGeeks one of the first things* there are many other songs and audio pieces on it

[1960xiaobaobei]

I like old blues , slide guitar

[cuzwereacool2]

forever alone!

[DakireProductions]

I come here from Vsauce to hear the full song, but I find a full blown internet fight.

[Shortbus5100]

@DakireProductions This song hits me right deep in my soul.

[sydnerxx]

@DakireProductions which vsauce video was this from again? 

[panzerV2]

i feel lonly right now... its ameazing, now i realize the humanlife its unique