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No problem!

This is such an original comment. It's so original, that I already responded to another comment on this video 2 weeks ago with: "Well, technically it's the drum break from "When The Levee Breaks" plus some turntable scratching and a hi hat. I like when a drum break or a drum solo kicks off the whole album, I guess. And for the Beastie Boys one, for me it sets the tone - there are so many breakbeats and samples in Licensed To Ill." Be a snob somewhere else, please.

@@charlesmichael190 Apologies, it's actually a testament to how good that drum track was played/recorded, so good that it has "found a way" to be in such a compilation with a "set of rules" that would have rendered impossible if it wasn't reused in another record. I wasn't being too serious at all, sorry

@@claudiomascioli3318 I'm sorry I misinterpreted your message!

These are some good suggestions. Thanks for sharing!

@@charlesmichael190 totally :D I probably should’ve added (but I was tired at the time) that part of the reason Familiaris’s start is so cool is because it’s a perfect loop from the end of the album. In fact, you can put the whole album on loop and the only time there’s a real break between songs is right in the middle, between tracks 5 and 6 of the 10-track album Also, I left off The Beautiful Cycle of Terminal by Jyocho, which has a beautiful first track that sets the tone for the album really well. I guess I felt I couldn’t add two recommendations from the same band, but TBCoT is my favorite Jyocho album (and Sugoi Kawaii Jyocho, the 6th track, is my all-time favorite song). Idk if you could tell but I like math rock lmao

Please send that playlist to me when you can! I'd love to get into that. I firmly agree - a first track of a first side is indelibly your first impression of the album and of the artist/group. There's a lot more, but hearing those first notes for the first time is quite magical sometimes. I don't know if I'll make a part 2 - lots of people have already made plenty of videos that included just about every album I didn't include, and I want there to be other things on my TH-cam channel. It took enough time for me to think about my favorite side-1-track-1s for this video alone! But again, I'd love to see what you've got in your playlist. Maybe it'll give me inspiration!

Glad you enjoyed that juxtaposition!

Not in this video, I suppose. Sorry I didn't include it!

Criminally underrated. I know their music got used in a couple movies and TV shows in 2007 and 08, and they gained traction in that period, but their self titled album and Strike Gently need to be critically reassessed. Donald Cumming is up there in terms of great melody makers, but unfortunately his work gets severely overlooked.

I like the way the first line sets the tone for the whole album. And right off the bat, Green Day are not going to delay the pop punk riffs. What a great opener "Burnout" is.

You're right, it does! "Out There" is such a great opener, with those crunchy guitars...

Again, I tried to limit myself to only one album per artist. "Come Together" is a solid opener though!

Me too!

You are amazing for that. Vacant World is such an obscure gem that I'm absolutely glad I found when I was listening to a lot of Japanese music in late 2020 (when I was also listening to a lot of KPM library albums!) I love the drum rolls on the beginning of "Marianne", and that's such a standout track, so I had to put it in! In Japan in the late '60s, there was a growing music genre called "Group Sounds" (some sources attribute its development to The Beatles' arrival in Tokyo in July 1966 - 58 years ago now) and The Jacks were one of many of those kinds of groups -- there was also The Spiders, The Tigers, The Jaguars, Zoo Nee Voo, Adams, The Mops, The Golden Cups, The Wild Ones, Jackey Yoshikawa and his Blue Comets... Please go listen to all of them! There's a great TH-cam channel called GSiloveyou which i'll link below. It's an absolute gold mine for this amazing genre of music that, perhaps due to the language barrier, gets overlooked a lot of the time. www.youtube.com/@GSiloveyou2017/videos

Well, those other videos brought some cool newer albums to my attention! I like music from all eras.

Thanks for the suggestion!

One of these things is not like the others!

Oh, why thank you!

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I'm glad about that!

Thanks for the suggestion!

I love Axis: Bold As Love, and I love "EXP". I'm just noticing how many first tracks I didn't put in this video! Sorry!

JOHN HENRY!!!! I always associate "Subliminal" with the live performance of it at the very start of the Gigantic film - it not only kicks off the album it's from, but it also kicks off that great film. Plus, it kind of makes sense from a musical standpoint. The instruments kick in one at a time, starting with the accordion (which lets you know that TMBG haven't changed their musical sensibilities), and then the drums (letting you know that TMBG have a backing band now) - and then the bass and guitars kick in. And what a first impression on the lyrical front - "as I got hit by a car, there was a message for me". Classic Linnell.

@@charlesmichael190 i never thought about it musically like that! i saw them last month and the first half of the show was mostly john henry songs. they kicked off the show with subliminal. it was awesome. hearing songs like meet james ensor and dirt bike live was incredible.

@@joelowry1323 That's very cool! I still have yet to see TMBG live, but I've listened to years' worth of concerts, and I know they always put on a great show. I'd love to see them myself.

@@charlesmichael190 definitely do if you have the chance! they're one of the best shows i've had the pleasure of seeing. so much fun.

I love drums. What a way to kick your album off!

Yes! That LINE sets the tone of the album!

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I listen to a lot of obscure music, more so than current music these days. That's probably why - but other people have used "Devil's Haircut" it seems!

Thanks!

Oh, sorry I missed that one! "Only Shallow" is such a powerful opener.

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It's a trend! Somehow, I put the least amount of effort possible in a video and it just broke 3K views in the span of a few days!!! I did take a lot of inspiration from (I stole) your idea, so thank you for posting the video that got randomly recommended to me in the first place!

Thank you!

Sorry! But I genuinely like the hyperpop stuff, and the weird phasey effects at the beginning of "745 sticky" just really set the tone for that album. Have you heard of quququinny or Vivienne Rae or vai5000? They're all great friends of mine.

@@charlesmichael190 i dont think i have? and no need to be sorry i also agree it sounds good!! its just that the list was filled with like 80-90s kinda stuff and then its 100 gecs,, contrasts a lot but hey i fw it!!

Yes. I don't listen to a lot of new music, but I keep discovering stuff from the '50s-2000s every day. Everything is "new" music to me. Hope all is well!

I love some Jamiroquai.

and Black On Both Sides

Well, I did structure this video chronologically...

@@charlesmichael190 No it isn’t a jab at your taste I just thought it was funny

All good!

Awesome

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Well, technically it's the drum break from "When The Levee Breaks" plus some turntable scratching and a hi hat. I like when a drum break or a drum solo kicks off the whole album, I guess. And for the Beastie Boys one, for me it sets the tone - there are so many breakbeats and samples in Licensed To Ill. Paul's Boutique is my real favorite out of the Beastie Boys' albums, but that album's opener, "To All The Girls", has a really slow fade-up of that Idris Muhammad sample. It's nice and interesting in a dynamic sense, but that instant gratification when you put on "Rhymin' & Stealin'" is why Licensed To Ill made this video. Not that a slow fade-up isn't nice (I even included Counting Crows' August And Everything After for its slow introduction - and as I said, I think "To All The Girls" is interesting in a dynamic sense). Check Your Head's first track is "Jimmy James", which starts with a Cheap Trick sample: "This next one is the first song on our new album!" and then the drums and bass kick in. That one I would have definitely included for how meta it is, but I limited myself to only one song per artist. Ill Communication, "Sure Shot" - that one is just a great song. The way it opens, with the dog barking and then the flute sample, is also a great opener. Now that I think about it, every Beastie Boys album opens in a really interesting way. Sorry I couldn't put them all in!

Glad we're in agreement!

Why thank you!

Good idea, but I'd rather work on one at a time.

When Will You Upload The Video For Here Come The 123s?

@@CRANE983 Again, I'd rather work on one at a time. I'm still making the Here Come The ABCs documentary. A Here Come The 123s documentary is, therefore, warranted as a sequel, but it is not something that I am prepared to make at this time. You also have to understand that I'm working on other projects on top of this. It takes a long time to make these things, so please be patient.

@@charlesmichael190 When will you finish Here Come The ABCS?

@@charlesmichael190 Can you play Go For G and Q U on the Here Come The ABCs documentary?

Glad to know that we are in agreement!

Yes, it's a bit nerdy. But I thought the video was worth making. I don't plan on doing "response videos" like this often.

@@charlesmichael190 vaild

Thank you! It's quite surreal to see this video gaining traction, I guess just through the algorithm???

Thank you but I'm nonbinary.

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Been seeing your updates on this across Facebook and Reddit (or someone else posting about this project), excited to see it come together!

@@NICKtendoReviews Thanks Nick! I've enjoyed some of your videos in the past, by the way. Good stuff. I'm glad you're just as excited as I am!