This Music Is Too Weird 

Imagine being someone who only listens to radio music. Deciding they're gonna go on 4chan for music suggestions. That seems like a weird leap even in the first place.

I guess you could say that Fantano has become comfortably numb

Toast gang line up. Get this comment to the top if you’re a fan of toast. Talking about grilled bread son.

“I’m gonna be 40 in half a decade” *Googles how long melons live*

I'll never forget putting my first japanese song on my Ipod Nano. I thought everyone would think I was gay.

Have you tried Nav? His complex lyrics and references are something only people with a high IQ can understand

In the words of the wise DJ Khalid, it’s too MYSTERIOUS

Nothing is weirder than the comment section of your videos Anthony

This is just anthony's way of admitting to us that he is horribly depressed because he hasn't had any surprises recently

It must suck that he doesn’t get surprised by anything anymore

It’s really cool to see you over the years improve at playing bass during your intro. Unsubscribed and reported.

MBDTF was too weird for fantano so he gave it a 6/10

Neutral DILF hotel 😏

LET'S ARGUE: Anthony is the only person who posts on /mu/

/mu/ essentials isnt ‘weird music’ its the most accessible weird music in a list. great for learning about what’s out there

I’m as old as Anthony when I discovered him

Melon, a need to tell the people to start with the GREEKS when it comes to music, and then listen on up from there.

2:46 >picture of ITAOTS behind you >"Anne Frankly" I see what you did there

Imagine listening to music

0:00 POV: You are Anthony's SNARK

Let’s agree: I’m only twelve years old and I love Led Zeppelin

Let’s agree: Melon is actually a good bass player

I think that this is a good take. If you know what /mu/ essentials are, you have probably already expanded your music taste some bit.

the mu essentials list IS what got me into music when i was 14, after my Pop Punk phase. i think its a great place to start, yes, it stays on the Alternative side but its a lot of critically acclaimed things from tons of genres, i was surprised when i got older and realized i actually knew a lot of the bands being talked about because i had explored that chart. Though i will say if you dont also explore pop music it can be pretty isolating because you wont know songs played at parties and you cant casually put on Big Black Songs About Fcking

Early 10's /mu/ was a wild ride. I know you went there as well melon, don't deny it. Good old days of AnCo fanboyism, Early Death Grips mysticism and Kanye at his peak.

Let's AGREE: Mellon sending "Let's Argue" behind the patreon pay wall is LITERALLY 1984

Let’s agree: Melon doesn’t age, his hair changes

i mean... isn’t the point of /mu/ to expose people to new music?

Weird music is only weird the first time you listen to it after that it's just ~spicy~

This is literally just "I didn't like that Vaush doesn't like loveless so I need Anthony to justify my position": the question hahaha

The best way to find new music to enjoy is to start finding things you like in music you dislike. Acquiring new tastes is difficult but fruitful.

even if you’re already a jazz fan, Ornette Coleman feels like a bad acid trip the first time you hear him. it becomes progressively more normal

Songs in the key of life is a great place to start

Neutral Milk Hotel isn't even that weird, except for a few songs with musical saw. 90% of it is like... open chords on an acoustic guitar.

This wallet salesman’s opinions on music seem kinda weird but I’ll give him another shot

Neutral MILK the ALMOND EDITION.

I got into music through Rate Your Music. I know the website has a lot of issues (some genres don't get enough attention, there isn't any love for most modern pop), but starting with the top charts is what got me into music and I think it's a good way to broaden your taste.

"I feel like I've almost heard everything" bruh you don't even listen to classical music ? ? ?

Guys, Guys He *mentioned MU* again. Timeeee to visit and spam the catalog with yeling Tom Yorke XDDDDDDDD

"I've heard everything" - Melon 2021

I feel the same way about Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Aphex Twin. The bands back then had a special spark that I REALLY miss

Trout Mask Replica is brilliantly weird. Safe As Milk is def more accessible for anyone getting into Capitan Beefheart. Not to suggest either album is somewhat better but each has it’s own audience. Slap on some Bongo Fury if you’re a fan of Zappa.

I mean, we got to see firsthand that Vaush listened to like five albums and thought they were all super avant-garde hipster bullshit. The /mu/ essentials chart is what you show someone who has already listened to a bunch of music.

I would give fantano a nice cherry phosphate.

if it isn't dali's car outro every time i'm not watching again

stg listening to sophie and shit and then getting asked "what kinda music to you listen to" is actually terrifying to answer

i mean the rolling stone 500 probably is a better gateway than /mu/ Essentials for getting people into more out there music. each entry has a micro essay explaining the pick and its importance so they're not going in blind and half of the albums on it are /mu/ essentials.

Dude if you wanna get into music but you don't want "weird stuff" then just go on billboard 200 of the week tf

tip on getting into music: listen to music

LET'S ARGUE: I'm not first but I've never been this early before!..

Let’s gooo I love the let’s argues

I just heard rock and roll McDonald’s for the first time yesterday and my life will never be the same. I wish I could hear it for the first time again.

I want through a rave EDM faze as a child, holy shit I wish I could forget those years

Anyone else love Shinsei Kamattechan here....

Rolling Stone 500 albums of all time is actually a pretty good list to start with.

Piss Warm Take- I really believe that Mindless Self Indulgence should be considered as Proto-Hyper Pop. Though I agree that sonically their sound is not exactly in the same vein of the likes of 100 Gecs Etc.. But they truly share the concept, and the general spirit, of making super melodic hook-heavy pop songs and then take it apart and bring it all to a wild and quirky extreme while blending as many genres as possible, which are generally the same genres Hyper Pop is blending today- Hip Hop, Metal and Heavy Electronic music. With all the recent talk and rising popularity of the genera I don't think I ever heard them being mentioned.

I know there's value in experience, but (3:12) I think it was a little uncalled for when you said anyone who disagrees with you is stupid because you've listened to everything

Anyone else think it’s kinda weird that Anthony only said “4chan did nothing wrong” for this question?

anthony lookin like he's 5 minutes away from quiting

It’d be nice if you could at least say “Hi” or something, Anthony.

“This list of music is bad because it’s too weird and people getting in music might not like it.” Whoa, holy shit, you mean that they can listen to all the music and decide if they like it or not, despite not knowing anything?

I thought Nav's discography was some of the most thought provoking, original material I've heard of . I wouldnt have known that without you melon! Thanks!

I would love to hear Frownland for the first time again

I saw the drum headed lady and I was like *”Jesus Christ I love youuuuuuuu”*

I can believe that you just told your fans that all black music is weird. Not good enough Melon.

I started listening to *BIG BLACK - SONGS ABOUT FUCKING* just because the cover and the album name in the chart was hilarious

the 1st time i heard trout mask replica i laughed at it, till i found myself unironically listening to it for absolutely no reason, why do i enjoy it ? idk i just do

"i'm gonna be 40 in half a decade" alright calm down with the math talk

Saying "i've already heard everything" over and over in front of the camera for 3 minutes straight is not really an opinion, anthony.

My top twenty-nine biggest recs for wanting to go a little "deeper" or experience something "different" or even just plain odd [in a good way] - no particular order, start anywhere): 16 Horsepower, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, The Birthday Party, The Books, Can, Captain Beefheart & His/The Magic Band, The Chameleons, Coil, Comus, Current 93, Exuma, The Flaming Lips, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Gun Club, Joy Division, Kate Bush, The Knife, Liars, Lightning Bolt, The Microphones, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nurse With Wound, Sun City Girls, Swans, Sunn O))), This Heat, Ween, Xiu Xiu (permission to copy and paste the list above to your friends and family is granted and encouraged)

Based on the panning of the explosion sound effects and their visual positioning around Fantano's head, we can conclude that this video is filmed from the first-person perspective of Anthony watching himself in the mirror, and we, the viewers, are merely watching his (our) reflection.

Despite being a huge fan of /mu/ essentials, I do kind of agree with the sentiment Anthony is critiquing. Part of the power of albums like Trout Mask Replica or Bisch Bosch is that they take the parameters of rock music to their furthest extreme or they completely undermine them- obvs the Rolling Stone 500 best albums of all time list is kinda basic (and problematic in a host of other ways), but it’s pretty hard to understand WHY many albums are so groundbreaking or what tropes they are subverting if you haven’t even heard the jazzy, crooner rock that Scott Walker’s late style evolved from or the bluesy, rugged vocal style that Captain Beefheart is pushing as far out as possible or the blues riffs that he’s superimposing, seemingly at random, over one another, or the blues song structures that he’s mangling- sometimes subtly, sometimes radically. Without that context I can see how a Bisch Bosch might just sound like random noise rather than a bold statement in a long- standing musical discourse. Also, if you want some music which is completely unlike anything you’ve heard before then you should definitely try out some more wacky contemporary classical shit like Christopher Cerrone or Andy Akiho or Heinz Holliger or Claude Vivier’s operas or Michael Daugherty’s ‘Dead Elvis’ or Bartók’s quartets or Boulez or Adés- I recognise that you know a lot more about this sort of music than you let on in your vids and you seem to know about Cage and Stockhausen, but for someone who seems to have ‘heard it all’ in regards to popular idioms it seems like a pretty logical direction to move in.

I know I certainly I don't enjoy music by plunging into the deep end straight away. My music taste is still developing, but it's a lot more diverse than it used to be. I listen to music regularly now which I remember being immediately put off by when I was younger. There is an easing process and it does take time.

4chan is not a good place to start getting into ANYTHING. And neither is Reddit, BTW.

My music research truly started with Jimi Hendrix and then Death Grips expanded the exploration massively

I feel like starting with "Weirder music" Can be better because I feel it would Expand your taste and open your mind, Thats just me tho

*quirky

Well, I think there's a difference between "great albums" and "albums that are great for getting into new music". That being said, a lot of the /mu/list is pretty accessible and can be a good starting point for anyone.

Idk if this has happened to anyone else but I used to constantly try to find new music when I was younger just because I wanted to hear things that were new and exciting. And I remember listening to a few artists and like not being able to get into them at all they were just too weird for me. But then years later and I "rediscover" these artists I couldn't just get into and all of a sudden it's like I like them now because so much time has passed and my tastes evolved and matured enough to include more weird or experimental stuff. Idk I just think that's cool that all it took was a change of perspective.

Melon is going to turn 40 in half a decade.

You get to that point where what hard to get into musically no longer is so what may be weird and out there or hard to get into for some no longer is for you. It’s like this is a piece of cake. I do believe that there are those of us who have an easier time getting into the more experimental music then others do. It comes quicker.

Random music suggestion Faded paper figures- the matter

Lets agree: It's pronounced mew not em you

you're too weird nerd oh wait let me watch the video 😂

Die Antwoord moment Die Antwoord moment

What the fuck "to start when getting into music" even means? Are there people who never heard music in their life?

idk if it is this weed but the audio on this one really emphasizes your room more than any vid I have seen recently

WTF, I was thinking this wasn't gonna be a LETS ARGUE....

It's gotta feel good to have a take so hot that melon makes a whole video out of it

My guitar teacher got me into shit like Zappa and Beefheart

People who just discovered Yeezus:

Wow I’m early

It seems like the 10s are the things that give him that feeling of fresh discovery again, that endorphin rush of “I’ve never heard anything like this before”. TMS, KSG, TBK, TPAB, Daughters, etc. it’s all so ridiculously unique and non redundant (even if those aren’t all 10s for me as well). Perhaps we’ve cracked the melon code.

1:21 generationally, this is becoming a less common experience in the age of digital streaming. I went my whole life without being exposed to popular radio outside of occasionally hearing it from my little brothers room in 2012. Now music tastes being at one point informed by your parents, I don't think that's a universal experience that's going anywhere anytime soon. If you grew up listening to De La Soul, even an 11 year old can get into ODB; so I have faith enough in human understanding to believe a "normie" would at least be able to grasp the broader strokes of most of /mu/'s favourites if they're open enough to try in the first place.

Wonder if this is at all connected to Vaush's recent journey with the /mu/ Essentials list? Fantano had a brief interaction with him about music on Twitter.

Not gonna lie. The Rolling Stones 500 (the 2012 list, not the 2020 list) helped broaden my musical horizons back when I was in college. Felt like a good starting point for the uninitiated rock fan I was at the time. More recently Steven Wilson’s podcast The Album Years has introduced me to more non-canonical albums I would’ve never discovered on my own.

I see ITAOTS I click

We subconsciously try to like alternative aartists/albums that are critically acclaimed by people like Fantano. Eg. Death Grips- The money store...disagree?

I love how people think because they listen to weird music that that means they have some superior knowledge 😂

You know what Anthony? I think I like you. Even though i don’t necessarily agree with everything you say and maybe not really share similar musical experience. I think you’re a cool guy and i like listening to you even though most of the time i’m off topic. I think i’d try to be friends with you if our lives ever happened to intersect one another. Found you about a year ago and i guess i liked it. Chill.