#C418

[ly0nstea]

Notch is foaming at his fucking scandenavian mouth rn

[anakinism]

one gifset per episode: 4.18 the monster at the end of this book

[shin-thalia]

I think about it a lot but there's something really really beautiful about the Minecraft soundtrack.

You're in this world where you can do whatever you want, but instead of having adventure music or rpg tunes you get these.. beautiful notes of pianos and all sorts of music that just fills my soul. I've been listening to it for over a decade, and C418 has been my top Spotify artist for 3 years, but I still don't get tired of it.

Volumes Alpha and Beta are examples of genuinely perfect video game osts that bring me unending peace to the point where I went through a period of being unable to sleep unless it was playing.

It's absolutely fantastic and the knowledge that there's a third album out there that just can't be released harms me on a spiritual level.

I've wept over not being able to hear it a few times.

When it comes down to it, Minecraft's original soundtrack coupled with the original gameplay around the Xbox 360/Ps3 edition time period is one of my greatest sources of nostalgia.

This music, and game, has changed my life for the better and I don't see it get enough praise.

[cellberry]

c418 is a paid actor in Philza QSMP lore.

[flowerbarrel-art]

The End

Our kingdom’s built knowing new worlds will rise from our bones

We play pretend ’til we run out of time in the end and we’ll do it again ’til it’s done

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 19/04/2024

i love(d) you

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume FF Also on: Now That's What I Call Quality! 3

Ripped by vvsvlogs

Requested by oetaboy and an anonymous reader! @oetaboy (Ask Box)

I'm sure this rip's been a long time coming for many - I know it has for me. I've had i love(d) you sitting in my drafts as far back as in March, but truthfully it's...daunting, to write about. Requested by two readers. Close to 200 thousand views on YouTube, and recently featured prominently in popular Clone Hero YouTuber Acai's "The Quality of SiIvaGunner" series. And the rip itself being an emotional gutpunch in a season filled with them, from a ripper who's already gutpunched me plenty with Wham! Into Dreams and The Paragoomba and the Wiggler. vvsvlogs, Vivi, I ask this with the most sincere gratitude possible - why must you do this to me?

Minecraft as a game has its emotional hooks in at least two generations of people - that much I think we're all aware of. A sandbox filled with endless possibilities, community, friends, individual stories of survival or of great creative endeavors, all wrapped in C418's hauntingly beautiful score, one I've discussed many times before with Fell From a High Place (Reprise), M-O-O-G City and Every Mob Wants To Rule My World. All of these rips are beautiful, yet they're all aiming to play with Minecraft's sound in some way - the former two rips are arrangement of its music with other games' instrumentation, and the latter rip is a melodyswap playing Everybody Wants To Rule The World. They all play on my senses in their own ways, they're all rightfully impressive - but nothing hits quite the same as Minecraft's own music, on its own terms. i love(d) you isn't aiming to impress or amaze - but it lands a full-on critical hit on one's heart through leveraging everything that's kept Subwoofer Lullaby alive for so many years.

I've talked plenty about my musical illiteracy, and so I hope it doesn't come as a surprise that I've never really listened to world-renowed singer Billie Eilish. She's been on the radio, I've heard Bad Guy, but it was never a name I gave much more thought beyond seeing her discussed online from time to time. You can imagine the absolute awe I was in when I clicked on i love(d) you when it first went up, already expecting an emotional hit due to the Minecraft song used, only to get goosebumps from Eilish's vocals alone. i love you is the penultimate song from Eilish's debut studio album, the very same that Bad Guy was featured on - yet compared to that track's bass-heavy, almost seductive energy, i love you feels remarkably personal, with little more than an acoustic guitar and piano accompanying the openly emotional vocal performance. It's sincere in a way I don't hear enough music be, as if a diary translated into song, much the same emotion that Because I Love You conveyed yet with even greater magnitude due to the vocals in play.

i love(d) you, uploaded for 2022's valentines day, wields both of these forms of love - the connections many of us have to one of the most impactful games ever made, and the unfiltered emotion of i love you - to create something unabashedly beautiful. Mashups aren't a novel concept, mashups are nothing new - yet one glance at the comments tells me that I'm not alone in finding this rip in particular to have struck an incredibly sensitive nerve. Because there's a beauty to Minecraft that I think many of us oft forget about. It's a game that we all cherish, yet also one that's very easy to have left behind: we have adult responsibilities, we have school, we have other, shorter, more concise games, we have social media, we have friends, we have blogs...the solemn beauty of playing the game itself is, for many viewers like myself, not much more than a memory, something that can feel ever so difficult to recreate without feeling as if something's wrong.

We...I'm...not a kid anymore.

There was nothing about i love(d) you's concept that necessitated it to be more than just the mashup. There rip had no need for visuals that'd help convey the edit like with Plantasia 2 or Luna, mi Amor, no need to tickle the funnybone like with SUNGORE or the hundreds of other YTPMV rips on the channel. Yet, halfway through the rip, to the tune of Eilish's soothingly reverberating vocals, the background begins to change, not to a bit, not to a reference nor easter egg...but to Minecraft. To where all of this attachment began - to a far-off view of the game's beautiful landscapes as the sun begins to rises. That digital world that looks different for every player, yet the same in everyone's hearts - that place that, no matter how many years pass, how long its been since we last played, we all love. Its impact different to everyone, yet the feeling unanimous. It drives home how well the mashup works not just as a mixture of two deeply emotional songs, but as music tied to a shared experience: all of our Minecraft worlds looked different, all of our personal lives look different, but we've all played the game, and we've all had affection for it.

Every moment I spend thinking about this rip aches in some way. It's been well past two years since it was first uploaded, yet it continues to follow me as the years go on, my mouse drawn to it any time it reappears in my recommendations. In being featured on 2024's Now That's What I Call Quality! 3, I think the team holds much the same sentiment - even as the months pass, i love(d) you is the kind of rip that'll never fall out of favor, never stop meaning things to people. And realizing that it was made by vvsvlogs, the very same vvsvlogs who's already made me far too emotionally vulnerable on here twice before, has only made it mean that extra bit more to me.

I'm not a kid anymore. I know that. But I'll always be grateful to SiIvaGunner, the people behind it, and those who follow it along with me, for being able to bring me back to that state of mind when I least expect it.

Thank you.

[obscene-beans]

Minecraft music is just New Age music for autistic people

[knightofleo]

C418 | Minecraft (Theme) from Minecraft (2011)

[etherealspacejelly]

[transcatgirlanarchist]

why are there mice?

why are they on venus?

are they okay?

is there food?

too hot on venus for mouse???

how mice on venus??????????

[d-lude]

except i have a horrible memory and forgot most of what goes on in the song

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

One of Us (The Lion King ll)

Born in grief/Raised in hate/Helpless to defy his fate/Let him run/Let him live/But do not forget what we cannot forgive

"This song is just so sad. In the context of the movie it’s Kovu, son of Scar, being exiled by Simba after a whole misunderstanding and trap set by his mom. But even without the context, the song as it is is just a big fuck me up song because it’s a song about exclusion, specifically very incredibly public and embarrassing exclusion. It captures that horrible feeling of isolation caused by discrimination and it makes me want to cry every time I hear this song"

Alpha (C418)

"GOD god this song. haha minecraft end song YOU DONT GET IT. its SO FUCKING GORGEOUS I CRY. when it only really starts to pick up after 3 WHOLE MINUTES. 3:33 fucking floors me every time i listen to it its so fucking PRETTY ok. the slow down the melancholy yet hopeful string lead that dies down and then PICKS RIGHT BACK UP!!! AND YOU GET ANOTHER TASTE OF THE RIFF. and then its back to SAD SIMPLE PIANO. GAH. i will die on this hill. it's a 10 minute song but by god its all really really good. AND THE FACT IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF CLASSIC MINECRAFT SONG LEITMOTIFS TOO. you know c418 knew exactly what the fuck he was doing when composing this masterpiece. it has sad moments it has nostalgia all over it's like a ballad it sounds like what it feels to be running through the grass on a windy day and then the QUIET NETHER MUSIC-Y FADE OUT. GOD. I GOTTA SHUT UP BEFORE I CRY IRL"

"It feels like the end of an era, the beggining of the world, it feels like if trancendence was made symphony. But most importantly, it feels like nostalgia."

[xxbird-skullxx]

I made some kandi a few days ago i am very proud of them

Also i got a ticket to homecoming!!

Gotta make fancy kandi for the dance

[flowerbarrel-art]

[nerdsinc]

i watched a video on a theory that an enderman created disc 11, and i fell in love with it.

(originally drawn: january 3rd, 2022)

[ellie-probably]

if u like minecraft music and ever have a long car ride in the dark please listen to the excursions album by c418. he did the mc music and it's so good.