Jon Benjamin - well, i should have...* ALBUM REVIEW
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Jon Benjamin delivers jokes and, uh, "jazz" on his new album here.
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FAV TRACKS: THE SONG ABOUT THE BUTTS
LEAST FAV TRACK: THE SONG ABOUT THE BUTTS
JON BENJAMIN (UH, JAZZ DAREDEVIL) - WELL, I SHOULD HAVE...* / 2015 / SUB POP / COMEDY JAZZ
BUTTSECKS/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
I love how Jon Benjamin will occasionally find a dissonant chord or phrase that sounds properly jazzy, and the whole thing almost hangs together for a few bars here and there before he starts banging away again like an overexcited 3 year old. I know the whole thing is a joke but it's honestly pretty fascinating
while listening i would hear a sequence and be like yo that actually sounds cool then like you said he goes on to bang away lmao
i know right! He has a good ear and over the album he gets better at playing the piano.
I swear I heard him get better over time.
You can't truly and really appreciate the warmth of his performance until you've heard it on vinyl.
Streaming doesn’t do it justice 😔
God DAMN!
This album is a genuine favorite of mine, mostly because you can work it in with a jazz playlist in a busy room and - generally - no one notices.
I seriously doubt that. But when it does work, it's usually thanks to the virtuosity of the other musicians in the record
@@poruumusic I very much doubt John would pick musicians that would over shadow his playing ability
Nobody notices because jazz is horrible.
I wasn't sure how this could be funny, besides that Jon Benjamin is inherently funny, but listening to it, something about the sheer strangeness of hearing this tightly played, normal-sounding jazz song with awful, incorrect, high-pitched pianos thrown in really fucks with my head.
Actually, if you don't listen to this album as a joke, it's really impressive how well the band is able to cope with how miserable his piano is. There are many points when Jon H. Benjamin's awful backing chords actually seem to make sense. This isn't an album about how shitty he is on piano, but how impressive his backing band is.
This shouldn't be reviewed or listened to as anything but a comedy record. Personally I cracked up at the whole damn thing, especially moments where Jon would do some cat-in-a-blender quality improvising and then the other guys would try to save it only to be dumped on yet again in the very next measure. Also parts where you can hear Jon yelling in the background like he's really feeling it but it comes off so condescending like yelling "You can do better" during a Sax solo. It speaks to why I love Jon as a comedian. He really has contempt for peole who get paid to do things that they're terrible and clueless at but his execution is so heartfelt that it comes across as unironic and genuine. I guess in a way it's the opposite of Bob's Burgers where he's a great, competent, creative chef who markets himself as a hole-in-the-wall burger shack not to take some moral stance against pretentiousness but because he really doesn't understand what he has.
This is late as fuck but I just found this thanks to Vinesauce. I felt exactly the same way, I thought the album was great and made me laugh the whole way through
Archer man... He voices Archer...
Lana?
Lana?
LAAAANAAAAAAA!!!!!
+Siem Derks I'm glad he didn't mention Archer.
+Jp Marone y?
+Jp Marone *...you're terrible.*
Maxwell Young Archer isn’t that good imo
I stopped at 0:57 since you didn't mention Archer
Anthony FantanOVERSIGHT! He's the voice of "Archer" one of the great animated shows of all time! Anyone who has not checked it out yet should. It's on netflix. Not for kids, but fantastic for adults.
Home movies is better
This album is a genius response to all those toxic classical and jazz extreme fanatics that feel like their music is the only music worth playing, I love it
Referring to what Benjamin does on this record as PLAYING isn't really fair, since the very title to the record admits he doesn't know how to play. He's doing something else here. Performance art... something....
Clearly, the real point of this review was for Anthony to express his love of Loren Bouchard's work
i love that you didnt encourage us to put our friends down if they were pretentious enough to try to analyze banjamins piano play, but to have a good laugh with them
Danger Zone!
review it again
+LeifEriccson 10/10 review it again
Deal With the Devil is the best track. The album would have been GOAT if it had more dialogue like in the first track. Just hearing Jon Benjamin talk through an entire album would make it great.
That was a very smoove transition at the end anthony. Well done.
+THEFT CURRY WITH THA GLOCK thanks
Best name on TH-cam
Phrasing
I FUCKING LOVE BJÖRK
+Taimir Gore me too dog!
me 2
Nazis?
Deborah Meltrozo fuckbois
+Taimir Gore Me 7th.
*BJORK. FUCKING. ROCKS.*
Jon Benjamin is a comedic genius. It's a shame he doesn't have a van anymore.
but im the most pretentious person in my friend circle
"BUTTSECKS/10" i'm assuming the album was great.
You should do "Mingus Ah Um" for a Classics Week - there is so little written and said about that album (especially on TH-cam).
That album is mad, even though I'm not too big on Mingus in general
+Akilesh Menezes What about Black Saint...?
+PJ Yeah, that's even more mad and a lot less accessible album
+Stefan Ristea Anthony should review Blue and Roots, Oh Yeah! or his big Ensemble pieces like Black Saint or "Children". For me personally, Ah Um is a good introduction to who Mingus was and what his music(style and personality) consists of, but it only gets better as you get deep into his discography. Ah um only gets your feet wet. But great album nonetheless.
What a good morning
+Seth Felder indeed
Still waiting on that Fallout 4 review
I always thought the title was a laughing take-off of Thelonious Monk's "Well You Needen't"
I know everyone here knows him from Bob's Burgers and Archer, but does anyone remember him from Home Movies?
i love that it's getting analyzed
Phrasing
shouted out Home Movies......you real for that one lol ✊
YES! Thank you so much for bringing up Home Movies!!!
So I put myself in the shoes of an unassuming listener a la 3:55, on I Can't Play Piano Part 1, and all I could think was "Man, this piano player is doing a great job of being a comedian!"
Damn Anthony likes home movies! Awesome
Take it OUT of the garbage Fantano. This is comedic GOLD AND it holds up musically. I know it seems crazy, but there are stylistic aspects to this album (albeit unintentional) which warrant it to be taken seriously as a LEGITIMATE jazz album. If not, a decidedly Anti-Jazz album. Whether or not he knows it, Benjamin is playing in an avant-garde style known as Free Jazz. Additionally, the dichotomy of his strange atonal piano playing set against the tight generic jazz tunes create an atmosphere akin to Experimental or Avant-Garde Jazz. Like you said, you REALLY COULD put this album on and convince unsuspecting hipsters that it is a legitimate jazz album. Because stylistically it actually can make sense if you want it to.
Jazz is a WIDE ranging genre with MANY sub-genres that have many varying styles and concepts associated with them. This album just happens to touch upon a few of them: Free Jazz, Experimental Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
I know H. Jon Benjamin did NOT intend for this to be taken seriously as an art form. If anything, I think maybe he was making fun of Jazz. (Yes anti-jazz is a sub-genre of jazz too) I am just pointing out the stylistic similarities.
I think it's that conceptual dichotomy which makes for an interesting and fun listen with this album. It makes us question the nature of Jazz by examining these two extremes. I think you should read up on Free Jazz and how controversial it is and then give it a second listen...
So don't throw it in THE FUCKING GARBAGE!!!
NANCY kills you I thought the exact same thing after listening
MAN, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS GOT A 9!
Man you trippin can you not read it got a 100.
The album ocassionally comes together just when you think it can't possible do so. Also I would consider it to be a split situational comedy and bad-jazz record. Amy's Song (The Bum Steer) is excellent. His voice is so distictive that when Sterling Archer is singing about butt-sex it makes perfect sense. Go listen to this NOW!
shouts out 2 u for giving Home Movies the recognition it deserves
i was afraid you were gonna stop at Bob's Burgers and not mention it
keep it up!!
so...much...white...noise...
+Steb That's racist.
Phrasing
Me and the fellas would listen to this on the way to class every morning, beautiful album
I do find that you never actually do review Jazz that often
You really tricked me at the beginning.
Treading awfully close to the danger zone there Lananthony.
XD AAAH, awesome!!!! At first I thought "WHAAAT, Jon Benjamin does Jazz now?" then "ah wait, he must be talking about somebody else with the same name" ... "wait, what? O.o" :D
GREAT opening, very much appreciated
Man, I love this album!
UTAH JAZZ AM I RIGHT BOYS
This is just... I don't even know how you reviewed that.
I was excited when Anthony said the bit about Duke Ellington.. And equally disappointed when I realized he was kidding.
We need a 1D review and we need it now
"Thankfully the songs are short." 🤣🤣
I kinda feel that if this wasn't an announced joke, Antoine would've given it a strong 8 AT LEAST.
jin bonjimen needs to do more lbums
Note: this is NOT the bass player on those Kala bass ukulele ads
Peter Gabriel's SO!!!!
Best jazz album of the year!! Kamasi Washington who?
Listening to it right now, the intro with Kristen Schall, and Aziz Ansari is pretty funny.
Its on Apple music to stream. The track list alone is pretty hilarious.
Coach McGuirk made an album?!?!
This is gonna be good.
This is an elaborate joke. Very invested.
King krule dropping a new project. Check it out fanthony antano
+Nehemiah Sarmiento oh my god im so happy
This album made me laugh so hard.
wtf Anthony this album was a perfect 10. unsubbed and reported
For me knowing him as a median and being a big fan...and then randomly find this shit out? I first saw the "making off" about this album and it through me for a loop because they make it seem like he had done it for years quietly....and then the very first 4 sec of him slamming the piano makes me laugh so fucking hard....Everytime he bangs on the keys makes me laugh...whats wrong with that? atleast he is doing it on purpose.
I feel like he was trying to go for a sort of Portsmouth Sinfonia sort of feel here, but without any recognisable songs to compare to it kinda just doesn't work.
I love Anthony so much more now that I know he's also a home movies fan
Thank you!!! I actually like this album for some reason
Dueling Moogs is godtier.
Michael Christmas "What A Weird Day"
I think you should've given this a serious score. As silly as it is, it's a very creative album, and it does a great job of eliciting emotion in the way any good album should. It's just really really funny.
I'm proud of you AnTanney keep up the good work
I wanted to buy this on record but the only one available online $150 USD on Discogs.
home movies is probably one of the funniest shows adult swim created...
+tuck set Adult Swim didn't create Home Movies, it was a UPN show or something like that....Adult Swim only revived it and gave it a few new seasons, like Futurama and Family Guy.
Spaghettaboutit lies...
but believe what you will... cause it was started in airing on adult swim
+tuck set Animated in Squigglevision and heavily using retroscripting, the first five episodes aired on UPN in 1999.
+tuck set Pretty sure the percentage of people who found it on Adult Swim are more along the lines of +90%.....oh and I am Jewish, so good job with the hate speech.....
That's a shitty ugly word and you look like a dumb ignorant piece of shit for using it. Not butthurt just thought you should know in case you have some human decency kicking around in there.
The album title should have been : "I honestly had something for this!"
This is pure gold.
"Play a joke!"
Jon benjamin the jazz god
10 out of 10 review it again!
I give it a BigRigandJesse/10. It's that good.
Yesterday I had the first male Pap smear.
Ok I'm curious to see how many people here including Anthony (if you happen to be reading this) are actually jazz heads. So trivia challenge: What is the standard song the title of this album is referencing?
NO ARCHER MENTION
It's free jazz but only the piano is free
he's archer
mitch on home movies is the best thing to ever come out of television
It's not that much worse than those that try really hard, it's a lesson for jazz wannabe's everywhere
SOPHIE - PRODUCT FANTANOOOOO
ily Tony
Review Fallout 4 or at least the soundtrack and where the hell is Cal Chuchesta?.
Jazz hands!
COACH MCGURK RELEASED AN ALBUM. OMAHGAWD
Have I really been watching Manthony for ten years?
Anthony you forgot Jon was the voice or archer on FX
OF*
"john benjamin is a famed jazzed penised."
capitalize that "i" in the title please thankyou
Jon Benjamin has a... album?
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Where's the FloriDada track review Fantano?
Umm... You obviously don't know what cacophony-jazz is Quincygyorgythony Jonesligetitano.
But yeah, this seriously is an 'alcohol-free beer at a frat party' kinda album.
why did you think after making this video that we might dig prurient and revenge lmaoooooo
Morethony Jazztano
MuteMath - Vitals
Is it just me or does anyone find it ironic him saying at the end ,"Have you given this album really a listen?"
one day old taco bell... doesn't go down at all? (totes called the bin-toss)
Merrythony christmastano