Steve Reich - Different Trains (Part I)

[vgmaster9]

This piece could also be a foreshadowing of the FEMA trains.

[harrysmithmusic1]

paradiddle paradiddle

[berkies09]

Awesome!!!

[Luisa99C]

thankyou!!! wating for tomorrow in rome..time..about the time..

luisa

[unununundeuxtrois]

coupons

nos têtes d'enterrement

soyons gais

à mourir

levons là tête /un point de joie

i/!

zut je suis hors sujet

je suis une vague entre deux continent et je raisonne comme ce train sans fin

le désespoir n'existe pas

[arsou78]

vous etes fous c de la merde

bande de cochon

[oibaf59]

@arsou78 t' est qui pour juger, dieu?

[CreepyBlackstar]

@arsou78 C'est toi la merde!  Espèce d'ignare... T'es qui pour juger Steve Reich ? baltringue va !

[unununundeuxtrois]

je réponds / catherine1202 ou Even1962

l'art se dessine

la poésie aussi

mais une barrière la traduction son image

corespond à la sensibilité oral

donc il est difficile d'exister

que l'on soit italien ou du bout du monde

j'ai tracé un trait sur une carte la NZ tout un vol

donc ici chez soi c'est encore mieux sauf le temps qu'on perd sur internet expression du Rien

KENAVO

[dmvc2008]

I love this - each time I listen, the people's faces become clearer in my mind. Forever in my top 10. 

[kamdan2011]

I appreciate how the music sounds like a train, but the sound bytes kill it. It gets on your nerves.

[Toyboy789]

apart from this being some of the best, most evocative music of the second half of the 20th century, I just LOVE the fact Steve Reich selected the whistle of Norfolk & Western's Y6B loco . . . 18 sec to 23 sec.It's one of North America's most distinctive railroad sounds...

[deisgner0417]

....first time I heard this song through TV 2 or 3 years ago, I almost cried and goosebumps because I've never heard song like this before.

an eager desire for hope and lights, a fear for death....

[eetherealflux]

it.. it actually sounds like a train!!! lol

[ddvs2012]

I like the strings but the samples just DONT FIT

[JonnyCashmore]

@ddvs2012 They should have had them more dissonant instead of trying to work them into the tempo of the song. I agree with you, and am therefore in agreement....with you.

[ddvs2012]

@JonnyCashmore interesting idea, the way it is feels kind of corny to me. btw I applaud your correct use of the phrase "should have" (opposed to "should of" *shudders*), more internet people should take a cue from you

[5stringofFernandoSor]

Yes, this is brilliant and dare I say? Cute. And has an almost purity about it.  Fuck copyright laws.

[pikusionexio]

my teacher put me that on on my music lesson.

[Takerukun17]

Esto es música, sonidos que por si no son nada pero juntos forman una atmósfera perfecta.

[mskeetsful]

24 people need to wash their ears.

[krzysiekbdpl]

SHIT SHIT SHIT AND ONE MORE TIME SHIT!11111

[myrtleford70]

It was rather incongruous having an ad for that rubbish "LMFAO" before this piece started.

[VaLoRFeRGie]

that was the worst video ever ughh waste of time

[jansibelius]

@Mmcatherine1202

ehy my friend je ne parle pas francais..mais oui le term est bien employé and it means in my soul that behind apparent semplicity there is a world !!

[jansibelius]

bellissimooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[Ichyby]

c'est de la merde se truc 

[mastacurtis]

Way to go baby! I likked it :>}

[fizzycv2]

this is a fantastic piece.

[TheSmack77]

stunning work + possibly Reich s best work. plse see our video work + response "PUSH/Pull" to this landamark work at : TheSmack77 x

[HooverGirl96]

this scares my little brother :D

[AdelineVenusAversa]

This song makes me scared... I don't know why, but I listen it everytime ^^

[nelaqua]

Kronos Quartet from "Requiem for a dream" and Steve Reich...perfect !

[raupntier]

reminds me of zelda :)

[Vickisman22]

Can anybody help me with noting the Harmony, Dynamics, Texture, Tonality, Instrumentation, Melody and Rhythm, I would be deeply appreciative

[ethositachi]

@Vickisman22

No-one is going to do your homework for you lol

[sioul515]

vive la france

[NakedConvict]

This stuff just messes with my head ;D

[wdawrrs]

the intro sounds somewhat similar to Baba O'Reilly

[mariorossipuzza]

don caballero brought me here. what's the link between these two artists?

[tokyohalogen]

@mariorossipuzza

Don Caballero's songs use strong concepts which were incorporated into Reich's compositions in close measure, thus making them kindred spirits in their similar tendencies to incorporate looped rhythms and interlocking melodic patterns. This is paramount to the works composed by Reich and common in Don Cab's distinguished sound characterized by the use of the Akai Headrush guitar effect pedal and Damon Che's  signature drumming.

[KeelyElishaar201]

lool ich bin blond

[MagpieRising]

if you scroll up and down over the video, the train lines look animated.

[begetf]

amazing stuff!!!

[davidomino]

This shit is so brilliant...

[NiallMS]

I bought this on cassette when it first came out so I haven't heard it for a while. Many thanks for uploading!

[avoidingstudy]

thankyou, this is beautiful, i remember it from when i was a child

[wasderish1]

I love it! u should check out come out, It's gonna rain, clapping music, and piano phase also by steve reich

[RiKoOIBG98]

that is one complicated piece of music to listen to , isn't it ?

[SolestiaGoaTrance]

The Endstation Of Life...*sob*

[tombleijendaal]

This is one of the most impressive compositions of Steve Reich. I admire the music approach of Steve and I thank Steve for the rich feeling caused by his music.

[thisisspinaltap]

the beginning is like a drum paradiddle =D

[MLGranklin]

@thisisspinaltap it kind of is, from an accenting perspective.

[kamdan2011]

God, this music got on my nerves in grade school.

[5tgb6yhn5tgb]

I've been crying to this piece for years :)

[nimajnebenneb]

paradiddles

[RGKLEIN21]

Next stop, Bal-di-more!

[voluptamors]

The influence on Sufjan Stevens is uncanny.

[4outro]

@voluptamors indeed, he was recommended to me, so i just head i track from him (chicago), which i thought was nice, but afterwards felt like listening to this

[voluptamors]

@4outro I'd suggest Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind- it's essentially a Reich song! And I would really recommend his All Delighted People EP!

[oneslimdinaso]

The trains that take peoples to the concentration camps, the trains that take animals to be slaughtered as our foods, the train that take us to a carefree trip, life can toy all kinds of life form to such different destiny, and life were toyed by us all.

[byrnemtb]

PaRRaDdLeS oN VioLEn?/?

[chillandthrill87]

I meet Reich after seeing different trains, electric counterpoint, Nagoya Marimbas, and got a preview of his sextet (2009) at a music festival at Indiana State University =) his music never gets old!

[deltatangofoxtot]

I was fortunate enough to see him in concert in Eugene, Oregon in 1997 (I think...)...I am a very wordy person, and after the show, when shaking his hand, I found myself without words after the astonishing precision of his show. His main cellist also was very accessible, and was kind enough to say that this was a very common experience. When met with genius of this kind--most people couldn't utter a word. He was focused and very kind. Completely mind expanding and quite perfect. Thank you!!

[tmos7]

1939



[simontreves]

Sublime piece, one of my absolute favourites.

[TehPlayr]

Well this is just irritating.

[AkuraNanabi]

New York, New York

[cavaleer]

And this is special because what??? Thoroughly average.

[TheTokit]

sampler1988 Thanks very much for this post. Very good fidelity. Since I heard this versión by the Kronos quartet years ago, I tried in vain to find this magnificent experience of music and emotion. It gives me the chill every time I hear it. Pity part II couldn't be posted, but part III can be found in YouTube in concert.

[Bramblebees]

Paradiddle paradiddle. 

[jaypirate31]

@Bramblebees All I was hearing too, ha, paradiddles on the violin!

[adrianhodges1962]

Did you try to post all three parts as one piece? If so, that would be why it wouldn't post - there's a 10 minute limit on individual posts. If it was to do with copyright, you surely wouldn't have been able to post the first part. Thanks for that, by the way. I've reposted to Facebook to 'enlighten' my friends. Don't have enough friends into such adventurous and moving music.

[sampler1988]

@adrianhodges1962 No, I posted them separately, every time I tried to post the 2nd or 3rd ones they got taken down almost straight away, but this one was allowed.

[24foxstar]

@sampler1988

Get them hooked - then by it on itunes ;- )

[xxxslayerxxx666]

@adrianhodges1962 at least you have some that are....all of mine listen to only metal! i mean there's nothing wrong, i just grew tired of the vocals....the only exception to this is fleshwrought(it sounds bad, but it's insane talent) and instrumental metal like: animals as leaders, blotted science, spastic ink, chimp spanner or behold...the arctopus!

[mmehaffe]

Terse, precise, uncompromising, fearlessly original. This is why America leads the music world today.

[ventidodici]

masterpiece. Somebody told that the music stopped after this piece. There's no way to do it better

[mmenolwenn]

sa fait peur les voix

[BubbleAndSqueek100]

The guy who made this must of been really bored.

[XDmichielXD]

@BubbleAndSqueek100 Or really talented (:

[PA5475]

no words

just take a seat....

[gryffynda]

Boy, when those train horns start morphing into sirens -- that gives the most spectacular chills.  Must be all the dopamine.

[Fantasylover7]

For me it sounds like a horror music and when I heard that it's about the concentration camps i get goose bumps..... =/ Don't get me wrong.... it surely is a masterpiece but it gives me chills.....

[MrVader4000]

Masterpiece... we need more....just to remember

[ThePapazy]

what shit

[kbaronshaffer]

love this piece!

[distructomuffin]

This is impossible to explain. Yes, that is how amazing this is.

[petezilla]

Wow!

[elliottbrothers]

is it saying touch your father ???

[densflux]

@elliottbrothers "from chicago"

[DevoutPatriot]

I'm almost glad that you weren't able to put up Part II. The first time I heard it I nearly vomited from fear.

[xIxlovexhimx4xeverx]

@DevoutPatriot Why? I felt the same but I couldn't figure out why!!

[kingofloss86]

single paradiddle

[Dogbandit]

A horrifying piece in content. Yet beautiful.

[BASSAROVER]

major 7 chord...

[Lyndybop]

"The crack train from New York"

[WimGrundy]

1939? 1939-39? 1939-39 1939 1939? 1939? 1939-39? Warsaw? Paris? Amsterdam?

[thejuicemedia]

entrancing

[minimalisminmusic]

I've had the honour to play this wonderful piece in concert :)

[echpouno]

this one isnt about the holocaust camp that is part 2 this is about trains in new york?

[futuredust]

This is a truly beautiful piece of music. It is so haunting, I get pretty freaked out listening sometimes because it really strikes a chord somewhere in you.

[MrGravito]

"different trains" sorti en 1989.Les bruits de trains sont des enregistrements de trains datant des années 40.Les voix sont celles de survivants de l' holocauste. "From Chicago to New York":enfant,Steve Reich ,accompagné d'une nourrice,se rendait en train de Chicago à New York,ses parents étant séparés.

[apollyon1]

quite amazing - thank you all for the useful comments. 

[markzemusic]

Amazing.

[FreddyLopez321]

All my "Dj" life started right of here....i can't believe it....

[vividandanatoly]

All I can think about when I hear this song is Atlas Shrugged. :P

[sprechstimme]

I remember seeing the European premier of this piece at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with Kronos, and then seeing Electronic Counterpoint afterward. A memorable experience!

[dirtypleasures]

@sprechstimme Lucky you !

[roastybeer]

when i smoke salvia, i feel like the world turns into something quite like this song, in that every phrase that i think is like part of a song. the cover art's repitition also fits it, in that it is realistic and yet resembling an endless pattern. it puts me in a state of denial, as if i feel like i know better than to believe it. other people do not seem to have this reaction.

[toryluvsrlh2]

Such a wonderful piece. So terrifying and so calming at the same time.

Saw it live way back in 96?? Heavy subjects danced around with music and light.

It reads as fear, but it plays as hope. Beautiful.

[EDGJZConglomerate]

Fantastic! Those train whistles have a magical music about them. i love this piece! I love the idea about making melody from people's speech.

[MiAmMiJah]

To me, this is one of THE most beautiful pieces of music ever written...

Makes me wanna dance, even! It's got so much energy.

@sampler1988: how come the other parts infringe copyright laws, and this doesn't? Kinda weird, isn't it?

[andreasjacke]

This part (1) has the titel: America-Before the War (movement 1) - I think is the traveling across the country-

The next part is about a later time and on europe -movement (2) is about the trains to the holocaust camps.

[zaynzaynzayn]

a piece by reich that always depresses me

[smeejit]

A great version.

[appbadder]

This is about the trains to the concentration camps, the holocaust - the voice's are survivors recounting their experience.

[sampler1988]

@appbadder I read that as a child Reich (who is Jewish) travelled by train across America to visit family, at the same time as trains were travelling across Europe to the concentration camps. He uses both Americans speaking about normal train journeys and Holocaust survivors. This correspondence both inspired and unsettled him; I think maybe the piece is about the two parallel but vastly different worlds.

[appbadder]

@sampler1988 Yes, thanks for that. Train journeys in parallel worlds, America -before the war, Europe - during the war - After the war.

It's been a long time since I heard this music, great to rediscover.

[TheRavingRandomist]

@sampler1988

what r ur sh8wins

doing right now?

(thx 4 the upping)

[sampler1988]

@TheRavingRandomist 'scuse me?

[TheRavingRandomist]

@sampler1988

! NO excuse ME !

.

SEE, i meant to SAY

"what are your shade(/shadow) - twins doing right now?"

(this was meant as a rethorical question to have you think;

and i take it that indeed you thought; and i take it further that you keep on thinking further, as this is a shared trait of the human structure (2 thk !), a trait that would make you 1 sh8 m8 of mine (just a way of thinking)...

i hope you are doing well (behaviour-wise))

((we won't proceed by thanking ourselves again))

[Lyndybop]

@sampler1988 Yeah, i did all whole uni thesis on Steve Reich with my main focus on this piece and you're right.....he was living in America anyway at the time, having fled from Europe....

[taikogroove]

@sampler1988 Really...? that's really interesting and a bit eerie.... wow....

[mannishbob23]

@sampler1988 Just to add a wee bit more to your comment...Steve Reich's parents divorced when he was very young, his mum moving to Los Angeles and hence he spent his early years travelling between New York and Los Angeles. His governess, Virginia, who travelled with him on these trips, is recorded on this as is the actual porter (Lawrence Davis) who worked on the trains at the time.

There are also three holocaust survivors ( Paul, Rachel and Rachella)

Love this piece of music, thanks for posting

[titou49122]

@sampler1988

in people who speak it is also a train controller and nourice Americans of the period with which he took the train during his travels are poour join father

sorry for my English I'm French and I use a translator

[dracainbloodly]

@sampler1988 exactly. That´s really the main point of the piece in my view. The parallelity.

[llamatronic]

@appbadder The trains to concentration camps come in part II - "Europe - During the war." This is part I - "From Chicago," which is about train travel within the US.

[thbs35]

@appbadder So apparently, you are claiming that some black guy was taken from his pieceful land of new york and shipped to a horrible concentration camp in auschwitz los angeles, in 1971.

[EbClectic]

i don´t know what it is about reich, but i just can´t get tired of listening to his stuff. and i´m like a hip hop head, usually.

[TAfTfilms]

From NY to LA is my favorite part.

[SweetSweetWaldo]

Too bad about II and III. Thanks for posting. I think Part I is the best anyway.

[dryiceage]

I hate conforming to reality.

I love steve reich xx\cx

[camikacami]

One of the best.Ever.

[AstraVex]

I was forced to listen to this EVERY DAY before school for 3 years.

...........Kill me.

[taikogroove]

@AstraVex Hahahaha!! Why were you forced to listen to it?

[AstraVex]

@taikogroove

My dad would play this song every morning before I went to school =(

[jarbear]

@AstraVex You dad is awesome.

[tomik524]

@jarbear i wouldn't say so. if he doesn't like the music, it can really mess your day up from the very beginnig. plus, listening to the very same song every morning probably wouldn't work for me (if it's song like this, because even though it's great it's still kinda psycho stuff ;) "from NY to LA" again and again. great piece

[jarbear]

@tomik524 Well, I agree. As much as I LOVE Steve Reich I can really see how someone wouldn't like his music at all.

[pinkorpurple432]

@tomik524

NINETEEN FORTY

NINETEEN FORTY

NINETEEN FORTY

NINETEEN FORTY

NINETEEN FORTY

[cowandchicken]

i remember listening to an interview on NPR where Reich was talking about the sames of text used in this piece. I thought it was pretty freakin' sweet how he just used samples of normal speech (not deliberate singing) and developed the counterpoint to, um, point out the unintended but musical modulations in pitch that people always go through when they talk. I don't know if this is a new thing for him or for minimalist or modern music, but it was new to me, and it really blew my mind.

[didoudu45230]

Musique angoissante, qui évoque les douleur des juifs , lorsque qu'il était dans les wagon, très belle oeuvre . Paroles passé sur des bandes magnétiques

[jontenz]

I'm so high right now

This is like incredible....

[evasflute]

i absolutely love this piece. just bought the CD that this sample was from - thanks!

[FARENHEIT1995]

incroyablement angoissant, lorsqu'on sait que les sirènes sont de vrais sirènes de trains de la mort, sa fait froid dans le dos

[pinchyawn]

that horn gives me shivers

[whereumazinghappens]

I find this song scary... but in a good way

[howarddcox]

everything is perfect. "pop" artists couldnt sample this good! :D

[Kalevsmith]

Interesting... Do any of you postmodernists out there like this? or is this strictly a modernist taste?

[steveey251]

@Kalevsmith who cares? it's just music.

[foobuns321]

beautiful! But, so little people are aware of its beauty! so sad...

[omad84]

I have no words, no words.

[pinkorpurple432]

@omad84 I have a few.

FROM NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES

FROM NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES

FROM NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES

FROM NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES

FROM NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES

[AlekseiGovorov]

they are best with this piece...

[spiral2tube]

Excelente

[razorrawks]

and informing yourself why this was written makes it even more special, incomprehensibley poingant.... bliss...

[razorrawks]

My god, this is impossible to put into words how inspirational this beautiful music is, its awe inspiring