Songs that didn't hold up (or did)! (QOTSA, Shakira, AFI and more)
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2023
- Songs that didn't hold up (or did) is back! This time we look at Queens Of The Stone Age "No One Knows", Shakira "Whenever, Wherever", Usher ft Lil Jon "Yeah", AFI "The Leaving Song Pt. II", New Boyz "You're A Jerk" and more. Did these songs hold up?
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Not even a QOTSA fan but I feel like no one knows is pretty undeniable. Just Dave Grohls drums alone 🙌🏻
Songs for the Deaf will always have a special place in my heart because I basically learned how to play drums by just playing along to that album (badly) over and over again when I was 12
Songs For The Deaf is a goldmine in modern rock 🔥
Best driving album ever 😎
So fucking gooooood!
I literally think Finn doesn’t have the attention span or something. The music he likes is so flash-in-the-pan. QOTSA is the best rock band of the 21st century.
@@Johnnygyro i disagree, there are better rock bands out there then QOTSA
@@brettveldboom2296 and I disagree with that. So here we are. At a stand still.
Queens of the Stone Age was my gateway to alternate rock music.
"How come people don't say butt-munch anymore?" This. This is what I come here for. These are the real questions that need to be asked.
Shut up buttmunch
AFI honestly did something magical, and consistently explored new sounds without sticking to their "it works" formula. I came to love that so very much about the band. I've never heard a genuinely bad thing about AFI, from anyone I've ever respected musical opinion of. Lot of "not for me," but always respect. Not a lot of bands can pull that off.
Gotta say, I will NEVER get sick of you ripping Anthony Kiedis’ Irish flow.
OR traumatic stories about walking in on your Mom.
🙌great vid Finn
Josh Homme is playing a Maton guitar. They're an Australian brand, mostly known for their high quality acoustics (we're talking Martin, Taylor, Cole Clark level). They've been around since the 1940s. That model that Josh is playing, the MS500 I believe, retails for a couple grand.
He was supposedly put onto them by Brody Dalle before they started dating, and loved them so much he immediately start playing them, and now even has a signature model.
Isn't Cole Clark an offshoot of Maton?
@@dudstep Cole and Clark did work at Maton at one point, I believe. However, that's where the connection ends, as far as I know.
After watching Finn look up feet pics of Shakira I think 2023 is going to be the year of him being absolutely unhinged and I'm here for it.
Qotsa is sick. I was all death metal when songs for the deaf came out. I got it and was blown away. Fucking awesome rock writing. Just weird enough
@ghost mall I agree it sounds like different bands. I like that.
AFI, in my opinion, is a band who has done every style of music they've played well. Not a bad record in their catalogue.
While I had a couple records from them before Sing the Sorrow came out, when Sing the Sorrow dropped it was (and still is to this day) one of the best alternative records I had ever heard. It's a perfect 10/10 from start to finish.
@@carlapplebaum3200 AoD is where I got into then, and Black Sails/AoD is still my favourite era, however, they have something for every mood.
Well Crash Love might not be a bad album but I find it rather boring..
Ludacris and Pitbull had a long careers for being charismatic and being nice people so they always had good collaborators. They were also unthreatening to Middle america. Same applies to Flo Rida and Nelly they have a lot of Goodwill with a lot of people.
Those are some horrible comparisons. You can compare Pitbull and Flo Rida because they make stadium anthems. Ludacris is nothing like them. Ludacris had a long career because he can rap, was original, and made great videos.
Also how unthreatening was Ludacris to middle America? They were the ones complaining about his lyrics when he got a Pepsi Ad. Bill O Reilly and Oprah Winfrey went on TV and complained about his lyrical content. IDK what's more middle America than that.
@@darnarxz 100% smoothbrain take from OP
@@darnarxzOne of his biggest hits is a song called Move Bitch. Finn & OP must have only gotten familiar with Luda in the last 12 years.
@@darnarxz Bill O Reilly whines about everything.
@@revivedfears Yup I'm smoothbrained because me being a black person who grew up in the suburbs could tell how my white teachers and my white friends talked about Luda compared to others. It's called microaggressions...something that non white people didn't have to get a bachelor's degree to know it existed.
i found qotsa's music relatively recently and i love it so it holds up very well imo
Qotsa are incredible live
Actually songs for the deaf is the only album of theirs I keep coming back to, mostly because I love the drum tracks so much, which is what makes this album so enjoyable to this day.
I love their self titled
Kocham: Then you should really have a listen to the albums & concerts with Jon Theodore behind the kit--he is a much better drummer than D. Grohl (whom I have so much respect for, but JT is next-next-level). For instance, Like Clockwork features some pretty brilliant stuff ... check out I Appear Missing's outro live.
Here, I'll help: ua-cam.com/video/EqFnDWdUabi8/v-deo.html
Hopefully that works. Grohl is powerful, carries a recognizable energy...I LIKE him. Jon T is something else...a monster.
I actually like lullabies more. But their first four are all killer l
@@ignoblesavage5559 funny you say that, while I agree JT is next level, he only recorded the drums for the song Like clockwork, while I appear missing is DG on the kit
@@dana8356 that's why I specifically cited their live performances & linked to one for I Appear. Did that link not work? Can never predict with YT...they have a weird thing with links, but we can usually link to other YT channels...
EDIT: "video not available." I'll see if I can get around it, but if you like you'll find it if you search QOTSA I Appear Missing on Letterman.
Anyway, he was beastly during that outro...keepiNG all the moodiness & laid-back pacing but still just going OFF.
BUT...the surest way to gain an appreciation for JT is to check the first 2 LPs from the Mars Volta. That stuff is electric, & maybe a bit dizzying the first few listens.
Verse 2 of No One Knows has some of the coolest vocal counterpoint that is never heard in modern rock.
Back when No One Knows was on music TV all the time (Muchmusic here in Canada) my roommate turned to me and said "these guys are too ugly to be on TV" which still makes me chuckle.
QOTSA is one of my favorite bands so I'm biased but definitely think it holds up. Rated R, Songs for the Deaf, and Lullabies to Paralyze is one heck of a 3 album run IMO.
All their albums are great, but Songs for the Deaf is one of those quintessential rock albums of the 2000s. All time great album
They are pretty ugly tho
@@markwrenn5965 Plus this album was a breath of fresh air in Rock and Alternative music at the time when it had Pop Punk and Nu Metal (Not saying those subgenres are bad btw)
Also biased for QOTSA, & I would add that the 3 album run of Era Vulgaris, LIKE CLOCKWORK (my fav.), & Villains is also a 3 album run that would make ANY self-respecting rock band proud. Frickin' brilliant...and most of their best live performances are of songs from LC. IMO.
Much Music and The Punk Show were dope back in the day🔥
How did the AFI song not hold up? For me it was the beginning of the band. I love December underground but sing the sorrow was a masterpiece
Sing The Sorrow was sort of the final point in the turn they made from punk to more softer, emo type material. You could see the writing on the wall with Black Sails In The Sunset but it became even clearer on The Art Of Drowning. Sing The Sorrow completed the transformation. For some longtime fans it was a death knell, but like you said, it was also kind of like opening a window when you close a door. It's a polarizing album, for sure
I started questioning whether I'm still a hardcore AFI fan if DU is my favorite album 🤔I enjoy each album, but Decemberunderground and Sing the Sorrow are forever in my heart 🖤
It's not a thrift store guitar, it's an Australian made Maton guitar, which Josh has a signature guitar with
Shakira released a song dissing his ex boyfriend and has been breaking the internet in latinamerica for 3 or 4 days now. The memes we got out of it are god tier
"If you've ever been to a white person's wedding, you've heard this song." The commentary on this was God tier😂
Every time I hear Lil Jon say "yeah" I think of the Chapelle Show sketch.
This video was so funny, especially the KOTSA bit, I haven’t laughed like this for a Finn McKenty video in a long time 😂
Someone recently pointed out the obscenely loud triangle in ‘Yeah!’ And I can’t believe I’ve gone 18 years without hearing it.
Yeah, thanks for that!
AFI wore those suits better than the rest though.
Every queens album is great
I will not stand for the Ludacris slander, Finn😤. I'll admit that this wasn't his best feature, but he had albums like Back for the first damn time, word of Mouf, and Chicken & Beer where he absolutely was killing the rap game. To equate him to pitbull is blasphemy
12:31 "How come people don't say 'buttmunch' anymore?"
I still say "buttmunch" every now and then. One of the most underrated insults along with "tosspot", "chowderhead", and "dipshidiot".
It never fails to amuse me whenever someone makes fun of that "Black Summer" lyric.
"And Chyyyyyna's on the darrrrrk siiiiide of the mooooon..." 😂
Hank hill impression was 🔥
Describing No One Knows as “not bad” really tells me all I need to know about this guy’s music taste
Tbf Go With the Flow is better.
having a certain type of guitar, cowboy shirt, a ginger in the band, a zany beard makes him WANT to dislike the 'song'...I mean the judgement is so solid here one would marvel at it!
He pretty much exclusively judges music based on how mean the bands fans are to him on the internet.
Pretty sure being a UA-camr this long has given him some sort of complex from all the negativity etc…
you should see him on fat mikes podcast when they went song for song. 🤢 🤮
@@cultreader9751 yeah but they’re both great.
QOTSA are a great band, lots of good tracks. Yeah, some fans can think they're god's gift to rock, but that's mostly because Kyuss wasn't as mainstream as some of the other bands of the 90s, had that desert rock mystique while the popular thing at the time was "grunge", so they kind of fit in the alternative rock scene, but were also outsiders, which tend to cultivate cult followings. I feel like QOTSA fans were the kind of fans who felt they were the ones "in the know", which some how made them feel superior to the people not "in the know"... They were the kinds of fans that would laugh at emo, while feeling that they knew the "truth" which was stoner rock.
Songs for the Deaf is the best rock album made this century… it’s underrated at this point.
For the next time, “Freek-a-Leek” by Petey Pablo came out around the same time as “Yeah” and has literally the same drum loop
"yeah" is one of those songs that i don't get. like i get it for most hit songs, but that song is so repulsive to me i do not understand why anyone would listen to it.
NORTH CAROLINAAAAA
LMAOO we need a Shakira x SOAD mash up now.
lmfao so much comedy gold in this one i just can't. thanks for the awesome backstory on that AFI video, very cool! i will never look at stringy goatee's the same way ever again. brb off to dig out my vintage jason derulo pierce the veil shirt.
Yeah holds up af
Sing The Sorrow AFI record is so sooo good. Still absolutely holds up
That album is great from the start all the way until the end and even the bonus tracking is I absolutely amazing. As well as other bonus tracks like Synthesia. Every single song that has been written for this album is amazing. Even the songs that didn’t make it on the album
'Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse 'em with mountains'
Can't believe you didn't mention Shakira's Nobel worthy effort.
Peak songwriting
Shakira's music after pies descalzos is god awful
You have to give her a break. English is her second language. her lyrics in Spanish are top tier poetry. absolutely great writer
@@benjaminwatt2436 I do not think she wrote that herself, and I'm not giving the writer a break haha
@@kostassalerakis1024 she did but the Spanish one is way better
Madden 2004 had AFI, A7x, KSE. Madden 2008 introduced me to Enter Shikari. They have 1 good song. lmao Thats what got me into metal. Cant understate how good Madden and Smackdown Vs Raw's soundtracks were back in the day.
Songs for the Deaf is the definitive Qotsa album, but it is also the most vanilla of the bunch.
The one that really takes time and dedication to learn to appreciate is Era Vulgaris. And once you do, holy shit is that a record.
- Turnin' On The Screw
- Sick Sick Sick
- Misfit Love
- Battery Acid
- Run, Pig, Run
- Era Vulgaris
- Fun Machine
like ... those 7 songs are so insanely good...
How do you not mention 3’s and 7’s tho?! Best song on the album. Good album overall. They don’t have a single bad record at all.
…Like Clockwork = 🐐
Turnin' On The Screw is so rewarding once it clicks, and yeah, 3's & 7's rips
@@atomicpunk2360 because 3s and 7s is the most "vanilla" song on the album. might as well have been on SFTD. doesn't mean its a bad song or not a banger, but its nowhere near as special and creative as the others I listed.
as for "bad records", true, they don't really have one. however:
1. Rated R is extremely incoherent and a mix of brilliant songs and trash, cobbled together without any real album flow.
2. Villains hardly feels like a Qotsa album. Most of the songs they're either trying too hard to mix Era Vulgaris with Like Clockwork and a modern Pop sound, or they're quite fitting but would've been better suited on a Them Crooked Vultures album (Domesticated Animals for example).
3. The debut album in its original form is extremely weak. Only really comes to life in the deluxe edition with Spiders and Vinegaroons, Droids, and most importantly, The Bronze added to its tracklist. They should've also included "Born to Hula" on it, but oh well, can't have everything.
@@timk8499 True, although both are among the most easily accessible songs on the album. The real banger for me is "Misfit Love". The band just absolutely shreds for over a minute before the vocals even set in, and even then you hardly get a traditional presentation of them - they're quite weirdly overlayed onto the riffs below, and the song keeps evolving from there. Took me years to realize that Misfit Love and The Blood is Love are two of the very best Qotsa songs. Joey Castillo also is an absolute beast on both albums.
Fuck yes my man! Love to see the love for EV, especially for the more unknown and underrated songs, like Run Pig Run, Battery Acid, and of course the title track and possibly the best and most definitive Queens song, The Fun Machine
I have been really enjoying your videos. I am dealing with a depressive episode right now and your videos are bringing me some much needed musical joy. Thank you.
I hope you feel better soon!
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Thank you for the kind words! I'm getting there 😊
Finn: "I want to be liked more by people"
Also Finn: "I want to start calling people butt munch more often"
The whole Usher segment was some of your best work 😂
Finn this is peak "Finn Mckenty", particularly talking about Usher and viral wedding videos 😂😂😂
The wikifeet reference. Finn is a fellow man of culture. 🤌🏻
Leaving Song part 2 is still fire to this day. F'n love that song.
I always get excited for new content!
Finn's aversion to nerds really gives me the vibe that he was himself a total nerd getting his lunch stolen every day, but hey, who am I to judge? Love your videos anyway
The Hank Hill impression killed me 😂😂😂
The other thing you missed... That QOTSA drummer looks alot like nirvana's old drummer
@11:22 That Shakira track might've taken off because it was basically a latin pop take on the "contemporary soft rock with yarled vocals" trend that was very popular at the time.
December Underground is GOAT
@@AUGUSTBURNSDOOMbut sing the sorrow is superior 👀
@@AUGUSTBURNSDOOM production for sure 🔥
Y’know I kinda want to hear a whole SOAD cover album of Shakira songs. Also the New Boyz aesthetic/drip is 10/10 and I love the first four Ludacris albums. Some really good stuff on them
Did Finn really call a Rickenbacker a thrift store guitar??? 🤣🤣🤣
Perhaps if the thrift store is on Chelsea High Street. 😂
I never really got into those 2000 pop punk bands like AFI that all had singers that sounded like they hadn't hit puberty yet
I listen to qotsa often and is a part of music that is on during my exercise and run sessions. It's better then what is on the pa system at the gym.
Solid Hank Hill impression.
Shakira holds. Certified hood classic.
Finn, just make the SOAD video already
The Maton guitar Josh is playing is an expensive guitar. Handmade by an excellent Australian company
You're a Jerk and Crank Dat (Soulja Boy) felt like the start of dance trends I never really understood even as a kid but were constantly being taught to me by either my cousins or other kids at school dances.
AFI and QOTSA are modern classics. Some of the best to ever do it.
I spat out my coffee at 9:51 🤣
I went back to "Whenever, Wherever" a few months ago and I was surprised by how much worse the production quality was than I remembered. That being said, the low quality music video kinda adds to Shakira's charm bc she's always come off a bit less completely polished and manufactured than a lot of of other pop vocalists of the era.
To your point about QOTSA, I always liked their music but could never get into them bc they were one of the few post 1990 bands that the kids still actively in their classic rock t-shirts from Kohl's phase would publicly praise. I had been one of those people but once I got out I wanted to put it behind me as quickly as possible.
Amazing video yet again.
21:15 “Yeah” has officially replaced the Electric Slide at weddings and I’m not sad about that at all
I love Shakira! She made great pop rock music with "Don't Bother" and "Underneath Your Clothes"
Her Spanish catalogue before she crossed over really was her best era
Shakira continues to make great music. "Hips Don't Lie", "She Wolf", "Girl Like Me" (w/ Blackeyed Peas) are all great songs.
@@lihtan I didn’t mean it as an insult It’s just the music of my youth hermano and you’re right, but it is a lot more mass appealing in my opinion
I had no clue about the moshers in the AFI vid, like Mitch Lucker throwing down? Absolutely nuts, ya learn something new every day, Pretty sure Your Demise got the idea for "The Blood Stays On The Blade" from the pit in this vid.
Whenever, Wherever is an extremely Andean song. The song features charangos and quena flutes which are indigenous to the area. She's Colombian, and Colombia is one of the multiple countries in South America that are touched by the Los Andes mountain chain, which starts in southern Chile and Argentina and goes all the way up north to almost the point in which Central and South America meet.
The setting of the video is in a CGI background meant to portray Los Andes. There's glaciar waters in those mountains, including thousands of lakes and rivers, and yes, there's falcons and other similar birds there.
NGL Yeah does have a really sick beat.
Leaving Song Part II on Madden, No One Knows on NHL. The golden era of Sports Video Games.
Loving Finn roasting QOTSA. I'm not a super fan, but I do like them and I think it holds up pretty well. In fact, Id consider that song iconic of them and that era. But it's funny as shit to see them roasted. Thanks for the chuckle :)
Lol the love of Qotsa in the comments speaks for itself right
Songs For The Deaf in my opinion is one of those releases that's kind of timeless.
The others...not so much.
Butt munch isn't used anymore because it's no longer an insult. It's just a factual statement. We really out here munchin' butts.
As god intended
2014 was a game changer. Aka the year of eating ass memes
The "sun grabs" 😂
listening to the Jerk song was a throwback, me and my friends learned to jerk and people would blast it at spanaway park. got the whole beach dancing
I was terrified of that deer for years lmao. But I do love that song.
I love how you slide some rnb tunes in your videos. Before rap rnb was huge for like 2 decades and peaked in 2000s.
Honestly, I'd take rap over RnB.
QOTSA is Gods gift to music
"Yeah" just came on at the gym while I was watching this, which shows one thing you may have overlooked. Music like this is best for two situations. White people wedding receptions, and shitty gym music. You could have one single playlist, and play it in either of those two situations, and it would fit in perfectly for either one.
lmfao i worked at a well known, "chain" gym for a few years, this is absolutely hilarious + sadly so spot on 😂
Finn: i wont fit in any locker (6-4, 215 ex-athlete). Not my fault i like excellent music, but i also get turned off when too many whatever-scene people lock on to a band i like.
Anyway...I saw QOTSA & I clicked. So simple. And YES, QOTSA (& J. Homme) most certainly has continued making great music. BETTER music than No One Knows, which really got overplayed.
Know what sucks? That Shakira song plays EVERY SINGLE NIGHT on Fremont Street Experience in L. Vegas. I guess The song holds up for drunk people.
I love Tool, Deftones, AAAAAND Kyuss.
decemberunderground was the album that got me into AFI and it’s still my favorite album of theirs, although I do love their punkier earlier stuff too.
While Ludacris isn't the best of artists, Area Codes is without a doubt a certified banger.
Now I know where that slow motion moshing scene from "HARDCORE MOSH THE VIOLENT DANCE" that was uploaded like 10 years ago comes from lol
Finn traumatized by seeing his dripping mum get out of the shower as a child. Another big piece of the puzzle fits. 😂
I am a longtime, hardcore AFI fan, don't care for this track, but love the video.
Kyuss rules you pleb! If you can’t appreciate their greatness, that’s a you problem. Peace n love
Finn...let me just say I've been having a really tough time lately but hearing you talk about this BIGKLIT lady made me fucking roar laughing I needed that so much, thank you.🙏🏻
I’m for sure gonna play Yeah at my wedding too
I'm pulling you over for cultural appropriation, i need to see an ID please
Dave Grohl is in the Queens Of The Stoneage music video No one knows. Almost done the review, no comments?
Funny stuff, I just listened to The Leaving Song Part II couple of hours ago, saying that THIS should be the CM Punk entrance music.
I had that same classic Pierce the Veil shirt lol
I'll be honest I only got into QOTSA because I heard Dave played drums there
Ended up genuinely enjoying the whole album 🤷♂️
Oh that Indigo Vanity update took me by surprise….
Speaking of nightmares, I still get them from the piles of royalty statements and cue sheets invoices I had to process while working for music company that licensed *Yeah* Needless to say, I don't go to many weddings.
Correction: Anthony Kedis has some Shakira flow!
There are actual human beings with ears that function that thought recording that Bigklit song was a good idea?
Structure was legit my jam