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Here’s the second part of two about rock music - asking ‘what IS it?’, and ‘isn’t it dead, anyway?’. I can’t promise you that I answer either question completely, but I think I answer them entertainingly at least!So, if you like rock music -
Here’s episode one of two, looking at rock music generally, asking ‘what is it?’ (harder to answer than you might think), and ‘is rock music dead’?I’ve made a couple videos looking at genre before, and I thought I should look at rock music as
YouTube’s algorithms are mysterious and indecipherable - but are they any good? Well, in this video I do a little review of/reaction to Chypho’s album Entomongakum - a sort of electronic ambient album… about insects? It’s cute, it’s wholesome -
Is it better to be a generalist or a specialist as a musician? WHO KNOWS - but let's explore the subject a bit. In this video I look at Paul McCartney and another MYSTERY musician while asking what a generalist is, and what it means to be a spe
Brian Wilson is one of my favourite songwriters, and he LOVES ii V Is (who doesn't). This video is a look at how 2 5 1s are used in the super underrated, and frankly BRILLIANT 1968 Beach Boys single, Break Away, which was written by Brian, and
My reaction video to the Rolling Stone list of 200 greatest singers.The Rolling Stone magazine love their ‘greatest’ lists, and their most recent one is their ‘200 greatest singers of all time’, published in January 2023’s edition. It has *ra
ii V I chord progressions, or 2 5 1s, are super popular with songwriters, composers and improvisers in all genres. They are used to change key, or just to loop back to the tonic chord… but they’re also used in loads of very different, arguably
Queen are one of the greatest bands in rock history, with LOADS of classic songs and albums. Who doesn't love them?With 13 number ones across the world, they are the only band where each member is credited as the sole writer of a chart toppin
Queen are one of the greatest bands in rock history, with LOADS of classic songs and albums. Who doesn't love them?With 13 number ones across the world, they are the only band where each member is credited as the sole writer of a chart toppin
So, this is the first video I've made where I'm disagreeing directly with another youtuber - David Bennet's videos are of course great, but I think he kind of missed the point with his one chord video, so I thought I'd explain my thoughts!I c
What IS music genre? How important is it? Is it even really a thing?These are all questions I tackle in this video - hopefully you find this video interesting, informative, and maybe even entertaining! I talk about everything from blues, to f
In this episode, I'm joined by Everything Everything's Jonathan Higgs to talk about ugliness in music - how it works, how it doesn't work, and the boundaries between the two! We talk about a range of music, and discuss Everything Everything, th
Warren Zevon's Desperados Under the Eaves has one of the finest codas in rock/popular music, and some really interesting/weird/genuinely brilliant lyrics.This is a video about how the song does what it does, and how it fits into the album on
The 12 bar blues is probably the most popular chord progression in 20th century popular music, but most people mainly talk about it exclusively in terms of blues players and guitarists (or pianists or bassists... soloists basically) rather than
A bit of a reaction video today: I got my American friend to listen to four weird British hits from years past, and tell me what she thinks of them.We cover songs from the 70s, 80s and early 2000s - all of them at least a bit weird, but not T
Everyone who loves the blues, and loves guitar playing knows that Rory was a great guitarist, but much less attention is given to his songwriting, and his lyrics.This video about how Rory's songwriting works, looking at Tattoo'd Lady, from hi
Laura Nyro's Stoned Soul Picnic was most famously covered by The 5th Dimension, but her original version remains the best.A whirlwind of music, great lyrics and awesome vocals, Stoned Soul Picnic was released in 1968 on the album Eli and the
Brian Wilson wrote Til I Die for the Beach Boys in 1969, but the song wasn’t released until 1971, on their underrated album Surf’s Up. One of my favourite Beach Boys songs, with possibly their best lyrics, Til I Die has a unique chord progressi
Yes’ sixth album, Tales from Topographic Oceans, was released in December 1973, and is infamous in progressive rock circles and beyond. Bloated, longwinded, full of wacky hippy wierdness, trippy and just downright strange, Tales is an 80 minute
Country Joe and the Fish are best known today for The Fish Rag (also known as I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag), which they released as a single in 1967, and famously performed at Woodstock, One of the most enduring songs written in protest of
Paul Kossoff was the underrated and always tasteful guitarist for the 60s British blues and hard rock band Free, who are most famous for their song ‘All Right Now’. He tragically died at the age of 25 in 1976 but left us with lots of great guit
Be Bop Deluxe are such an underrated band, and Ships in the Night was the closest they got to a real hit. Bill Nelson fronted this band from 1972-78, and in that time they released five of the most underappreciated studio albums in British musi
Folk songs are often known by many names, and this classic is no different! The Hills of Granemore / The Granemore Hare, with plenty of alternate spellings of Greenmore/Granemore/Greenmore...The point though, is that it's a great song - one o
Time to talk about the Beatles! A little bit indirectly I guess, because I'm talking about some of my favourite covers of Beatles' songs. From Stevie Wonder, to Aretha Franklin, through Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker and Joan Baez, i cover some great ve
What's the difference between 7/4 and 7/8? Watch this video to find out! I look at a bunch of great songs to expore to different ways of playing with septuple meter in songs.Things obviously get a little proggy, because odd time signatures, b
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