TRACKLIST 1. Pure Comedy (0:00) 2. Total Entertainment Forever (6:23) 3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution (9:17) 4. Ballad of the Dying Man (13:35) 5. Birdie (18:27) 6. Leaving LA (23:45) 7. A Bigger Paper Bag (36:57) 8. When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay (41:39) 9. Smoochie (45:44) 10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives (49:30) 11. The Memo (52:42) 12. So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain (57:59) 13. In Twenty Years or So (1:07:57)
This album is a masterpiece and one of the best albums of the last decade. Not only is it in this current crisis more relevant than back in 2017, there are actually only a handful albums which so perfectly encapsulate the societal and political turmoil of these times like Pure Comedy.
@@jamielam7918 Same. The first it didn't land much, moments here and there did but overall not so much. Now, I absolutely love the whole bloody thing. Definitely different flavour than the other albums, but similar energy...he's always Misty
These words bring me to tears every time: "Oh I read somewhere, that in 20 years, more or less, this human experiment will reach its violent end -- but I look at you, as our second drinks arrive, the piano players playing 'This Must Be The Place' and it's a miracle to be alive -- one more time......There's nothing to fear." My god if that doesn't sum up the reason for living, I don't know what does. It's not about the big things, it's about the little things, those moments that when you feel them, you know for that moment being here is worth something, if only that much.
let's also appreciate how this album manages to convey a really big-picture grandest-of-scales view of the human condition while, equally convincingly, sketching these tiny intimate moments for us. That's good fuckin storytelling.
This album takes you on a ride through the time and the culture we live in, like no other... I haven't experienced such a bliss from art in such a long time.. I've always felt that someday Josh was going to make an album that would really express him and his essence... And that day is finally here. Thank you Josh for taking the time to face yourself with such honesty and for finding the right people like Wilson and Bryars and making this amazing work of art. Really appreciate it.
*Before listening to the album* "A new Father John Misty album! I can't wait to hear some bright and colorful love songs like the last album!" *After listening to the album* "We are all going to die and our stubborn greed is causing the destruction of humanity."
we can defeat the oligarchs and their captivated red pilled neo-fa army. theyre push overs, they only need to feel accomplishment and they cry for attention
"The spider spins his web, the tiger stalks his prey, We steal fire from the heavens to try to keep the night at bay" That may be the most heroically tragic line about humanity I've ever heard. I shed a damn tear. Makes me feel like we were beautiful once.
I guess the truth is that we were never "beautiful" and that's the point of the album. The idea that we're anything but animals with slightly higher intelligence than other animals (which isn't hard), that we actually have some higher purpose because...well, just because, is comedic. In reality, we're always just been delusional creatures in love with our own reflections, enough that we created higher entities in our own image and then claimed it was the other way around so that people could justify their self-righteous hatred of one another. Humans are assholes. But hey, at least the Egyptians worshipped cats. Shout out to North Africa.
@@EminentKnight I find inherent nobility and beauty in the futile, purposeless struggles of all life. Absurdity doesn't need to be ugly. I think papa Misty may agree.
Reminds me one of the Bokononist poems in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; 'Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.'
This album is a middling slog and teenagers overhyping it’s very on-the-nose messaging is hilarious. Bob Dylan could do what this album does in 90 seconds.
S Mac maybe if it got more attention. The only mention ive heard of this album all year was the day it came out, my local rock radio station played The Ballad Of The Dying Man once... and as i am typing this, they just played it for the second time. Its a tragedy that this is overshadowed by the monotonous crap that is being shoveled down our throats by record companies, and music distributors (lookin at you Spotify)
I hear echoes of influences from Elliott Smith, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young etc, great work Mr.Tillman, definitely a level above most other stuff coming out these days, in my opinion.
The first thing that came to mind was a young progish elton john vocals having said that it's a pretty good. Even though it is slowish that doesn't really harm it either.
There's a strange level of bliss that comes with hearing such a perfect and beautifully rendered commentary on our current moment in history. The care and dedication required to make this record is inspiring and the result is a relevancy that I've never experienced before in an album. I don't really want to hear anything else.
Sounds like Josh Shuter is a 45 supporter. Bro boy, you obviously have zero clue what you are listening to so I won't waste any more of my breath on your pathetic attempt at bashing a gorgeous record and insulting a fellow Father John Misty fan. You can keep your negative opinion among yourself b/c we all know some opinions are like a$$holes... John Spahn, your reply perfectly sums up this masterpiece. It's certainly worthy of record of the year. Hail Father John Misty!
Just this album alone contains what probably are the best 4 songs Papa Johnny Fog has ever written: Ballad of the Dying Man, When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay, The Memo and So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain. Truly a masterpiece
Alex Frías When the God of love returns there'll be hell to pay is my favourite track because of its last words, so i agree. Truly a work of art was given to us with this album.
I saw him preform this on SNL and I cried. I cried like a bitch cause you could tell at that moment, His attitude, his tone, his expression, him, you could tell he meant what he was singing, he was being so passionate and I couldn't help but to cry because you can feel the music. And at the end he cried and I was like wow, this was one of the Most intense powerful songs I have ever felt and heard. Pure comedy.
Hey SubPop…you really rule for posting this for free! this made me buy the LP…and look well after Father John Misty…he's your true gem! There is no other musician who is so daring and distinctive in the radicalness of his or her lyrics!
I was in a Dallas record store the other day I mistook this wonderful sound for a sudden late career resurgence from Elton John. I'm glad I stumbled across this artist.
People keep saying he's writing like Bob Dylan. Without bringing opinions about the quality of said writing into it, they write lyrics in a completely different way. The emphasis here is on lyrics, yes, but this is very different to Dylan's music.
@@Yrkr785 Yes, Dylan's lyricism is famous for being able to be interpreted in various ways and sometimes seem without meaning, while FJM is more direct and straight to the point. Also they don't tackle exactly the same issues.
@@thomasiacconi5416 different times, it's easier to be more direct. Also I like to think we're a little more enlightened now so his lyrics get to the knub of our problems more acurately.
This album gives me such an intense feeling. I don't know an adjective to describe it. It just makes me feel. That's all I want from music, the whole spectrum of human emotion captured in an album.... Hard to believe it's been 4 years since this came out. Looking forward to your next release, Josh!
God damn this is great. On Ballad of a Dying Man, when the piano goes back to playing the intro and he changes up the melody into this Elliot Smith shit that comes out of no where! "in, no , time at all.....", Such a well crafted musical moment.
Man, this album, and FJM is so underrated, like this is one of my favorite albums of all time. (And i dont usually like calmer music, i play electric guitar, and love Punk, and Heavy Rock, and Metal....) its just crazy how he can appeal to people who like drastically different genres than he produces.
All I'll say is that if you're someone who likes to shelter yourself from the dark realities of our existence, then this is not the album for you to listen to. Also, the album is an hour and 15 minutes so it's definitely a commitment, but it's refreshing to listen to someone commit an entire album to things beyond theoretical love interests, superficial nonsense, and just strait up nonsense to actually tearing down the very fabric of our existence and how negatively we affect the world. A true artistic masterpiece!
The best album of the last five years, truly, a gem that has aged brilliantly. I always come back to it, very once in a while, and it never disappoints the way some other old favorites do.
I'm not sure if people realize you're being sarcastic..but I had the same thought haha. This album is more sermons then actual songs...but I guess that's appropriate given the name he went with.
But doesn't the lyrics perfectly encapsulate this society that craves fast-food-pop-culture? Here one minute, gone the next. More of the same to come. Total entertainment forever.
Why does it have to be? Not all things are timeless. Not all things really have to be. Some artists intentionally date their work as a sort of time stamp.
The vinyl is waiting at my house but I won't be home for a few more hours. I've listened to the album probably 30 times since it leaked a couple of months ago. It's incredible. Misty is on his second truly great album in a row. Some really brilliant lyrical concepts here.
I just came here before it got first 1 mln to say this is the best piece of music you will hear this year. I'm a bit busy, will check it out myself later. Enjoy!
Listening to this album, pooping, and reading the comment from someone who was pooping listening to this 3 months ago. What are the fucking chances? Can we please get a Poop Jams Album by Father John Misty? Hell from anyone, i'll give it a listen. May take 2 or 3 days to listen to it all but maybe if i eat a bunch of hot wings i can get through the whole album in one tearfully flaming b-hole poopshooting session. Oh how glorious it would be.
I have bought all three of Father John Misty's Albums because of this channel, they include some of the funniest inserts ever; a pop-up book and hilarious lists of things to do.
LOL. As if he'd get a Grammy for this. ... I don't mean to say it's bad. Rather, it's too good. Lemonade and To Pimp a Butterfly were robbed at the Grammy Awards. So will this be.
"Two Wildly Different Perspectives" is a song that would be at home along side the tracks of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John, and David Bowie's Hunky Dory all at the same time. Absolutely mind-blowing album. Also, anyone else think "Smoochie" is baby making music?
too bad lyrics are dripping with edgyness , dude we get it, Christianity is bullshit - we got it all figured out like 100 years ago, it's pathetic when 40yo man is acting like angsty teen... Is there nothing else to sing about? Are you only just now having this epiphany?
This album is just really exquisite and so brutally honest. Trying hard not to succumb to nihilism and despair in our current climate. Here's to the music that keeps of us here and offers us the free therapy we all need.