water tower collapse compilation
a reverie of destruction that anyone can enjoy
I never lived in a small town with an iconic water tower that says NAME OF TOWN on it, but it's an easy enough scene to imagine. One day you're playing deep right field bored off your ass looking at this water tower that's been in the background your entire life, and you wonder, "what if it fell". Then as a teen you meet other kids at the tower to "get some pizza" (code word for "doing drugs") and you look up and say "God, I wish that dumb old thing really would crash down one day". You leave, you come back years later, maybe the tower's still there, maybe it isn't, maybe you notice it's gone, maybe something's changed but you can't figure out what.
Well anyway if you're with me on this, here's a 10 minute compilation of water towers, of the type we've just imagined, experiencing an apotheosis. I mean collapsing. It's pretty nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDY7uD4E8p4
The video and sound quality varies a lot but mostly I'd say the sound is great. In only a few of them is the sound "actually good", like impressive, epic, clean, sonorous. But in most of them the sound is "kind of gnarly with a touch of pathos" which is not what I thought I wanted, it's better. A lot of these have someone yelling "there it goes!" at the beginning but there's a few pretty isolated ones, if any music producers out there are looking for novel bass drum samples. I know you guys are out there.
The comments here are mostly just regular dogshit but here's a gem:
I too find peace and calm in repetition and slight variation, and there's something about the shape-- a cylinder on legs, that makes its fall very gratifying, moreso than a simple column and moreso than a cube on legs. Cheers to the little guy from the comment above, who turns 12 this year :)
Peace everyone :)
If someone sent you this because you're a music producer looking for novel drum sounds or because you simply like seeing a series of similar but different structures collapse and it gives you a sense of peace and calm, you may enjoy other things I write about as well. This is Pleasant Realms, an email newsletter about mostly unstressful YouTube videos.