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  • čas přidán 27. 10. 2019
  • Fallout's lore has one massive problem: the music hasn't changed in centuries. So Brian David Gilbert unraveled a totally new genre of music that should be heard in the wasteland.
    (SLIGHT SPOILER: If you'd like to hear more from the musician who helped create the end song, check out their stuff here: / @skatunenetwork )
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  • @IncredibleMD
    @IncredibleMD Před 4 lety +6591

    "Did I just invent ska again?"
    ... How many times have you invented ska before?

  • @Spoon80085
    @Spoon80085 Před 4 lety +9535

    “It’s a fusion of jazz and funk, it’s called junk”

    • @arielle5752
      @arielle5752 Před 4 lety +76

      Perfect lol

    • @skellorelli2515
      @skellorelli2515 Před 4 lety +142

      Thank you Fender! 🤖

    • @mfC0RD
      @mfC0RD Před 4 lety +176

      For those unaware, this line is from "Robots", that animation film.

    • @owenreynolds9599
      @owenreynolds9599 Před 4 lety +111

      "I play junk"
      "You play with your junk?'
      "Or crappy music?"
      "No, Jazz and Funk"

    • @KikinCh1kin
      @KikinCh1kin Před 4 lety +55

      That movie is gold. I cant tell you how many times ive watched that

  • @intrepidmerc4346
    @intrepidmerc4346 Před 3 lety +7541

    “If you can carry a gun, you can carry a tune!” Can someone PLEASE make that into a 1950s communist propaganda poster

  • @arcanearts9656
    @arcanearts9656 Před 3 lety +1651

    The world is broken, but I have a trumpet.

  • @joemontondo9113
    @joemontondo9113 Před 4 lety +3260

    BDG: "I'm gonna make a new Music Genre for Fallout"
    Me, early in the video: "Is he just reinventing Ska?"
    BDG: "Have I reinvented Ska?"

    • @ItsAlanK
      @ItsAlanK Před 4 lety +3

      Yeah same

    • @Mad_Oph
      @Mad_Oph Před 4 lety +40

      The second he said "pick it up" I was just like okay, so that's where this headed haha.

    • @samiaskyers172
      @samiaskyers172 Před 4 lety +23

      I had a feeling when he mentioned skanking

    • @wrong_reginald
      @wrong_reginald Před 4 lety +12

      Same, and it was the moment he said "so, no pianos" and started talking about trumpets that I knew for sure - we were all in for it. BDG was reinventing ska.

    • @cassun603
      @cassun603 Před 11 dny

      when he said syncopated it seemed obvious

  • @FiddlerForest
    @FiddlerForest Před 4 lety +3937

    "totally new genre"
    Makes Ska.
    Seems legit.

  • @benpurdy7459
    @benpurdy7459 Před 3 lety +638

    Let's be honest. Johnny Guitar would have become the Wonderwall of the wasteland

  • @vickykitty9492
    @vickykitty9492 Před 3 lety +381

    The moment I heard ‘syncopated rhythms’, ‘marching band instruments’, and ‘unique dancing’ I knew immediately that this would just be Ska.
    And, you know what? I’m okay with that.
    Running through a wasteland trying to survive while warring factions and mutated horrors try to kill you. You get your weapon and you start bashing your enemies in the face to the wonderful beats of ska? Hell yeah!

  • @AvaBruno
    @AvaBruno Před 4 lety +36447

    the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents ska again

  • @negativeman7716
    @negativeman7716 Před 4 lety +4077

    Nobody:
    Every single bard: “if you can carry a gun, you can carry a tune”

    • @strangeduckling
      @strangeduckling Před 4 lety +68

      WASTELAND BARDS

    • @gomjabbar6246
      @gomjabbar6246 Před 4 lety +37

      If you can shoot slowly, you can shoot quickly...is actually true in fallout

    • @CRT.v
      @CRT.v Před 4 lety +14

      @@gomjabbar6246 I'm so glad Ling Ling survived the apocalypse!

    • @silicafrill2706
      @silicafrill2706 Před 4 lety +11

      the only acceptable way to read this is with gun and tune rhyming

    • @elementalturnip
      @elementalturnip Před 4 lety +1

      As a bard, I can confirm.

  • @robertchristian4248
    @robertchristian4248 Před 3 lety +455

    2021: What is grief if not love persevering?
    2019: What is the star-spangled banner if not America's jingle?

  • @kodeowen9575
    @kodeowen9575 Před 3 lety +100

    You missed one crucial detail.
    We are still very much listening to Tubthumping and no matter how many times you knock us down, we will always get back up again.

  • @Pikapika-gc2pp
    @Pikapika-gc2pp Před 4 lety +7185

    “If you don’t feel the brotherhood of steel, join the brotherhood of brass” is a line that slaps just so hard

    • @0axel078
      @0axel078 Před 4 lety +113

      Honestly thought he said grass, which works great, too.

    • @alalalala57
      @alalalala57 Před 4 lety +55

      @@0axel078 Now that's a xenophobic, technocratic order I'd join!

    • @bones3559
      @bones3559 Před 4 lety +65

      As a trombone player I support this message

    • @coriolis07
      @coriolis07 Před 4 lety +25

      Bones TROMBONE GANG RISE UP

    • @bones3559
      @bones3559 Před 4 lety +8

      @@coriolis07 *Angry dci gorilla noises*

  • @racg174
    @racg174 Před 4 lety +1744

    i feel like the script for this was written backwards with the punchline of writing a ska song being the original intention all along

    • @Rick586
      @Rick586 Před 4 lety +356

      My guess is it started with the pun "Skallout" and snowballed into this beautiful mess from there.

    • @Baqon42
      @Baqon42 Před 4 lety +58

      You say that like it's a bad thing.

    • @byebyecitybyebye
      @byebyecitybyebye Před 4 lety +69

      right? my eyes kept narrowing further and further as more and more ska references were sprinkled in

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před 4 lety +48

      2009Bandman
      [Polygon brainstorming session]
      Brian, fingers steepled: What if... Skallout?

    • @high-levelsimp2379
      @high-levelsimp2379 Před 4 lety +11

      Rhys, didn’t BDG already tell you to stop looking at his unravel notes?

  • @Jake_the_Nerdlax
    @Jake_the_Nerdlax Před 3 lety +437

    We should start a petition for FO5 to have a ska-flavored gang that is voiced and looks like Brian, Jenna and Pat. Like the hockey gang in FO3, but you help them record their ska-song and get it on the radio.

    • @artistwithouttalent
      @artistwithouttalent Před 2 lety +48

      Quest Added: THE WORLD IS BROKEN, BUT I HAVE A TRUMPET

    • @DougSalad
      @DougSalad Před rokem +20

      the song should be Skallout War

    • @xubse
      @xubse Před 8 měsíci +6

      ​@@artistwithouttalentthat's some Tumblr level chaotic goblin thing to say

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse Před měsícem +1

      Or in season 2 of the show!

  • @BillyCobbOfficial
    @BillyCobbOfficial Před rokem +67

    In my head canon, I have a theory as to why the music had not changed. Around the 1960s, America invents a new audio format that is designed to be more accessible, easier to listen to, and ultimately sound a lot clearer than the vinyl records they had been using. The trade-off however is that these cartridges are not as durable and will deteriorate after say 100 years (or maybe are susceptible to radiation damage). These become the top new audio format for their ease of use and clarity, but of course after the war happens and the bombs drop all these cartridges are lost with time. Therefore, the only remaining recordings are the ones on the original vinyl format from the 30’s-60’s.

  • @ianpeters1980
    @ianpeters1980 Před 4 lety +5061

    The "Pop Goes the Weasel" setup with a punchline 6 minutes later really flies under the radar here

    • @nicestpancake
      @nicestpancake Před 4 lety +245

      No sERIOUSLY THAT SHOULD BE WAY MORE NOTICED OMFG I DIED I HAD TO PAUSE THE VIDEO, TED

    • @NerdySweets3
      @NerdySweets3 Před 4 lety +56

      @@nicestpancake whos ted and where are u hiding him

    • @Aelotyola
      @Aelotyola Před 4 lety +13

      Time codes? I wanna experience this too T__T

    • @nicestpancake
      @nicestpancake Před 4 lety +13

      @@NerdySweets3 Ted is fine.

    • @sleepyfurby
      @sleepyfurby Před 4 lety +193

      @@Aelotyola 4:45 and 7:55!

  • @Leanimal
    @Leanimal Před 4 lety +6260

    This man looks like he’s wearing a disguise.

  • @rilken2326
    @rilken2326 Před 2 lety +146

    Wow this man knows a lot about music he should make covers of abba songs with the lyrics slightly changed to fit halloween villains

    • @alexdavis665
      @alexdavis665 Před 2 lety +5

      this man forced me into an abba phase, curse you bdg!!!

    • @ElliottR0se
      @ElliottR0se Před 11 měsíci +1

      I thought you were talking about The Merkins for a second but that’s Backstreet Boys, and if BDG truly has done the same thing but with Abba then i need to see this

    • @jxnx19
      @jxnx19 Před 9 měsíci

      @@ElliottR0se czcams.com/play/PLmLx_S4RsmA7vomqBVRFlpkL_TeBZRkmu.html&si=HKmPMp6VY7nSVDMZ
      there’s a playlist someone made

    • @BookWyrmOnAString
      @BookWyrmOnAString Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@ElliottR0se he has :)

  • @largeoctahedron
    @largeoctahedron Před 3 lety +97

    Ok, but who else thought "the man was focused on beating you down, so we're gonna focus on beating you up"

  • @WingoEthan
    @WingoEthan Před 4 lety +10943

    This was the last 'normal' episode before they started to revolve more around BDG's descent into madness, anxiety, depression, and existential dread. It's also the one where he invents Ska. This is not a coincidence.

    • @keylometers6342
      @keylometers6342 Před 4 lety +546

      Did you watch the sonic Bible episode? Or the Zelda Timeline episode? Brain hasn't been "normal" for a long time

    • @luigivercotti6410
      @luigivercotti6410 Před 4 lety +277

      @@keylometers6342 I would correct you, but in retrospect, I would be wrong.

    • @mono.isgtds
      @mono.isgtds Před 4 lety +69

      Conclusion: ska is bandersnatch.

    • @dustinanderson6021
      @dustinanderson6021 Před 4 lety +114

      He literally peaked emotionally. There was nowhere to go but down.

    • @mysticmoondustt314
      @mysticmoondustt314 Před 3 lety +85

      brian was never the one doing the unraveling, HE *HIMSELF* was being unraveling this whole time

  • @ebolapie
    @ebolapie Před 3 lety +11352

    "If you don't feel the Brotherhood of Steel, join the Brotherhood of Brass"
    ok but this line slaps, skallout for life

    • @Asmusei
      @Asmusei Před 3 lety +140

      Still waiting for a Ska mod for Fallout 4...

    • @captainwilliams1325
      @captainwilliams1325 Před 3 lety +73

      yeah the song is in fact very good

    • @evantimm6053
      @evantimm6053 Před 3 lety +246

      It's a legit perfect ska lyric. Anti war pro dancing to brass instruments and just pretentious enough in it's barely concealed metaphor to have finished freshmen year at a small liberal arts school. Throw in the mildly obscure nerdy video game pop culture reference and this could just be considered the defining lyric of ska in 2020

    • @justintack5205
      @justintack5205 Před 3 lety +28

      This is still amazing. I came back to rewatch for a dose of happiness, and that line really grabbed me.

    • @Atherax
      @Atherax Před 3 lety +24

      @@evantimm6053 ah but you forgot the whole thing was an obscure nerdy video game / pop culture reference

  • @Jinrokh
    @Jinrokh Před 3 lety +146

    Rewatching this episode, it's secretly a masterclass in foreshadowing.

    • @thewingedporpoise
      @thewingedporpoise Před 2 měsíci +10

      2 minutes in he makes a joke about third wave ska and... it's incredible

  • @msp654
    @msp654 Před 2 lety +61

    This video made me realize I can just. Make a fallout oc if I want. They don't have to be the protagonist I can just create some guys that exist in this universe. I'm not a smart person. Thank you for opening my eyes, Polygon

  • @josephspencer6375
    @josephspencer6375 Před 3 lety +6831

    As soon as I heard Brian say "syncopation" I knew the result would be ska. It's the only thing other than cockroaches to survive the nukes.

    • @IncoherentMoron
      @IncoherentMoron Před 3 lety +243

      i called it when he mentioned "off-beats" and remembered that he already said 'third-wave ska' earlier, but damn that was still a ride

    • @Mytube6138
      @Mytube6138 Před 3 lety +45

      I heard syncopation and was hoping for djent. Big sad

    • @blakelowe1300
      @blakelowe1300 Před 3 lety +54

      I heard "One Step Beyond" and knew.

    • @Mike_Jones1980
      @Mike_Jones1980 Před 3 lety +56

      When skanking was one of two dance options...

    • @waterlily7343
      @waterlily7343 Před 3 lety +27

      As a good brazilian, when I heard "syncopation" I thought "samba" and "pagode". But what was I thinking, it was never going to be.

  • @mightywurm
    @mightywurm Před 4 lety +3142

    “That’s garbage, Todd” should be Bethesda’s slogan

    • @wheeler68
      @wheeler68 Před 4 lety +65

      Better than their current slogan, "Buy Todd's garbage!"

    • @kyletanking
      @kyletanking Před 4 lety +10

      Wheeler no there slogan is it just works

    • @hussainbedair7676
      @hussainbedair7676 Před 2 lety +2

      @@kyletanking no it's you never know when you'll need another hand

  • @doomcookies
    @doomcookies Před 3 lety +42


    Spend your life living in a vault
    and your mind begins to crack.
    And when you get outside
    there's nothing to welcome you back
    She found me passed out in a rundown shack
    with a NukaBuzz in my hand
    She picked me up as she slapped my face
    and said "C'mon, let's start a band".
    She said: Start the music. Pick up loot.
    Get off your ass.
    If you don't feel the Brotherhood of Steel
    join the Brotherhood of Brass
    She said: Start the new war never changes.
    That's a bore.
    You know we'll eclipse the apocalypse
    with a loud and brassy skallout war.
    Skallout war.
    Skallout war.
    Skallout war.
    Skallout war.

  • @potatomuffin7177
    @potatomuffin7177 Před 2 lety +33

    Dances not included in Fortnite:
    -Regency Era Quadrille
    -Skanking
    Looks like the list just got shorter

    • @emilysmith2965
      @emilysmith2965 Před 2 lety +9

      You can do a Regency-era quadrille in Fortnite?!

  • @IronBridge1781
    @IronBridge1781 Před 4 lety +2131

    It's like my dad always said: "Eventually, everything turns to ska."

    • @LA-nx4fv
      @LA-nx4fv Před 4 lety +26

      Everything eventually turns to scat

    • @g.e.9227
      @g.e.9227 Před 4 lety +4

      It all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down

    • @marinarabandit
      @marinarabandit Před 4 lety +6

      I desperately want to know the context for this

    • @eji
      @eji Před 4 lety +2

      Is your father BRUCE GREENE?

    • @444aidan
      @444aidan Před 4 lety +1

      @@LA-nx4fv skibidapabaopbabdbdee

  • @TheOneTrueGhostyBoi
    @TheOneTrueGhostyBoi Před 4 lety +4013

    “Thank god the bombs went off before Wonderwall” is top ten quotes of all time

    • @thatguy6577
      @thatguy6577 Před 3 lety +13

      Too bad we can invent it

    • @MarcusofMenace
      @MarcusofMenace Před 3 lety +17

      I doubt wonderwall would have been made at all since it was supposed to come out in the 90's and the bombs dropped 80 years after that

    • @boundlessgaming6125
      @boundlessgaming6125 Před 3 lety +3

      @The Spanish Inquisition, no that guys point is that someone could’ve still thought it up and made it. And even if you think one person thought up wonderwall, no there were probably more people thinking of making it but they didn’t do it first so no one credits or even knows they did.

    • @williampark4753
      @williampark4753 Před 3 lety +6

      But the bombs dropped in 2077?

    • @Aydrenn
      @Aydrenn Před 3 lety +1

      Brother?

  • @Lukasaske
    @Lukasaske Před měsícem +10

    "Ska. Ska never changes"
    - Mr. House, probably

  • @Omnicide101
    @Omnicide101 Před 2 lety +55

    Okay so obviously "If you don't feel the Brotherhood of Steel, join the Brotherhood of Brass" is a RAW line but can we just appreciate the sheer ferocious optimism of "We'll eclipse the apocalypse"?

  • @AlexanderTheNerdling
    @AlexanderTheNerdling Před 4 lety +2326

    I SAID TO MYSELF “IS THIS JUST SKA?” MOMENTS BEFORE HE DID

    • @Oreostes
      @Oreostes Před 4 lety +25

      i knew it was coming from the beginning

    • @themightysven
      @themightysven Před 4 lety +49

      I mean, as soon as he said trumpets and trombones really...

    • @Rick586
      @Rick586 Před 4 lety

      Same, dude XD

    • @victornochesavila6129
      @victornochesavila6129 Před 4 lety +9

      @@themightysven Exactly, it was a beautiful realization.

    • @tellmeimstupid1855
      @tellmeimstupid1855 Před 4 lety +7

      Idk I’m traumatized. Ska is the music of the heavens

  • @SSVCloud
    @SSVCloud Před 4 lety +3365

    "Did I just make ska again" is a punchline so good it almost killed me from coughing on my spit.

  • @dragoncat9153
    @dragoncat9153 Před 11 měsíci +13

    Glad that Chekhov's gun finally got a counterpart: Chekhov's ice cream truck

  • @frostfire6579
    @frostfire6579 Před 8 měsíci +11

    14:30 dang that "if you don't feel the brotherhood of steel join the brotherhood of brass" line is just the best

  • @Aedi
    @Aedi Před 4 lety +2849

    "This sounds a lot like ska"
    "did I just make ska again?"

  • @angieyglesias7307
    @angieyglesias7307 Před 4 lety +1595

    halfway through the video: “it’s going to be about ska”
    bdg: mentions skanking
    me: “oh yeah, this is about ska.”

  • @Jekler
    @Jekler Před 3 lety +31

    I gotta say, I was not prepared for "The Brotherhood of Brass" and how amazing of a band name that is.

  • @Aerowarrier
    @Aerowarrier Před 2 lety +23

    I would absolutely join a gang called the “Brotherhood of Brass” that makes sure to have a band with them at all times to blast out tunes no matter what they’re doing, that would be so great

  • @rinarina6247
    @rinarina6247 Před 4 lety +2367

    “Do you think we would be complacent with eurotechno, synthetic pop, and *third wave ska*?”
    Oh Brian, your ability to foreshadow never ceases to amaze me.

    • @PopeGoliath
      @PopeGoliath Před 4 lety +171

      Dont forget that skanking was one of the two dances that he said weren't claimed by fortnight. There's clues all over the place.

    • @nathantierney9577
      @nathantierney9577 Před 4 lety +73

      And there’s also him referencing rude boys

    • @Dabednego
      @Dabednego Před 4 lety +45

      @@nathantierney9577 And the phrase "One step beyond"

    • @ozmarichardson6524
      @ozmarichardson6524 Před 4 lety +24

      Pick it up!

    • @commmander64
      @commmander64 Před 4 lety +3

      What is ska?

  • @miasmacaron
    @miasmacaron Před 4 lety +1579

    Me: "He's just invented Ska again"
    Brian: "Did I just make Ska again?"

  • @General_Nothing
    @General_Nothing Před měsícem +11

    The Fallout TV show clearly brought a lot of people back here.

  • @SomeA-1
    @SomeA-1 Před 3 lety +32

    Skanking is in fortnite now
    Brian has both predicted and cursed us

  • @elizasu7637
    @elizasu7637 Před 4 lety +2682

    headcanon: they stopped making new music after fnv because they discovered a pre war recording of big iron and couldn't top that

    • @andryuu_2000
      @andryuu_2000 Před 4 lety +22

      Brilliant comment 👏

    • @nicoharlan5703
      @nicoharlan5703 Před 4 lety +101

      The swiftness of the ranger is still talked about this day.🐴🐴🐴

    • @boxbo7926
      @boxbo7926 Před 4 lety +1

      Elizabeth Su best comment on the internet

    • @phodder
      @phodder Před 4 lety +30

      𝑩𝑰𝑮 𝑰𝑹𝑶𝑵

    • @PuppyLove2468
      @PuppyLove2468 Před 4 lety +1

      What's big iron?

  • @dexterbarlow-busch4127
    @dexterbarlow-busch4127 Před 4 lety +8391

    I'm just gonna say it:
    a good sea shanty hits all of the definitive purposes of music.
    Edit: I am so fuckin proud that I singlehandedly summoned the entire youtube sea shanty community to this single post. Lads, I'm impressed.

    • @dankit2548
      @dankit2548 Před 4 lety +420

      WAY DOWN SOUTH WHERE THE WHALEFISH BLOW

    • @HotCrossJuns
      @HotCrossJuns Před 4 lety +200

      @@dankit2548 WAY DOWN IN FLORIDA

    • @dankit2548
      @dankit2548 Před 4 lety +97

      @@HotCrossJuns I knew there'd be a true hero in here somewhere 🤝

    • @RainbowDj7
      @RainbowDj7 Před 4 lety +225

      What do you do with a drunken sailor....

    • @dankit2548
      @dankit2548 Před 4 lety +177

      @@RainbowDj7 well there are several options of increasing severity....

  • @cannabunnyol
    @cannabunnyol Před měsícem +6

    I do enjoy how you shot down Third Wave Ska, then made a One Step Beyond reference, then re-invented ska again. Ska never dies.

  • @MoldyCr0w
    @MoldyCr0w Před 2 lety +21

    4:26 being a stealth subtitle reference to a ska band (Madness, in this case).
    Magnificent.

    • @gorimbaud
      @gorimbaud Před 10 měsíci +2

      rewatching this vid after years and looking specifically for someone else who caught that one, high-five

    • @WaywardBrigand
      @WaywardBrigand Před 11 dny

      There's actually quite a few.

  • @Elzilcho87
    @Elzilcho87 Před 4 lety +1643

    "Ska as a genre will never go out of fashion, because Ska is the base essence of all mankind's dreams and aspirations. As long as man lives, Ska can never die." - Bruce Greene

    • @bondjames5792
      @bondjames5792 Před 4 lety +8

      YES

    • @EskimoCreamKing
      @EskimoCreamKing Před 4 lety +10

      What funhaus video is this from? I watch funhaus but don't recognise it

    • @cya6109
      @cya6109 Před 4 lety +4

      Dafouq is ska,is it like when cringy rappers make random sounds like ska ska ska ska

    • @jakejutras5420
      @jakejutras5420 Před 4 lety +33

      @@cya6109 no, it is a style of music that became popular in the 90's. Look up Reel Big Fish. Fusion of punk, reggae, and lots of brass.

    • @dinolandra
      @dinolandra Před 4 lety +2

      @@cya6109 a mix of swing, reggae and punk

  • @peterrisser
    @peterrisser Před 4 lety +2340

    “Skallout War” sounds like the theme song to a Fallout based sitcom.

    • @slimepunke
      @slimepunke Před 4 lety +26

      Peter Risser that is because it absolutely is

    • @mrlazarus6778
      @mrlazarus6778 Před 4 lety +5

      And so close to Skeleton War too... Coincidence? I think not!
      Skeleton war = Fallout Great War confirmed

    • @WeaponOfMyDestructio
      @WeaponOfMyDestructio Před 4 lety

      ska died when Canadians found out about it.

    • @nickknight8692
      @nickknight8692 Před 4 lety

      That's kinda the joke...

    • @casey6556
      @casey6556 Před 4 lety +4

      “Honey, I’m home!”
      “A settlement needs our help. I’ll mark it on your map.”

  • @KameronArcher
    @KameronArcher Před měsícem +9

    Ska is the cockroach of music in that it will thrive in a nuclear apocalypse

  • @alexandermeisner5463
    @alexandermeisner5463 Před rokem +39

    You forgot that the Lonesome Drifter records new songs, depending on whether or not you do the Talent Pool quest.

    • @DerBruessler
      @DerBruessler Před rokem +3

      True, that was my thought too

    • @DustySiren
      @DustySiren Před 8 měsíci

      womp womp

    • @SquidsMackenzie
      @SquidsMackenzie Před 8 měsíci

      You are referring to Home on the Wastes and Streets of New Reno.
      I would argue he doesn't create anything new and in fact the songs he plays are fully plagurized with wasteland words inserted.
      You might say that in the fallout universe he invented them, except the original writers of those songs exist in the fallout world as other songs by them make the radio.
      Therfore, I say he discovered obscure songs then swapped in wasteland names and stole credit for it. Meaning he did NOT write new music.

    • @MercuryIsDumb
      @MercuryIsDumb Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@SquidsMackenzieHe mentions remixes should exist in the apocalypse and it does because of the Lonesome Drifter

  • @chrisvandergriff504
    @chrisvandergriff504 Před 3 lety +5297

    About ten minutes in, I was like, "No, I was there in the 90's. He can't be making ska again."

  • @eji
    @eji Před 4 lety +1893

    "Ska is actually long before Reggae. You know, Ska came before Reggae."
    - Bruce Greene

    • @Unch0sen1
      @Unch0sen1 Před 4 lety +36

      Came down just to find this comment.

    • @YuggetNugget
      @YuggetNugget Před 4 lety +16

      God bless that brave boy

    • @ozmarichardson6524
      @ozmarichardson6524 Před 4 lety +1

      Lol. It did actually, but idk how ironic you're trying to be but dont let it dreams be memes

    • @sindraoffline3173
      @sindraoffline3173 Před 4 lety +1

      Is that true

    • @dilsdoes
      @dilsdoes Před 4 lety +53

      if youll allow me to be a bit of a music nerd for a moment,
      while the statements "ska came before reggae/reggae came from ska" are technically true the dont exactly tell the whole story. in the current zeitgeist ska is synonymous with ska punk, which in and of itself is a derivative of ska, borrowing the fastpaced nature and melodic basslines of ska, which was a west indian genre that was essentially reggae but with a faster tempo. reggae came before ska /punk/ but ska came before reggae.
      sorry if this is over explainery, this is a really important distinction to me because i grew up in the west indies and didnt even know ska used to refer to a purely west indian genre instead of being shorthand for ska punk, and it was really interesting and kinda weird to find out.

  • @SomeGlasses
    @SomeGlasses Před rokem +11

    “Science may increase our longevity but art is what makes long life worth living”
    Brian man sometimes I doubt my choice to want to be a writer/director/video producer guy but these words just gave me all the confidence I need to keep going
    Thanks Brian

  • @greylabcoat4208
    @greylabcoat4208 Před 3 lety +11

    "Information is transmitted verbally"
    Piper didnt like that

  • @acoolusername
    @acoolusername Před 4 lety +1994

    I never want to enter “the mindscape of Todd” ever again

  • @mpsmith9913
    @mpsmith9913 Před 4 lety +679

    “Making all of your friends call you by a nickname you gave yourself”
    ACTUALLY BDG if you recall in the first episode of this season you specifically stated that we are not friends, thus negating this callback and breaking my heart into tiny pieces

    • @vtario5
      @vtario5 Před 4 lety +76

      it's okay, he was probably just talking about his co-workers. we can be safe in the knowledge that we do not matter

    • @Bustermaniax
      @Bustermaniax Před 4 lety +1

      I started reading this comment the exact moment he said that...nice timing xD

    • @GoblinModeKnives
      @GoblinModeKnives Před 4 lety +22

      he also said he wasnt gonna damce anymore. that was a lie. keep hope alive in your heart lol

    • @racecarcar499
      @racecarcar499 Před 4 lety

      @@GoblinModeKnives yeah absoulutely #BDGisoverparty

  • @jaxbeck9550
    @jaxbeck9550 Před 2 lety +12

    Ska is to musical evolution what crab is to biological evolution.

  • @yurigouveawagner9432
    @yurigouveawagner9432 Před 3 lety +6

    this episode has probably the best take on videogames i've ever seen. it makes so much sense.

  • @Chris_W.
    @Chris_W. Před 4 lety +811

    "If you can carry a gun, you can carry a tune." - US Army Marching Band Motto

  • @crabPEOPLE2000
    @crabPEOPLE2000 Před 4 lety +2436

    he just called math rock garbage
    as someone who loves math rock he's correct and brave

  • @icegod4849
    @icegod4849 Před rokem +3

    4:48 Brian, thank you so much for talking about Ice Cream Truck music. Whenever I hear it, I am filled with nostalgia and want to cry and I'm glad to see that my feelings are reassured.

  • @YellowTissueBox
    @YellowTissueBox Před 3 lety +16

    So sad to see BDG leave polygon, I'll follow him wherever he goes.

  • @cass1115
    @cass1115 Před 4 lety +984

    “Did I just make ska again?” -Brian David Gilbert, Safety Fan and Bureaucratic Wunderkind

    • @mayathomas8934
      @mayathomas8934 Před 4 lety +35

      Cassie Woodard thank you for addressing him as such

    • @pharaohbubbles1547
      @pharaohbubbles1547 Před 4 lety

      @@mayathomas8934 goddamn you I was LITERALLY about to say that

  • @chrisdray5325
    @chrisdray5325 Před 4 lety +1825

    This reminds me of how every so often nature will try to make a new crab. Ska truly is inevitable.

    • @rebeccahauer4406
      @rebeccahauer4406 Před 3 lety +103

      Skarcinization

    • @KetchupRocket
      @KetchupRocket Před 3 lety +45

      Your words terrify but peak my curiosity

    • @SobiTheRobot
      @SobiTheRobot Před 3 lety +39

      How often has nature tried to reinvent the crab?

    • @justmerc1642
      @justmerc1642 Před 3 lety +73

      @@SobiTheRobot Five times, at the last count

    • @chrisdray5325
      @chrisdray5325 Před 3 lety +47

      @@SobiTheRobot en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

  • @StickJock819
    @StickJock819 Před 3 lety +6

    This video is over a year old and I still haven't seen a mod adding BDG's evolved new world music as a custom radio station in Fallout 4.
    I'm going to have to see what I can do to correct this.

  • @azariahazariah4493
    @azariahazariah4493 Před rokem +5

    In Fallout: New Vegas, you can recruit a man by the name of the Lonesome Drifter to play music at the Tops Casino. The songs that he plays were made specifically for the game and reference many post-war things such as Fire Geckos and Super Mutants. The songs are country/folk ballads about the Mojave Wasteland, New Reno (a location in fallout 2), and the singer was, (I think) Josh Sawyer, the lead developer of FNV.

  • @Relfar2
    @Relfar2 Před 4 lety +1423

    "If you can carry a gun you can carry a tune."
    Truely inspirational. Like trench warfare the musical level inspiration.

    • @lucassmart1473
      @lucassmart1473 Před 4 lety +6

      I'm already creating my next character entirely around this line.

    • @Generalfoley
      @Generalfoley Před 4 lety

      We already got marching songs, I can roll with it.

  • @iamrutabaga7761
    @iamrutabaga7761 Před 4 lety +962

    Trashes on 3rd wave Ska at the beginning: I feel personally attacked.
    The moment he says "Pick it up": This man is a comical genius.

  • @TheDarkSatirist
    @TheDarkSatirist Před měsícem +3

    This one video put more thought into the world building of the fallout universe than Bethesda ever did

  • @JBaum55
    @JBaum55 Před 2 lety +8

    I have to womder if BDG created this video knowing the punchline would be that he invented ska, or if he venuinely thought about how the new genre should sound and realized it's essentially ska.
    It's amazing either way.

  • @notjohnbruno4482
    @notjohnbruno4482 Před 4 lety +593

    “Did I just invent ska again?” is a sentence that no comedy routine or joke could ever top. We should all just top making jokes because BDG has ascended to become the King of Comedy

    • @eskidz
      @eskidz Před 4 lety +4

      I agree, but I assume you meant "we should all just STOP making jokes"

    • @IrismonoYT
      @IrismonoYT Před 4 lety +6

      @@eskidz he means we must move to a form of comedy higher then making jokes, only then can we hope to stop global BDG takeover.

    • @harleyjohnson2913
      @harleyjohnson2913 Před 4 lety

      big aristocrat energy

  • @mudkip7251
    @mudkip7251 Před 4 lety +1396

    “That’s garbage Todd!”
    -BDG 2019

  • @Camurgladius
    @Camurgladius Před 3 lety +3

    Side-note: there are actually a handful of, if not new songs, at least remixed/lyrically altered songs, in Fallout New Vegas specifically--Green Clouds & Dust Whirls, Streets of New Reno, New Vegas Valley, and Home on the Wastes. All adapted/sung by Joshua Sawyer as the in-universe characters Bruce Isaac and the Lonesome Drifter.

  • @speckofdignity2487
    @speckofdignity2487 Před 3 lety +4

    7:39 ... 7/4 you say? Like, I don’t know See The Day from a certain CZcams series with music composed by a guy named Brian David Gilbert??

  • @georgelister4866
    @georgelister4866 Před 4 lety +2411

    “War never changes but music should” is one hell of a quote.

  • @picklejho69
    @picklejho69 Před 4 lety +838

    "Thank god the bombs went off before Wonderwall"
    Never have I heard a more relatable statement leave this man's glorious moustachioed lips.

    • @the_original_Bilb_Ono
      @the_original_Bilb_Ono Před 4 lety +9

      No more of those chords with the wrong strum pattern with a cappo because Barre chords are too difficult for him with someone singing "today is gunna be the day..." Completely out of key while teenage girls clap. - I can live with that.
      Although honestly I think that joke is no doubt dated, much like smoke on the water jokes and stairway to heaven jokes. I don't believe I've heard anyone play wonderwall on guitar irl except me. Even in the early 2000s.

    • @picklejho69
      @picklejho69 Před 4 lety +5

      @@the_original_Bilb_Ono As someone who worked for far too long in the hospitality industry, I have heard it far too many times and now bleed from my ears at the simple mention of Noel Gallaghers name.

    • @dsproductions19
      @dsproductions19 Před 4 lety +1

      @@the_original_Bilb_Ono I had to play Smoke on the Water nearly every year in high school orchestra in the early 2010s, and even Stairway to Heaven once or twice. Might not have been on the guitar, but it's not exactly a dated reference.

    • @junebunchanumbers
      @junebunchanumbers Před 4 lety +1

      @@the_original_Bilb_Ono Earlier this year I agreed to teach a friend guitar and literally the only thing she'd learned was the verse from Wonderwall (sans capo).

    • @Minumer
      @Minumer Před 4 lety

      I dunno, there was a lot of 'could've been worse' during the BOTW one.

  • @andlevi31690
    @andlevi31690 Před měsícem +4

    Revisiting this after the Fallout show has been released, and though the show is critically acclaimed, they should have added some ska to the soundtrack

  • @shortcircut1sprkplg
    @shortcircut1sprkplg Před 15 dny +1

    This needs to be an easter egg song that plays on some random radio in a remote location in the next singleplayer fallout game

  • @VekErro
    @VekErro Před 3 lety +3183

    I would argue that all the artists in the fallout universe just became raiders. They're *very* particular about the placement of body parts and blood splatters around their lairs. It's all very feng shui.

    • @eansba88-
      @eansba88- Před 3 lety +156

      The raider radio from fallout 4s dlc features new... awful, but new music.
      Its along the lines of punk/rock and roll... but more single guitar and screamy.

    • @kevinwillems8720
      @kevinwillems8720 Před 3 lety +106

      @@eansba88- I mean that just sounds like folk punk.

    • @eansba88-
      @eansba88- Před 3 lety +36

      @@kevinwillems8720 you know, youre not wrong actually. Lol.

    • @ryanmartin4602
      @ryanmartin4602 Před 3 lety +24

      Come on down to Pickman's Gallery

    • @thecomfyshirt
      @thecomfyshirt Před 3 lety +68

      This is an excellent point!!! Look at the super mutants… it’s just a mess of guts and body parts strewn about randomly. Then look at the raiders; intentional placement. Aesthetic principles are definitely applied. Art isn’t dead, it’s simply devolved into different mediums

  • @canaancasey1715
    @canaancasey1715 Před 3 lety +3469

    "Those time signatures only belong in mathrock, which is to say, in the garbage"
    Why must you hurt me like this, Brian.

    • @mr.nazareth4501
      @mr.nazareth4501 Před 3 lety +72

      I know right? Shit hurted

    • @Hevvvyyy
      @Hevvvyyy Před 3 lety +39

      No wonder it gets some hate because nobody likes math

    • @mixedexplosion3114
      @mixedexplosion3114 Před 3 lety +87

      Isn't one of his own songs (see the day) in 7/4?

    • @charliefranklin8523
      @charliefranklin8523 Před 3 lety +16

      @@mixedexplosion3114 Came here to say this

    • @cityfey
      @cityfey Před 3 lety +37

      @@mixedexplosion3114 to be fair, he's a math-user himself. also a massive nerd.

  • @mh752
    @mh752 Před 2 lety +1

    4:25 rewatching this for the 3rd time and only now just picked up on the "one step beyond" reference. Nice one BDG

  • @AleZayas
    @AleZayas Před 3 lety +8

    Now I want to go to a ska concert with Jenna after watching those moves!

  • @Draukagrissah
    @Draukagrissah Před 4 lety +1658

    If no one makes a ska band named "Brotherhood of Brass" after this then there is no justice in this world

    • @genderenigma8276
      @genderenigma8276 Před 4 lety +43

      I can play keyboards and percussion. But we're kinda quarentined...where do I sign up?

    • @egg9206
      @egg9206 Před 4 lety +30

      I sing and I can play trumpet decently well. First rehearsal after the shutdown ends?

    • @felixc543
      @felixc543 Před 4 lety +29

      @@genderenigma8276 I love that this has resulted in enough bored ppl rewatching videos and reading comments that you already have a reply

    • @thebrokenmirror5343
      @thebrokenmirror5343 Před 4 lety +4

      I have done a ska performance on Beale street in downtown Memphis at B.B. Kings. Guitar and Vocals.

    • @ladymilliejean4166
      @ladymilliejean4166 Před 4 lety +15

      i can play keyboards and the guitar. i can also sing violently

  • @Ashley-ou1nr
    @Ashley-ou1nr Před 4 lety +651

    "Thank god the bombs fell before wonderwall" has the same but opposite energy as "Thank god glee finished before X song came out"

  • @radishlordrak
    @radishlordrak Před rokem +1

    i just realized that there is SO much foreshadowing that ska is gonna be the punchline. even now he name drops One Step Beyond from Madness

  • @Dirtyblue929
    @Dirtyblue929 Před rokem +2

    Fun fact, BDG has gone on to do voice acting for Fallout 76 in its latest updates. He plays the Brotherhood guy who runs a team at the Rust Eagles' arena for supplemental combat training.

  • @0BucketMask0
    @0BucketMask0 Před 3 lety +1947

    My half asleep mother heard "if you don't feel the brotherhood of steel then join the brotherhood of brass" and mumbled "whoever wrote that line is definitely Irish" and since I'm figuring it was written by Brian and Patrick, whose five names are all Irish, she was right lmao.

    • @leeblock9573
      @leeblock9573 Před 3 lety +165

      David is technically from the Bible, but it's Anglicized, and also the remaining 80% of their names are Irish, so your point still stands.

    • @0BucketMask0
      @0BucketMask0 Před 3 lety +50

      @@leeblock9573 that's actually a cool little thing to know, thanks!

    • @hurgleflurp6089
      @hurgleflurp6089 Před 3 lety +184

      “five irish names” has got to be a band or something

    • @artistwithouttalent
      @artistwithouttalent Před 2 lety +69

      @@hurgleflurp6089 _Did you mean_ *Dropkick Murphys?*

    • @jobRobbemond
      @jobRobbemond Před 2 lety +13

      @@artistwithouttalent Did someone say DROPKICK MURPHY?!
      My good pal, you are required to tell me your favorite song!

  • @witchduck2230
    @witchduck2230 Před 3 lety +4323

    "history repeats itself; first as tragedy, then as farce" - karl marx

  • @samikami3206
    @samikami3206 Před 3 lety +1

    I watch these videos over and over, and his hair moving gets me every time. It’s all messy when he gets angry, then the next calm shot he’s perfectly fine.

  • @shoetube
    @shoetube Před 3 lety +2

    A few minutes in I saw where this was going, but I was frozen in place like a deer in the headlights.

  • @augustd1834
    @augustd1834 Před 4 lety +238

    "Thank God the bombs went off before Wonderwall"
    - BDG, 2019

  • @MsCunningLinguistic
    @MsCunningLinguistic Před 4 lety +909

    "Do you think our culture would really linger over Barbie Girl?" as a Norwegian i feel called out by this and I do not appreciate it
    [edit: how the fuck did this get almost 1K likes in twelve hours lmao]

    • @thewingedporpoise
      @thewingedporpoise Před 4 lety +21

      Personally I'd prefer tubthumping

    • @k4eru20
      @k4eru20 Před 4 lety +10

      i dont have any reason to justify liking barbie girl by aqua but i also feel called out

    • @kevinanderson2540
      @kevinanderson2540 Před 4 lety +28

      Don't worry, pretty sure long after the bombs drop people will still be humming Take On Me as they're being chased by mutants.

    • @orijimi
      @orijimi Před 4 lety +6

      @@kevinanderson2540 Or "What is love? Baby don't hurt me.".

    • @zotaninoron3548
      @zotaninoron3548 Před 4 lety +2

      Ooooaaaaooo Ooooaaaooo.

  • @equalmonkey4821
    @equalmonkey4821 Před rokem +2

    Much like how crustaceans keep evolving into crabs, we keep reinventing 3rd wave Ska.

  • @amog8202
    @amog8202 Před rokem +2

    I mean, it makes enough sense that the radios aren't actually able to play anything but specific cartridges and holotapes, and now that those aren't in production, only the most dedicated radio hosts have large collections of music other than the ones most popular just before the war, when they were excessively mass produced

  • @audrey2722
    @audrey2722 Před 4 lety +355

    7:42 is a bold statement coming from a person who looks like the lead in a math rock band

  • @rabbit6546
    @rabbit6546 Před 4 lety +1003

    bdg: trumpets and trombones
    me already seeing ska on the horizon: oh no

    • @katie5822
      @katie5822 Před 4 lety +58

      you: oh no
      me, an intellectual, raised with my dad’s obsession with Madness: OH HELL YES

    • @raccoonboi4225
      @raccoonboi4225 Před 4 lety

      Time to skank

    • @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat
      @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Před 4 lety +4

      @@katie5822 me a confused but excited person: OH NYEOAH

  • @KegaB3
    @KegaB3 Před 17 dny +1

    "war never changes, but music should!" Is such a banger line

  • @deanc9195
    @deanc9195 Před rokem +1

    Came back to this and the amount of foreshadowing is masterful