Songs that didn't hold up (or did)! (QOTSA, Shakira, AFI and more) 

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.

Shut up buttmunch

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EqFnDWdUabi8.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.

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 RU-vidr 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.

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.

@ghost mall I agree it sounds like different bands. I like that.

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

Yeah, thanks for that!

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🔥

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

"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

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

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

As god intended

2014 was a game changer. Aka the year of eating ass memes

Perhaps if the thrift store is on Chelsea High Street. 😂

I hope you feel better soon!

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Thank you for the kind words! I'm getting there 😊

@AUGUSTBURNSDOOMbut sing the sorrow is superior 👀

@AUGUSTBURNSDOOM production for sure 🔥

He's pretty damn funny to me and I'm a zoomer, we've got a similar sense of humor

lol no! bc he gets it! the most zoomer taste ever

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

lmfao i worked at a well known, "chain" gym for a few years, this is absolutely hilarious + sadly so spot on 😂

The love of Qotsa in the comments, nice

That song was all over California (my home state and where New Boyz came from) at the time. If it wasn’t for the Jerkin movement, we wouldn’t have had the West Coast Rap Renaissance of the 2010’s (2012-2018 specifically).

@ghost mall yup second verse

Honestly, I'd take rap over RnB.

I'm pulling you over for cultural appropriation, i need to see an ID please

Hahahahahaha

Also I just do not get Kyuss. I like qotsa a lot but kyuss are just not to my liking