Observations - Billy Joel (rolling Pat Finnerty/Beato thread)

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Finnerty killing it. I think he feels penance for his podcast era though.

I don’t know who this is, or anything about Billy Joel, but I enjoyed that

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Watch his videos called What Makes This Song Stink imho

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Pat finnerty’s videos are fantastic - incredibly funny - a rare instance of someone recording videos taking down musicians/songs without coming across as nasty or negative. They’re hilarious and also very insightful. Basically this 5min video would usually be a segment in one of his lognerform videos - its that kind of vibe throughout

Very easy to watch/binge - genuinely very refreshing take on youtube music critique

‘What Makes This Song Stink’ is probably my fav series on youtube [truly hit its stride episode 3] - shame he’s been dealing with health issues so the already sporadic release schedule has become even more sporadic but I eagerly await the next instalment

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Rewatching the Weezer one - ‘I’ve always thought of Beverly Hills as the evil El-Scorcho or if The Sweater in The Sweater song had an NRA patch on it’ :smiley:

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His best episode I reckon

Big fan of the ‘Try That in a Small Town’ episode as well I think it’s either the Beverly Hills one or that one imho

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Some of them bloat but still a strong hit rate for some thing made by a guy in his apartment for hardly any money. The Kravitz Bowl was funnier second time around (weeping at HCA, the superband playing the half time show)

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I am really curious to see what he left on the cutting room floor - like he mentioned climbing the roof of a gas station for a bit he didn’t use. And still the videos clock in at 40mins - around an hour

Fucking love pressure…

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That was my introduction to be fair and I immediately was hooked so yes, would definitely agree, but the Weezer one weirdly hit me in quite a specific way emotionally

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Big pressure guy over here

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Now im watching 'try that in a small town’video

Getting some9lone to get their sleeping boyfried to perform the bum note the dude cant sing live and splciing it ontop of the live performance :smiley: god i love pat finnerys videos

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hes so good

Oh god, when he CSN&Y’s ‘Try That In A Small Town’ I fuckin lost it

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My main influence in not doing 3 blind mice as a riff

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The whole ukulele lesson section :rofl:

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Very funny when he starts talking about what 38 Special look like nowadays

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new one:

Observations - Journey (youtube.com)

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