IF I BELIEVED IN ANTI-MUSIC... // Zs - Nobody Wants To Be Had // Composer Reaction & Analysis

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2025

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  • @Dsquarius_Green_Jr.
    @Dsquarius_Green_Jr. 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I cant believe how underrated you are. I just found you through the Wildlife album reaction and watched the full 4 hours over the last 4 days. Your reviews are awesome bro

    • @greggerypeccary
      @greggerypeccary 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I think it's more "unknown" than "underrated"... and most people don't want 4 hours of detailed discussion about the music, they want to see someone make idiotic faces and comments like "Bro, this is dope!"...

    • @CriticalReactions
      @CriticalReactions  12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Thanks! I'm glad my stuff is resonating.

  • @seanglover481
    @seanglover481 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    "the ways that I've spoken about it are not ways I think I've spoken about any music"... wow! very happy to have brought you such a challenge. Zs' stuff was all about exploring exact repetition, extreme precision, unison, monody, etc in really confrontational and alien ways. i had the same reaction at first listen and then it just kept drillin into me. would love to give you an Extra Life track in the future that explores some of Looker's current fascinations like his obsession with vocal melisma... very peculiar music thinker. thanks for thinking about this so hard Bryan! p.s. i have sent you the lyrics. after a decade plus of knowing this piece, i found them......30 minutes ago. my apologies

    • @seanglover481
      @seanglover481 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      to answer another question: they were a double trio at this time, so it is 2 guitarists (both singing), 2 tenor saxes, and 2 drum kits

    • @CynicalBastard
      @CynicalBastard 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fancy lad

    • @CriticalReactions
      @CriticalReactions  12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      "exploring exact repetition, extreme precision, unison, monody, etc in really confrontational and alien ways"
      That's a perfect way of explaining this. It's all quite technical and I can't imagine how many hours of practice went into creating such a perfectly timed performance like this but it's also beyond unconventional. It's one of those things where I love the skill on display but have no idea what's happening.

    • @TheMetatron333
      @TheMetatron333 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@seanglover481 can you post the lyrics?
      I think this is some of the only avant-garde leaning music that I can say I actually could listen to regularly.

    • @seanglover481
      @seanglover481 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@TheMetatron333 they are on Genius now under Zs (band)

  • @fnordescort
    @fnordescort 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I love this so much. It’s one of the only tracks by Zs I know but every once in a while it’s a blast, especially the last section. Always reminded me of Indiscipline by King Crimson for some reason, maybe it’s the red cover or the odd lyrics idk

  • @thedudeperson
    @thedudeperson 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ooo Zs! I absolutely love their album New Slaves. Might be my favorite album from 2010 but that year in particular has many many contenders

  • @meatsuit6922
    @meatsuit6922 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I think you'll be a much bigger fan of the main composer's (Charlie Looker) other project, Extra Life, in particular their reunion album Secular Music Vol 2 that dropped a couple years back, a lot more accessible while still being interesting and avant garde
    He also has a great TH-cam channel I'd highly recommend, interviews a lot of artists, some of which you've reacted to on this channel, as well as other TH-camrs

  • @user-ph2sz2oy1k
    @user-ph2sz2oy1k 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    This gives me Cardiacs vibes but with less chord progression. I don't mean that in a bad way though

  • @mateostenberg
    @mateostenberg 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Woooo! Got to Zs! Such ridiculous stuff, I adore it.

  • @TheLivirus
    @TheLivirus 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    The weirdest thing I ever listened to. Must be what they were going for.

  • @muskett00
    @muskett00 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Given your detail, perhaps the host required a little more credit on reflection. Before the analysis i agreed, but after i though you would cut him a little slack

  • @greggerypeccary
    @greggerypeccary 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Brookliners aside... this is not too bad. Just a little to farty to be really enjoyable to listen to (the hard thing is not to make complicated music, it's to manage to keep it from going overboard and becoming an intellectual exercise that's not fun to listen to).

  • @Handler303
    @Handler303 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I don;t see it that way

  • @TheMetatron333
    @TheMetatron333 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Is all their music bonkers like this?

  • @tonigrgin13
    @tonigrgin13 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I don't know how suggestions work on this channel.
    I do have a recommendation.
    Kreng - Wrak

    • @CriticalReactions
      @CriticalReactions  12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I take weekly themed requests from Patreons and anyone can buy a guaranteed request, called a Special Selection. Links to proceed with either of these can be found in the Linktree link in the description of any video. I do take general comment requests, like this one, but I can give no guarantee of when I'll get to it.

  • @luidi7388
    @luidi7388 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    worst than Fantomas.
    whoever recommended set you a trap

    • @nicolashunter4131
      @nicolashunter4131 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fantomas is fantastic, are you dumb?

    • @fnordescort
      @fnordescort 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Isn’t everything worse than Fantomas?