Yes! The Jolene one was great. Also the Jim Croce one.
I think this
is obligatory, in case someone hasn't seen it yet. Or recently enough.
The one of them listening to Phil Collins and losing their minds at the drum riff on In The Air Tonight went viral. I think they're twin brothers.
Theres a bunch of similar Youtube channels: mostly African-Americans reacting to mainstream and/or country or rock/metal hits. I'm an occasional watcher of a couple of them and enjoy them for much the same reason that you listed in the OP.
There's also an entire bunch of "vocal coach" reacts vids. With a sub-genre of people reacting to Jinjer's "Pisces" (literally dozens of those). *
e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk58gdnR0Lw
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVyeoo5UCJU
* I highly recommend not googling before watching, and watch it all.
I'm not going to let the internet trick me into appreciating Phil Collins.
I noticed a few months ago that there was this genre of youtube video - - watch x react to seeing and/or hearing y for the first time! Oy! What is the world coming to!
I think they're twin brothers.
In hindsight, they do call themselves TwinsTheNewTrend.
The one of them listening to Phil Collins and losing their minds at the drum riff on In The Air Tonight went viral.
Who drops a drum beat AFTER THREE MINUTES?!?!
re: 5
Heh. There's a guy called Tom Bukovac, who is a Nashville session guitarist, who has started recording daily or semi-daily CV19 vlog things, in which he plays some music, and chats about the process of music making, shows a few things on the guitar, etc. They are really fantastic. He has a sort of care-worn rumpled wisdom and he's an incredible guitar player -- in the sense that he's amazingly musical and creative, not that he's some sort of shredder -- and I think even non-guitar players would get a lot out of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7c9LjQZd0
As is often the case with guys who are elite Nashville session musos, he's not actually a big country music guy. He might have played the guitars on just about every pop-country or country-rock tune of the last 20+ years, but that's not the background he came from, or the music he likes.** He virtually never mentions country music, and mostly talks about bit of classic rock, RnB and soul music, and, his biggest love, 1970s English prog. He has been banging on about Genesis, and the genius of Peter Gabriel and to a less extent Phil Collins for months. Even to the extent of doing prog duos with his wife:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz5DMmhYJbs
** just like when Brent Mason makes a solo record it's mostly 40s swing and bebop.
re: 9
I was going to comment about Bukovac anyway. There's something joyous about watching someone who is really great at something, and unapologetic about it, and yet isn't a dick, and clearly loves music so much.
6- I saw lots of those in the past but it was less cultural things than "deaf person hears for first time with new implants" or "baby encounters weird animal for first time".
8- One story about it had a link to a live version of the song with Collins wandering around the stage singing each line, and there's a drum set at the back and I was constantly wondering IS HE GOING TO MAKE IT TO THE DRUMS IN TIME?
9, 10: Tom Beato's "What Makes This Song Great?" series on Youtube can also be really interesting.
Ha, yes, Rick. Tom Bukovac, Rick Beato.
6 the goatse react videos got there first.
There was once a time when having an idea meant that I'd have a rush of energy
Sympathies on this, I have a hard time in exactly this way-- immediately jumping to "where is this hoiung and how hard will it be" rather than enjoying and reaching for something new.
Let us alone. What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
On music, I had a moment in the pasta aisle of a grocery nearby last month where I was conpletely transfixed by Hall & Oates' Family Man on the PA. It might have been 4:21 though.
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re: 17.last
A while ago, maybe a year or so back, I listened to Daryl Hall being interviewed for Shane Theriot's podcast.* Through that I discovered the album he made with Robert Fripp, which is ... strange. Good, but strange. Some sort of strange missing link between PiL and Gang of Four, Philly soul, and prog.
And ... just to annoy Moby, I think it's Phil Collins on drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuyKBRnUAiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHX-vCr2KbI
* Theriot is musical director and guitarist for Hall & Oates, but was previously with the Neville Brothers, and loads of other New Orleans funk/soul/RnB acts.
On missing links: There's a Cale/Eno album, Wrong Way Up, it's midway between genres I can recognize, one of them pop. Nice. Deceptively light.
Daryl Hall liked one of my partner's instagram posts. I figure that's the reward for sticking with a classic: dog head out of car window. My partner took the picture near the city Daryl Hall lives in, so we figure some algorithm showed it to Hal based on location.
Do they ever do it with really bad songs, like Rock Me Amadeus or anything by Starship?
Charming videos. Watched Piece of my Heart and I will Always Love You -- both of which I would consider part of the canon.
They should try some Springsteen, maybe. No Surrender.
Currently singers are name-checking themselves in more songs than ever, but they aren't claiming they are the historical equivalent of Mozart.
22 We all have our betes noirs -- I'd say Maneater is among the worst of the hits during my hit-hearing time.
6: My wife is a big fan of the You-tube try channel; it's mostly (some people) try out a foreign alcohol or food and describe their reaction. "Irish people try Cheesecake Factory for the first time", etc. They're handled pretty well; I think many of the "tryers" are comedians, which makes them good at quips -- and sometimes they illuminate folkways and phenomena, or just put a finger on "oh, I guess that thing's not as universal as I'd imagined". Rarely worth your full concentration, but for insomnia or background noise while you do something else, it does the trick.
re: 27
What about this (mashup) version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjr2EUHRuk
With the Supremes. It is mostly Diana Ross singing, though, rather than Daryl Hall.
I want to see what happens if they have to listen to a 17 minute Phish song.
Related, maybe: I smell pot more often when I go for walks now.
Oh, thank you, lw! That is such a marvellous poem. The other sort of canon: something kept alive over generations in readers' hearts. I think some of the ideas of 40-50s SFF will survive like that, but very little of the prose.
It's fun to reread Brave New World from time to time and see just how much Huxley got right in ways which history has obliterated because we think now that these developments were inevitable and must have seemed obvious.
My wife is a big fan of the You-tube try channel; it's mostly (some people) try out a foreign alcohol or food and describe their reaction. "Irish people try Cheesecake Factory for the first time", etc. They're handled pretty well; I think many of the "tryers" are comedians, which makes them good at quips -- and sometimes they illuminate folkways and phenomena, or just put a finger on "oh, I guess that thing's not as universal as I'd imagined". Rarely worth your full concentration, but for insomnia or background noise while you do something else, it does the trick.
Interesting. I thought those things were all "Authentic foreign person tries disgusting white American version of their ethnic food, is disgusted".
28: Wow, that's quite a given name, "Lolsy".
28,33. The ones I've watched seem a little exploitative-- funny villagers don't know what is hamburger, ha ha. The old man who explained "this food would be enjoyed by those who like such things" in response to the rude camera was a compensation. It'd be an easy genre to do though, so maybe some publishers do it well.
"This is the Cheesecake Factory. It's where Americans who aren't Joe Biden have to go if they want to hurt God."
They should do a bit where people from Austria go to Outback Steak House.
Since this thread has already gone off topic, this seems like as good a place as any to note that one can waste a surprising amount of time looking for a satisfactory definition of "yacht rock".
It definitely feels like it refers to a real thing, but the exact parameters seem to be slippery.
"No but zer has been a mistake. Ve do not have ze bloomin' onion in Vienna."
4: I did just what you said, watched without googling. That's really something.
28/33/35: I somehow keep coming across the ones where the family gives Dad glasses that allow him to see in color for the first time and normally gruff man has big vulnerable emotions.
Since this is the music thread, can I ask if anybody else noticed they are bleeping more things on the radio than before? Possibly nobody else listens to FM radio? Three or four times now I have heard Rhianna bleeped in a way I don't remember before ("--- in the air, I love the smell of it."). I wasn't aware that the word "sex" was obscene and in the context of the song, it's hard for me to think of a word to use in its place that doesn't sound like some kind of fetish.
38 tierce on twitter recently called Little Feat yacht rock.
42: it would be a good prank for a radio station to beep things unnnecessarily in a way that makes them sound much filthier than they actually are. "****ing nine to five, what a way to make a living."
"want to **** ***** but the boss won't seem to let me"
"I **** you. You **** me."
"It was a teenage ***ing and the old folks ****ed them well"
What if that Marilyn Manson song, "I want to **** you like an animal, I want to feel you from the inside" is like this, and the **** is really "snuggle" or "be your litter-mate"?
What if that Marilyn Manson song
Nine Inch Nails, no?
https://twitter.com/hunteryharris/status/1293193491150000133?s=21
re: 38
I know it when I hear it (according to my own personal definition, anyway).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock#Yacht_Rock_creators
Is more or less how I tend to read it, although I would go for just the first 5 of those, and I'd add in some specifics about the music, e.g. chord progressions that feature major 7ths, 2nds/9ths and various upper chord extensions, certain kinds of half-time shuffle groove, etc.**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldtieSEyQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMI81yIlT0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waIBA6_0GQc (they are hilarious pricks talking about the solo, too)
* not remotely original to me
** whether that's Bernard Purdie, or Jeff Porcaro, or Rick Marotta, or whoever.