What Do These 4 Songs Have In Common?
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- Something short and easy* after the last one!
*Not easy. Difficult, even.
Songs mentioned:
Song from the start (technically called "My Dad Says That The Union Forces Us To Take Breaks")
• Corporate Clash: Multi...
Cosmo Sheldrake
• Cosmo Sheldrake - The ...
• Cosmo Sheldrake - Does...
• Cosmo Sheldrake - Birt...
Tally Hall
• Tally Hall - Good Day
• Tally Hall - Turn The ...
• Murders
That Handsome Devil
• Viva Discordia
• A Drink to Death
• Charlie's Inferno
Will Wood
• Memento Mori: the most...
• Hand Me My Shovel, I'm...
• “Nobody” Will Wood
@ChonnyJash
• Chonny Jash - Fine, I'...
• end the dance.
• The Moss (Cosmo Sheldr...
• Good Day by Tally Hall...
• CHONNY'S INFERNO - Cho...
• (Music Video) Chonny J...
Wow, that's a ton of links!
Well with those out of the way, time for me to ramble on about this video.
I hate it.
Well, hate is a little strong. I'd say dislike.
I just feel like I could have done this way, way better, and, yet, here we are. Oh well! It was a new type of video, so you can tell I had some issues with it. I just believe I didn't get my feelings about each song across. But, hey, if I get any new songs out of this or if anyone else listens to someone new from this, I'll consider this a success.
And, also, I gave the popups a break this video. After the last one, they deserve it.
Oh... yeah... that Pan "Singing" bit:
• Now That's Just Pan "S...
I very intentionally tempered my ego when I saw the video recommendation...
...seems I need'n't've
(Seriously though this was a fantastic - and flattering - video!!! Great work!)
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
Lemon demon, Tally Hall, Cosmo Sheldrake, Will Wood
What do all these have in common? Neurodivergent people listen to them.
- Me, a person with autism
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
3:00 historically, this is the actual meaning of momento mori. It's not supposed to be sad, it's saying to live life while you can.
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"
when you said "white picket fences" i assumed you were gonna segue into suburbia overuture
Same
Barbed wire and trenches
@@binarycode404trick or treat, merry christmas
trick or treat
merry christmas
“What do these 4 songs have in common?” Well I like all of them, especially because- CHONNY JASH ?
REAL
SAME OMFG THATS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID WHEN I HEAD THE NAMES OF THE OG VIDEOS
i love Cosmo Sheldrake. the only songs i don't like are the ones that are less than one minute long. nothing wrong with them, it's just not long enough.
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!!!
fellow chonny jash fan spotted
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 ‼️
Experience with this video was “oh hey this guy would loveeee CJ I should leave a comment suggesting they listen to him if they’ve not already done so befoCHONNY JASH WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!?!?!?!!!?”
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👍
bro i thought to myself "ahaha how ironic! those are all people chonny covered but it's probably about why a lot of people happen to like those people, totally unrelated"
*IT WASNT UNRELATED*
*I HAD AN EXCUSE TO THINK OF REFERENCES MY GOSH FOR ONCE!!!!*
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
When I clicked the video i had no idea it was gonna be about Chonny! I was delightfully surprised!
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
I will fight you for WW albums. "In case I make it" is so full and saturated I can't fathom its slaughter for The Normal Album
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.
If you like Tally Hall may I recommend They Might Be Giants? Their music is crazy neat including their Here Comes Science album which was the soundtrack for an animated kids science program. It’s neat how in each song on that album they take inspiration from distinctly different artists that can be recognized if you’re enough of a nerd. Their other albums are phenomenal with my top favorite song of any of them being Birdhouse In Your Soul. Give them a listen if you haven’t already!
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
HOLY SHIT CHONNY JASH JUMPSCARE
I’ll be honest i was so suprised chonny was a topic in this! So happy to see him grow in popularity. Ind tbh I think Chonngs gonna be the music bridge to so many other artists!
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..)
I came into this video like "oh hey i know these songs" and then the video hits me with the "HOLY FUCK CHONNY JASH REFERENCED!!!"
Ppl are talking abt the chonny jash jumpscare but the DAD 3 mention slapped me in the face and stole my wallet
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)
That Handsome Devil mention is ALWAYS going to make me smile
I would recommend you Bear Ghost. They're making similiar to Tally Hall's or Will Wood's music, personaly my favourite their album is Jiminy. I would like to see a video about them!
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? 😭😭
@@pickledjuice101Tally Hall, Bear Ghost, and Will Wood are all under different genres. And Will Wood and Tally Hall’s music all cover different genres. The only thing that really unites them is that it’s ‘weird’ music.
Will Wood's Self-Ish album needs its own breakdown. Each song is so good and they all tell a bigger story of a man spiraling downward. Its my favorite album period. ❤
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: czcams.com/video/ARty_vUlmAs/video.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!!
I saw the thumbnail and immediately thought "Chonny Jash???" And I was surprisingly right
(I came here from the thumbnail, thinking "oh hey! I love all of these songs!" and then got absolutely JUMPSCARED by Chonny Jash. Had a heart attack, quite literally.)
I am not liable for any injuries sustained from the Chonny jumpscare. Hope you're okay! :3
i love chonny. his gothic whore album is so fucking good, i cant get over his style mixed with gothic classic novelas. its so perfect and i could just rant about it for ages
COSMO, WILL WOOD, TALLY HALL AND CHONNY JASH MENTIONED!? HELL YEAH
CHONNY JASH MENTIONED!! i absolutely love jash's memento mori cover & chonnys inferno, it makes me go feral
I'm not sure if you might've already figured it out but, Murders is infact NOT a Tally Hall song. it is from another album made by Joe Hawley, the album's named Hawaii Part ii
It does feature a few people from Tally Hall if im correct, but this was made after Tally Hall broke up ( I might have to look that last part up, but 99% sure thays right)
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,
your music preference is so similar to mine that i was dissapointed that you didn't mention Fish inside a birdcage :(
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!
Bro why is this entire video and comments just my Spotify playlist 😭
This is just a advertisement for chonny jash.
Good advertising, A+ with a side of fries.
The songs of Neurodiversity.
Oh this is about Chonny Jash.
Also, Chonny did all of the MMMM songs from Tally Hall.
Imma be real, every neurodivergeant friends I have are in love with those five artists (me included)
You have summoned the Jash army. Godspeed
I feel like I'm the only one in the comments who HADN'T heard of Chonny Jash, but I'm really glad you took the time to make this bc now I feel like I need to check them out. Most musicians can make a decent cover, but putting your own spin on it like this takes a lot of creativity and honestly, a LOT of guts, both of which I respect the hell out of.
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
someone with this type of music taste (THE best music taste) (ever) having less than 1k subscribers is mind boggling to me, insanely underrated
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
It was crazzyyy seeing Charlie’s inferno blow up. I’d only know it for about two years before, but it still made me insanely happy and wish people would listen to more the band
despite being a huge chonny fan i didnt realise what this video was going to be about, currently VERY pleasantly surprised
Can we talk about how Chonny's """cover""" of Mucka Blucka is a huge love letter to Tally Hall fans?? Cuz it's fucking AMAZING
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!
hell yeah chonny jash!!! i saw this on my reccomendations, and i knew it was gonna be about chonny the moment i saw the thumbnail, i’m very obsessed right now. but yeah, i like the points you make in this video, it reminds me of why i actually like chonny’s music so much, besides just the cool sound and covering songs i like.
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 think its chonny jash
WOOO I GOT IT
CHONNY JASH MENTION I. BROKE DOWN CRYING THIS VIDEO MADE ME SO HAPPY?! IT'S SO COOL TO SEE PEOPLE GIVING CJ RECOGNITION RAHBHHH
I always get jumpscared when I see chonny mentioned anywhere else lol
Anyways great video :] I’m not that good at putting my feelings on things I’m enthusiastic about into an eloquent form so it’s nice to hear others do it!
The entire first half of the video was an in depth call out of my music tastes and the rest makes me admire the musician and want to listen to his stuff
_so I know whats on my to-do list now!_
How did I find this channel that shares a lot of the same niche interests as me. I love it.
I LOVE THAT HANDSOME DEVIL FINALLYYYY SOMEONE ELSE LISTENS TO HIM!!!
YESSSS SAMMEEEEEE
They're performing in NYC on March 23rd, 2024 if you're in the area.
Was watching this in my brothers room and as soon cosmos name was heard he just went “YEAHHHH” out loud. He kept on freaking out because you just listed out all his favorite artist lol.
I wouldn't be talking about artists if they weren't good!!!
YES I LOVE COSMO SMMMMM- no one I know knows him and he’s SO outside of my usual music taste (usually a grunge and thrash/nu metal girl) he’s been one of my favourite artists for so long and also one of my biggest inspirations in terms of lyrics and music. Wriggle, Come Along, Tardigrade Song, Solar Waltz, Pliocene, and Axolotl are all favourite songs of mine
“what do all these songs have in common?”
“all talk about death? no- all have a bit of synth? no- maybe they- CHONNY JASH???”
COSMO SHELDRAKE MENTIONED 🔥‼️🗣🔥‼️🔥🗣🔥‼️‼️🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥‼️🔥🗣🔥🗣 WTF IS A NORMAL BEAT‼️🔥🔥🗣‼️🔥‼️🗣‼️🗣🔥🗣🔥‼️
I was like: hey, Chonny Jash did a cover of that song.... WAIT
I wasnt much into experimental and out there music in the past but having it slowly creep over me as i just embraced what it not only meant to me but also what i could enjoy with it, all culminating into my favorite album being Long Season by Fishmans. I'd recommend this any day, both the live and the studio versions. Now i will shut myself in and attempt to make a whole music thing for myself since your list looks very inclusive.
3:37 I wasn’t expecting to hear you mentioned unreleased stuff
I love that one a lot
IS THIS AN COSMO SHELDRAKE MENCION???
OMG COSMO SHELDRAKE I LOVE HIM
Bro I saw like 3 of my favorite artists in the thumbnail and did not even hesitate
JASHSCARED!!!! I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY THIS IN MY RECCS :3
I just flat out wasn't expecting to see all of these songs and artists in a single video. Oddly enough, it wasn't even these songs that drew me into each artist. It wasn't even from the same source that I started listening to them! I didn't even register the connection because while I've seen Chonny Jash in my recommended list before, I've never clicked on one of their videos! I think it's just absolutely fascinating that even with how different all of these artists are, a lot of people tend to listen to them in tandem.
Wonderful video, I didn't know this was a phenomenon, thank you.
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
CHONNY JASH MENTIONED
SLIMECICLE AND CHONNY JASH MENTION ???????!!!!!!??!?!??!?!??!
JDJDJFJFJF oh my godd 🥺🥺i was interested in hearing what you had to say about all these musicians bUt getting to hear about my favorite one??? i totally didnt expect it- chonny's brilliant covers and original songs, bringing up such important and meaningful topics to the light made him my favorite musician for sure😭and the fact you pointed out exactly just what makes his covers amazing (and referenced isat that im yet to play omg-) is incredible 🙏great job on this video !!!
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!)
not literally 4 songs that have been in my playlists for forever omfg i just saw the moss and was like i wonder what the other 4 songs are on here and its literally just my spotify wrapped 2022
Woah it's weird that Pan listens to music how does he do that
Chonny Jash fan AND In stars and time fan? man you got some GOOD taste!
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? czcams.com/video/44563dVNVPw/video.html
@@Pan.Gaming I sure got the time, thanks for the video recommendation!
God you really just said some of my favorite songs to listen to! 😊
Since we seem to have pretty similar music tastes I’m going to recommend my favourite band, fish in a birdcage.
It’s a bit different from this stuff but I love literally all their songs. Even if you don’t like it at least you get to check out something new!!!
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 enjoyed maybe the first couple chonny jash songs, but my love of WW and tally hall comes from how unique every one of their songs sounds, and I don't get the same feel from Chonny Jash. My playlists growing up were consisted of a huge range of different songs that gathered from all over the place, from meme and video game songs like Still Alive, to queen and the Beatles, to Avril Lavigne and Neutral Milk Hotel, to extremely random songs like these songs from a band called "Communism" that I found by just searching communism into the iTunes search bar. I could never listen to an entire album from these, even those I liked a lot like Queen, because it felt so monotonous to me. So when I found tally hall (and later ww), i loved the fact that I was basically listening to one of my playlists; every song completely changed its style while also maintaining a strong narrative.
Which is why I don't really like Chonny Jash that much. I'll add a couple of his songs to my aforementioned playlists, but to me his songs mesh together as loud, heavy and screamy, and generally I prefer the original over the cover.
I like to imagine Chonny’s mueic as reimaginings of these classic tunes, seeing as he often flips the entire feeling of the song on its head even if he doesn’t change the lyrics.
the realization suddenly dawned on my when I heard "Johnny Cash" I was so taken by surprise lol
Spotify’s algorithm is how I discovered most of these so they must have something in common
They all have that weird edgy not edgy kinda indie vibe and sound to them. Like THERE ARE NOT A LOT, IF NOT, NOT ANY OTHER ARTISTS THAT HAVE THE SAME SOUND. Each one of them have their own sound but still fit in the same category, they all express the story that they want to express so clearly it’s one of my favorite genres of music
Jashes covers are always so peak
thanks for making this video, I haven't heard of some of these artists but i listened to them and love their music now
AH. These were the tracks I listened to a while ago. And yes my music taste changes constantly. I shall now replay my old spotify playlist. Great video, keep it up!
Chonny was a pleasant surprise!!! I’m so happy his works are receiving coverage! Good upload man 👌👌👌
damn do i love to see some appreciation to the Music Man! i instantly loved his stuff after listening to the tally hall covers, and it all just grew with each new release.
i think I'm just thankful for him for introducing me to will wood. I had never listened to him before, so the will wood power hour was a nice little introduction! :)
I LOVE WHEN PAN UPLOADS VIDEO ESSAYS
Will say as someone who's been an avid listener to That Handsome Devil, lots of their old albums give that same satisfaction of Charlies Inferno. But in my opinion, feel more thoroughly written.
Other artists that have that same vibe if THD are Tub Ring, Grand Commander, Nick Lutsko and just a bit of Jhariah and Shayfer James.
All on Spotify, please give them a try :)
One sec, this video gave me a nureogasam. I'm currently flying in the clouds of the biggest tism high ever
I love Chonny jash!! They give such a new meaning to cover to where I don’t know if it even count for the original meaning, but I love it.
His series following multiple songs by tally hall through his three characters, heart, mind, and soul is again, amazing. “Spring and a storm” by tally hall has meant so much to me and I’ve drawn up tattoo designs with the lyrics that I plan to have done one day, in both versions jash covers, he keeps the “we have so much left to sing” which has always been the most impactful line to me.
I love the dissection of their music, because the praise is warranted, but seeing how jash keeps and trades and changes for narrative purposes constantly, but not only keeps that line, puts HEAVY emphasis on it, and covered it twice with two different characters singing, leads me to believe they might have a similar connection to mine to the song.
Id love to be Able to make music like that, just to spend time and deconstruct and reconstruct the elements to spend time with the art, he’s such a wonderful artist and I’m glad we get to share his way of re-contextualizing music with the world. It’s so awesome.
IM SO GLAD SOMEONE FINALLY MENTIONED COSMO SHELDRAKE HES AWESOME
I also love tally hall, miracle musical, I kinda like will wood though very selective with his songs, I’ve only ever heard Charlie’s inferno but it’s awesome, and I love Chonny jashes covers. I’m so glad to FINALLY find someone to share my music taste. A new music artist I’d suggest is Jorge Rivera-Herrans, responsible for Epic: the musical and he’s AMAZING
I absolutely love your Video essays! I love all of these music creators and I never even noticed the covers. I love to hear ya talk about things you’re interested in, and you make me want to start making video essays. Great job man
Well the good news is that's all I'm planning on doing: Whatever I'm interesting in talking about!
And while making video is a TON of work (it take me about an hour of work for a minute of editing. just editing. not script writing and recording.), I think they can be quite fun to do! It's easy, for me at least, to get into an hours long groove of editing.
Thanks for the comment!
I'm going to check out this guy, thanks for the video!
Ok since you have made the offer, I will fight you on it. (note that all of this is with all of the respect in the world, this is a great video) Not only do I think that the normal is not his best album, I would say that it is his worst. To best illustrate we should go through his other albums (also including tapeworms obviously) First of all I’ll talk about about “I case I make it” As and end to his music career it serves as a beautiful, almost epilogue to his career and has such an incredible feeling of finality. Self-ish is his most well put together album (my personal favorite) and it has the most cohesion of any of his albums, with its use of motifs and its flawless management of energy on a track by track basis it is the one I return to the most commonly for a full album listen through in order. Lastly we have everything is a lot. My thoughts on this album are very simple. It has the best individual songs on average that get stuck in my head the most. It delivers banger after banger and has the most varied ideas of any album. What that leaves us with is the normal album. It doesn’t have that It doesn’t have the dramatic finality of “In case I make it” nor the cohesiveness of Self-ish and while some of the songs go hard it doesn’t have a strong of a line up as everything is a lot. To me at least it just doesn’t have any sense of identity within wills wider work and feels like it has the least to say, while trying to cast the widest net. Don’t take this as me not like the album by the way, suburbia is and incredible song, 222 goes unbelievably crazy, and love me normally is some his best work, but the overall package is the weakest. Anyway thanks for reading this borderline insane ramblings and I hope you have a great day.
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 😭
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Oh, thanks for the rec on The Handsome Devil, I listened to them and they're awesome. Jash is great. I found him through the mind electric remake and love what he makes overall. Great musician.
I looked at the thumbnail and I was like "oh haha those are people Chonny Jash has covered"
I. May have hurt my leg with how hard I was hitting it when I realized that was actually where you were going with it and I wasn’t going crazy
I know exactly what those 4 songs have in common:
They are in my liked songs in Spotify.
Other great introductions to each band would be:
That Handsome Devil - Savages
Tally Hall - Ruler of Everything
Cosmo Sheldrake - Come along
Will Wood - Laplace's Angel
And yeah, seeing how we coincide in music taste I'm definitely gonna give Chonny a listen.
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 enjoy the fact that you cover nearly every single one of the artists that's been the most formative to my own musical creativity. I rarely ever seen someone cover any of these artists, let alone all of them!
Maybe you already know this, but AXIE, someone who makes fan songs about games, mainly mascot horror like FNAF or Poppy Playtime, has released a song called "TERRIBLE THINGS", the song is about the FNAF character William Afton and his experience of life and death. In his song, he also uses the sound verse from Charlie's Inferno, but changes it to fit his story, when he uses it, it's the baging that he doesn't want to die that changes to the baging that he wants to die, which somehow reminds me of Charlie's Inferno. My favourite about them are the endings, in Charlie when he falls into the black abyss and in TERRIBLE THINGS when everything turns red as his world crumbles to pieces, I'll be honest, the TERRIBLE THINGS part kinda made me lose some tears the first time I heard it, but I'm also kinda sentimental so...
Everytime I was about to suggest a song I was immediately smacked with the song before I could comment! You have amazing taste!!
i love all of these artists so much, and chonny jash covers them all so well! good to see im not the only fan of all five of these folks
Cosmo sheldrake is one of my all time favorite artist he’s so talented
When I was looking at the cover I jokingly thought Chonny Jash, but I was like, “no one knows him”.
Love this video! Keep up the good work!😊
What these four songs have in common is that they’re all goblin-core. Because they make me feel like a little goblin while listening to them.
recognized those album covers and clicked faster than i ever have lol, i love all these underrated artists so much
i did NOT expect chonny jash, but hoo here we are
Great video! Especially how we get not one but 2 new pan names, has to be a record!
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.
I thought it was me! (I know all 4 mentioned songs and most of the lyrics)
god i love chonny jash's music, this really describes it super well and you didnt even TOUCH on the chaos compedium and its lore
Did NOT expect the delve into Chonny Jash- very good! I love all of them!
Damn was not expecting a Jash jumpscare but do have to agree with it
you have got to listen to jhariah they are the coolest ever. start w his newer stuff, his first album is a bit less polished/professional-sounding (still really really good just may be a bit of an acquired taste)
if you want specific song recs, flight of the crows, debt collector, and their newest single collarbone/pin-eye are great places to start :D
Also while miracle musical isnt Technically tally hall, it was made by multiple of its members and us tally hall enjoyers generally tend to include other songs by the band members in the wider tallyhall-verse. iirc after the band went inactive pretty much every member went on to work on their own solo stuff (while also often collaborating w other band members.) fun fact, rob cantor works making music for disney! Theres a playlist somewhere on yt that includes every song by one or more of the band members, i believe its called "every tally hall song known to man"
Jhariah was actually a (fairly) recent addition to my collection!
CZcams recommended me Debt Collector, and you know I have to listen to a song called that. And, I was hooked from there!
I actually used "Risk, Risk, Risk!" when I was making montages, before I swapped to video essays. (It's called "SAVE, SAVE, SAVE! (a kai goalie montage)" if you're looking for it)
My current favorites from him have to be "Flight of the Crows" and "Needed a Change of Pace"
Oh, and, thanks for the info on Miracle Musical! Hawaii: Part II is just in such a weird spot, I guess.
i've been subscribed to chonny for about two years now, and i've been kind of proud of him to see how much he's grown as an artists, but i admit i haven't listened to much of his more recent music. thanks for the positive review, i've gotta go check him out again!