I didn’t know whether to cry or to dance along with it, it’s fucking incredible how awful it is, the way the human brain responds to certain things is genuinely fascinating, engineered music is a neat thing lol
I think Head by Island Boys is one of the funniest bad songs of all time. These 2 idiots accidentally made one of the most entertaining pieces of music I have ever heard.
Re: the "Most Wanted" and "Most Unwanted" songs: the artists collected statistical data on what musical instruments, voices, subject matter, music forms and styles people liked and didn't like, and compiled it all into the two songs. the full statistics are printed in the liner notes but for "Most Wanted", a male/female duet power ballad with a saxophone solo was found to be the most optimal and irresistible combination based on the data; the song is subtitled "(A Musical Work That Will Be Unavoidably And Uncontrollably "Liked" By 72 ± 12% Of Listeners)". meanwhile for "Most Unwanted", people reported that they hated commercial jingles, opera, childsong, rap, politics, bagpipes, banjo, etc. so the artists threw all of it in there. Its subtitle is "(Fewer Than 200 Individuals Of The World's Total Population Will Enjoy This)".This album was remastered in 2019 and even pressed to vinyl, if you're a total weirdo who needs a copy. The data itself was collected online in 1996 and the songs were recorded/released in 1997, so that gives you a picture of how the countries polled for the statistics felt about music (only major Western countries had access to the internet at that time, and in those countries it was mainly White well-off families that were jumping online. Research the saturation of AOL Online discs, you'll get the full picture of what demographics were/weren't online at the time.) In the summer of 1997, Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" was huge. Spice Girls and Third Eye Blind were leading the charts. White society was very vocal against rap for shallow-minded racist reasons; against opera because it was too "high brow and pretentious" for them; and against country because of the anti-poor "white trash is beneath me" classism. Also, the concept of genre-blending was still a very novel idea (Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" remix with Ol' Dirty Bastard was A Concern for some people), and the concept of "enjoying things ironically" really wasn't widespread at all, so this experiment was framed as taking people's sonic desires to their extremes in a serious, yet tongue-in-cheek manner. Long story short, the composers were saying, "this is what you asked for so why don't you like this? why is this so alien to you?" i would honestly be curious for a re-do of the whole experiment. As a whole, a larger portion of the world is not only online but conscious of each others' societal differences to a degree. the monoculture that fueled the US entertainment industry has radically been destabilized. our thoughts on genres of music (and on other races) have definitely matured in the ~30 years since. there'd still be xenophobic issues (like the downvoting of several genres under the "urbano" umbrella) but in my eyes it'd be a more honest reflection than the one we got, collected from so narrow a subject pool.
Guessing the poll explains the lines "Who enslaved people of color? Who invaded the Carribbean? Who murdered all the innocent children? You did! You! You! You!"
I honestly love Wolf In Sheep's Clothing both for nostalgic Gen Z edgy fanbase reasons and bc it tries so unbelievably hard to be cool that I find it really funny. I always loop that break part bc it's so funny to me
The Most Unwanted Song had me fucking CRYING laughing. I want to know absolutely everything about the making of that song, I have far too many questions about it for them to go unanswered.
According to some other comments, it was made thru data analysis based on what folks said they disliked/liked the most in music Reminds me of a child captain beefheart tbh
I owe my life to Brad. I got in a horrible car crash and i was in 6 month coma. The nurse walked in and changed the channel to Brad's stream. I awoke from my coma the nurse was shocked I turned the stream off and went back to my coma.
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is horrendusly edgy, yes, but by the sheer fact of how catchy and good the melodies are, I can't give it a zero. It feels more like the singer is playing a character rather than just being his trashy self, like Ronnie Radke for example.
Cody is just a fun guy. I think the song is trying to be super edgy, because I can't really remember the other songs on the album being this in your face about it.
The Most Unwanted Song broke me down further with every transition, it was the beat switch after the “Halloween” verse that finally did me in, I’ve been laughing for a solid 10 minutes now
The concept of good-bad VS bad-bad originated in a cinema magazine from the 60s in France, they called it "Navet Vs Nanard", basically "turnip VS funny piece of junk", the "turnip" being the bad-bad one. French have simple words for these concepts, so it's shorter to say.
The Unwanted Song vs The Wanted Song is SUCH a great example. Shows that people dont know what they actually want until they actually experience it (at least if they have an open mind, lol)
So glad you heard the Most Unwanted Song. Legit one of the funniest songs ever made, it lives in my head rent free. Loved seeing chat spamming "AT WALMART"
We listened to the most unwanted song in my band class lunch break once and our band director could not stop laughing. Them kids casually singing about Walmart and guns had me rolling for no reason 😭
I don't think it's really fair to have First Of October in this. The whole gimmick is they write, record and mix an album in a single day every October 1st. That means they have at most an hour to make each song from scratch, while the other people on the list almost certainly worked on their songs for a considerably longer amount of time. Yes I am a fan of both of the content creators involved and inherently biased, but I think my point stands.
"ill never be able to hear this song the same again because ive listened to the gay remix so many times" is probably the most relateable thing Brad has ever said XD
I love harsh noise. Sometimes I'm literally so mad/distressed that choruses, chords and lyrics come across cringy and feel like there downplaying my current issues. Noise has that bitter resentment in a distilled sound, that I can sleep to in trying times. It functions the same as Ambient Music. It's about Textures and Atmosphere. As dumb as it sounds, I prefer Vererology over Pulse Demon, despite them being both "the same". I like the Industrial side of Vernerology, and from my memory Pulse Demon has more high end that actually does hurt my ears. Besides that, in general Noise can be a powerful compositional technique if done right, like World's End Girlfriends album Hurtbreak Wonderland combining Orchestral Pieces with Noise, or Uboa's album The Origin of My Depression giving the Noise some more context.
Do you like Animal Collective's early work? They're great at mixing the harshness of noise with an almost child-like wonder that strikes an interesting balance. Especially their first album, it's a very strange and esoteric atmosphere. The track "Untitled" is a perfect example. I've always imagined some kind of creature dying in pain but they're in the process of ascending to heaven. Idk.
@@coco_rthritis6462 I've hadn't had the chance to listen to them yet, but I've planned to for a while. The odd album cover with the green leaves and purple background is them, right?
I love drone and noise music, and Uboa is fantastic, but I just can’t get into Merzbow. I respect most attempts at experimentation but it feels kind of gimmicky. A perfect blend of harsh noise that incorporates beautiful and serene ambience would have to be Yellow Swans’ Going Places. I love a classic, straight up wall of noise, but it’s gotta be interesting and layered too, for that reason I’m also a big fan of drone metal such as Boris, Sunn O and Earth. But I completely get the feeling of needing the most abrasive stuff, desperate times call for desperate measures lol
@@V.F.D.DaleSalvadorthat would be Merriweather Post Pavilion their most accessible entry point album, good record but contains no noise. Youll want to check out their first album Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished, then Danse Manatee, Hollinndagain, and Ark. Each utilize noise and are a completely different and unique experience, uncomparable to anything else ive heard
"The Most Wanted Song" sounds like a song a kindergarten teacher made their students. It's like that one band of those girls who made music because their dad made them and they sucked, but a lot of famous musicians liked it. Vibe wise.
The shaggs! Philosophy of the world is the name of the album i pretty sure I love when people talk about them. I did a couple essays/presentations on them for uni
@@Princesssmelly i remember hearing about that too. A lot of musicians are into simplicity and a lot of pop musicians from the 90s I think it was were very much so of the belief that simplicity and minimalism were very important to making a good song.
@@CavinLee seems they knew less is more c: Sometimes maximalism works too tho, have you listened to trout mask replica by captain beefheart? Its interesting how that album reaches thru the whole spectrum from minimalism to maximalism
Thank you Brad for reminding me about the most unwanted song. The best example of good bad music. Its been nearly 20 years and i still lose it to the soprano rapping
Didn't expect to see "Abacab" by Genesis in here since it's a guilty pleasure of mine, always liked it a lot as an album and always liked that they wanted to experiment more with it.
5:51 This is unironically my favorite price of shitpost art that has ever been made and not a day goes by where I don't reference it Edit: i forgot to mention the best part, which is that this is an actual fucking arrangement that was played live. In front of actual people. This was performed. And people saw it. Live.
okay, but I actually enjoy "wolf in sheeps clothing". yes, it's bad, but I can't listen to it without being reminded about my huge 2016 opsession with undertale. this song is such a good childhood memory that I simply can't hate it
Ive totally heard those kids sing about holidays in walmart before. I wonder if this is its origins or if it was just a sample? I think your concept videos are your best because I always feel like I learn something soon.
genuinely tho, i decided to dive in and listen to a full day of merzbow and halfway it kinda clicked, makes me think this is what it sounds like inside the womb. at a certain point the music became comforting woodpecker now just scratches an itch if i need a quick fix
I unironically listen to noise music when I'm trying relax and sometimes it sends me to sleep. it's like white noise but there's enough happening to not get bored
I find enjoyment in Merzbow due to the interesting sensations his music causes. Listening through Ultra Marine Blues all the way through factory resets your eardrums and makes you feel very lucid. It's a pleasant experience to me. I can completely understand that it is not for everyone though. It won't click for some, and that's fine.
I think Merzbeat is probably his most "accessible" work. It's more like noise rock/pop rather than straight harsh noise. A good introduction into the harsher stuff. Still pretty out there for most people though lol.
I refer to noise as "brain scrubbing music." Its perfect when im having one of those weird slumps where none of the music i know is working for me, and i cant find anything new i like. Pop in a noise album, and it, like you say, factory resets me
Literally same, I’ve got a few of his works on Vinyl, and have been a “”fan”” for years, it’s literally more about the feeling and experience to me rather than ‘music’, it’s why I like the term ‘sound/audio art’ rather than music for stuff like that, I feel like harsh noise is like looking at an abstract painting but in audio form lol
I genuinely love Wolf In Sheeps Clothing cause I have nostalgia of typing it into the Roblox chat and “singing” for my Roblox girlfriend (I was 8 and a lesbian 😭)
41:12 I was a line cook and cashier at a fast-casual restaurant. My General Manager loved EDM and was a festival guy so he wasn't a fan of Ariana Grande, but he fucking LOVED Dance Monkey for some reason. It was added into the playlist that went onto our kitchen Bluetooth speaker and played several times a day in the back for months. Every time it came on he would stop what he was doing and sing or dance to it. Funny guy. I don't hate the song because I always think of Sean jamming out to it whenever I hear it.
Woodpecker is a classic. One of the coolest experiences I've ever had with music was like 5 years ago I turned off all the lights in my room, laid down, put on Pulse Demon and my entire brain turned into that texture. You imagine insane landscapes when you immerse yourself into it. It's so awesome and extreme i don't know why you didn't get anything out of it.
It tries too hard. I resist Merzbow because it feels manipulative. I don't get landscapes, I get the image of a teen on a computer. Pharmakon is way better.
@@reid3031 Nah it's awesome and disturbing music. I support teens on computers, especially if they are doing groundbreaking stuff like Merzbow has been since the 80's. Checked out Pharmakon and they sound pretty cool so thanks.
29:49 i am ashamed to say that even without lyrics on screen, I knew the song off by heart and found myself singing in my head. i had a VERY strange phase in 2019-2021.
I think pink guy's pink season is a great example of good bad music. It's intentionally bad, and the entertainment comes from just how blatantly absurd it is
I don't think it's an awful song but it takes a serious tolerance for quirky 2016 Tumblr-core tropes to appreciate. And to be honest I don't always have that.
Another good bad song would be pink cellphone by deftones. It’s a very interesting experience and has a lot of weird parts ( especially the end ) but is a song I wouldn’t put on my playlist
I would argue that Mini Maggit is also a good bad Deftones song. Everyone dislikes it because it is a "nu-metal-ified bastardization" of Pink Maggit but it's still a fun song to listen to with pretty good lyrics, and even though the song itself on its own may not be that good, it serves very well to book-end White Pony.
@@J.PC.Designshonestly what's so bad about back to school tho? The raps aren't cringe or cookie cutter, the riffs are great, it's a good chorus. I think it's just tainted because of how it came about.
Am I crazy, or were both those First of October songs good? The first is a decent country rock number, and the second is a good throwback to early soft rock.
That Merzbow song... i first heard that song on the radio a few years ago, believe it or not. it was on a local college station. at first, i thought "why are they playing static? is the station off the air?" i then shazamed the harsh noise and it told me it was Merzbow lol i tried listening to it while taking an online test. I DON'T RECOMMEND DOING THAT AT ALL
I don't like comparing lil dicky and lonely island because they're going for two different things. Yeah they're both comedy but lonely island had a huge emphasis on the visual aspect so A LOT of the enjoyment imo is lost without considering the videos and that's especially true with motherlover
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evil brad be like: grood taste in music
sad brad be like: srad taste in music
Thanks “piclebob”
glad taste in music 😈
@@WildzV1Gladariel
Chad taste in music
seeing brad completely broken by a children's choir singing about shopping at walmart over a seasame street type beat is really something
AAT WAALMAART!!!
*christmas time* NO *christmas time*
It's such a fucking funny song I wanted to rec it on stream one time but couldn't afford to fit the whole thing
YOM KIPPUR YOM KIPPUR YOM KIPPUR
honestly that part was kinda catchy
I didn’t know whether to cry or to dance along with it, it’s fucking incredible how awful it is, the way the human brain responds to certain things is genuinely fascinating, engineered music is a neat thing lol
Nothing like a Brad Taste video to make a bad day worse
Damn you zuckerberg quit asking for 2 forms of id
*brad day
Bro got to the brad day joke before me 😢
chin up king, your clown nose is falling
Nothing like a brad taste video to make a brad tay vorse
New stream idea: The Most Unwanted Song, but 20 dollars starts it from the beginning. No giving up.
Make it $50 and I could see it
Yeah $50 sounds good, Mother was $5 and it was only 2 and a half minutes I think
Feel like you could also do this with a harsh noise album, but I doubt people would willingly sit through that lmao
@@dumbbirdwayneI like noisy music but even for me harsh noise can be very painful
@@dumbbirdwayne yeah like the music has to be annoying, but if its just harsh its just not fun. dont think the stream would even last that long.
put the "AT WALMART" in The Most Unwanted Song on your soundboard i beg
I think Head by Island Boys is one of the funniest bad songs of all time. These 2 idiots accidentally made one of the most entertaining pieces of music I have ever heard.
Genuinely, unironically, it crosses over from being awful to being incredible, avant garde and boundary pushing
@@erikdaniels0nlike some parts of it could be considered experimental. All in all an ambitious failure on every single front.
it's progressive rap. he's a demon in the sky when he looks you in your eye!
No joke tho, the instrumental they rap on is actually rlly good and well made especially since there's so many beat switches. Too bad they wasted it
@@billross9132the alien sample is still hilarious
Re: the "Most Wanted" and "Most Unwanted" songs: the artists collected statistical data on what musical instruments, voices, subject matter, music forms and styles people liked and didn't like, and compiled it all into the two songs. the full statistics are printed in the liner notes but for "Most Wanted", a male/female duet power ballad with a saxophone solo was found to be the most optimal and irresistible combination based on the data; the song is subtitled "(A Musical Work That Will Be Unavoidably And Uncontrollably "Liked" By 72 ± 12% Of Listeners)".
meanwhile for "Most Unwanted", people reported that they hated commercial jingles, opera, childsong, rap, politics, bagpipes, banjo, etc. so the artists threw all of it in there. Its subtitle is "(Fewer Than 200 Individuals Of The World's Total Population Will Enjoy This)".This album was remastered in 2019 and even pressed to vinyl, if you're a total weirdo who needs a copy.
The data itself was collected online in 1996 and the songs were recorded/released in 1997, so that gives you a picture of how the countries polled for the statistics felt about music (only major Western countries had access to the internet at that time, and in those countries it was mainly White well-off families that were jumping online. Research the saturation of AOL Online discs, you'll get the full picture of what demographics were/weren't online at the time.) In the summer of 1997, Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" was huge. Spice Girls and Third Eye Blind were leading the charts. White society was very vocal against rap for shallow-minded racist reasons; against opera because it was too "high brow and pretentious" for them; and against country because of the anti-poor "white trash is beneath me" classism. Also, the concept of genre-blending was still a very novel idea (Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" remix with Ol' Dirty Bastard was A Concern for some people), and the concept of "enjoying things ironically" really wasn't widespread at all, so this experiment was framed as taking people's sonic desires to their extremes in a serious, yet tongue-in-cheek manner. Long story short, the composers were saying, "this is what you asked for so why don't you like this? why is this so alien to you?"
i would honestly be curious for a re-do of the whole experiment. As a whole, a larger portion of the world is not only online but conscious of each others' societal differences to a degree. the monoculture that fueled the US entertainment industry has radically been destabilized. our thoughts on genres of music (and on other races) have definitely matured in the ~30 years since. there'd still be xenophobic issues (like the downvoting of several genres under the "urbano" umbrella) but in my eyes it'd be a more honest reflection than the one we got, collected from so narrow a subject pool.
Guessing the poll explains the lines
"Who enslaved people of color?
Who invaded the Carribbean?
Who murdered all the innocent children?
You did! You! You! You!"
I am NOT reading all that
@@taco_bender not typing is a free action
@@birchwwolf I read allat, interesting words
I sat through that whole 21 minute song and started crying because i felt trapped. I legit couldn't handle that song emotionally.
There is something about the way it’s mixed that makes me feel like I’ve been backed into a corner, it genuinely feels like a torture tape
It gives Being buried alive
That’s how you know it’s art- it made you feel something
TH-cam version of The Most Unwanted Song that includes the sheet music is beyond hysterical
There’s something about seeing what terror is coming and not being able to stop it…
BAGPIPE SOLO BUT EVERYONE PLAYS AND KIDS SCREAM
I honestly love Wolf In Sheep's Clothing both for nostalgic Gen Z edgy fanbase reasons and bc it tries so unbelievably hard to be cool that I find it really funny. I always loop that break part bc it's so funny to me
Haha me too
14 year old me was obsessed with that song.
It’s one of those songs that you have to acknowledge how bad it is but you still know every single lyric 😭it’s so catchy and horrid
@@plaguedocter4791 For real it's so catchy 😭
The song is trash, but it’s my kind of trash
Let's make an official rule that "Lazarus" by David Bowie should only be covered if you're about to die.
on it.
Seeing Brad being broken by Unwanted Song made me lose my fucking mind. It really just never ends.
brad never fails to make my insides tingle with his beefy and stern voice
🤨
hey… what…
same
I wonder how Brad feels about comments like these
Glazer
The Most Unwanted Song had me fucking CRYING laughing. I want to know absolutely everything about the making of that song, I have far too many questions about it for them to go unanswered.
According to some other comments, it was made thru data analysis based on what folks said they disliked/liked the most in music
Reminds me of a child captain beefheart tbh
Soooo funny
I've unironically listened to the complete "most unwanted song" multiple times. just brilliant
I genuinely enjoy large sections of that track
I owe my life to Brad. I got in a horrible car crash and i was in 6 month coma. The nurse walked in and changed the channel to Brad's stream. I awoke from my coma the nurse was shocked I turned the stream off and went back to my coma.
was it so bad it put you into another coma?
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is horrendusly edgy, yes, but by the sheer fact of how catchy and good the melodies are, I can't give it a zero. It feels more like the singer is playing a character rather than just being his trashy self, like Ronnie Radke for example.
Cody is just a fun guy. I think the song is trying to be super edgy, because I can't really remember the other songs on the album being this in your face about it.
That’s how I feel too
THIS. Like, it honestly feels like Brad is taking it too seriously, ironically enough
Agreed
legit that song has so many funny memories for me I can't hate it
7:21 that whole segment with the children singing was a banger
AT WALMART
The Most Unwanted Song broke me down further with every transition, it was the beat switch after the “Halloween” verse that finally did me in, I’ve been laughing for a solid 10 minutes now
The concept of good-bad VS bad-bad originated in a cinema magazine from the 60s in France, they called it "Navet Vs Nanard", basically "turnip VS funny piece of junk", the "turnip" being the bad-bad one. French have simple words for these concepts, so it's shorter to say.
Doesn't french have a word for slapping someone with your meat?
finally the french make something good
what's wrong with turnips :(
@@crystalw_725 they were the poor-people vegetable, easy to grow and cheap :p
@@pierrelapointe333 makes sense lol
We didn’t really need all those filler songs, we’re all just here for The People’s Choice Music!
The Most Unwanted Song made me laugh my ass off several times. I loved it.
*IT'S YOM KIPPUR* @@WordoftheElderGods
The Unwanted Song vs The Wanted Song is SUCH a great example. Shows that people dont know what they actually want until they actually experience it (at least if they have an open mind, lol)
So glad you heard the Most Unwanted Song. Legit one of the funniest songs ever made, it lives in my head rent free. Loved seeing chat spamming "AT WALMART"
the most unwanted song is what tally hall sounds like to me
Omg it's you 😮
@@ShirubaGin hi bro
Don't blame you
It's literally muckla buckla
Genuinely kinda eye opening
We listened to the most unwanted song in my band class lunch break once and our band director could not stop laughing. Them kids casually singing about Walmart and guns had me rolling for no reason 😭
The most unwanted song made me feel like I was lobotomized twice
I hadn’t heard that Unwanted Song in over a decade but the children’s choir part with random holidays pops in my head constantly
37:03 "ya get the point" - "alright, I get the point" is so good
i swear to god, that 20 minute song works as both a torture song and a trigger for sleeper agents
This man has introduced me to the most heinous music in existence.
omg i completely forgot about the unwanted song 😭 i discovered that song when i was in high school and it was crazy 😭
I don't think it's really fair to have First Of October in this. The whole gimmick is they write, record and mix an album in a single day every October 1st. That means they have at most an hour to make each song from scratch, while the other people on the list almost certainly worked on their songs for a considerably longer amount of time. Yes I am a fan of both of the content creators involved and inherently biased, but I think my point stands.
Agree. Probably shouldn't have been included tbh, just feels out of place next to everything else.
Also Lonely Angel is a banger
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
a bad song is a bad song idc how long it took to make
@@simon4476don't be intentionally stupid
The discussion is whether or not including it in this video makes sense, not whether the song is good or bad
I’ve recommended the most unwanted song for the longest of time , glad to see it get a reaction
I gotta say, "No her with no" has the same hilarious clean-version energy as "You nah you nah you nah you"💀
37:04 Love how streaming brad agreed with editing Brad that he got the point
Brad's edited in covers of the songs to avoid copyright is my favorite part lol
"ill never be able to hear this song the same again because ive listened to the gay remix so many times" is probably the most relateable thing Brad has ever said XD
I love harsh noise. Sometimes I'm literally so mad/distressed that choruses, chords and lyrics come across cringy and feel like there downplaying my current issues. Noise has that bitter resentment in a distilled sound, that I can sleep to in trying times. It functions the same as Ambient Music. It's about Textures and Atmosphere. As dumb as it sounds, I prefer Vererology over Pulse Demon, despite them being both "the same". I like the Industrial side of Vernerology, and from my memory Pulse Demon has more high end that actually does hurt my ears. Besides that, in general Noise can be a powerful compositional technique if done right, like World's End Girlfriends album Hurtbreak Wonderland combining Orchestral Pieces with Noise, or Uboa's album The Origin of My Depression giving the Noise some more context.
Do you like Animal Collective's early work? They're great at mixing the harshness of noise with an almost child-like wonder that strikes an interesting balance. Especially their first album, it's a very strange and esoteric atmosphere. The track "Untitled" is a perfect example. I've always imagined some kind of creature dying in pain but they're in the process of ascending to heaven. Idk.
@@coco_rthritis6462 I've hadn't had the chance to listen to them yet, but I've planned to for a while. The odd album cover with the green leaves and purple background is them, right?
Thanks for the explanation. I was trying to understand the appeal of Noise. I'll have to give it a second listen with what you said in mind.
I love drone and noise music, and Uboa is fantastic, but I just can’t get into Merzbow. I respect most attempts at experimentation but it feels kind of gimmicky. A perfect blend of harsh noise that incorporates beautiful and serene ambience would have to be Yellow Swans’ Going Places. I love a classic, straight up wall of noise, but it’s gotta be interesting and layered too, for that reason I’m also a big fan of drone metal such as Boris, Sunn O and Earth. But I completely get the feeling of needing the most abrasive stuff, desperate times call for desperate measures lol
@@V.F.D.DaleSalvadorthat would be Merriweather Post Pavilion their most accessible entry point album, good record but contains no noise. Youll want to check out their first album Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished, then Danse Manatee, Hollinndagain, and Ark. Each utilize noise and are a completely different and unique experience, uncomparable to anything else ive heard
"The Most Wanted Song" sounds like a song a kindergarten teacher made their students. It's like that one band of those girls who made music because their dad made them and they sucked, but a lot of famous musicians liked it. Vibe wise.
oh god not the shaggs..
The shaggs! Philosophy of the world is the name of the album i pretty sure
I love when people talk about them. I did a couple essays/presentations on them for uni
The dad was convinced they would be rock stars and totally forced it on them based entirely on a psychic reading of his future
@@Princesssmelly i remember hearing about that too. A lot of musicians are into simplicity and a lot of pop musicians from the 90s I think it was were very much so of the belief that simplicity and minimalism were very important to making a good song.
@@CavinLee seems they knew less is more c:
Sometimes maximalism works too tho, have you listened to trout mask replica by captain beefheart? Its interesting how that album reaches thru the whole spectrum from minimalism to maximalism
Thank you Brad for reminding me about the most unwanted song. The best example of good bad music. Its been nearly 20 years and i still lose it to the soprano rapping
Brad singing Dance Monkey is something I didn't know I needed honestly
Didn't expect to see "Abacab" by Genesis in here since it's a guilty pleasure of mine, always liked it a lot as an album and always liked that they wanted to experiment more with it.
Brad never fails to make my life a videogame 😁
Brad never fails to try hard to beat the stage
brad never fails at collecting coins.
5:51 This is unironically my favorite price of shitpost art that has ever been made and not a day goes by where I don't reference it
Edit: i forgot to mention the best part, which is that this is an actual fucking arrangement that was played live. In front of actual people. This was performed. And people saw it. Live.
I think the most unwanted song section is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time
okay, but I actually enjoy "wolf in sheeps clothing". yes, it's bad, but I can't listen to it without being reminded about my huge 2016 opsession with undertale. this song is such a good childhood memory that I simply can't hate it
Literally same except I didn’t know it from undertake edits I just liked the song as an emo teen but something Abt the rhythm of it I enjoy
Ive totally heard those kids sing about holidays in walmart before. I wonder if this is its origins or if it was just a sample? I think your concept videos are your best because I always feel like I learn something soon.
Bro what you talking about Woodpecker #1 is the best thing to listen while studying. I love the whole album when I sleep. So peaceful. 😊😊
genuinely tho, i decided to dive in and listen to a full day of merzbow and halfway it kinda clicked, makes me think this is what it sounds like inside the womb. at a certain point the music became comforting
woodpecker now just scratches an itch if i need a quick fix
I unironically listen to noise music when I'm trying relax and sometimes it sends me to sleep. it's like white noise but there's enough happening to not get bored
04:40 As someone who never leaves their musical comfort zone, I found this song extremely enjoyable and fun to listen to.
I find enjoyment in Merzbow due to the interesting sensations his music causes. Listening through Ultra Marine Blues all the way through factory resets your eardrums and makes you feel very lucid. It's a pleasant experience to me. I can completely understand that it is not for everyone though. It won't click for some, and that's fine.
I think Merzbeat is probably his most "accessible" work. It's more like noise rock/pop rather than straight harsh noise. A good introduction into the harsher stuff. Still pretty out there for most people though lol.
I refer to noise as "brain scrubbing music." Its perfect when im having one of those weird slumps where none of the music i know is working for me, and i cant find anything new i like. Pop in a noise album, and it, like you say, factory resets me
does listening to merzbow make you look like your profile picture?
@@manboy4720 occasionally
Literally same, I’ve got a few of his works on Vinyl, and have been a “”fan”” for years, it’s literally more about the feeling and experience to me rather than ‘music’, it’s why I like the term ‘sound/audio art’ rather than music for stuff like that, I feel like harsh noise is like looking at an abstract painting but in audio form lol
Dance Monkey came to my mind first as 'bad bad music'
yoooo i didn’t know you had a channel loved you on hivemind
I genuinely love Wolf In Sheeps Clothing cause I have nostalgia of typing it into the Roblox chat and “singing” for my Roblox girlfriend (I was 8 and a lesbian 😭)
41:12 I was a line cook and cashier at a fast-casual restaurant. My General Manager loved EDM and was a festival guy so he wasn't a fan of Ariana Grande, but he fucking LOVED Dance Monkey for some reason. It was added into the playlist that went onto our kitchen Bluetooth speaker and played several times a day in the back for months. Every time it came on he would stop what he was doing and sing or dance to it. Funny guy. I don't hate the song because I always think of Sean jamming out to it whenever I hear it.
Idc what brad says I will still love Wolf in Sheeps clothing/Set It Off
In this case he is Grood taste in music. Leave. Jk
Its always going to be a good video when Brad starts the video saying he forgot to record
It’s always going to be a good video when Brad starts the video
On the Prowl changed my life
“We Wanted Change” is my go-to track when I want to annoy my kids, I love it
actual torture.
Woodpecker is a classic. One of the coolest experiences I've ever had with music was like 5 years ago I turned off all the lights in my room, laid down, put on Pulse Demon and my entire brain turned into that texture. You imagine insane landscapes when you immerse yourself into it. It's so awesome and extreme i don't know why you didn't get anything out of it.
It tries too hard. I resist Merzbow because it feels manipulative. I don't get landscapes, I get the image of a teen on a computer.
Pharmakon is way better.
@@reid3031 Nah it's awesome and disturbing music. I support teens on computers, especially if they are doing groundbreaking stuff like Merzbow has been since the 80's. Checked out Pharmakon and they sound pretty cool so thanks.
bro seeing people just not like set it off makes me realize how little people actually like their weird lyrics
I used to like their song Partners in Crime bc it sounded like an edgy team rocket otherwise hard pass
SAMEEE @@Quesoquantum
crazy how Brad singing worth it genuinely sounds better than YK Osiris
brad never fails to make “good” bad content 🥰
Brad never fails to make good content
What a normal comment for a brad video
@@rldv634 Brad also never fails to make Brad content (not bad)
YELLOW EVO SPOTTED
@@drift_works i like racing games
@@VarVarJeg yea, me too... whats your ps id?
i'm so happy brad finally had to sit through the most unwanted song, i wanted to send it in as a song request but i also want to afford rent and food
Sad they left out Arbor Day in The Most Unwanted Song
0/10
29:49 i am ashamed to say that even without lyrics on screen, I knew the song off by heart and found myself singing in my head. i had a VERY strange phase in 2019-2021.
I also knew all the lyrics lmfao. I had that phase in 2016 🗿 i can never escape
I think pink guy's pink season is a great example of good bad music. It's intentionally bad, and the entertainment comes from just how blatantly absurd it is
bad day for first of october enjoyers
We need him to react to a full album of theirs
The most unwanted song is something I'd have played in my freshman year of high school to be quirky lol
MOST UNWANTED SONG MENTIONED 🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT WALMART
I love watching your videos while at work, they're very funny. They get me through those long night shifts.
OMG unwanted song is actually the funniest thing ive experienced on youtube
I USED TO WATCH THE UNDERTALE EDITS TO WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING
i forgot about about wolf in sheep’s clothing. i cannot believe i unironically listened to that at some point
Wolf in sheeps clothing is a great song imo, like yeah is corny but i got memories man 😭
Man, this whole video was such a trip. Your cut-ins where future Brad interacts with past Brad to sing over the copywritten songs were GOLDEN.
G Eazy could make SAMIDOT but Kendrick Lamid could never make Guala Guala
Keeping warm in a Wisconsin blizzard with some Brad Taste 🥶
AT WALMART 🔥🔥🔥
watching brad protest whenever he hears that simpsons hit and run incidental music ass beat over and over again doesn't get old
The Most Unwanted Song felt like the predecessor to DistantCry
We need more of Brad's beautiful covers.
i just absolutely love the production and songwriting on woodpecker, it is truly a modern classic
Someone has to have dropped acid and listened to the Unwanted Song that was a trip without even being high or drunk at all
So Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is in my music playlist, I probably skipped it most of the time but I still liked it.
So that's why my meme ego's bad.
I don't think it's an awful song but it takes a serious tolerance for quirky 2016 Tumblr-core tropes to appreciate. And to be honest I don't always have that.
it’s so impressive seeing how brad can still come up with new ways to ruin my night 🙌
Another good bad song would be pink cellphone by deftones. It’s a very interesting experience and has a lot of weird parts ( especially the end ) but is a song I wouldn’t put on my playlist
I would argue that Mini Maggit is also a good bad Deftones song. Everyone dislikes it because it is a "nu-metal-ified bastardization" of Pink Maggit but it's still a fun song to listen to with pretty good lyrics, and even though the song itself on its own may not be that good, it serves very well to book-end White Pony.
@@J.PC.Designshonestly what's so bad about back to school tho? The raps aren't cringe or cookie cutter, the riffs are great, it's a good chorus. I think it's just tainted because of how it came about.
I use woodpecker no. 1 to find my earbuds after losing them
I feel like the most Unwanted Song is Freiza's personal hellscape in song form
Brads the type of dude to facetime himself in the middle of the video
Brads pop champagne cover is spot on
Am I crazy, or were both those First of October songs good? The first is a decent country rock number, and the second is a good throwback to early soft rock.
Everytime somebody listens to merzbow and assumes it’s representative of all noise music i cry a lil bit
It's like listening to Rings of Saturn as your first metal band lol
That Merzbow song... i first heard that song on the radio a few years ago, believe it or not. it was on a local college station. at first, i thought "why are they playing static? is the station off the air?" i then shazamed the harsh noise and it told me it was Merzbow lol
i tried listening to it while taking an online test. I DON'T RECOMMEND DOING THAT AT ALL
I don't like comparing lil dicky and lonely island because they're going for two different things. Yeah they're both comedy but lonely island had a huge emphasis on the visual aspect so A LOT of the enjoyment imo is lost without considering the videos and that's especially true with motherlover
brads version of dance monkey was genuinely way more listenable than the original
I always love when this topic comes up, dope to see a whole hour long video on it 🔥🔥
$5 restarts most unwanted song please
brad i much prefered you singing dance monkey like that actually didn't bother me. I'm perplexed.
like if you covered it it would just fix the song
Would unironically switch Brads choice for good bad and bad bad. Woodpecker slaps!