How I Listen to an Album
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- I'm often asked about my music listening process; this video contains the (somewhat unexciting) details.
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Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
I listen to Music naked, covered in Baby Oil.
and running as fast as you can so you are too slippery for their grasp
If you're covered in baby oil you're not naked.
Oil made out of babies or like just baby oil?
are you naked & covered in baby oil or is the music?
Ahh a fellow Death Grips follower
I listened to a song once when I was a kid. Don’t remember much of it. Maybe one of these days I’ll hear another song. Until then, I’m not really sure what this channel is about.
MartianNick lol same
huh
it's been a year n i still can't comprehend this sentence
a sorry made a joke
@@ethanwalaska3887 What How?
Oh thank God you made this video... Now I can finally tell my friends how I listen to music
Learn to think for yourself
They are all gonna be like "seriously ? Me too"
Thaddeus Griffin it’s a joke bud
lmao
Weekend sucks
I've never listened to this "music" before but I will try it out! Thanks for the suggestion melon man.
` Shallows this comment combined with your prof pic really made me laugh
What’s “music” I’ve never heard of it before
@@africanman1803 Thank you for saying the exact same joke.
Dont firget to use your ears bro
I recommend starting with Angelic 2 The Core
I'm sorry Melon but saying "With my ears" for 8 minutes and 49 seconds wasn't very helpful.
i actually benefited from it greatly thank you.
Marisela Gomez I think they were joking
J4999 WHATTT OMG THATS CRAZY 🤯
@@J4999 is possible but how would you know for sure hmm
This joke has a whole different meaning now in july
Red flannel.
Is listening to music a 4/10?
“Hi Anthony Fantano here and I hate music, especially songs and albums”
Did melon just commit suicide by wearing it?
He just reviewed NAV’s album today.
Nathan Jalowiec lol stoppppp
Listening to music: NOT GOOD *boom*
I listen to a full Death Grips album between each track of the album I am reviewing as a palette cleanser.
Honouring your name I see
this is the only *true* way to listen to music
Lmfao the absurdity in this one got me
LOL
I download death grips and the swans album and I JUST CANT like it... I hate it in fact... I have no idea how it got such high ratings.
Life imitates art at 3:23
Such an underrated comment
lmfao
i laughed
Hmmmm. I can tell you're a big fan of Oscar Wilde's the Decay of Lying
and 7:56
kinda disappointed that your music listening process actually consists of “listening to music”
there are definitely some secrets that he doesn't share.................... sexually.
@@zurichsee706 how do you sexually listen to an album
@@dededeeznuts5986 i can show you
@@dededeeznuts5986 with the lotion and meat out
@@M3rkZula 😂😂😂
How I form my musical opinions:
1. Listen to the album once.
2. Watch Anthony's video and nod my head in agreement.
3. Disregard all thoughts I had before watching Anthony's video.
We mustn’t let melon control our opinions!!
I know you're probably joking, but that's a really bad way.
@@Zorooooooooooooooooooooooooooo well no shit, that's why it's a joke, why do you feel you need to point it out?
Zoro welcome thank you for joining us
Sad but true
how anthony forms his opinion:
1. its bad
2. its bad
3. turn on the camera
4. edit the album cover into the background
5. its bad
anthony I know it’s u, just give up the act up
Kanye
It's not good
bad no, not good
never noticed lol
First listen is for experience.
Second listen is for review.
Third listen is for Kanye.
Honestly, if he listened to Yeezus three times in a row, I can understand why he would give it 4/10
I miss the old Kanye
Ugh
Fuck no
First stage is Discovery. I just listen to Daft Punk's album Discovery instead.
Dismissing
Yeezus is an album a lot of people won’t like at first, but as they listen to it more, a lot of people like it much more. It wasn’t my favorite at first but now it’s my second favorite Kanye album.
"Woah this could be an 8 out of 10!" - Fantano on a Thursday afternoon after his first listen of the next Weezer album
I do not see the problem with this process, it is weezer
I love you, Glink
Damn you have big subscribers
damn this aged pretty well
... wow
Yes. I have listened to a song, also an album once. It was okay
Which one?
All of em
The third one is my favorite
"oh its off?"
Oh, so you like music? Name three songs.
Thanks melon! Now I can listen to mbdtf and give it a 6.
Black metal cow
Rayat Tazwar DAMN. Literally
KOD AOTY
@@ajaxplayer2024 swear your mum don't rate you
Melon's real method: take a pitchfork score and subtract 2
(unless it's a meme rapper, then add 3)
unless it's weezer then add 3
Damn got a 9.5 or something like that from pitchfork...You might be onto something
You'r Mom he’s a meme rapper
@@YourMom-ny4ri tyler isn't exactly a meme rapper, at least not anymore
That means Melon thinks lateralus is a -0.1
Thanks Anthony, your reviews not only taught me that my music opinions were wrong, but that I was also listening to music wrong
But Cal is correct. Using your ears is essential to listening to music.
i disagree
I use my feet
100 subscribers with no videos Like, echolocation?
@@honeycomblord9384 earthbending
With your $3k guggenheim handcrafted titanium headphones
Titanium pimp hand
Wow, you don't even have a $51k pair of senheiser HE-1s? Jesus, I can't imagine such an impure listening experience.
@@hamishmacdonald8593 yikes u weren't kidding they really are 52k.
@@hamishmacdonald8593 "Assembled from more than 6,000 components, the Orpheus system begins with a stand carved out of Carrara marble, and adds in gold vaporized ceramic electrodes, quartz-glass vacuum tubes, and dual amplification stages to create an “ultrahigh impulse” flood of pure, unadulterated velocity."
Man, I don't know if it's worth 50 grand, but that whole paragraph gave me the biggest hard-on and I understood like 25% of it.
Im just over here with a pair of bose that l replaced the squishy parts on. Pleb coming through
"How The Needle Drop listens to an album" sounds like a nerdwriter video.
nerdwriter is awesome
Loser's Club Volksgeist has a video about it
cringe
@@nuggeteater69 You know, if you put the name of who you're replying to in your comment, people might know what the hell you're talking about.
Loser's Club im just saying nerdwriter is cringe lol
Imagine doing everything he said, following all the steps, writing, studying and scrutinizing under multiple listens and still, after all that, giving MBDTF a 6.
MemeLord makes no sense
I know right man. Its ridiculous. It should've been like a 4.
What's MBDTF
Henry Clark my beautiful, dark twisted fantasy. Aka one of Kanye’s greatest album ever and arguably one of the best rap albums out there. Just to compare, A lil pump album did better than MBDTF
Honestly, I can imagine how after 2 loose listens in a short period followed by a literal study of the album requiring multiple concentrated listens could make me particularly jaded and annoyed by Kanye's whinning intertwined with dubious boasts and references to his public persona.
This man needs to become a artist then rate his own albums a 10/10 and become the greatest artist of all time
smart just like lil skies
Oh man, I love music. This one time, I even went to a venue where the people who recorded the music prior, began to play the music live! I believe they called it a 'Concert'? That was really special.
Notes Reviews 🐐🐐 alert
that sounds fake
Impossible.
dude I just realised Fantano has small af ears
His ears are in the back of his head
Lawyer Morty wait I just realized this lmao
Oof
they looked especially small when he gave Swimming a 3
They’re growing. Cut him some slack
Step 1. Rate Album Art
Step 2. Read /mu/ threads and other reviews about album
Step 3. Buy vinyl for decorative purposes
Step 4. Pick flannel
Step 5. Write and upload review
Step 6. Listen to a couple of the songs
Chaotic Satire you know it’s a greenscreen square Right
@@Poopymattyt He's talking about the vinyl's on the right probably
@@CerealKiller2 it's all green screen even the right everyone knows this
@@ss11111ss The world is one giant green screen
@@TheEric1203 actually it is 1/3 green and 2/3 blue
My own process for writing my musicboard reviews as a hobby:
1. Listen to album all the way through casually
2. Casually listen to individual tracks that caught my attention (positively or negatively) on the first listen
3. Lay down in the dark with quality headphones and listen all the way through again
4. Write review
Musicboard has been a key piece to listening to music now. It's given me a clear idea of my own thoughts and expanded my taste further than I thought it could go.
The correct way of doing it
For me it’s:
1. First listen all the way through, rate each song /10
2. Listen to my favorite songs again
3. Review
4. Relisten & Rereview later if I liked it.
Three tier procedure
1.listen to death grips
2.listen to TPAB
3.repeat
4.Give MBDTF a 6
Left out dark prog smh
5. Make this a five tier procedure
anthony must be fun at parties
He has the red flannel out ready for the NAV album
Hey guys ANDREINEY CASTALLO HERE
He starts by playing the album on some speakers then immediately puts some headphones on and listens to Death Grips instead.
Then he proceeds to give a low score to the album he was actually supposed to listen to.
this
@@zap192 fuck you
@@zap192 Yeah, fuck you.
That's cool melon, but you didn't have to call Kanye the N word 10 times.
I'm not against this meme, in fact I think it's pretty funny, but, a little originality?
@@albums8825 Don't expect that here anymore.
@@sheatiller2465 what even started it?
When did he do that lol?
@@Dhruvbala ladies and gentlemen
I once thought I listened to music but then I realized it was Imagine Dragons.
Damn
@@noone7069 No thats kendrick
Just vibe
Douche
I never listened to any kind of music ever. Thanks for asking. Its a huge load off my chest to confess this here.
the idea of you putting on a pair of headphones and sitting down to listen to lil pump makes me laugh
Bruh 😂
then giving it a 7
Anthony seems like a chill dad type so I can’t imagine it either
Melon's shortcut steps:
Step 1 - Let your ear holes nom-nom the wiggly air.
Step 2 - Poo-poo your thoughts out.
You sound like akindalewar
Alex Metcalf intellectual processing
3:23 memeception
Imagine listening to The Big Day a hundred times.
It’s what they do to torture enemies of the state
he's right, it's what they do to enemies of the state, I was The Big Day
Don't worry, you'll get used
Melon should review Minecraft Volume alpha for Minecraft’s 10 year anniversary.
Jesus I feel old
How about beta
boss nation beta is better
Well he said he likes the Minecraft ost so yeah there's that
Not funny
3:23 HE DID THE THING
I was actually wondering about this yesterday.
Not today, though. I'm no longer interested.
I kid, thank you for sharing Anthony
I see your point and agree with it but u didn’t have to un button your shirt slowly through every point....
Nice pfp
Wow I followed this and now I think MBDTF is 6/10. I've seen the light.
Papa Ice you’re obviously white. it is at least an 8. you’re calling it pop because you’re white and probably listen to logic
And here we see the "fanboy" in the wild, in its natural habitat. Watch in awe as, instead of maybe just accepting that different people have different opinions and not everybody has to like everything you like, and instead of actually going through the many reasons why he thinks the album is actually good, you know maybe promote some kind of musical discussion and analysis on this musical discussion and analysis channel, he instead just insults the OP's... Skin color.
Probably, that is. I mean I don't think any of us have access to that information so I guess you're just guessing. But you know what? You're right. Instead of trying to learn some new perspective or even trying to understand another humans opinion, NAH DUDE let's just assume that he doesn't understand based on factors he couldn't possibly control. That's the only way in this reality that someone could POSSIBLY not enjoy something I enjoyed. He must have just been born with the wrong balance of melanin. Yeah that's it, phew! Fragile ego: SAVED!
@Papa Ice I'm... Defending your viewpoint. How did you read this whole wall of text and not realise I was bashing the guy who called you white?
I defended you, and then you went and did the EXACT SAME THING that this guy did by calling out some irrelevant piece of my "persona" instead of arguing against any points I may have made. And you didn't even realize I was on your side.
I mean... Is outrage on the internet really so fun that we as a species have to do it, even to people who are on our side?
@@CaptainKylan fuck off with your long weeb speeches.
@@Muffzilla85 Poor Kylan trying to be rational, and is immediately hit back with being called a 'weeb'.
How Melon Listens to an album:
Discovery: 0:46
Surface level: 3:07
In-depth: 4:56
Thank you
damn interesting how discovery by daft punk was so unique it warranted it's whole own listening method
only melon could have a baggy yet slim-fit red flannel
I thought you based your reviews off the album cover arti
14 seconds in and cal gives me the answer, thank u cal, i no longer need to keep watching
Based cal
Cal makes me wanna steal his sweater, he drips too hard
Okay, I get that sometimes an album cover can be really good and slightly influential to the perception of an album's sound, but to review albums entirely based on their cover seems a little out there, Melon.
wow, i totally agree with you!
i agree as well!
Yeah, I heard this band Metallica once and I was like "whoa" and that's how I got into music
That moved me
whoa
true
this video is life changing. before watching this, i had no idea how to listen to a song. maybe i'll try this "music" stuff sometime!
Anthony: *ready to review an album*
Album: Why do I hear boss music...
1: Listen to Total Xanarchy
2: Give it a 10
Review my balls
_With your ears._
Daniel Sambar hey man, stop stealing cal’s joke!
I doubt he did this process with Vultures
Hi Anthony,
I'm really like that you cut the video this time before you sang the entirety of "You're the best around nothing's ever gonna keep you down" from the Karate Kid soundtrack. This kind of detail in the editing is really what makes this channel so great. Thanks and keep on going!
Yo Anthony,
Once there was this time I felt a vibration tickling my pinna and as it made it’s way down the ear canel through my eardrum like a ghost where it rested in the waters of my cochlea.
Before skipping some major areas to my brain were it danced and played until it finally lay rest in my heart for my blood and muscle memories to recall and give back the life.
This was me hearing music.
Now I having hearing damage because I like it too much.
how anthony listed to an album
If kendrick is on it at least a 7/10
If kid cudi is on it at least a 4/10
experimental music: 8/10 or above
death grips: 9/10
wonderwaffle 101 SB2H tho
If it’s logic, it’s a 6/10 or lower
dark prog: 10/10 100% of the time, don't even have to listen to it, just check the genre tag.
Cudi got a 0
@@natebaz1335 and also a 10
I tried listening to a photo album once, for a week. At first I wasn't into it, but by the end, it blew my mind.
At 3:23, Melon perfectly matched his framed artwork
Hi Anthony, I listen to Flower boy a lot I think it’s really nice as both background music and main course
nice. That’s me with Vince staples’ FM!
I think it’s too good to listen to some of the songs in the background. I don’t wanna miss the drop of Who dat Boy, or Steve lacy’s part in 911
This is the perfect comment.
I have listened to one song in my life. It was «Coin star» by Cal Chuchesta
video: how I listen to an album
me: with your ears, melon. c'mon now.
video in the first 10 seconds: *with your ears*
@Joaquín Perez Prieto next stop: Harvard.
Pause at 3:23
Wow I didn’t know how to listen to an album before this but now my life has changed forever. Thanks Melon!
gave yourself a red flannel
When I listen to an album... I don't. I wait for Melon's review to know if it's worth it or not.
I don't even listen to albums. Why would I when I already know where to get my opinion from
Oof
Y that just takes the fun and surprise out of music
This but unironically
That’s the best way. If he rates it average, it could be brilliant. If he rates it good, it’s probably weird and not that great. Always check his reviews to go with the opposite.
Honestly now that I think about it, I don’t think I ever have listened to an album or a song 🤔
How I listen to an album:
1. Go on Apple Music
2. Tab the Browse section
3. Click add on 4-6 albums
4. Let them sit in my library for a while
5. Finally, getting around to listen to it
6. Maybe listen to it once more
7. Look on TH-cam if Anthony review it
8. Watch the video twice
9. Be Happy that he didn’t give it a zero, but be slightly disappointed for not giving a 10
10. Rinse & Repeat
I have no memes to offer, so this will sink down to nothingness. But I'm a part-time critic, been doing it on and off for a few years, and lately I've really been struggling with my process and confidence. This video was really helpful, and made me feel a lot better about how I do things and gave me some good ideas to improve. I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Never understood how people could listen to an album once and determine if it's good or not. Music is so much more than that. Certain albums could take even 10 listens to really understand and enjoy and that's why music is beautiful
That’s definitely true. I listened to Loveless by MBV 12 times just to understand it, and now I love it. Even Atrocity Exhibition was pretty rough at the start but now I just see it as a genius piece of Hip Hop.
@@pazuzu66.6 if u listen to any album 12 times willingly you already liked it dude
@@goosewtf Yeah, I was interested, then I liked it, then loved it. It’s not like an instantaneous process. Also this comment is like 4 years old what are you doing here lol
@@pazuzu66.6To help answer your question, as a different person: the comment was recommended to me by the algorithm.
I have listened to loveless once and didn't like it except for the most popular song. I am a bit interested but probably not enough to like it.
I can't imagine him listening again to Xanarcy on full stereo for a more in-depth review
Put on them Air Pods and blast full volume
i usually do it with my ears
This guy's and Dunkey's comment section are the most wholesome places ik on internet.
Say an album is great but then give it a 4/10 bc Kanye drama
I have listened to an album, a song too, last night. How convenient.
I'm reviewer too, damn.
That fuzz on your face reminded me to check the mail. Thanks melon.
Just actually heard a song for the first time! Thanks for the video
I use my ears
🤣
For my process personally, I try to go through one listen completely unbias and blind, without taking any notes/scripting anything. Usually it's just me listening straight up to the record with no skewed vision or trying to look at it "professionally." Afterwards, I'll go back through and cherry pick bits and pieces of interest and overall points so I don't ramble on each song for years, and make some loose draft notes on a google document to refer to. I try to avoid anything that might skew my opinion of it going into it: Other reviews, online stuff, comments, etc. I also try my best to look at it as a current album and not compare it to others in the discography of that band/artist. I'm constantly trying to find new music, and I'm working sometimes 6-7-8 hours a day on what I'm doing, sometimes to the detriment of my health. I pull quite a few all nighters working, researching, listening, writing, etc. That's just how I am. Trying to take it very seriously. :)
Wrote that before watching the video, so if it's alike I apologize. Cheers all. :)
I just wrote a joke "I use my ears" and then Cal comes in and ruins my joke.
*NICE JOB CAL!*
Not sure if you've ever taken a look at Afircan Hip Hop, more specifically South African BUT I reckon you should definitely give this years 2 biggest South African Hip Hop projects a listen.
1. Today's Tragedy, Tomorrow's Memory by A-Reece
2.B4Now by Blxckie
Please do consider!!
“ I have to get death grips to perform every album I want to review”
One time I listened to an album called *Deathconsciousness* and it became my favorite album but Melon Boy never reviewed it which made me sad. He reviewed *Giles Corey* and *The Unnatural World* to make up for it, though. We're still friends he let me come over and play Xbox earlier, it was so freaking epic! His mom made us hot pockets, but they were vegan so they weren't that great.
Your process: NOT GOOD!
(Red flannel was a dead giveaway)
I like to listen to how other people listen to music because it sheds some light onto their own thoughts and creative processes in a way few other things can
this video should've just been "EARS!" for 8 minutes
I’ve been on a journey since last year to listen to more full albums. I’ve been listening mostly to selected albums from the 1970s to the 2000s. I grew up on a lot of music from the 1990s, but I mainly heard the singles. I love listening to full albums because I feel like I get the full message/experience that the artist wants to share. It’s been mind blowing to hear so many GREAT deep cuts that I don’t remember hearing growing up. I’ve listened to about 65 and counting albums since last year. It has really encouraged me as a creative to just creative. The only downside is that I do wonder if I miss something listening to an old album (let’s say “Toni Braxton” by Toni Braxton…1993) 30 years later vs when it first came out. Times were obviously different, so I just wonder if I miss something by listening to the album years later vs when it came out.
Was just sorta hoping for a video where melon sits down and listens to the same album 3 times and takes notes while making minimal expressions but go off I guess
I’ve been thinking this forever and was just thinking about it earlier today bless you lord melon
The red flannel represents the flames of humiliating critique this man NAV is about to endure cause of the wack ass album he just dropped
he somehow got even more generic and shit than reckless lmao
Solisev99 indeed, worst rapper in the game imo
I was so hyped when I saw he dropped and album. The last Nav review was iconic
why doesnt he just use his ears
I am trying to become a music reviewer. I have a blog where I have reviewed a few albums. This stuff on process helps a lot. I thought before I had to listen like 5 times, and take notes each time, I guess I don't.
How’s it going so far?
i always thought you had a room that was just filled with records and a chair
and when you’d listen to an album you’d sit back in that chair and close your eyes and let the album transport u to another dimension
either with a great room ambience or with some sick headphones
the process of reviewing music as a whole: "I'm feeling a strong 6 to a light 7 on this one"
Music is what I listen to
Especially music
Long music
Old music
New music
so it not the ears😱
I listened to an album once. Then I took the iPod back to the shop. Never looked back.
Why, yes, Anthony. I do listen to an album.
It is called Panorama. And guess what? It has *songs* on it! Who woulda thought? It is by a band. The band's name is La Dispute.
*yellow flannel better be coming soon* 😤
He probably won't review it.
Can’t fucking stand them
Bring back the straw outros, Melon, your audience needs those straws.
You can even make them minimalist metal straws that don't destroy the environment
the image of anthony walking down the street in anger bc he's listening to little xan for a review is hilarious