this is SO much better than the other renditions on youtube. It is absolutely amazing to hear people who know what they're doing sing this. night and day, man. night and day.
Pick on me if you want (I'll ignore it all), but I heard a number of problems with this particular performance: I heard the melody in the beginning being rushed to the point where it was as if everyone else had speed up just to compensate (which didn't seem go over very well), then there's singing that sounded nasal (or could have been more resonant)... some of the falsetto I heard sounded like whining, and the dynamics in the hold before the chorus didn't sound like it wasn't going ANYWHERE!
@razorboar Start your own at your school! :D This is why and how Dan Ponce started Straight No Chaser at Indiana University; they did not have an a cappella group until Dan came along. (Oh, they also started it to 'sing to girls') :D Anything is possible if you want it bad enough and have the right skills to get it done. Good luck!
@march2994 there is only 1 SNC but the originals graduated in 1999's only 4 or 5 stayed but its a school group now. More then 50 members have gone through.
@march2994 What you're seeing here is 8 of 10 original members of the founding group started in the '90's.Original members graduated and went their ways. Straight No Chaser continued at Indiana University. After being discovered by Atlantic and all of the 'legalities' were worked out "this" is Straight No Chaser; the university group goes by the title IU-SNC. Many have gone through IU-SNC (four of which made their way to Atlantic's SNC--and we love them all! Former and present!)
This SNC got alot more into it than the other version of Africa on here... That might just be the vid quality tho. Still, awesome performance. These guys rock!
this group of guys are extremely amazing to watch live! i watched the live performance in seattle washington last november and it was heart stopping. best group of male singers.!
They are incredible! It's absolutely amazing how well their voices sound together. Would love to see them live but unfortunely I won't be coming to America any time soon.
Their voices are so incredible together. I would listen to this over the original any day (not that I have a problem with the original, but this version is absolutely amazing)
I'm from Belleville ON and I just saw these guys in concert and they're amazing!! We got lucky that they stopped in such a small city because they had just come from toronto were on their way to Montreal!
My best friend got me sooo addicted to Africa! When we were at the SNC concert, he was singing and I was laughing, then I was like wow, this song is AMAZING! :) as well as the group! <3
I go to IU and I got to see these guys in concert (they came back and did a concert for us last fall). It was one of the highlights of the fall season!
this is the original group that started at IU over 10 years ago...someone posted their "12 Days of Confused Christmas" from back then...it got a ton of views and the guy from Atlantic Records...they are the same people
What amazes me is that at 2:59, an a Capella group creates an a Capella moment... they bass and back beat cuts out and it sounds like the music suddenly becomes a Capella even though it already is and has been the whole time... brilliant. This group is incredible, and whoever arranges the music is just as good.
ummm...wrong...i went to college from 1998-2002 and remember the original group. plus 18-22 year olds wouldn't look like they are in their 30s (going bald, some a little bigger now..) get with it man!!
I put quotes around "newer" because it was NOT the younger guys that got a recording contract, it was the "older" group, the original members. They sang for a reuinon concert and put it on youtube. All these guys graduated right around 1999.
Jerome does falsetto, just not in this song. Both Jerome and Steve are amazing singers, check out their version of "12 Days of Christmas". Too bad we cannot see their "Lion Sleeps Tonight" anymore.
by black guy, you mean jerome collins??? he doesn't get the high pitch. the really tall blonde guy (steve morgan) does the falsetto. no wonder he's on broadway, he's friggin' amazing.
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This is all just a little too soft and cute for me. If you won't to hear some a cappella that rocks, check out the UNC Clef Hangers version of this song. I think you'll agree.
As an objective third party, I can't find a version on YouTube that's better than these dude's version of Africa - but I'm just judging it by the music. The Clef Hangers version do that that cool boom-boom-chucka-boom thing going that feels real African.
this is SO much better than the other renditions on youtube. It is absolutely amazing to hear people who know what they're doing sing this. night and day, man. night and day.
MrPants432 2 months ago
Nice sound. Nice work.
Anubric 3 months ago
SO FUCKING AMAZING. my mind = completely and utterly blown
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Pick on me if you want (I'll ignore it all), but I heard a number of problems with this particular performance: I heard the melody in the beginning being rushed to the point where it was as if everyone else had speed up just to compensate (which didn't seem go over very well), then there's singing that sounded nasal (or could have been more resonant)... some of the falsetto I heard sounded like whining, and the dynamics in the hold before the chorus didn't sound like it wasn't going ANYWHERE!
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ChronoGXay 4 months ago
I love you SNC :)
arkica44 4 months ago
Four people are just mad they can't sing like SNC.
jhawkpb23 5 months ago 6
These guys are coming to my town in two months. CAN'T FREAKIN WAIT!!!!! I'M SOOOO PUMPED!!!!!
DukeDarkshadow 5 months ago
@DukeDarkshadow Dude, they live in my town!
JesusFreak9186 5 months ago
@JesusFreak9186 Haha. Awesome!
DukeDarkshadow 5 months ago
they are really talented. I like how they can stay in harmony.
LilDumar 5 months ago 3
Believe it or not, I know all these guys personally.
JesusFreak9186 5 months ago
@JesusFreak9186 that's awesome
LilDumar 5 months ago
AHHH oh my goodness! i did this song with my all girls a cappella group! i love it so much!
maravillosarosa9 7 months ago
Is that the soloist from that one Czech group that did it? O.O
ValenceAwesomeness 8 months ago
WAHNSINN!!! Super Zusammenspiel! Klasse!
Havord06 10 months ago
jewjew jewjewjewjewwwwwwwwww
kennedbabz 11 months ago
@kennedbabz exactly what i was thinking!!! lmao
lovedrreid1 7 months ago
<3
17yourstruly 11 months ago
Nice!
Listen to the song "The Only One For Me" from the UNC Clefhangers, this is another great A Capella Group.
josgvis 1 year ago
Such perfect harmony and pitch!
BloodySyren 1 year ago 2
I didn't know Tracy Morgan was in SNC
jumponalog 1 year ago 3
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where was this??? I LOVE SNC!!!!!
Rubberducks12 1 year ago
Partridge in a big pare tree! xd
alika207 1 year ago
@alika207 it's pear not pare
Sup3rBe 1 year ago
I wish my school did cool stuff like this.
razorboar 1 year ago 2
@razorboar Start your own at your school! :D This is why and how Dan Ponce started Straight No Chaser at Indiana University; they did not have an a cappella group until Dan came along. (Oh, they also started it to 'sing to girls') :D Anything is possible if you want it bad enough and have the right skills to get it done. Good luck!
jrlomy2k 1 year ago 2
Guys acapella is just sickk in general. :D
swimswamswum101 1 year ago
@swimswamswum101 as Peanut would say "You Suckk!!"
ImSmokinTrouble 1 year ago
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march2994 1 year ago
how many SNC groups are there?
march2994 1 year ago
@march2994 there is only 1 SNC but the originals graduated in 1999's only 4 or 5 stayed but its a school group now. More then 50 members have gone through.
razorboar 1 year ago
@march2994 What you're seeing here is 8 of 10 original members of the founding group started in the '90's.Original members graduated and went their ways. Straight No Chaser continued at Indiana University. After being discovered by Atlantic and all of the 'legalities' were worked out "this" is Straight No Chaser; the university group goes by the title IU-SNC. Many have gone through IU-SNC (four of which made their way to Atlantic's SNC--and we love them all! Former and present!)
jrlomy2k 1 year ago
@march2994 The original SNC had a recording deal and now there's a new SNC almost every year at IC, and they preform under the same name
xanarchist911x 10 months ago
I LOVE THEM!!!!
sammyammyammt 1 year ago
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DonetaGersan 1 year ago
i love3 this song in generakl and they did very well on the harmoniews
citrushottie123 1 year ago
Lovin how at the "Christmas down in Africa" part, the camera zooms in on the black guyy (;
SamanthaRaex3 1 year ago
@SamanthaRaex3 cus that was orginally his solo
switchbladestudio 1 year ago
these guys will most definetly be hired for my birthday lmfao
Reznov65 1 year ago
@Reznov65 You mean to sing, or......?
SomethingArtistic 1 year ago
Doesn't one of the baritones usually sing the melody on this? I'm guessing that's a tenor and it looks way too low for him.
hoivenglaven 1 year ago
@hoivenglaven he's a baritone
galadriel1320 1 year ago
Awesome!!!
TheYogums 1 year ago
Straight No Chaser is a Thelonious Monk tune. what a great name for a group!
lillbern 1 year ago
@lillbern That's exactly where they got their inspiration. :D
jrlomy2k 1 year ago
This SNC got alot more into it than the other version of Africa on here... That might just be the vid quality tho. Still, awesome performance. These guys rock!
mallets4life 1 year ago
2 people missed the like button =(
2tomp1 1 year ago
@2tomp1 oops now 4, i should be more careful next time. Just kidding i meant to hit it.
oopy111 1 year ago
@oopy111 u have no taste in music at all if you hit the dislike button.
alerch95 1 year ago
This is awesome! :) Except that they're a teeny bit fast, but most acapella versions on youtube seem to be too fast, except Perpetuum Jazzile.
electricalstar 1 year ago
this group of guys are extremely amazing to watch live! i watched the live performance in seattle washington last november and it was heart stopping. best group of male singers.!
savagedpanther 1 year ago 2
Oh and btw: I miss Michael and Steve
FBIBrot 1 year ago
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@FBIBrot what happened to Michael and Steve?
baluchiwuchi14 1 year ago
They are incredible! It's absolutely amazing how well their voices sound together. Would love to see them live but unfortunely I won't be coming to America any time soon.
FBIBrot 1 year ago
its perfect.
emileechristine09 1 year ago
awesome :P
pascal1029 2 years ago 2
I admit that they sound great, but I still like the original better.
MaddRiker 2 years ago 2
Their voices are so incredible together. I would listen to this over the original any day (not that I have a problem with the original, but this version is absolutely amazing)
zackaryxbinks 2 years ago 4
Is this in Kansas City?
KSUrox4me 2 years ago
i could listen to his voice all day.. no joke.. i have!=D
emileechristine09 2 years ago 5
i love his voice.
emileechristine09 2 years ago
ÜBERRAGEND!!!!
OlfOneHitWonder 2 years ago 3
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come to Dallas!! Texas loves you!! :)
TigerJade86 2 years ago
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can't get any nerdier than this
rajoteer 2 years ago
They are absolutely amazing! I would love to have a chance to go to a concert and hear them sing. I love them, they are the best!
BandGeekSquadron 2 years ago 59
I'm from Belleville ON and I just saw these guys in concert and they're amazing!! We got lucky that they stopped in such a small city because they had just come from toronto were on their way to Montreal!
Harridrone 2 years ago
My best friend got me sooo addicted to Africa! When we were at the SNC concert, he was singing and I was laughing, then I was like wow, this song is AMAZING! :) as well as the group! <3
ashers1018 2 years ago
I go to IU and I got to see these guys in concert (they came back and did a concert for us last fall). It was one of the highlights of the fall season!
rivka2007 2 years ago
SNC's new CD, "Six Pack" is now available through the SNC website!
mikado95 2 years ago 40
God I feel old because I am 29 and remember these guys in college...anyone remember "dry campus"???
mattbholland 2 years ago
yeah dude! those were the days!
OurenV2 2 years ago
yes! I LOVE that song
kelclay724 2 years ago
I do remember dry campus. that is hilarious. I'm 30, so I guess that was just the time when that hit. funny.
dustinpanian 2 years ago
this is the original group.
Xepp375 2 years ago 2
this is the original group that started at IU over 10 years ago...someone posted their "12 Days of Confused Christmas" from back then...it got a ton of views and the guy from Atlantic Records...they are the same people
BandieMan94 2 years ago
What amazes me is that at 2:59, an a Capella group creates an a Capella moment... they bass and back beat cuts out and it sounds like the music suddenly becomes a Capella even though it already is and has been the whole time... brilliant. This group is incredible, and whoever arranges the music is just as good.
mkmtrumpeter 2 years ago 8
haha aww poor guy..but at least it didn't sound too terrible
mlifson55 2 years ago
1:45 the guy with the argyle sweater messes up
bigpuffyfluff 2 years ago
But it's a testament to the greatness of the group that he didn't let it affect the performance and continued to do amazing.
dangalos 2 years ago 6
ha ther so good i didnt notice or i have bad ears i hope its not the latter
taygon55 2 years ago
I really enjoy listening to these guys, fantastic. I'm going to buy my wife the DVD's/ CD's for her birthday.
FlamingManofIron 2 years ago 5
i loved it!
DaveSolazzo 2 years ago
i think the new group does it better as far as there youtube clips
okonh0wp 2 years ago
The new group has more clips because this group is under contract with Atlantic Records and can't put out any clips according to their contract.
gamemaster3223 2 years ago 2
Hate to break it you you, but that is the new group! Tall guy, guy in the argyle sweater, african american guy.... all in the "new" group.
weathermanfsu 2 years ago
This is at Atlantic Records.
weathermanfsu 2 years ago
By "new" you meant "old" right?
jmtotheac 2 years ago
By new I mean this is the group that has the record deal.
weathermanfsu 2 years ago 2
ummm...wrong...i went to college from 1998-2002 and remember the original group. plus 18-22 year olds wouldn't look like they are in their 30s (going bald, some a little bigger now..) get with it man!!
mattbholland 2 years ago
I put quotes around "newer" because it was NOT the younger guys that got a recording contract, it was the "older" group, the original members. They sang for a reuinon concert and put it on youtube. All these guys graduated right around 1999.
ILOVEUMPS 2 years ago
they're great..I saw them live in indiana at a leadership conference
yankeegirl1020 2 years ago
These guys are incredible!
sirstarsalot 2 years ago 2
man i love straight no chaser!!its like they have perfect pitch!! lol! i think this is thier best song!
cooliestkid1 3 years ago
Jerome does falsetto, just not in this song. Both Jerome and Steve are amazing singers, check out their version of "12 Days of Christmas". Too bad we cannot see their "Lion Sleeps Tonight" anymore.
BlueskyLA 3 years ago 4
I miss being able to hear that! It was SO GREAT!
alphasierrazulu 3 years ago
i miss that too!
tomgoulding123 2 years ago
by black guy, you mean jerome collins??? he doesn't get the high pitch. the really tall blonde guy (steve morgan) does the falsetto. no wonder he's on broadway, he's friggin' amazing.
lmcmj17 3 years ago
they are both on broadway, Jerome was Simba in LIon King in Hong Kong
galadriel1320 3 years ago 2
Clef Hangers ain't got nothing on Straight No Chaser. These guys own.
warl0rd11 3 years ago 3
true that.
sirdanmcman 2 years ago
the black guy touches the high pitch perfectly! he rules!!! and great rendition 5*****
mccartn3y 3 years ago 7
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This is all just a little too soft and cute for me. If you won't to hear some a cappella that rocks, check out the UNC Clef Hangers version of this song. I think you'll agree.
lancelovesgolf101 3 years ago
As an objective third party, I can't find a version on YouTube that's better than these dude's version of Africa - but I'm just judging it by the music. The Clef Hangers version do that that cool boom-boom-chucka-boom thing going that feels real African.
Sorry lance, just my opinion!
MicSchitz 3 years ago 4
i totally 100 percent agree with micshitz
tiktak292 3 years ago
The UNC thing is cool but this one is more musically tight
tiktak292 3 years ago
this one totally sounds like Africa, if you listen to Africa by Toto, it sounds just like this.
sodacheck 3 years ago 2
this is probably my favorite a capella group in the world!!!!!!
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bekahilove1 3 years ago 4
Awesome. Love hearing the harmonies with these guys.
jvmauck 3 years ago 2
that was so awsome, u guys r da best
LeonVids9 3 years ago 4
amazing performance!! the harmony is magnificant
hazelnnocence 3 years ago 3
weird 4:00 three guys took a drink at the same time
redneodog1 3 years ago 3