Richard Strauss, Introduction from "Also Sprach Zarathustra"

[GridJumping]

Why do I imagine this playing in the background as Iran begins attempting to figure out our drone?

[scottbailey84]

wooo!

[NickInfante92]

"I'm a limousine-riding, jet-flying, kiss-stealing, wheeling-dealing son of a gun woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[southpaw2k1]

@NickInfante92 Long Live Ric Flair, 16-time WORLD CHAMPION!!! WOOOOOO!

[TheMulticolouredMan]

@Juanpb1983 It's not a song, it's a piece!

[ImAwesomeHaHaHa]

@TheMulticolouredMan It's not a piece, it's a composition!

[cutiepatootie66]

All these great German composers. What happened? What has Germany produced in the arts since?

[americanlowlife]

I work with young children and I got them to LOVE this song. I taught them to raise their arms in sections as the music starts to rise (I don't know music terms) then air drum. They make me play it for them numerous times. Along with this song, they ask me for more classical. :)

[geitekop507]

@MsClaireLouLou I know! I really like The Big Bang Theory...!

[CHCRUZ]

Wooooooohhhhhh!!!!!!

[wallentin76]

Hail my self, i am ûber!

[Crescens1080]

Can't help but "Woo!" when I hear this epic piece of awesomeness...

[TheArsenalgooner]

Nazi Muzak. His stuff was shit!

[Kijnn]

this was the song playing at Chuck Norris' birth!

[pangolin55]

3 people are jealous of this epicness :)

[psh4257]

first time i heard this was in the movie 2001 space odyssey, over the years Nietzsche came up during college, drugs came later, deep knowledge, still waiting for that!@

[nohelia90]

Nietzsche.

[MsAlexbill]

0:36 , is it PBat?

[DKcapsule]

great

[TheGame1842]

@AvaterPrinceZuko You made a comment about how a user was incorrect about assuming that the deity Mother Nature played a part in the creation of the planet, to which I replied, stating that both of you were incorrect in your assumptions, then you replied saying that when we die we'll know, which is rather fallacious, considering if there is no god, then when we die our brains cease to function, so we wouldn't know anything at all. I'm running out of characters, so fuck it. Bye.

[TheGame1842]

@AvaterPrinceZuko Well, that's a big fuck you to science and god.

[TheGame1842]

@AvaterPrinceZuko Do you believe in an anthropomorphic god?

[HerlockSholmes123]

Nietzsche would have been proud.

[TheGame1842]

@AvaterPrinceZuko So science.

[TheGame1842]

@AvaterPrinceZuko No just Science.

[konradfat]

Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!

[TheGumboVariator]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOO

[Thepivotfly]

chicken invaders



[bigbluefootball17]

How in the world could you EVER possibly dislike this?

[TheKetsuban]

WOOOOOOOOOOOO

[rozdere]

çok eğlenceli ehehe :)

[vieiracelina]

é a música da APOLO 11



[MrCagivaman]

@vieiracelina The BBC used this for all the Apollo flights

[rht992]

@1:30 awwww man that was a good wank

[thediremoose]

"THE DAWN OF MAN"

[icanmyshoetie]

Imagine slowly raising your middle finger to someone while playing this.

[QueerOldDean]

Tsk. Tsk. 153,669 views and not one comment about Nietzche.

What has the world come to?

[angela71200]

@QueerOldDean well theres your comment

[220friend]

@QueerOldDean no one felt the need to mention nietzche because everyone knows nietzche came up with zarathustra, we're not as pretentious as you.

[marc25052005]

goosebumps

[Deadfox7777]

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA!!!!!!!! GO GAMECOCKS!!!!

[ErickMen95]

3 people only have epic... fails

[crud4]

This is the Übermensch theme. The phoenix rising from the ashes like a raging hard on. Superman's sex song.

[xXFUNKAXx]

when chuck norris was born,this song was played in the background....

[lasprince]

@xXFUNKAXx Chuck Norris or Ric Flair...LOL

[88coldsummer]

This made my day..and video! ha

[nhfoos]

Strauss consumed a lot of cannabis to write this....

[Feralbreed]

I hate this song. Not because it's bad in itself, but because I can never again listen to it without remembering the millions of embarrassing things it has been used in.

[Zhaoyun098]

This reminds me of STAR WARS

[facts2025]

lets have a galaxy war yeaaaaaa lol

[obiwanobiwan13]

If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss stares into you...and starts playing this song.

;)

Nietzsche, Strauss, and the Ubermensch Forever!

[Kosciusko90]

My school's band will be playing this when we go to China in the end of May!!! Its EPIC

[LuckyMarketGameplay]

fanfare for the common man?

[PMMagro]

@LuckyMarketGameplay Aaron Copland wrote that one.

[LuckyMarketGameplay]

@PMMagro Copland! tanks

[TheRabbitRush]

This plays when Chuck Norris child is born.

[PunkTheEverliving]

i just remembered ric flair from wwe/tna

[xxsm13xx]

@cheezomatic you havent seen the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey?? its the big black thing that apears on the moon and earth

[fassstEddie]

@xxsm13xx That "big black thing" was called a monolith. fyi

[xxsm13xx]

@fassstEddie I know i was explaining it to that other guy didnt you read the comment asking what a monolith was??

[Leonx323]

I wrote the greatest essay of my life to this song!!!!

[adamtzsch]

The tentative, musical personification of Nietzsche's master-work.

[hubfred]

It is unbelievable that app. one minute and a half could cause such a feeling. Minhist, you are absolutely right.

[Minhist]

@hubfred Thanks man.

[8183skyler]

ha alright what if u blast this wright when buildings and stuff were crashing down and cities wiere falling apart in 2012

[Brown117Charlie]

The sound of mankind.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

I wonder what Richard Strauss would say if he could see "2001: A Space Odyssey" .

[ltsjack]

I have this music as a wake up clock. Getting out of bed never felt more epic!

[MrTantraMan]

@ltsjack

You know that is motherfucking brillaint idea.

[allahluckbuck]

@ltsjack I have to try that.

[alienCascais]

powerful

[frank1681000]

Esto es supremo, un genio.

[carlosabboud]

2001!!!!

[CallumJStewart]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­O!!!!

[btdave100]

The sound of Triumph

[DANSTER951]

was this guy German?



[Scherzkexxx]

@DANSTER951

yes

[carlosabboud]

@DANSTER951 Ithink so, the title seems like german

[DaniloCamargo]

Wooooooooooooo

[vwtaro]

awesome!!!

geweldig!!!

super!!!!

[GWiifanboy]

This song blew my mind!

[guitarphunk]

What the freak are you guys talking about? Ha!

[OzzyMandez]

To BE The Man WOOOOOO You Gotta BEAT The Man!

[Tomislav005]

@AvaterPrinceZuko Lol God.

[Nibelungenherr1876]

HAL killed 3 dislikers in their cryogenic hibernation.

[ckanezd]

This played when Mother Nature and God created world.

[gigigood1]

this song plays when i saw ur anus

[baltorz2]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOO

[themariobros45]

the opening to all of elvis's later concerts

[TheSeriouslyOatmeal]

I'm a limousine-riding, jet-flying, kiss-stealing, wheeling-dealing son of a gun! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOO!

[PutinIsABitch]

This finest piece of classical music makes me want to jizz in my pants.

[goodcommentguy]

I wish this was like my theme song, everytime that I'd walk outside of my house this would just play and sunlight would just start shining out of nowhere or something lol.

[marleyfan008]

2001? So this plays as the plane heads for the twin towers?

[Butzevau]

@marleyfan008, no. 2001, space odyssey

[jackzabbaththeband]

EPIC

[obiwanobiwan13]

If ever there was a fitting theme for Nietzsche's Zarathustra and for his Ubermensch...

THIS IS IT!

"I am no man--I am dynamite." --Nietzsche

He sure is...HAIL TO THEE, FREE SPIRITS AND UBERMENSCHEN EVERYWHERE! :D

[windstorm1000]

I've talked with musicians and they told me that nobody knew how to orchestrate like Strauss---not Beethoven, Mozart, etc. amazing of course, music is made of more than orchstrations--ideas, etc

[ckanezd]

Awwwww why is it so short?!

[Saku19]

This song remnds me of Homer Simpson...another hero to humanity.

[HellhammerSS]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!­!

[Ramyrror]

This plays when Chuck Norris shits...

[FreddNitche]

En el final, Zarathustra se retira fuerte y majestuoso como un sol de verano que viene de oscuras montañas. Es el fatal triunfo sobre la vida misma en los anillos plateados de la eternidad.

Nietzsche es el gran heroe de la humanidad... aunque a ésta le importe un bledo cualquier historia de heroismo y valor...

A mí me importa.

[Demetrio1112]

i love it

[TheCheshireCat86]

What's the name of the font in the opening credits.

[hugothenerd]

Dave: Delete this song, Hal. I don't like it.

HAL: Im sorry Dave. Im afraid i can't do that.

[waterdragon208]

This music is the number one way to make running 20 feet look like 20 miles!

[Minhist]

With all the bullying happening nowadays here's my advice.

Look at your self in the mirror and listen to this song and then tell me if you're still depressed.

[hubfred]

@Minhist Best YT comment in a while!!

[xof49]

@Minhist Three depressed people listened to this song while looking into a mirror and were still depressed afterward.

[froehlicherelter]

HappyWandy457, I dont know how the score is, but my feelings to this masterpiece say to me: Strauss fitted this unique introduction with natural intervals such as any brass instrument has - to undermine Zarathustra´s fundamental saying - . Thereafter, please do not jump from mayor to minor so quickly, in order to strengthen Zarathustra´s "way to light" and the opening will come much more to magnificence ever more at the end . . .

Hans Fröhlich - Germany

[Eggbert1x]

My god...it's full of stars!

[Csp499]

What a coincidence, I just so happen to be reading the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra...

[ThatIndianGuy7116]

WOO!

[zIRELOADED]

To infinity and beyond!!!!

[niwersa]

ubermensch 

[movinitlikedat45]

2001: A Space Odyssey, anyone?

[LucyLAL100]

@movinitlikedat45 Me :)

I've seen it.

[FreakinDeath]

@movinitlikedat45 HAL9000? Sir... what have you done...

[CaseRed0605]

To Be The Man You Got To Beat The Man WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[bwd81977]

Uberman

[TheDavid2222]

Let us not forget that this piece is commemorating Mr. Nietzsche, who was a hero to humanity.

[itmabob]

OMG don't play this at night, by yourself... SUPER CREEPY x(

[Birkbecks]

@itmabob if you think this is creepy try Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor it will remind you adrenalin is brown lol

[RichardHell1959]

Goalkepper's nightmare!  8-14 seconds

[Bluehawk2008]

The "religion of Persia" is Shiite Islam currently.

[domingoreyesv]

MAGNIFIK!!! O.o

[xxsm13xx]

a monolith just appeared in my livingroom.....XD

[wickedpissa25]

@xxsm13xx a monolith just appeared in my toilet

[Filip983]

@wickedpissa25

Epic comment. :)))

[dragonmoony]

correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "Zarathustra" the religion of Persia ?

[HappyHumanism]

@dragonmoony Zoroastrianism is, with Zarathustra as the deity.

[Erlir]

@dragonmoony

sort of. this song is a tribute to Nietzsche's Thus Sprake Zarathustra book.

[morgulddt]

Majestuoso, verdaderamente me recuerda los discursos de Zaratustra.

[NickInfante92]

woooooooooooooooo!

[NaviOriginal]

Exquisite¡¡¡

[canaca3330]

ESTREMECEDORRRRRRRRRR

[GavinFinley]

This awesome music has been applied to many lesser themes.

But in its full expression it is truly Apocalyptic.

It can only refer to the unzipping of space-time and the return of Messiah.

[marracotube]

Say no to hip hop

[cossack123321]

do a  Dvorak song

[sysweed]

This is the most powerful piece of music ever made!

[DetectibexA]

wooooooooooooo :D

[Coolgamer282000]

@DetectibexA Music worthy of the Dirtest Player In The Game, Ric Flair! Wooooooo!!!

[docmartin456]

what kind of drums are used in this song? whats the technical term? thx=)

[genitalien]

@docmartin456 pretty sure those are timpini's

[misstrespain666]

@docmartin456 kettle drums i think

[misstrespain666]

@docmartin456 i think its kettle drums

[RichyCash]

and then.. "See see Rider" :D

[clause666]

thanks!!! thus speaks zarathustra. what a great job !!!!!!!

[SgtBaker0707]

shut up troll :]

[DenizKupanaha]

Fantastic ;)

Who is the conductor? Which orchestra...?

[adamtzsch]

@DenizKupanaha erm...

[wolfenjosh]

Gentlemen, may I present... MegaMaid!

[quepasamenso]

woooooooooooooooooo!

[Wolflord13]

I would want this music playing every time I raise my middle finger slowly.

[stevemaster247]

@Wolflord13 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHHAHA­AHHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[cm2dude]

@Wolflord13 This song played as Zarathustra descended from the mountain, and went to the village and went "FUCK YOU" to everybody.

[aneanthesieus]

@Wolflord13 hahahahahah i agree so much with you hahaha thanks man you just made my day

[fragrit]

@Wolflord13

Resentment?

[fntime]

@Wolflord13 I'd want this music playing

when they flush you down the toilet.

[lucidjules31]

@Wolflord13 dude you gotta get ur mind outta da gutter. How can you equate such a masterpiece to an asinine gesture. Tsk, tsk, tsk....

[Wolflord13]

@lucidjules31 I like my mind where it is but do not doubt I like this music. For this music is the creation of a genius.

[VladtheImpaler31]

@Wolflord13 Ahahaha, every time I read that comment I think back to that meme with the kid flipping everyone off in the classroom reading: "BEHOLD... THE POWER!"

[gigigood1]

@Wolflord13 very epic

[WorldOpener]

@Wolflord13

If you manage to move slow enough to prolong said slow rise to 1:48 without laughing you really deserve it.

[davidgee100]

True. Wonderful.

[seolhades]

wow MACnifico..

[realpng]

thanks a lot 0OoFACUoO0.. u rule m8

[Zentra2]

Since Warsteiner (a German beer brand) uses this piece in TV commercials, I cant help to think of beer when I hear this...

[MrHvitmakt]

Nice

[terminator3168]

Ric Flair!

[Embo31]

Woooooooooo! Stylin and Profilin'.....

[hodenkrampf3]

Epic.

[hjt091]

I know it's a cliche, but I just can't help myself playing this over a video of the sun rising

[remembrancer1812]

There is, that is why it says "introduction" in the video info. This part is just the most known because it was used for 2012:a space odyssey

[Mob1bo]

2001...

[remembrancer1812]

Whoops.... typo.

[dong2512]

2001 u mean...