Song Exploder gets musicians to break down how the creates one of their iconic songs. It's on Netflix now so YouTube content is scarce, but theirs an audio podcast that's free.
I really enjoy that one. One of my favourite episodes was the Crowded House one for “Don’t Dream It’s Over”. So good.
Todd Nathanson, better known online as Todd in the Shadows, is an American music reviewer on YouTube who, until April 2018, was also one of the more prominent members of Channel Awesome.
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One hit wonder in the USA maybe. Big in Europe. The Crossing and Wonderland EP are all killer, no filler.
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These things are weird. I used to watch these two black dudes who would listen to white type stuff. They'd listen to Pink Floyd or Radiohead who is my white guy fave and they would rave about Paranoid Android. Then I realized they were just playing lip service to whities for follows and likes. It felt very disingenuous after a while, like a marriage.
It's the rarest thing to recommend a listen to someone and they actually, listen and actually like. It reinforces that you, yourself are awesome.
These things are weird. I used to watch these two black dudes who would listen to white type stuff. They'd listen to Pink Floyd or Radiohead who is my white guy fave and they would rave about Paranoid Android. Then I realized they were just playing lip service to whities for follows and likes. It felt very disingenuous after a while, like a marriage.
It's the rarest thing to recommend a listen to someone and they actually, listen and actually like. It reinforces that you, yourself are awesome.
I think I get those guys in my recommendations. They don't add anything constructive so I don't bother watching. The YouTubers in this thread are more knowledgable.
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She is a trained opera singer and her analysis is really interesting. I chose these two because I like both songs. Her analysis of Mark Knopfler’s voice and his guitar was intriguing to me. Others that I enjoyed (so far) were “Panama”, take it to the limit” and “wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.
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She is a trained opera singer and her analysis is really interesting. I chose these two because I like both songs. Her analysis of Mark Knopfler’s voice and his guitar was intriguing to me. Others that I enjoyed (so far) were “Panama”, take it to the limit” and “wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.
Those reaction videos to songs you love can be fun, but the problem I realized that ruined them all for me is they're pandering to those of us who like the songs/bands already. They know we'll click on an analysis of Alice in Chains or Tool or whatever band you like. Then they gush over it. They act shocked at how moving it is. They'll be all like, 'wait wait wait...I need to rewind that part' to stretch out the video. They'll shed a tear. The end will always be a final thought on how amazing the band/song is and a call to action to comment some other songs that we'd like to watch reactions to in order to boost their engagement to bump up their videos in the algorithm. They also act like they've never heard of these GIANT bands. Bitch please.
It's clickbait and totally insincere. They don't like this stuff. It's BS. They're just re-selling an artist's songs to you so they can leach off the success of others by leveraging your interest in the band.
I mean, if a single one had ever been, 'IDK, that song was kinda meh. not sure what you guys are seeing' then they'd be believable. The test is to go watch them react to a terrible song by a popular artist. They'll gush in the same way they do over the songs you like because they want clicks from people from all genres. THESE ARE NOT HONEST REVIEWS OR ANALYSES.
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Like anything, there are good and bad commentators.
I love technical commentary - time signatures, key changes, chord inversions, harmonic complexity, chord progressions, counter melodies etc. Isolating tracks.
Like anything, there are good and bad commentators.
I love technical commentary - time signatures, key changes, chord inversions, harmonic complexity, chord progressions, counter melodies etc. Isolating tracks.
Some are very well researched.
You're right and I like them, too, but I struggle with their lack of authenticity in how they fawn over literally every song. But, it's entertainment and they're entertainers and there's no way to be successful analyzing a song that is special to people (the only people who are going to watch the commentary) and conclude the song is lame. You basically have to pretend it's the most amazing song you've ever heard to gain an audience.
The sad part is always the comments where people interact with the content creator as though the commentary/analysis was done in good faith. 'So happy you enjoyed Nutshell...do Would? next time...I think you'll love it!!!1!'
