I was actually on edge. I was ready to be pissed if Fly Away did not win. That song is a crime against humanity. It can't be compared to playing a cover badly. No way.
In quintessential Northeast fashion, this guy cannot just shit on something, he has to make an elaborate production to take the piss out. It's glorious; I miss my people. New favorite channel.
@@emmettyoung7603 when I moved out west for a bit, most people did not get it. offended by every little light-hearted jab. I grew up in rural NH; we talk some shit to the people we like.
Kryptonite: 19 minutes All Summer Long: 19.5 minutes Beverly Hills: 34 minutes Hey Soul Sister: 46 minutes Kravitz Bowl: 50 minutes By the end of 2022, we’re gonna be looking at Hoffman Studios / G Chord Ultra joint production full-length 3-hour feature film trilogies, with lots of walking across New Zealand hillscapes… and, let’s be honest, we are all gonna watch every second of it.
Coming here after two years: this is Pat's masterpiece. Incredible writing, wonderful production, excellent participation from other people (the people arguing on the street is a classic), and Pat's charisma at an all time high. This is the absolute peak of TH-cam.
Kravitz has always struck me as some kind of alien who sings about all these parts of the human experience that he's heard about second- or third-hand.
@scharlesworth93 yeah like.. dragonflies don't even fly *that* high. The lyric should've been "I wish that I could fly kind of high like a dragonfly."
“Are you gonna go my way” is a banger and like his only great song, but the lyrics aren’t anything a human would right, the title phrase is so clunky but it works perfectly with the song
Dude's doing some great high concept shit on here but still the most impressive thing is how well he uses his neighbors and friends to drive his points home.
The ironic part of the no drums thing: The drummer is Cindy Blackman, a legit jazz heavyweight. Her musical talent is exponentially greater than everyone in the band combined. (Also Santana’s wife)
I just discovered Pat with this video, and I'm looking forward to watching him rocket up the algorithm. I'm not quite getting in at the ground floor, but it's like a split-level floor 1.5, and I'll take that.
I don't normally comment on youtube videos, but this is bonkers. The last guy on your IG livestream had my EXACT SAME argument, but came to the OPPOSITE conclusion. American Woman being a cover is precisely what makes it stink more; it's actively tarnishing an already good song. Fly Away blows, but at least it's original. I think Fly Away, for me, is one of those songs that's SO phenomenally stupid it actually rips. It's so overflowing with unearned confidence that I kind of have to respect it. The bold choice to just not have a guitar solo, the absolute force of that last "I want to get awaaaaay-YEAAAH!!!!", like he's really SAYING something. I don't know. It's like a parody of a rock song. I should also disclose that I'm watching this video to pump me up before literally going to test drive a used Nissan Xterra, so perhaps my opinion is clouded. Anyway, nice work, your vids are incredible, the Weezer one moved me to tears haha. Thank you!
I approach it from the opposite direction: "American Woman" being a decent song gives it a head start, while "Fly Away" is nothing but pure Lenny. "American Woman" grates on my nerves more, but "Fly Away" angers me because it's so stupid.
@@DKHD176 I think I'm on this side of the fence.. I mean I can add the fuzz guitar or sing over Lenny and American woman is still good. However the perversion of the original meaning of "American Woman" is also a factor here. "AMERICAN WOMAN... GET AWAY" was meant to be taken literally. "I don't need your war machines, I don't want your ghetto scenes" is a pretty obvious lyric. The Kravitz version of this song kinda Born in the USAs the song which might make it worse despite being a better song. This is a tough one they both just suck so much.
I love me some Bohlinger, but yes: I legit hope that this becomes its own series. In fact, I would love the actual Bohlinger just to go around ask these questions.
Finnerty spoofing football and the commercials and all of that stuff, while making so many jokes at the expense of these two wonderful pieces of pop culture, *chef’s kiss*
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 I used to have a friend that lived in Brazil. We would share pictures of our hometowns and the places we visited. It's about like everywhere else in the world, there's parts of it that are absolutely beautiful and there's parts of it that are nothing but shitholes. It would be a great place to live if you had enough money to buy a piece of land out in the middle of nowhere, it really is a beautiful place.
I love how you keep the basic concept the same, but completely change the delivery every time. And it gets weirder, more convoluted (also more amps), and funnier every time.
he reminds me of John Oliver when Oliver does a journalistic piece about televangelism or whatever and ends up making his own company to prove how little regulation there is.
Lol I own a lot of em and they do suck... USE LOTS OF TAPE to get them to have the base holder thingy on the bottom to stop freekin jerkin around. I want my guitar to sit still lol. Why did they make them wobbly like that???
Hi, I'm Jim. I am so honored to even be associated with this brilliant piece of art. Let alone being one of the deciding votes. Also, I was plastered when we talked. So I dont remember the conversation. So you can imagine my surprise.
Thank you for your service. Its brave men like you who will finally get a minor youtube audience to see how some songs, despite critical acclaim, truly stink.
Its a tie until the outro of American Woman, when Lenny sings "I wanna fly away.." Drives me insane every time. Referencing his own crummy song in a crummy cover breaks the tie... American Woman stinks more.
"you're no good for me, I'm no good for you. Look me right straight in the eye, I'll tell ya what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna keep fucking singing this song way past it's welcome, you know I gotta do"
Went to his concert in 1999. They definitely used the "I wanna fly away" at the end of American Woman to lead into "Fly Away" As a kid in my teens, I was so overjoyed and lost it when that came on.
This man keeps finding new wacky ways to outdo the previous episode in this series. Truly one of the most innovative filmmakers of the modern era. Also, American Woman was bloody ROBBED!
You're right, American Woman as a song is fine, but personally I think the Kravitz cover completely neutering everything that makes the original song stand out is what makes it worse. Fly Away is dumb but still begrudgingly catchy like most popular songs. Kravitz's American Woman is the same but far less catchy to me
@@PhantomKing88 Interesting, I actually vote for American Woman being worse. Because Fly Away is a bad song, but with American Woman Kravitz actually managed to take a good song and make it bad. That seems kinda worse to me
@@ltwrr112 Good point! I would say Lenny Kravitz on the whole stinks the most. But yeah thats not really the point here. Are you gonna go my way stinks pretty bad btw.
He got famous with a good cover of a terrible song back in the day: Tom Jones’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” It’s kinda funny that he made a stinky cover of a good song later on in his career.
But instead of it being his friends like Scott the Woz where all his friends are given a lot of screen time, and their own characters. it’s more just random people on the street who are seen only like once for a quick skit which just adds to the charm. Like it makes it feel like the full world around him is as obsessed with the terrible song of the episode as he is.
I've never understood why Kravitz is still such a big star. Here in the UK he had a couple of hits in the 90's and we've not really heard from him since, yet he still seems to be huge in the US. It's like he dressed up as a rock star and everyone was fooled into thinking that he actually was one.
I think a lot of the 90s appeal was that he was a black American rock guitarist. The US was pretty damn racially divided at the time - even in terms of music - and he was like a radio-friendly bridge across the cultural gap. Yeah, Slash is half black but most people don't even seem to know that, and Prince was a fuckin rock god but was going through his "no one can play my music and my name is now a shape" era at that time. Kravitz had that "remember Hendrix?" market cornered defacto. He fit into the same "let's find some common ground" themes as the Jackson - Van Halen "Beat It" solo and Run-DMC - Aerosmith "Walk This Way". In time, I think people just kept playing Kravitz's music as nostalgia; I don't think I know anyone that actually likes his music, but no one really jumps to turn it off either. Weirdly, typing this let's me appreciate Lenny more, I just wish his music wasn't so paint-by-numbers.
I think my favorite part of this uber genius video is the sports radio bit. Stirring up the team rivalry, etc Dude ran a marathon with this football concept. Impressive. Most impressive. Pat Finnerty is a true rock star.
I’m not into country music or female pop vocalists, but I’ve been a wedding DJ for like 20 years and I honestly never even realized that there were two versions of “How Do I Live” and I sure as hell never knew they were released on the same fucking day! Apparently the lady who wrote it is named Diane Warren, and she’s one of the most prolific songwriters behind so many hits, that I think she might actually give Max Martin a run for his money. In addition to “How Do I Live” she also wrote the biggest hit Aerosmith ever had, which was “I don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” as well as Cher’s biggest hit “Do You Believe.” Apparently she’s a one woman hit factory that’s been cranking them out since the 80’s. Back when she approached LeeAnn Rimes to record the song, she said that it was written with her in mind as the vocalist. Which makes you wonder how the hell Trisha Yearwood got mixed up into all of this. Well, it turns out that Warren submitted the song for the Con Air soundtrack before anything was recorded, because songwriters are apparently called on to write songs for films before anyone ever sets foot in a studio. They liked the song and wanted it in the film, but after she suggested Rimes as the vocalist the studio of course had to give their fucking notes, and felt that she was too young to be singing those lyrics or some nonsense, and they decided to bring in Trisha Yearwood to do the song for Con Air. Meanwhile Rimes and her producer were unaware of all of this had recorded their version and were wrapping things up when they got wind of the other version that was going to be released. The Disney and the label were dead set on putting out the Yearwood version and refused to delay the release, so they had to scramble to release Rimes’ version the same exact day. It’s such a weird fucking story, and even though Yearwood had no idea that she was an afterthought and the second person to record the song, I feel bad for Rimes having her thunder stolen because some executives at Disney wanted to stick their fingers into shit for no reason. Rimes may have won in the end because her version set records for length of time on the Billboard charts and made a ton of fucking money, but she got screwed out of the soundtrack deal which meant substantially less Nicholas Cage in her video, and she lost the Grammy to Yearwood, because for the first time in history there were two people nominated for the same award for the same song in the same year. What’s even more fucked up is that she was asked to perform at the Grammy awards that year, and she literally performed “How Do I Live” right before they announced that Yearwood won the Grammy for singing that song. We probably should’ve seen that as a sign back then, that Millennials were destined to be fucked over by Boomers repeatedly, but someone would’ve had to notice there were two fucking songs that were recorded and released at the exact same time, and considering that Yearwood’s version got more play on country radio it’s no surprise that people listened to pop or country back then, so the small amount of overlap between the two was minimal-and I guess nobody even paid attention to the Grammy’s back then, because I feel like it should’ve been a bigger deal than it was. So, thanks for bringing up an obscure fact about the recording industry back in the late 90’s, because it sent me down a rabbit hole looking this ridiculous shit up. Thanks to that Wikipedia hole I just crawled through, I’m now also aware that LeeAnn Rimes posed nude for Glamour magazine while she was experiencing a flare up of psoriasis, in order to bring awareness to the disease. I’m sorry to report that it’s not worth braving her leprosy for a little bit of skin, because all the best parts are covered and Google images has nothing but grainy images of her looking all sorts of unsexy. I did the work so you don’t have to, so you’re welcome.
Interesting story, but I don't feel bad for either artist, as neither of them wrote the song. The songwriter got paid twice, and both artists made money for their performances. Everybody should be happy. No issue to see here.
"Ernie Ball or D'Addario, who do you play?" "I have no idea what you're talking about..." "Awesome!" Thst is why this is now my favorite show on TH-cam, possibly ever.
Holy god. This was good, but that moment when you said “tonic,” and Rick’s disembodied head interrupts was pure gold. Might be my favorite series on TH-cam.
I'm so impressed with the scope of this video. The amount of time and dedication to making it, with it's attention to detail, clever writing, and endearing DIY cut-and-paste graphics, can't be understated. This is the kind of video that makes TH-cam such a fun place to explore.
This is what TH-cam was made for. Everything that's been done was only done so we could get to this video. I'm just grateful I got to live at a time where this video exists. You're a goddamn genius.
The character arc of Blinds 2 Go guy is really starting to heat up, he’s gotta be in my top 3 when it comes to the Finnerty lore. These masterpieces make me proud to be a Pennsylvanian
The Guess Who version of American Woman is about the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of American greed and corruption sung by a Canadian band. Lenny Kravitz’s version just seems like a sleazy love song with its political bite completely taken out.
@@notlikely4955 it is unless they donate that money to a worthy cause. If it’s just hookers and blow then they’re not much better and I’m pretty sure the guess who spend their American woman money on hookers and blow
Weak. If you are feeling the Blinds to Go Guy, you walk around your house or apartment, and pick which window needs blinds. The decision that you need them should be a foregone conclusion. Support the arts, buy a window treatment.
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half like are you gonna go my way? Then there was the tie and I was like baby it ain’t over till it’s over. In the End, this was devastating. American Woman is an immediate station change. Maybe it’s my inner 7 year old still holding on but I unapologetically like Fly Away. Please don’t block me from watching your channel, Pat. Let love rule.
Pat. My hero. I thought the title and the thumbnail were just a silly spin on a normal "this vs that" video, but NO. This guy fuckin COMMITTED to the football bit, and it about killed me. The flags, the ads, the editing, the ref slurping coffee, the legendary single-note solo, this shit is pure fucking gold
Sometimes I find a TH-cam series that is just so unbelievably made For Me and this is one of those series. You are 5/5 on these and I hope you made 100 more. Target audience absolutely reached, Pat
Fucking SAME - other than listening/playing music I get pretty much 100% of my entertainment from TH-cam, I'm wondering how did it take me and the algorithm so long to find Pat
It's funny, that's what I thought when I discovered What Makes This Song Great, but it turns out I don't give a shit out of 3/4 of the songs/bands and I'm not interested in what ways they're "great" -- it turns out that was just a prelude to finding my real jam, the PARODY of WMTSG 🤣
Doing a rewatch (again) and wanted to say one of the things I love most about this is in the Bohlinger bits, how the store workers go from totally confused to just rolling with it.
“Thinkin about puttin your guitar down? Well, maybe you shouldn’t. Theeeeeese guitar stands” hahahaha This is probably the most fun/creative way to express disdain for a piece of music that I’ve seen in a while.
I absolutely needed this today. its amazing how deep it pulls me in. its like a long long wet tongue slapping my leg and I wake up, and the tongue turns out to be my arm that fell asleep and I couldn't feel it. but I have to stick around the figure out why its wet, and thats when I discovered that I peed the bed.. and I got drawn into a fiasco there, this video is like that. And I appreciate the Hoffman conversation as much as I did the Weezer conversation. but I digress, eventually everything turned out alright, just like this video.. and like the tongue, this left me confused, yet somehow satisfied with my direction in life. thanks for the chicken wings and we love Wawa!
HCA just kills me every time man. The absolute nothingburger of a track mashup, the aimless blueslicks, that one shot of Aronoff staring down camera, goddamn it's great
This feels as special as discovering Contrapoints early. It’s so diy and rock and roll I can’t stop watching. This is awesome even though I don’t get all of the jokes.
Definitely glad Fly Away took the W on this one. When I was 6 years old, I legitimately thought it was the most badass song ever. I feel that any 6 year old’s favorite song is always the stronger contender for maximum stinkery
I had no idea who Jon Bollinger was before this. I accidentally stumbled on one of his videos today and I immediately recognized him from Pat's impression. Dead on. 🤣
I just love that for every person involved in this video, he had to explain to them the concept of What Makes This Song Stink and his video idea. love it.
The only redeeming quality about Fly Away is that it's so boring you can easily tune it out , which is what I've done all my life. Now that you've made actually actively listen to it, it's far worse than I ever thought.
Fly away is so bad that even hearing it for this video and listening through it multiple times I have retained nothing of it, my brain just shuts down in self defense and I remember nothing afterwards. A "Kravitz Induced Trance" if you will
I've always found boring songs harder to get through than actually bad songs. If your profession is "entertainer" the worst thing you can be is boring.
As bad as fly away is, what gets me about american woman is that he fucking references fly away in it. Like unless I'm mistaken, the line about flying away wasn't in the original. It's like he recorded fly away and then he was figuring out what he wanted to do for american woman and he said "remember that old gem from 20 hours ago in my career? let me go back to that well, the fans will love it." Like somehow he hadn't got his fix of singing about flying away that week and he needed just one more taste before going clean.
Dude, that was insane!! I’m in the UK so I know next to nothing about the game, but that was effing hilarious. What I like about your videos is that they make me think about the craft of writing a song. I actually like Flyaway, but because of this video, I’m now looking at in a different way. If can avoid the same mistakes in my own music, there’s a chance it won’t suck completely. So thanks for posting this. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this gorgeous piece of insanity. Much appreciated. 😂 ❤👏🏾👍🏾
Unbelievably stupid. I loved every second of it
Beato
Agreed
I was actually on edge. I was ready to be pissed if Fly Away did not win. That song is a crime against humanity. It can't be compared to playing a cover badly. No way.
Original American woman by guess who was good
@@electrolinks neato
My favorite part of these dissections is when you ask random neighbors to weigh in. I take anything Lloyd says as law.
Fuck yeah, Lloyd kicks ass
Lloyd is goated
The amount of lore this dude has created in just four or five videos is outrageous
I agree, I look everyday for this new content. He is a Great musician but a better entertainer.
Ordinary TH-camrs make Haydn symphonies weekly, he’s Beethoven.
Remember when these were short Beato spoofs
So he copped Beato formula 🤔.... Got it
@@romeod7549 Nah he parodied it, and then within 3 episodes he transcended it completely
True story: Pat Finnerty put more time and effort into making this video than Lenny Kravitz did in writing both songs combined.
LMAO! PLUS, 100% Truth.
Particularly American Woman, since Kravitz didn't write it.
Amen. I love your vids Pat, you are one cool Cat. But not big Cat because that’s Chad Smith.
Yeah, he just looked at the sheet music and erased large portions with white-out.
I believe this.
Jack Hoffman is a serious vibe. Man uses hard work to turn money into less money like no other. A true legend.
“BandCamp: Your friends have to listen to half of one of your songs somewhere” is golden.
That killed me
Oof that's rough, because it's true
too real
Seriously almost fell out of my chair laughing omg
Got me in the feels, that bit
In quintessential Northeast fashion, this guy cannot just shit on something, he has to make an elaborate production to take the piss out. It's glorious; I miss my people. New favorite channel.
But he's in the southernmost part of the Northeast. That makes it questionable. The second I hear a banjo in his videos, that boy is toast!
nothing beats northeast shit talk. can’t get it anywhere else in the world
@@emmettyoung7603 when I moved out west for a bit, most people did not get it. offended by every little light-hearted jab. I grew up in rural NH; we talk some shit to the people we like.
@@arsxxmoriendi new york to mass, i only insult the people i like tbh. it shows you care
@@emmettyoung7603noo, I think British and Australian people have even more of a culture of talking shit/taking the piss. 🙏🏼
"Sounds like that coach wants to make some adjustments and win the game. Good thing we interviewed him"
You sir, are a LEGEND
Kryptonite: 19 minutes
All Summer Long: 19.5 minutes
Beverly Hills: 34 minutes
Hey Soul Sister: 46 minutes
Kravitz Bowl: 50 minutes
By the end of 2022, we’re gonna be looking at Hoffman Studios / G Chord Ultra joint production full-length 3-hour feature film trilogies, with lots of walking across New Zealand hillscapes… and, let’s be honest, we are all gonna watch every second of it.
I’m looking forward to it
You immediately made me think “..and it took twelve years to make!”
I want three hour epic about Joan Osborne's One Of Us
Seriously.....fuck that tune, but make something beautiful out if it.
Beato will do a cameo
I feel "Rollin' (Air Rad Vehicle)" is going to need at least an hour.
This whole channel has early TH-cam vibes, and I’m loving that it feels like one big inside joke we are all able to be in on
It feels so much like Erik comment etiquette back when he was on the old letsgotoclass channel, for the OGs who were there
@@gr7927 yes this is, like, precisely what it feels like
This is a fantastic way to describe it.
Yes!
Beato
Coming here after two years: this is Pat's masterpiece. Incredible writing, wonderful production, excellent participation from other people (the people arguing on the street is a classic), and Pat's charisma at an all time high. This is the absolute peak of TH-cam.
Kravitz has always struck me as some kind of alien who sings about all these parts of the human experience that he's heard about second- or third-hand.
I want to fly so very high like a dragonfly
@scharlesworth93 yeah like.. dragonflies don't even fly *that* high. The lyric should've been "I wish that I could fly kind of high like a dragonfly."
Like a Magpie?
Like a Dragon Kite?
“Are you gonna go my way” is a banger and like his only great song, but the lyrics aren’t anything a human would right, the title phrase is so clunky but it works perfectly with the song
"Beato."
"Nah that's more Shull..."
Perfect
The Braves might have won the World Series, but Atlanta is still cursed when it comes to Guitar TH-camrs
Got his ass lol
i had to pause it while i composed myself, soooo good
I'm imagining a JHS video where he gets the Woman Tone from about 86 different pedals. ...
Red Skull?
Isnt that Captain Americas nemesis?
Dude's doing some great high concept shit on here but still the most impressive thing is how well he uses his neighbors and friends to drive his points home.
As a writer and fan of high concept shit, I 100% agree, the creativity and originality is phenomenal!
And total strangers that are new friends after five minutes.
And total randos on the street.
Yes! I've been calling it the "Finnerty Cinematic Universe".
@@JennaLeigh The Finnertyverse is the only "verse" that I respect.
It’s tradition to watch this on the Super Bowl every year.
The ironic part of the no drums thing: The drummer is Cindy Blackman, a legit jazz heavyweight. Her musical talent is exponentially greater than everyone in the band combined. (Also Santana’s wife)
She doesn’t play drums on Fly Away or American Woman.
Clearly havent heard Lenny Gaye
@@Rountree1985Of course she doesn’t, nobody does
Ima just say it: this guy is quickly proving himself as one of the most creative and talented creators on TH-cam
thank god you just said it
Said by every commenter in every video. 😆
exactly. blinds to go guy is the man and it's time someone said it.
I just discovered Pat with this video, and I'm looking forward to watching him rocket up the algorithm. I'm not quite getting in at the ground floor, but it's like a split-level floor 1.5, and I'll take that.
It was obvious by video 2 that the potential was there, and hes getting right up in there
I can't believe Pat got me actually invested in a fictional football game between two shitty Lenny Kravitz songs...
"I'm gonna make you *wait* to hear the amount of nothing that I'm about to play for you" - very literal spit-out-the-coffee moment for me
I don't normally comment on youtube videos, but this is bonkers. The last guy on your IG livestream had my EXACT SAME argument, but came to the OPPOSITE conclusion. American Woman being a cover is precisely what makes it stink more; it's actively tarnishing an already good song. Fly Away blows, but at least it's original.
I think Fly Away, for me, is one of those songs that's SO phenomenally stupid it actually rips. It's so overflowing with unearned confidence that I kind of have to respect it. The bold choice to just not have a guitar solo, the absolute force of that last "I want to get awaaaaay-YEAAAH!!!!", like he's really SAYING something. I don't know. It's like a parody of a rock song.
I should also disclose that I'm watching this video to pump me up before literally going to test drive a used Nissan Xterra, so perhaps my opinion is clouded.
Anyway, nice work, your vids are incredible, the Weezer one moved me to tears haha. Thank you!
I approach it from the opposite direction: "American Woman" being a decent song gives it a head start, while "Fly Away" is nothing but pure Lenny. "American Woman" grates on my nerves more, but "Fly Away" angers me because it's so stupid.
This comment deserves 10 or more likes than it currently has.
@@DKHD176 I think I'm on this side of the fence.. I mean I can add the fuzz guitar or sing over Lenny and American woman is still good.
However the perversion of the original meaning of "American Woman" is also a factor here. "AMERICAN WOMAN... GET AWAY" was meant to be taken literally. "I don't need your war machines, I don't want your ghetto scenes" is a pretty obvious lyric. The Kravitz version of this song kinda Born in the USAs the song which might make it worse despite being a better song.
This is a tough one they both just suck so much.
Its such an easy song to pick up too. I challenge any newbie guitarist to not feel cool the first time they play that riff
Yep, it's basically a philosophical matter.
The Fly Away guitar solo literally flying away is one of the funniest visuals ever
I absolutely lost it at that moment.
Those fuckin arms
Pure gold
YES
best part hahaha
John Bohlinger asking for specs of random items and then, regardless of answer, saying "cool!" was my favorite part of this video
Hands down. Wonder if the real John Bohlinger will see it.
I don’t know about that guy…
I hope that becomes a series on the channel.
I love me some Bohlinger, but yes: I legit hope that this becomes its own series. In fact, I would love the actual Bohlinger just to go around ask these questions.
"Are those .010s on there?"
Finnerty spoofing football and the commercials and all of that stuff, while making so many jokes at the expense of these two wonderful pieces of pop culture, *chef’s kiss*
Just found Finnerty at 9:30am during my workday. Its now 1:30pm and I have done zero work. I havent laughed this hard in years!
"Fly Away" always sounded like Lenny heard "In Bloom" and thought "I'll bet I can buy some Brazilian farmland with that riff".
Underrated comment
how?
@@Azubi_Meatball4349 Mr. Kravitz lives on a farm in Brazil.
@@darksu6947 why anyone would voluntarily live in Brazil is beyond me
@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 I used to have a friend that lived in Brazil. We would share pictures of our hometowns and the places we visited. It's about like everywhere else in the world, there's parts of it that are absolutely beautiful and there's parts of it that are nothing but shitholes. It would be a great place to live if you had enough money to buy a piece of land out in the middle of nowhere, it really is a beautiful place.
I feel like I genuinely do not deserve the amount of effort that went in to this
Upvoted and loved and I haven’t even watched 20 seconds yet. You made my time changing weekend!!! :-)
"Bandcamp: your friends have to listen to half your song somewhere!" is choking me with laughter and I'm scared I won't survive
I love how you keep the basic concept the same, but completely change the delivery every time. And it gets weirder, more convoluted (also more amps), and funnier every time.
he reminds me of John Oliver when Oliver does a journalistic piece about televangelism or whatever and ends up making his own company to prove how little regulation there is.
"Tortex up or Tortex down?" is probably the best guitar inside joke ive ever heard lmao
Until you saw the guitar stand joke.
To be fair to Lenny Kravitz, both songs are still better than Hey Soul Sister.
nope
I'll give you that, but it's also like saying drowning is better than cancer.
@@alfgwahigain5544 drowning is over more quickly than cancer so I'd rather drown
Way better. Lenny Kravitz is meh, but Hey Soul Sister makes me want to stab my ears with an ice pick.
That’s like taking a big steaming shit and then saying….well hey at least it’s not shit with vomit all over it 🤷🏻♂️
The cologne guy ukulele lesson clip was a deep cut. The lore is growing exponentially.
Jesus Christ every one of these is a masterpiece.
"brought to you by these guitar stands...Thinking about putting your guitar down? Think again!" Had me rolling
Lol I own a lot of em and they do suck... USE LOTS OF TAPE to get them to have the base holder thingy on the bottom to stop freekin jerkin around. I want my guitar to sit still lol. Why did they make them wobbly like that???
There’s nothing worse…
Your friends have to listen to half of one of your songs somewhere. Band camp
G Chord Ultra: You like logging in, right?
The rehearsal space we use has 5 room of decent gear, but busted "these guitar stands" everywhere. Assholes.
Hi, I'm Jim.
I am so honored to even be associated with this brilliant piece of art. Let alone being one of the deciding votes. Also, I was plastered when we talked. So I dont remember the conversation. So you can imagine my surprise.
Thank you for your service. Its brave men like you who will finally get a minor youtube audience to see how some songs, despite critical acclaim, truly stink.
You did great!
You did well, Jim. But damn I think we have to be mortal enemies now, as I am team American Woman.
What's up Jim?
Jim, I'm jealous you got to be on what will eventually be known as the greatest TH-cam Channel ever.
But, Team American Woman was robbed.
"G Chord Ultra--you like loggin' in, right?" is underappreciated
For sure. That was a laugh out loud for me.
Thank god the music industry doesn't have this amount of creativity, passion and boldness. We wouldn't have this video otherwise. Top TH-cam sh&t.
Its a tie until the outro of American Woman, when Lenny sings "I wanna fly away.." Drives me insane every time. Referencing his own crummy song in a crummy cover breaks the tie... American Woman stinks more.
"you're no good for me, I'm no good for you. Look me right straight in the eye, I'll tell ya what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna keep fucking singing this song way past it's welcome, you know I gotta do"
Yeah, the distortion is a bit of a deal-breaker. I never minded, but I get why you'd think it taints The Guess Who.
Went to his concert in 1999. They definitely used the "I wanna fly away" at the end of American Woman to lead into "Fly Away" As a kid in my teens, I was so overjoyed and lost it when that came on.
@@sandite5 how does it make you feel now?
@@sandite5Lenny is VH1 all day long in the early nineties... or around there somewhere... 'Are you gonna go my way' 10 times, everyday😂😂😂
This man keeps finding new wacky ways to outdo the previous episode in this series. Truly one of the most innovative filmmakers of the modern era.
Also, American Woman was bloody ROBBED!
The song doesn't stink, the COVER stinks. Fly Away as an original song stinks completely. It was a good call
You're right, American Woman as a song is fine, but personally I think the Kravitz cover completely neutering everything that makes the original song stand out is what makes it worse.
Fly Away is dumb but still begrudgingly catchy like most popular songs. Kravitz's American Woman is the same but far less catchy to me
@@PhantomKing88 Interesting, I actually vote for American Woman being worse. Because Fly Away is a bad song, but with American Woman Kravitz actually managed to take a good song and make it bad. That seems kinda worse to me
@@ltwrr112
Good point!
I would say Lenny Kravitz on the whole stinks the most.
But yeah thats not really the point here.
Are you gonna go my way stinks pretty bad btw.
100% This guy is so creative. Clearly he puts a lot of work into these videos.
"Beato Colosseum" amazing lol
Way more time, dedication and patience went into this video than went into 'Fly Away' for sure
"He wrote a terrible song, he covered a terrible song." That line should be in Kravitz' obituary one day.
He got famous with a good cover of a terrible song back in the day: Tom Jones’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” It’s kinda funny that he made a stinky cover of a good song later on in his career.
The Man who ruined The Guess Who's song American Woman.
That made my whole day
He did a horrible cover on a good song
@@jedimasterjoe5386 agree to disagree haha.
I love how in every video Pat gets regular everyday people to go along with his skits. It gives them scott the woz levels of charm
OMG THANK YOU, IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE THE CONNECTION. I LOVE THEM BOTH
hey all, scott fan here
But instead of it being his friends like Scott the Woz where all his friends are given a lot of screen time, and their own characters. it’s more just random people on the street who are seen only like once for a quick skit which just adds to the charm. Like it makes it feel like the full world around him is as obsessed with the terrible song of the episode as he is.
@@pinkrose8272 the confused furniture store employees have to be the best ones hahaha
@@andreethier816 like some borat level of production.
I've never understood why Kravitz is still such a big star. Here in the UK he had a couple of hits in the 90's and we've not really heard from him since, yet he still seems to be huge in the US. It's like he dressed up as a rock star and everyone was fooled into thinking that he actually was one.
Its just because he looks a little bit like Slash
Exactly. The dude is such a talentless hack. And he spawned another one!
He's like the flip side of Robbie Williams. Hey, we've all got our crosses to bear.
I think a lot of the 90s appeal was that he was a black American rock guitarist. The US was pretty damn racially divided at the time - even in terms of music - and he was like a radio-friendly bridge across the cultural gap. Yeah, Slash is half black but most people don't even seem to know that, and Prince was a fuckin rock god but was going through his "no one can play my music and my name is now a shape" era at that time. Kravitz had that "remember Hendrix?" market cornered defacto. He fit into the same "let's find some common ground" themes as the Jackson - Van Halen "Beat It" solo and Run-DMC - Aerosmith "Walk This Way". In time, I think people just kept playing Kravitz's music as nostalgia; I don't think I know anyone that actually likes his music, but no one really jumps to turn it off either.
Weirdly, typing this let's me appreciate Lenny more, I just wish his music wasn't so paint-by-numbers.
I think my favorite part of this uber genius video is the sports radio bit. Stirring up the team rivalry, etc Dude ran a marathon with this football concept. Impressive. Most impressive. Pat Finnerty is a true rock star.
The joke about Fly Away’s solo is so good, I believe the idea for this video started there and the rest was constructed around it.
Pat: I don't think I can make another movie like the train video
Also pat: makes video longer than train video
No wonder he had to call in Blinds To Go Guy. It was either him or George Lucas for this epic. Glad he went with BTGG
I loved it but would also love to back to basics less high-concept shit too. Maybe more Little Stinkers
Those were my thoughts exactly!
Fly away blows away train. Even AW is less hurtful to my ears
@@mr.roberto2709 More LIttle Stinkers, Def!
I feel like I owe you money for this. This shit is incredible.
hes on patreon
I’m not into country music or female pop vocalists, but I’ve been a wedding DJ for like 20 years and I honestly never even realized that there were two versions of “How Do I Live” and I sure as hell never knew they were released on the same fucking day!
Apparently the lady who wrote it is named Diane Warren, and she’s one of the most prolific songwriters behind so many hits, that I think she might actually give Max Martin a run for his money. In addition to “How Do I Live” she also wrote the biggest hit Aerosmith ever had, which was “I don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” as well as Cher’s biggest hit “Do You Believe.” Apparently she’s a one woman hit factory that’s been cranking them out since the 80’s. Back when she approached LeeAnn Rimes to record the song, she said that it was written with her in mind as the vocalist. Which makes you wonder how the hell Trisha Yearwood got mixed up into all of this. Well, it turns out that Warren submitted the song for the Con Air soundtrack before anything was recorded, because songwriters are apparently called on to write songs for films before anyone ever sets foot in a studio. They liked the song and wanted it in the film, but after she suggested Rimes as the vocalist the studio of course had to give their fucking notes, and felt that she was too young to be singing those lyrics or some nonsense, and they decided to bring in Trisha Yearwood to do the song for Con Air. Meanwhile Rimes and her producer were unaware of all of this had recorded their version and were wrapping things up when they got wind of the other version that was going to be released. The Disney and the label were dead set on putting out the Yearwood version and refused to delay the release, so they had to scramble to release Rimes’ version the same exact day.
It’s such a weird fucking story, and even though Yearwood had no idea that she was an afterthought and the second person to record the song, I feel bad for Rimes having her thunder stolen because some executives at Disney wanted to stick their fingers into shit for no reason. Rimes may have won in the end because her version set records for length of time on the Billboard charts and made a ton of fucking money, but she got screwed out of the soundtrack deal which meant substantially less Nicholas Cage in her video, and she lost the Grammy to Yearwood, because for the first time in history there were two people nominated for the same award for the same song in the same year. What’s even more fucked up is that she was asked to perform at the Grammy awards that year, and she literally performed “How Do I Live” right before they announced that Yearwood won the Grammy for singing that song.
We probably should’ve seen that as a sign back then, that Millennials were destined to be fucked over by Boomers repeatedly, but someone would’ve had to notice there were two fucking songs that were recorded and released at the exact same time, and considering that Yearwood’s version got more play on country radio it’s no surprise that people listened to pop or country back then, so the small amount of overlap between the two was minimal-and I guess nobody even paid attention to the Grammy’s back then, because I feel like it should’ve been a bigger deal than it was.
So, thanks for bringing up an obscure fact about the recording industry back in the late 90’s, because it sent me down a rabbit hole looking this ridiculous shit up. Thanks to that Wikipedia hole I just crawled through, I’m now also aware that LeeAnn Rimes posed nude for Glamour magazine while she was experiencing a flare up of psoriasis, in order to bring awareness to the disease. I’m sorry to report that it’s not worth braving her leprosy for a little bit of skin, because all the best parts are covered and Google images has nothing but grainy images of her looking all sorts of unsexy. I did the work so you don’t have to, so you’re welcome.
This is brilliant. Thanks.
This is probably the best TH-cam comment I've ever read. Well done.
Perhaps the longest TH-cam comment I have ever seen, and well written, too. Mad props
Interesting story, but I don't feel bad for either artist, as neither of them wrote the song. The songwriter got paid twice, and both artists made money for their performances. Everybody should be happy. No issue to see here.
You’re amazing. I was trying to do my own research on this song, but you really summed it up perfectly. Thank you!
“It’s only 8 seconds in and I’m pissed” 😂😂😂 Goddamnit Pat, you’ve done it again.
100% did laugh out loud at “Fancy Like” on the Stink Cam.
"Ernie Ball or D'Addario, who do you play?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about..."
"Awesome!"
Thst is why this is now my favorite show on TH-cam, possibly ever.
Holy god. This was good, but that moment when you said “tonic,” and Rick’s disembodied head interrupts was pure gold. Might be my favorite series on TH-cam.
I'm so impressed with the scope of this video. The amount of time and dedication to making it, with it's attention to detail, clever writing, and endearing DIY cut-and-paste graphics, can't be understated. This is the kind of video that makes TH-cam such a fun place to explore.
I can do nothing but violently agree.
I read this comment in Mark Zuckerberg's voice but with accentuating the "S" words in a lizardy fashion.
@@andy435 I saw your dead eyes as I read your comment.
@@andy435 I’m imaging you and Zuck pouring that sweet baby ray’s all over Lenny kravitz as I read your comment
This is what TH-cam was made for. Everything that's been done was only done so we could get to this video. I'm just grateful I got to live at a time where this video exists.
You're a goddamn genius.
I love the highschool PowerPoint visuals. So good!!
"The Wheel of Fortune/Mazda Defense" should be in every Coach's playbook
I watched this a year ago, but it felt like a fever dream. I had to watch it again just to confirm for myself that it's a real video that exists.
The character arc of Blinds 2 Go guy is really starting to heat up, he’s gotta be in my top 3 when it comes to the Finnerty lore. These masterpieces make me proud to be a Pennsylvanian
I hope the dude is just running the show eventually.
I'd like to see him get his own spinoff with Lloyd the Landlord.
He's a mainstay cast character at this point
Nooo I read too far and spoiled myself
I don't know what song he was making fun of in that cowboy outfit but it sounded good to me 🤠
The Guess Who version of American Woman is about the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of American greed and corruption sung by a Canadian band. Lenny Kravitz’s version just seems like a sleazy love song with its political bite completely taken out.
I mean, American Woman was made to be part of a soundtrack for a cash grab sequel to a film franchise created by a Canadian, so it kind of still fits.
Canadian anti Americanism is always hilarious
There is a certain irony in writing a pop song about greed that makes a mint of money.
@@miketyworth1029 The greed and corruption of a *state* is absolutely not comparable to a protest song making a lot of money.
@@notlikely4955 it is unless they donate that money to a worthy cause. If it’s just hookers and blow then they’re not much better and I’m pretty sure the guess who spend their American woman money on hookers and blow
Pat Finnerty, you’re taking the music world by the balls with this series and I couldn’t be happier
The Blinds To Go guy deserves a raise, because I'm not sure if I need blinds, but I know where I'm going to go if I ever decide that I need them.
Weak. If you are feeling the Blinds to Go Guy, you walk around your house or apartment, and pick which window needs blinds. The decision that you need them should be a foregone conclusion. Support the arts, buy a window treatment.
I go there for all of my blinds needs. The Drive-thru makes it fast and easy!
This is only episode 5 and this series is already in it's weird experimental phase, I love it
He’s the Pink Floyd of TH-camrs!
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half like are you gonna go my way? Then there was the tie and I was like baby it ain’t over till it’s over.
In the End, this was devastating. American Woman is an immediate station change. Maybe it’s my inner 7 year old still holding on but I unapologetically like Fly Away. Please don’t block me from watching your channel, Pat.
Let love rule.
“Matriculate down the field” is a super obscure but classic Coach Hank Stram (KC Chiefs) quote. Damn. Nice pull!
Pat. My hero. I thought the title and the thumbnail were just a silly spin on a normal "this vs that" video, but NO. This guy fuckin COMMITTED to the football bit, and it about killed me. The flags, the ads, the editing, the ref slurping coffee, the legendary single-note solo, this shit is pure fucking gold
Probably an Asshole’s toupee let us know what we were in for.
Dexter Holland and Eric Clapton jamming together haha
Agreed! Those extra jokes in the "ads" and "in between play" shots are PEAK COMEDY!
Sometimes I find a TH-cam series that is just so unbelievably made For Me and this is one of those series. You are 5/5 on these and I hope you made 100 more. Target audience absolutely reached, Pat
I know exactly what you mean
Fucking SAME - other than listening/playing music I get pretty much 100% of my entertainment from TH-cam, I'm wondering how did it take me and the algorithm so long to find Pat
@@DimIsHigh Me too!
It's funny, that's what I thought when I discovered What Makes This Song Great, but it turns out I don't give a shit out of 3/4 of the songs/bands and I'm not interested in what ways they're "great" -- it turns out that was just a prelude to finding my real jam, the PARODY of WMTSG 🤣
I feel like someone took a glass I drank out of and made this channel from my DNA.
Doing a rewatch (again) and wanted to say one of the things I love most about this is in the Bohlinger bits, how the store workers go from totally confused to just rolling with it.
I watched this guy rip on train a few years ago and I wanted more. Forgot about him but TH-cam decided to bring me back. Hilarious stuff.
“Thinkin about puttin your guitar down? Well, maybe you shouldn’t. Theeeeeese guitar stands” hahahaha
This is probably the most fun/creative way to express disdain for a piece of music that I’ve seen in a while.
“I mean it doesn’t sound like shit, but it sounds like shit.” Lenny would be proud of those lyrics.
Pat won the internet with this video! Im a big fan. Beato!
WE 👏 NEED 👏 A 👏 FULL 👏 LENGTH 👏 DEPARTMENT 👏 STORE 👏 RUNDOWN 👏
This series is a true modern masterpiece.
"The team that stinks more will win!"
Finally, some hope for Eagles fans
The Lions handily “won” that battle this year.
tank bowl
hard to tell if this is about the football team or the band
@@VolvagiasBlaze Eagles the band>Philadelphia Eagles
@@tombstonejones9581 That needs to be determined by a football game, just like FA vs AW.
This is one of the most brilliant videos in TH-cam history. It deserves at least 10 million views and 10 million more Hoffmans.
I absolutely needed this today. its amazing how deep it pulls me in. its like a long long wet tongue slapping my leg and I wake up, and the tongue turns out to be my arm that fell asleep and I couldn't feel it. but I have to stick around the figure out why its wet, and thats when I discovered that I peed the bed.. and I got drawn into a fiasco there, this video is like that. And I appreciate the Hoffman conversation as much as I did the Weezer conversation. but I digress, eventually everything turned out alright, just like this video.. and like the tongue, this left me confused, yet somehow satisfied with my direction in life. thanks for the chicken wings and we love Wawa!
HCA just kills me every time man. The absolute nothingburger of a track mashup, the aimless blueslicks, that one shot of Aronoff staring down camera, goddamn it's great
Was not expecting the burn on crappy guitar stands and band camp, you've got me rolling on the floor laughing.
The level of production on this video is insaaaaane!
The "Department Store Rundown" was absolutely perfect and you should do more videos of just that
I hadn't laughed that hard in a while
"you playin Ernie Balls or D'Addarios or who're you playin?"
@@quinnmarchese6313 "Is that in Drop C? Right on man!"
😂🤣😂
The department store rundown skits had me dying of laughter, it was so accurate
Wonder if the real John Bohlinger has seen them.
This feels as special as discovering Contrapoints early. It’s so diy and rock and roll I can’t stop watching. This is awesome even though I don’t get all of the jokes.
Contra!! PeepoHeart
Lmao a contra viewer, embarrassing self callout
@@zess_t5952 Yeah, a self-admission that one enjoys quality content! B)
Yes! That’s it!
Agreed! I remember those old Contra videos - they were hilarious, but she's removed them now. Her videos on The Golden One were my favorites.
i am stunned at how you turned a simple gag take on a beato series into a high-concept series like this.
I was humming along until he got to "These Guitar Stands." Pat should have warned us he was gonna go that dirty. Nightmare fuel.
incredible. this is such a thorough parody of gameday football coverage. seriously. incredible.
This is awesome
Definitely glad Fly Away took the W on this one. When I was 6 years old, I legitimately thought it was the most badass song ever. I feel that any 6 year old’s favorite song is always the stronger contender for maximum stinkery
God damnit i liked some puddle of mud back then...
Thanks for the fucking spoiler dude!!!!!
I loved the shit out of Force Field by Smashmouth as a kid
@@joelonsdale That's what you get for reading the comments section without finishing the video, champ 😂
6 year old me thought soft cell's tainted love was the best thing ever and i stand by that
I had no idea who Jon Bollinger was before this. I accidentally stumbled on one of his videos today and I immediately recognized him from Pat's impression. Dead on. 🤣
I just love that for every person involved in this video, he had to explain to them the concept of What Makes This Song Stink and his video idea. love it.
Finnerty has a long road ahead of him, and it’s paved with fucking gold
Fly Away. It’s the only guitar solo I can play all the way through.
I really want to see Kiedis, DeVille, and Ulrich at the next half time spectacular.
CAAAAAAAAAAAALIFOOOOJNA
Holy crap! I love how he rips other songs along the way. Especially Offspring!
Me 2 minutes in: "There's no way he can keep this up for 50 minutes"
Me 49 minutes in: "Wow....."
I could just watch his John Bohlinger impression all day long. Literally the best thing on the internet.
Awesome
It sounded great!
"...Cool!"
Cool!
Cool!
“Grab a pair of headphones because that’s where it’s gonna be most annoying to hear this.” is a pretty underrated line.
I still remember in the late 90s they pushed this guy so hard. They were going he’s the next Hendrix yet the songs are all 3 cords on repeat.
The only redeeming quality about Fly Away is that it's so boring you can easily tune it out , which is what I've done all my life. Now that you've made actually actively listen to it, it's far worse than I ever thought.
Fly away is so bad that even hearing it for this video and listening through it multiple times I have retained nothing of it, my brain just shuts down in self defense and I remember nothing afterwards. A "Kravitz Induced Trance" if you will
I've always found boring songs harder to get through than actually bad songs. If your profession is "entertainer" the worst thing you can be is boring.
As bad as fly away is, what gets me about american woman is that he fucking references fly away in it. Like unless I'm mistaken, the line about flying away wasn't in the original.
It's like he recorded fly away and then he was figuring out what he wanted to do for american woman and he said "remember that old gem from 20 hours ago in my career? let me go back to that well, the fans will love it." Like somehow he hadn't got his fix of singing about flying away that week and he needed just one more taste before going clean.
@@failkake dude really was only thinking about flying away that month
@@MuRpHyKn0t Somehow "American Woman" is 40 seconds longer. And "Fly Away" is only 3:41? Feels much lengthier.
"You're gonna have to bring in the Wheel of Fortune/Mazda Defense" "Yeah it's a classic..."
The random 'Beato' after every music theory related word is gold
Dude, that was insane!! I’m in the UK so I know next to nothing about the game, but that was effing hilarious. What I like about your videos is that they make me think about the craft of writing a song. I actually like Flyaway, but because of this video, I’m now looking at in a different way. If can avoid the same mistakes in my own music, there’s a chance it won’t suck completely. So thanks for posting this. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this gorgeous piece of insanity. Much appreciated. 😂 ❤👏🏾👍🏾
WHO is your wig guy? I need to know.
If Beato was half as cool as Marty.....
I love the TH-cam poops of your videos.
Maury’s wigs from Queens?
It makes me very happy you’re watching these you’re my og guitar teacher!!
Omg please get Marty Schwartz on one of your videos!