What Do These 4 Songs Have In Common? 

ohmygoditshim Uh, hey! How's it going? This video was just a bit of a shitpost, since I just wanted to talk about something I felt like deserved to be talk about more. And I suppose it managed to find the right audience even though I tried to hide the point. Your work is great and I (and many, many other people based on the comments) thoroughly enjoy it. And, unrelated, if you'd be possibly interested in doing an interview, I'd love to work with you!

Love you Chonny

Same

Barbed wire and trenches

@@binarycode404trick or treat, merry christmas

trick or treat

merry christmas

Might as well order my test now

Us. People with autism

Nah I just got brain rot

LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

same thing ​@@NitttNattt

another sad instance of people not knowing the difference between nihilism and absurdism...

It’s like saying YOLO is supposed to be depressing.

@@robopope7584 That's a really good comparison, actually

​@@bugboy69both have the same source

It's been used to mean that throughout most of history, but originally originally it was whispered into the ears of generals during celebrations of victories as a way of saying "You are not a god. Don't you dare try to shake up the political structure that is in place"

REAL

CHONNY JASH JUMPSCARE

SAME OMFG THATS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID WHEN I HEAD THE NAMES OF THE OG VIDEOS

Honestly same. Like "pine fer yew" is beautiful but sometimes i wish it was given the "beach" treatment, yaknow?

@@sinfulloccultist950 yep. or Entangled Life. my favourite thing after Come Along and Does the Swallow Dream of Flying, but 40 seconds??

REALL, cosmo sheldrake is my life tbh (typing this while wearing my much much how how and i sweater)

BURTHDAY SUIT IS CRIMINALLY SHORT!!!

I'm so sorry that I didn't put a jumpscare warning for any Jash fans. I hope he didn't injure you too much with the chair!

@@Pan.Gaming no it was a folding chair so it just kinda collapsed over my head so it’s fine :3👍

bruh my ass read this as johnny cash 💀

Fellow Chonny Jash fan spotted

hiii

I was literally just about to comment this

chonny jash mention ‼️

While I did consider framing the video as "This Dude's Making Insane Covers!" so it's a little more obvious that it's about Chonny, I think going the slightly more clickbait route of "here's 4 songs I like, think about them, and, BAM! Surprise, this is a Chonny Jash video!" is waaaaay funnier to me. (Even if I might miss the Chonny Jash fans....) I hope you enjoyed it!

@@Pan.Gamingbelieve me the pattern recognition part of our brains are about 2 times as active as in the normal person, just that group of four songs alone would clue us in

​@@mikedoesthings2134yep the second i saw this group i instantly went feral

​@@mikedoesthings2134 HAHH yeah. Apt description

yeah lol, if it wasnt i wouldve reccommended him

also it's mEmento mori, as you show, not mOmento, as you speak (it's even different song from different author, if that helps)

Adding this to the list of things I'm mispronouncing without realizing (and to be honest, I haven't sat down and listened through In Case I Make It in a long awhile. I just took Willard! and left. I'll have to go back and give it another shot!)

​@@Pan.Gaming Yes you should! The amount of emotion, beauty, whimsy, and clever writing encapsulated in that album is incredible. Songs like Cicada Days, Euthanisa (a song for me that is personally one of the saddest songs I've ever heard) and Against the Kitchen Floor are some the best in catalogue. It is his best mixed album and I feel is his most real, personal ,and cohesive work. It almost feels more like a folk album at times with songs like falling up and Let's Get You Home (which is another song that is just beautiful.) Its a work that is very different from the high energy of the normal album (which I also love, Marsha is one of his best written pieces imo and is rly good live) and it works for it! okay I hope thats enough of me gushing over "In case I make it" for you to give it a earnest listen.

@@Pan.Gamingas a major will wood fan, I originally thought I wouldn’t like in case i make it, however it’s in my top albums now! I whole heartedly recommend giving it a listen. if you want something more like the originals try ‘the main character’ or maybe ‘cicada days’ but my personal favourites are ‘against the kitchen floor’ ‘half-decade hangover’ ‘that’s enough, let’s get you home’ and ‘tomcat disposables’. But it’s super worth it all the songs are absolutely amazing

I agree, ICIMI is the problems that I want to have, rather than The Normal Album being the problems I currently have.

Anyone could make a video about Chonny Jash, but ONLY I COULD MAKE YOU DOUBT THAT A VIDEO ABOUT CHONNY IS ABOUT CHONNY! (But, seriously, congrats on figuring it out from the start! Didn't think anyone would!)

THE pipeline

Tally Hall posted a video saying that if they get 30-40 million monthly listeners on Spotify, they will reunite! They’re probably just joking about the number (but hopefully not about them coming back). Either way, I want to bring hype to this situation, and most importantly, to spread the Tally Hall listenership! So please listen and pass on this information!

OMG they might be giants here comes science is one of my favorite albums! of course their cover of istanbull is popular but i also like birdhouse in your soul. They also did the mickey mouse clubhouse intro and outro, a cover of theres a great big beautiful tommorow on the meet the robinsons soundtrack and the piano song in the movie Coraline. I love them. should probably listen through one of their regular albums fully.

@@pinkgirl192 I completely forgot about the song in Coraline! Man I loved that!

Did you know that They Might Be Giants wrote music for Mickey mouse clubhouse?

@@bonkdonk4825 yes indeed! I enjoyed it a lot as a kid

He was for me that’s for sure! First i found the moss, which led me to chonnys cover, (and i was hooked) which lead me to tally hall, (i had found ruler of everything before, but hadn’t Checked out any of their other stuff until chonny) miracle music, (which is also tally hall i guess) the handsome devil, and found several other covers of songs i already loved like Rob Cantors Im Gonna Win, which is a song i had found long before i found The Moss. (Which is also tally hall.. if i had a nickel for every time i discovered tally hall, id have three nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happens three times..)

bear ghost fan spotted 👀

Necromancin Dancin my beloved

hi, bear ghost fan as well, may i ask, what exactly is this genre of music? like i know and listen to all the artists we're talking about but i cant categorize this, ive had ppl describe it has, "ominous circus music", "what you hear before you enter hell" and "weird folk" what the fuck is this genre actually? 😭😭

I'm just saying that if Chonny covered Simpleflips once, he could do it again. And I really do want him to cover "Break" since it's already a banger. (And sorry about your wallet. It's for a good cause)

I could see myself talking more about Will Wood (I mean, he's a personal favorite, along with Zalinki), but I feel like Will Wood has been covered very well by confused Narrator. Like this dude made a whole hour long video about Everything Is A Lot and Self-Ish, and managed to get an interview with Will himself!! Here's a link if you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ARty_vUlmAs.htmlsi=-zDR0OfAqQda5D5R I'm just not sure I could make something as cool as his, so it probably won't happen. (Unless it gets tied into something else.)

@@Pan.Gaming oh!! I didn’t know about that! I will definitely check that out. Thank you for the recommendation!!

same😭

I am not liable for any injuries sustained from the Chonny jumpscare. Hope you're okay! :3

Omg, I love Fish Inside a Bird!

Yeah, sorry... If the video wasn't secretly about Chonny, I would have mentioned Fish in a Birdcage! They're great! Before I started video essays, I was doing montages, and I've used their songs early on. There's all so good! My personal favorites are Four Aces and Angel Tango, but I'm planning on going back through their stuff soon!

yeah, no, this is right

Yeah, I'm not that deep into Tally Hall, but I kept seeing Hawaii: Part II showing up around other Tally Hall stuff that I ended up assuming they were the same group. Which, looking more into it, it was made after Tally Hall broke up, every member but Andrew had some part in it, but it's not Tally Hall. Whoops! My bad,

so imagine making a funny little video about a little creator you like, and suddenly, you're flooded with comments, because that little creator's fanbase are like ravenous rats (affectionate) that will swarm as soon as they taste a little bit of Chonny in the water I know he's the point of the video, but like the thumbnail doesn't have him in it??? how do they all know???? anyways, if you do check out Chonny, I hope you enjoy them!

​@@Pan.Gaming we're so deprived from Chonny Jash content, we can sniff out any faint reference to him from a mile away

fun fact: before this video exploded in views, I was right under 400! i dont know why this is happening, help, im drowning in comments

TRUEST

oh shoot, did someone actually figure it out? and just from the thumbnail? Congrats! I wasn't actually sure anyone would get it, since my 'test subject' (LanCon) only got it after a few guesses. Thanks for the kind words!

@@Pan.Gaming i’m just on another level of brainrot lol, i saw cosmo, thd, tally hall, and will wood and i knew chonny covered all of them so i immediately guessed it, also ur welcome!!!

I didn't get to mention it in the video, but two others of my favorite Jash covers are "Mucka Blucka" and "Dream" Both of them are just so good!

YESSSS SAMMEEEEEE

They're performing in NYC on March 23rd, 2024 if you're in the area.

WOOO I GOT IT

I wouldn't be talking about artists if they weren't good!!!

Personally, I listened to all of these groups separately and then found Jash during his early Tally Hall days. But, it's crazy to me that all of them seem to come together as a genre, I guess? I mean some people have suggested the thing in common would be that they're all gay or neurodivergent music???? Which, I mean, I guess???? Simply being gay/neurodivergent surpasses all genres

Oh, please, please, PLEASE, play In Stars And Time! I finished my playthrough at the start of the new year, and then I was mentally compelled to write and edit WAY TOO MUCH about ISAT! We're talking like a full hour of heavily edited ISAT stuff, but I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND PLAYING IT! (And if you don't check out my last video essay! Please!)

Well, ISAT just happen to fall into the 'games that make you sad' genre, and, OH MAN!, I can't seem to escape that game genre... In fact, this video was meant to be a short and easy break after the 86 minute video I did about Limbus Company and ISAT (which most of it turned out to be just about ISAT, whoops!) If you've got way too much time to waste, may I recommend it? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-44563dVNVPw.html

​@@Pan.Gaming I sure got the time, thanks for the video recommendation!

Fire?!?! Like an inferno?!??! Is that a reference to Chonnys Inferno?!?!?!

If this video wasn't secretly about Chonny Jash, I would have 100% mentioned Fish in a Birdcage. I mean the Memeto Mori comparison could have just gone three ways, with Will Wood, Chonny, and Fish in a Birdcage. Anyways, my personal favorites from them are Four Aces and Angel Tango! But I'll have to sit down and listen to all of them, as I'm sure I've missed quite a few.

I appreciate the effort put into your comment! And I'll offer a bit of a rebuttal here, as a Will Wood fan to another. (And as you've said, with respect, if it wasn't obvious.) "In Case I Make It" is the album I've listened to the least because it's such a different feeling, like a somber ending. I agree it's a good send off for Will's career, assuming he's stopping with this album (I am not aware if that's true or not). I think one of the things that one of the things I enjoy about Will Wood is the diversity is his songs, and "In Case I Make It" is a lot of the same. As an example, the first three songs, Tomcat Disposables, Becoming the Lastnames, and Cicada Days, give me the same idea of Will sitting on a porch, playing a guitar, and singing to himself as he reflects. (That is until the loud part of Cicada Days, which is so good.) That's not to say that any of these songs are bad, it's just not what I expect from a Will Wood album. I really only get glimpses of what I want, from the end of "That's Enough, Let's Get You Home," or that chorus bit in "Falling Up." The few songs I do listen to from the album are "Vampire Reference in a Minor Key," "The Main Character," and "Willard!" And of those three, the first is a sadder version of "Yes, to Err is Human, So Don't Be One," and the other two are so different and unique that I instantly fell in love. "Self-Ish" was the album that got me into Will's music, more specifically "Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!". The entire album is a great display of Will mashing completely different segments together, which is my favorite bits. The slow start found in "Self-" that leads into "2012" is fantastic. And the break down that happens like 2 minutes into "2012" is great. I mean, you've listened to the album. I don't need to tell you how each song is like two or three different parts together. I think the only reason I don't put "Self-Ish" at the top spot is because only a few songs give me such a vivid picture. I couldn't tell you what "2012," "Cotard's Solution," or "The Song With Five Names" is actually about, where "Hand Me My Shovel," "Dr. Sunshine Is Dead," and the combination of "Self-" and "-Ish" each paint their own images. (But, that could just be a 'skill issue' on my part.) "Everything is a Lot" as an album feels... boring to me? Each song flip flops between something loud and aggressive to something slower and vocal focused. Most songs let you know exactly what you're going to get from the first few seconds, and they never really take you for a ride. Once again, that's not saying these songs are bad, it's just not what I'm looking for. But my personal favorites from "Everything is a Lot" have to be "Lysergide Daydream," which doesn't initially tell you what this song sounds like in the first few seconds, and "Chemical Overreaction," which breaks down from it's high speed to a slower pace as well as moving to more introspective lyrics. However, I can agree that the ideas that each song brings is very different from the rest of the album. And finally, "The Normal Album" which I've already suggested is Will's best one. And since I suppose I'm defending this, I'll do a little bit for each song. - "Suburbia Overture" feels like a perfect introduction to the album, as Will sets the scene. Even just the first part, specifically "Greetings from Mary Bell Township!," has several shifts pace as well as contrasting themes. It only gets better when we get to "(Vampire) Culture" as we get to see what the people living in the nuclear fallout version of a suburbia feel like. And god, I love how that "Blood!" line comes in each time. And finally settling in with "Love Me, Normally," is as if we're sitting down at the end of the day, staring at the night sky, just wondering why we can't just be accepted for ourselves. And that, "accept me for myself," is what the entire album is about. - "2econd 2ight 2eer," while it isn't one of my favorites, it's pretty good. A look at the lyrics (which you kinda have to look at them, since it's hard to tell what's Will sings, sometimes) tells a story of a man who knows that he's a little wacky, but he's not worried of labeled a psycho. I mean the line "Baby, I may be crazy but I didn't lose it, no I set it free" shows that the singer is purposefully releasing the silly! And as a bonus, I could draw some parallels to "Puppet Loosely Strung" by The Correspondents (would recommend), as that song is about the same topic, ignoring what society deems acceptable, but from an outsiders perspective. - "Laplace’s Angel" takes the feeling of guilt and pushes it to it's furthest extent, to the point of wondering if "Am I a bad person?" But I'll take a break from lyric analysis to talk about the music itself. While most of the song is a little same-y until the bridge (i think it's the bridge), the addition of the backing vocals present in the choruses help add to it, in addition to how the chorus grows in intensity each time it's sung. - Moving to "I / Me / Myself" is almost a punch in the face after the serious nature of "Laplace's Angel," which instead covers the nature of self and your own body. The entire song is almost light hearted, it explores the idea of being a girl. I mean who hasn't considered what it would be like to be the other gender. Once again, this song has several musically interesting parts, like what could be interpreted as an alarm going off as Will finishes line talking about something would be weird for society, or the bridge getting faster and more serious as Will almost yells at the listener. And that end whispering is... strange. Also, I just really like the phrase "girlfriend boyfriend". - I do not enjoy "...well, better than the alternative" enough to talk at length about it. But it does have a nice heartfelt slowed segment, which returns to regular when Will gets wrapped back up in what everyone else thinks of him. - "Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples" is one of my top 5 Will Wood songs. I love how it moves from the start to a faster base tempo. I love the drop for the "Well not ha-ha funny, but y'know, funny." I love the swap up after the first chorus that reminds me of "Chemical Overreaction". And "you were there, and you where there," But, the overall theme of the song, being the belief that things like mental illnesses ("The things that make you strange") are the only thing that makes you special. It's a mindset that fits with the whole staving artist theme. And lastly, how Will starts to babble the words in the last lines is representative of this mindset breaking down. - "BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA" is a fast song with a lot of words in it. Do not try to sing this one, it doesn't go well. I love the tone of this song, as it's almost talking down to you in the chorus section, and the speech is even funny to me how it ramps from "Why don't you take a seat?" to "Did Namibian Himbas tie-dye you, your ears pierced with a Phineas Gage flagpole, did you die before your day?" I believe that it's about someone who's had anything and everything wrong with him, and, yet, all anyone can say to him is, "If it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now." It doesn't matter how you're suffering as long as you can still do your job in the morning. And even when that someone tries to get help, shown in the speech, it's nothing but throwing medical terms around and doing anything that might help without actually figuring out what the issue is. Because "What, you think ideas spread because they’re good? No, they spread because people like them." - "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave" shows the contrast between how previous generations used to tough it out, no matter what the issue was, and the current day, where people struggle to tell who they themself are and what part of them is the masks/illnesses/medication they have. - "Love, Me Normally" is about, well, wanting to be normal. Can you tell I'm getting tired of writing this? - And "Memento Mori" is attempting to rewrite the feelings surrounding death. As I mention in the video, Will (and Jash, for that matter) want to fight the societal norms of death being something terrifying, and that you need to strive to make something to live past you. So, with all that said, I really do enjoy "The Normal Album" because of it's themes of one's self, societal norms, and mental illness (which after writing this, I think there's something wrong with me). Most of the songs have very different feelings parts in them, which take you for a ride with each listen. as you said yourself, "Anyway thanks for reading this borderline insane ramblings and I hope you have a great day."

@@Pan.Gaming Thanks for the response! I’ve been listening to the album a bit after writing and hearing other perspectives than my own really helps me appreciate the album (and art in general) more. Although I still agree with original that it his worst work (I still absolutely love it definitely top 20 albums I’ve ever listened to and I listen to a fuck ton of music) it does have a lot to offer that I have kind of forgotten about. I think the reason it’s so low for is that I look for something very different when listening to will wood (cicada days was my first, against the kitchen floor is my favorite) and thats why it just doesn’t do as much for me as it seems to do for you. Also the correspondents is such a based suggestion. I recently listened to foolishman (such a good album) and am working through their discography. Also I feel I am more biased towards songs that have more confusing meanings (In the wise words of chonny “I can't seem to separate The confusing from the profound”) so that is another reason I’m biased against normal. Spending months listening to a song and only then truly understanding its ins and outs is extremely rewarding for me. While I think it has about the same amount of depth as his other albums, I think it’s just easier to grasp that depth. The best way I would describe it is that they’re all equally deep, but the other albums give you a snorkel, and this one gives you a submarine. Also I really appreciate the obvious effort put into the response. I think I’ll end this by saying something we can both agree on. I completely forgot it existed in the initial post but camp here and there is definitely his worst as I would barely consider it an album.

God damn I accidentally wrote an essay again 😭

ME TOO

YES CHONNY JASH

Ooo, so you're one of the few here who finding Chonny out of this! Cool! Part of the reason I recommended the ones I did was to have something kind of popular and then a song I personally really enjoyed! But, even then, all of them have so many great songs. Every single one you've listed here are all fantastic in their own right!

I figure that we'll just be able to put anything in " "s after the word Pan, and it'll be a canon name at some point.