I love this record. So much I can’t put it into words. Jeff’s “solo” career started at the same time as my real adulthood. When I first graduated from college I look like shit came out. And I’ve loved every record since and he always felt like an older punk brother helping me deal with being an adult. I’ve never acted like more of a dork than when I met him. I couldn’t say anything but hi and that I was there to see him because I randomly ran into him and John on the street
Worry is one of my fav albums as well. My fav song would be while you're alive because i personally feel as though it puts the whole perspective of the album in a new light. After you hear the line "love is worry" you begin to realise that the entire album is an expression of love and how to love someone or something will result in you feeling worry. You don't worry about someone you don't love and you don't love someone you don't worry about someone you worry about. You begin to understand each and every song isn't him just complaining but an expression and a cost of love which he feels most media brush over and glamorize the feeling of love. He is in love with the girl on i did something weird last night, he loves his friends and the position he is in and is scared of losing that in we begged to explode, he loves world which is why he worries about the invasive nature of late stage capitalism on festival song and loves the memories he has which is why he is so sad to see it leave on starring out the window and wave goodnight to me and I could say something similar about each song on the entire album and all of the dismal tone is switched up in one song. I feel as though this is something I have felt for a long time and I love how Jeff has expressed it to the point where a lot of these songs actually happy. Worry is simply the cost of love, and there is no greater emotion than love, so worry more.
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 i'm just happy more people appreciate this album, it's helped me a lot over the years and i've been thinking about it for like 2 years since i first heard it and I'm glad I had an avenue to express these thoughts
Worry is one of my favorite albums of all time. Its been on heavy rotation especially through the last year and a half. I'm always happy to see people talk about it. Definitely subscribed. Great video!
This album changed my life. It was the one that was there for me and said what I needed at the right time. It had the right sound and attitude that spoke to me. I had just discovered Jeff’s discography and was obsessed just before this was released. Seeing it played live was something I’ll never forget.
The writing and editing on this is really great. Volksgeist and Polyphonic set the bar really high for music analysis, but you seem well on your way to being right there next to them. As a fellow editor, one thing that I would personally love to see you add in future videos is some small sound effects for your animations. I know it adds a lot of time to an already long editing process, but it's really what sets great channels apart from just good channels.
Thank you! I am not a good editor, honestly most of the time it feels like pulling teeth to me, haha. I don't want to focus too much on editing, it's my least favourite part of the process, but that said I should definitely put more effort into soundscape, it is just a matter of time and budget. I don't have the money to access sound librarys, and I know Polyphonic in particular hires a sound guy for his vids.
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 Don't sell yourself short, your editing is really good. I did not know that polyphonic hired someone for the soundscape, but that makes a lot of sense. I always wondered how they had the patience to add those. anyway best of luck Mitto!
I love this album so much. Pretty much anytime one of the songs comes up on shuffle I just have to go and listen to the rest of the album, or just the whole thing over again. This video was super well edited and written, thanks for the awesome deep-dive on an awesome album! Time to go listen to worry again now...
Being a massive fan of Jeff Rosenstock, I love seeing him getting the recognition he deserves. Worry is easily his best album. No Dream, Ska Dream, and We cool? are easily 3 of my favorite albums of the decade. I highly recommend listening to him.
im so glad that there is some kind of video essay about this album, its rare to see and its really cool to see my favourite artist of all time getting that kind of attention
This was a truly excellent video.Thank you very much. Jeff’s music is really deep. He is an excellent song writer and in that sense he reminds me of Tony Sly.
5:09 i also interpreted this part as if you truly want to be friends with someone, you shouldnt expect anything back because friendship is more than just trade, a notion that capitalism wants to foster thru parasocial relationships with brands
Hello Mitto how are you? I just discovered your channel. This is a really good video thank you very much! I noticed you haven’t posted any videos in a few years. I hope you are doing well. Please let me know when f you have a new channel or what you are up to these days. Cheers, Scott from Washington and Arizona
Since there are so few comments here, I feel compelled to also chip in: Amazing video! Really loved how you applied the typography style! And I also appreciate someone guiding me through all these lyrics. I often don't take the time to read them, due to a mix of laziness and also the fear of finding out that they're crap xD
Dont k ow how many times i listened to this. I only subconsciously got the theme of seasons as the back feels much birghter and warmer than the first half.
Great video about one of my favourite artists right now, I have to ask, have you listened to PUP at all, because I really love them. You've got a new subscriber instantly, I can't wait to look through your other videos
Really cool video, I liked your thoughts a lot. I think I disagree with part of your reading of Festival Song though. I didn't think the song was necessarily meant to be about corporations co-opting progressivism, but more so about counter-culture movements getting neutralized by getting co-opted into mainstream culture. I might have been primed to believe that because it's a subject that comes up a lot in Bomb The Music Industry's discography (songs like Side Projects Are Never Successful and Shut Up The Punx), which I like even more than his solo discography
For sure, those are two very related issues which feed into each other. Once a company starts using your hashtag or whatever, you know it's gone mainstream and is starting to lose its power. I haven't actually dug into any Bomb The Music Industry albums, but I really should.
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 If you're unacquainted with Bomb The Music Industry's discography you'll probably like Vacation or Scrambles the best. They're later releases that are a little more polished than their early recordings but they set the tone for his solo work very well. Btw, awesome video!
I have WORRY. tattoed on my arm because that album has had such a profound impact on me. I love this analysis of the album and I'm still finding inspiration in its lyrics in my everyday life.
When my kids get older and someday maybe express some kind of interest in what was going through my mind in my 30s, I’m just going to hand them this record. It means that much to me.
exceptionally well made and edited video, and one of the best albums ever imo, but why call it the 'last great pop-punk album' without ever exploring that idea past stating the idea itself. you just said how good this album is, what exactly makes it the last great one, apart from a clickbait title? would love for you to explore that idea in a future video maybe!
Yeah, I admit it's a bit clicky! So part of it is the Abbey Road comparison, being the last album The Beatles wrote and recorded. But I also think the title was a little more clear before I edited out some of the bits that talked about it. 😅 In the original draft, I talked a little about how it's probably going to be MY last great pop punk album. It's a very youthful and juvenile kind of genre, but getting older and entering my 30's means there may not be another pop punk album that resonates with me so hard. Worry is very much a pop punk album from the perspective of a man in his 30s, and by that point most pop punk acts struggle to make something with that much authenticity. I also wrote this script before the pop punk revival had kinda picked up this year, hahaha. I'm sure there will be more great pop punk albums in the future. Hopefully near future!
This is one of my favourite albums of all time and is so far removed from the genres I usually listen to. Crazy how music works! Maybe the catchiest record I can think of
Great video. The line in "wave good night to me" is "they've spent the last 5 years", not "we". That is, VICE, landlords, the powers that be, were all trying to kick out the DIY punk venue he's discussing
Loved the video, but the only thing that I disagree with is your remark in regards to the 2nd half of the album. I feel that it actually starts at Pietro, 60 years old.
bruh i get it. but there is so much good pop punk it’s ridiculous. the story so far is a good example of an amazing pop punk band. and there is so much more. movements, modern baseball, real friends, moose blood. I mean for you to say this is the last good pop punk album blows my mind. this is more like punk rock with ska roots than pop punk.
member in 1999 when there were lots of movies about people afraid about not having an identity and becoming bored with modern life, welp...now that ain't a problem anymore!
He definitely leans on the side of punk rock. Worry is probably the most pop-punky of his I've heard, especially on tracks like Staring Out the Window, Wave Goodnight To Me, and I Did Something Weird Last Night. But you'd be hard-pressed trying to pass off pretty much anything off the medley as pop-punk.
No Dream was much better. But talking about the last great pop-punk album is like talking about the last, great drugstore, romance novel; much of it is simplistic, derivative, and populist. Rosenstock takes it the genre up a bit but his goofy schtick comes across as somewhat weak because he is often lyrically simplistic and his use of expletives are simply are just a replacement for better imagery, irony, wit, and word play. Had he taken no No Dream more seriously and invested more time into better lyricism (there were some great moments, though) it might have transcended the pop-punk boundary. Instead it's a good album with the trappings of populist reductionism and it can't escape its boundaries and be taken as a serious work: one can only take it somewhat seriously.
I have deep issues with people calling what we live in capitalism we live in a corporate driven hellscape wearing capitalism corpse like a god damn horror movie monster.
It's an insult to his genius and hard work to classify this album as even close to pop punk. The pop punk genre is vapid and generic with 98 percent of the bands all sounding the same and writing the same lyrics. Jeff is one of the most if not the most underrated musicians of any genre let alone the folk/punk/ska genre. He is the hero of deep meaningful introspective lyrics combined with the catchiness of ska/punk. I just think it's totally crazy to put him in this empty and vapid pop/punk genre especially when you consider he is the shining example of DIY within that community. When I hear pop punk the first thing that comes to mind is bands like a day to remember or we came as Romans. No disrespect to either of those bands but Jeff is leagues above them in literally every single musical category you could think of.
And then he wrote Hellmode.
Still waiting for a proper review of hellmode. Definitely my favorite album of 2023!
and jeff rosenstock joined the elusive "2 10/10s" club
Now lets hope for Skamode
Yeh, "the last great pop punk album" - nope!
@@wabek58823 x 10/10 due to We Cool?
Oh hell yeah buddy
You brought me here. Thanks a lot :) for everything. You make me fall in love all over again with music
Jeff’s follow up to Worry, last year’s fantastic No Dream is more than a worthy follow up
good to know, thanks!
and even beyond that ska dream is so awesome too haha
Post- was the follow up to Worry, then No Dream after that
Post- was after worry
They’re trying to help us forget that Post exists.
I've been waiting for the day that somebody made a WORRY. video essay. It was definitely worth the wait.
I've been waiting years to make the video!
I love this record. So much I can’t put it into words. Jeff’s “solo” career started at the same time as my real adulthood. When I first graduated from college I look like shit came out. And I’ve loved every record since and he always felt like an older punk brother helping me deal with being an adult. I’ve never acted like more of a dork than when I met him. I couldn’t say anything but hi and that I was there to see him because I randomly ran into him and John on the street
Then jeff made the last good pop punk album again
And again and again
You wrote the essay I’ve been wanting to write about this album, thank you.
Worry is one of my fav albums as well. My fav song would be while you're alive because i personally feel as though it puts the whole perspective of the album in a new light. After you hear the line "love is worry" you begin to realise that the entire album is an expression of love and how to love someone or something will result in you feeling worry. You don't worry about someone you don't love and you don't love someone you don't worry about someone you worry about.
You begin to understand each and every song isn't him just complaining but an expression and a cost of love which he feels most media brush over and glamorize the feeling of love. He is in love with the girl on i did something weird last night, he loves his friends and the position he is in and is scared of losing that in we begged to explode, he loves world which is why he worries about the invasive nature of late stage capitalism on festival song and loves the memories he has which is why he is so sad to see it leave on starring out the window and wave goodnight to me and I could say something similar about each song on the entire album and all of the dismal tone is switched up in one song.
I feel as though this is something I have felt for a long time and I love how Jeff has expressed it to the point where a lot of these songs actually happy. Worry is simply the cost of love, and there is no greater emotion than love, so worry more.
Love it when the comments express my thoughts better than I do in the video. 🙃
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 i'm just happy more people appreciate this album, it's helped me a lot over the years and i've been thinking about it for like 2 years since i first heard it and I'm glad I had an avenue to express these thoughts
Wow, what I thought put into words. I remember hearing that line "Love is worry" and the entire album opened up in a way for me.
You are overanalyzing a garage band.
"love is worry" and the album cover is an image from his wedding and weddings are the ultimate symbol of love i.e. "worry"... :o
the editing on this video is chef's kiss
amazing video
Worry is one of my favorite albums of all time. Its been on heavy rotation especially through the last year and a half. I'm always happy to see people talk about it. Definitely subscribed. Great video!
This album changed my life. It was the one that was there for me and said what I needed at the right time. It had the right sound and attitude that spoke to me. I had just discovered Jeff’s discography and was obsessed just before this was released. Seeing it played live was something I’ll never forget.
The writing and editing on this is really great. Volksgeist and Polyphonic set the bar really high for music analysis, but you seem well on your way to being right there next to them. As a fellow editor, one thing that I would personally love to see you add in future videos is some small sound effects for your animations. I know it adds a lot of time to an already long editing process, but it's really what sets great channels apart from just good channels.
Thank you! I am not a good editor, honestly most of the time it feels like pulling teeth to me, haha. I don't want to focus too much on editing, it's my least favourite part of the process, but that said I should definitely put more effort into soundscape, it is just a matter of time and budget. I don't have the money to access sound librarys, and I know Polyphonic in particular hires a sound guy for his vids.
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 Don't sell yourself short, your editing is really good. I did not know that polyphonic hired someone for the soundscape, but that makes a lot of sense. I always wondered how they had the patience to add those. anyway best of luck Mitto!
I love this album so much. Pretty much anytime one of the songs comes up on shuffle I just have to go and listen to the rest of the album, or just the whole thing over again. This video was super well edited and written, thanks for the awesome deep-dive on an awesome album!
Time to go listen to worry again now...
Being a massive fan of Jeff Rosenstock, I love seeing him getting the recognition he deserves. Worry is easily his best album. No Dream, Ska Dream, and We cool? are easily 3 of my favorite albums of the decade. I highly recommend listening to him.
Worry and No Dream are my absolute comfort albums to hear . Its crazy how perfect a front to back listen is .
im so glad that there is some kind of video essay about this album, its rare to see and its really cool to see my favourite artist of all time getting that kind of attention
This was a truly excellent video.Thank you very much. Jeff’s music is really deep. He is an excellent song writer and in that sense he reminds me of Tony Sly.
A multitude of worried and loving people thank you for this wonderful video-esssay.
I don't know how you made such a golden piece of content in just 4 years. Beautiful bub.
3:33 ive never thought to make the association with "cracks in the wall" and wall st because of gentrification, thats a good catch
5:09 i also interpreted this part as if you truly want to be friends with someone, you shouldnt expect anything back because friendship is more than just trade, a notion that capitalism wants to foster thru parasocial relationships with brands
this is a great video thanks for making it
damn i would listen to the whole album watching a "lyrics video" built with this typographic style, it's really great
Fantastic album and the way you approached the work using a focus on seasonal connotation for the video was inspired!
great video on a great album. nice work- needs more views
Love is Worry.
this video is a MASTERPIECE! thank you
I am consistently blown away by how ahead of its time and on the pulse this album was. It almost feels more relevant now than it did in even 2016.
great video, love this album so much
Polyphonic brought me here 🤘🏼 you’ve got some good content my man!!
Polyphonic brought me here. Totally worth it.
Hello Mitto how are you?
I just discovered your channel. This is a really good video thank you very much! I noticed you haven’t posted any videos in a few years. I hope you are doing well. Please let me know when f you have a new channel or what you are up to these days.
Cheers,
Scott from Washington and Arizona
Great video and editing
Oh wow! I love this video man! What a perfect (good 😉) breakdown of one of the greatest albums ever made. Thank you
Came here from Polyphonic, I got about 5 mins in and you got a subscriber. I wish your channel the best :)
And then POST came out. Then No Dream. Then HELLMODE. It’s all a 10
Oh, also Glass Beach just released a great pop-punk album in 2019!!!
The first glass beach album is incredible.
Since there are so few comments here, I feel compelled to also chip in: Amazing video! Really loved how you applied the typography style! And I also appreciate someone guiding me through all these lyrics. I often don't take the time to read them, due to a mix of laziness and also the fear of finding out that they're crap xD
Just wanted to comment to say that this is a great analysis of one of my all time favourites.
how can WORRY be the last great pop punk album when NO DREAM exists?
oh no. you just made me realise that Jeff saw the tweet which means he saw me accidentally negging POST- and NO DREAM.
One of my favorites, and your commentary was great!
This was really really really well done and you have so little attention. I like what you do. It's too good. Keep it up please.
Listened thanks to Polyphonic and all I can say is where has this album been the last 5 years of my life? It amazing and this was an excellent video.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS AMAZING VIDEO THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
FINALLY SOMEONE AS OBSESSED WITH THIS ALBUM AS I AM
Seems like I've been sent to a gold mine of a channel. Great vedio!
Always thought he said “someone’s gonna pee, and dribble trails in the snow”
Dont k ow how many times i listened to this. I only subconsciously got the theme of seasons as the back feels much birghter and warmer than the first half.
WORRY and We Cool? manage to hit me in such an emotional way that has been hard for me to articulate, you managed to do it for me.
Great video. Worry is in the Top 10 albums of all time for me. Probably Top 5
Beautifully crafted video for a beautifully crafted album. Subbed
I adore this album and I adore this amazing analysis of it. Subbed! Keep up the fantastic work ❤️
LOVE the typography
Great video about one of my favourite artists right now, I have to ask, have you listened to PUP at all, because I really love them. You've got a new subscriber instantly, I can't wait to look through your other videos
Yeah PUP is cool! I got into them with The Dream Is Over, really love the story of that album.
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 i would kill for a video like this about tdio
Really cool video, I liked your thoughts a lot. I think I disagree with part of your reading of Festival Song though. I didn't think the song was necessarily meant to be about corporations co-opting progressivism, but more so about counter-culture movements getting neutralized by getting co-opted into mainstream culture. I might have been primed to believe that because it's a subject that comes up a lot in Bomb The Music Industry's discography (songs like Side Projects Are Never Successful and Shut Up The Punx), which I like even more than his solo discography
For sure, those are two very related issues which feed into each other. Once a company starts using your hashtag or whatever, you know it's gone mainstream and is starting to lose its power. I haven't actually dug into any Bomb The Music Industry albums, but I really should.
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 I have an audio bite of him explaining what festival song means before he released it! I'll share if yr interested
@@mittoandthefanfare6506 If you're unacquainted with Bomb The Music Industry's discography you'll probably like Vacation or Scrambles the best. They're later releases that are a little more polished than their early recordings but they set the tone for his solo work very well. Btw, awesome video!
this was amazing nice video man
I have WORRY. tattoed on my arm because that album has had such a profound impact on me. I love this analysis of the album and I'm still finding inspiration in its lyrics in my everyday life.
When my kids get older and someday maybe express some kind of interest in what was going through my mind in my 30s, I’m just going to hand them this record. It means that much to me.
this video is so underrated!!! it’s amazing!!!!
exceptionally well made and edited video, and one of the best albums ever imo, but why call it the 'last great pop-punk album' without ever exploring that idea past stating the idea itself. you just said how good this album is, what exactly makes it the last great one, apart from a clickbait title?
would love for you to explore that idea in a future video maybe!
Yeah, I admit it's a bit clicky! So part of it is the Abbey Road comparison, being the last album The Beatles wrote and recorded. But I also think the title was a little more clear before I edited out some of the bits that talked about it. 😅 In the original draft, I talked a little about how it's probably going to be MY last great pop punk album. It's a very youthful and juvenile kind of genre, but getting older and entering my 30's means there may not be another pop punk album that resonates with me so hard. Worry is very much a pop punk album from the perspective of a man in his 30s, and by that point most pop punk acts struggle to make something with that much authenticity. I also wrote this script before the pop punk revival had kinda picked up this year, hahaha. I'm sure there will be more great pop punk albums in the future. Hopefully near future!
This is one of my favourite albums of all time and is so far removed from the genres I usually listen to. Crazy how music works! Maybe the catchiest record I can think of
Great video. The line in "wave good night to me" is "they've spent the last 5 years", not "we". That is, VICE, landlords, the powers that be, were all trying to kick out the DIY punk venue he's discussing
This album is a masterpiece, thank you for doing it justice
This is so damn good...
An incredible album, and an important step on my personal music journey.
So true bestie
Loved the video, but the only thing that I disagree with is your remark in regards to the 2nd half of the album. I feel that it actually starts at Pietro, 60 years old.
2 years later we have the masterpiece that is hellmode, thankfully this isnt true anymore :)
bruh i get it. but there is so much good pop punk it’s ridiculous. the story so far is a good example of an amazing pop punk band. and there is so much more. movements, modern baseball, real friends, moose blood. I mean for you to say this is the last good pop punk album blows my mind. this is more like punk rock with ska roots than pop punk.
member in 1999 when there were lots of movies about people afraid about not having an identity and becoming bored with modern life, welp...now that ain't a problem anymore!
Are you telling me this thing was a concept album all along ?!
perfect may not exist but this video is pretty damn close!
this fuckin' rocks, dude
so fucking awesome!!
this video is eye candy
Damn good video
HELLMODE was even better
very good vid :3
Watch someone leave a comment about mgk
I can't wait.
Why would they do that?
Ok no dream is amazing but I don’t know if it’s pop punk
Great piece but I never really consider Jeff to be Pop-Punk. Maybe that’s just me though.
He definitely leans on the side of punk rock. Worry is probably the most pop-punky of his I've heard, especially on tracks like Staring Out the Window, Wave Goodnight To Me, and I Did Something Weird Last Night. But you'd be hard-pressed trying to pass off pretty much anything off the medley as pop-punk.
No Dream was much better. But talking about the last great pop-punk album is like talking about the last, great drugstore, romance novel; much of it is simplistic, derivative, and populist. Rosenstock takes it the genre up a bit but his goofy schtick comes across as somewhat weak because he is often lyrically simplistic and his use of expletives are simply are just a replacement for better imagery, irony, wit, and word play. Had he taken no No Dream more seriously and invested more time into better lyricism (there were some great moments, though) it might have transcended the pop-punk boundary. Instead it's a good album with the trappings of populist reductionism and it can't escape its boundaries and be taken as a serious work: one can only take it somewhat seriously.
Well you were proven wrong. He dropped ANOTHER great pop punk album.
Wrong, Gami Gang is total fire
You missed a very valuable point. The songs are excellent songs and not just spot on politically.
I hate hate hate hate hate the term pop punk. That’s non sense to me. It’s an oxymoron imo. It’s melodic. It’s not pop
Click bait title and thumbnail.
I have deep issues with people calling what we live in capitalism we live in a corporate driven hellscape wearing capitalism corpse like a god damn horror movie monster.
This is the logical outcome of capitalism. Read Marx.
@@bigheadgore you mean the guy whose end game always ends in shit like the CCP and USSR, lmao. Lol even.
@@nikoazure5235 yes
It's an insult to his genius and hard work to classify this album as even close to pop punk. The pop punk genre is vapid and generic with 98 percent of the bands all sounding the same and writing the same lyrics. Jeff is one of the most if not the most underrated musicians of any genre let alone the folk/punk/ska genre. He is the hero of deep meaningful introspective lyrics combined with the catchiness of ska/punk. I just think it's totally crazy to put him in this empty and vapid pop/punk genre especially when you consider he is the shining example of DIY within that community. When I hear pop punk the first thing that comes to mind is bands like a day to remember or we came as Romans. No disrespect to either of those bands but Jeff is leagues above them in literally every single musical category you could think of.
No dream is low-key better
Hard disagree. Jeff himself has released two albums since that are better.
This title sucks I'm not watching lol sorry
That's not how music works
Jeff is the best musician of the millennium
Fantastic