Anthony Fantano REACTS to The Smile - "Foreign Spies", "Zero Sum"

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  • @MicahBuzanANIMATION
    @MicahBuzanANIMATION 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +266

    Cutouts isn't a B side album. People confidently jump to conclusions based on almost no information lol

    • @kaspervanroyen1027
      @kaspervanroyen1027 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      I guess it’s more like a Kid A/Amnesiac-situation, where they recorded the material for both albums at the same time and then grouped the tracks that would fit together in two piles.

    • @hotlettuce14
      @hotlettuce14 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I think its reasonable to assume given the name and how the tracklist features just eyes and mouth, one of the first songs the smile ever workshopped but missed out on 2 albums thus far. not to mention dont get me started and foreign spies feel underdone to me

    • @NarrowShouldersOpenMind
      @NarrowShouldersOpenMind 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@hotlettuce14 Eyes and Mouth is considered an extremely strong song

    • @kaspervanroyen1027
      @kaspervanroyen1027 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@hotlettuce14 The title comes from a lyric in Zero Sum. And Jonny of Thom have since the early Radiohead-days been roadtesting songs that didn't find their place on an album until many albums later.

    • @hotlettuce14
      @hotlettuce14 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@NarrowShouldersOpenMind I agree, by no means did do I think a song is any less good because it hasnt made an album at the time. Amnesiac is one of my favourite albums and nude is a top 5 song of all time for me

  • @NicholasSWilliams
    @NicholasSWilliams 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +114

    Foreign Spies hits you after multiple listens. And then it's crushingly beautiful.

    • @2553he
      @2553he 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      watch everyone who enjoyed Zero Sum but trashed Foreign Spies love Foreign Spies more in the future.. I love both songs but Foreign Spies sends you into a trancey place that Thom wasn't able to send us to since Dawn Chorus

    • @costcoexecutivemember
      @costcoexecutivemember 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nah it sucks every time and is a terrible opener

  • @Rgdonaire_07
    @Rgdonaire_07 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    Solid couple of singles. Zero sum is a sick track.

  • @thomshrike
    @thomshrike 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    A video of amazing music coming from arguably the most genius musicians of the last 30 years being discussed with a tone of pedantic superiority by someone with a toothpick in his mouth.

    • @bugsbunnywearingasmoking801
      @bugsbunnywearingasmoking801 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      "not Brat enough"

    • @Mulligan97
      @Mulligan97 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Ngl I like how critical people are being of Anthony now

    • @romeohadjuliette
      @romeohadjuliette 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Fantano annoys me because he’s a fan of particular styles of music, talking about music he never liked as if he’s being objective and then retrieving into “hey, it’s just an opinion”.
      It’s like an art film buff criticizing Sam Raimi films or Ben Stiller comedies, as if from an objective standpoint, but never admitting to hating this kind of product they criticize in the first place.
      I think he loves hurting people’s feelings when he trivializes a piece of music like that. I never discuss Taylor Swift because I will never say anything good about her music, since I never liked it. Fantano does this every goddamn time. I think the biggest problem is that he’s an insincere person.

    • @zeno6169
      @zeno6169 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      “most genius musicians of the last 30 years” alright buddy

    • @thomshrike
      @thomshrike 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ yes, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood certainly are. Who would you pick instead?

  • @swiftykai
    @swiftykai 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    the album is not b-sides

  • @ethanwimsett
    @ethanwimsett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    Don't get me started was amazing what

    • @stephencalvird7276
      @stephencalvird7276 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Yeah I dont know what Fantano is smoking, Dont Get Me Started is fucking awesome. Specially when the drums come in and the " your voice means nothing" outro

    • @Piti21041986
      @Piti21041986 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@stephencalvird7276 The live version of the song is awesome, but imho the studio recording doesn't deliver the same "oomph"

    • @TVBabbs
      @TVBabbs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The difference between the live and the studio version is insane. I don't know why but I think they decided to record the drums in this "muffled" way, removing a lot of the low frequenzies , resulting in a loss of the kick effect to the kick lol. Live it's more of a dance song, hearing that big kick in your chest

    • @ethanwimsett
      @ethanwimsett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@TVBabbs Ah yeah I saw one performance. Though in the studio version I quite like the drums having more of a textural quality

    • @TVBabbs
      @TVBabbs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ethanwimsett yeah, it's pretty much subjective. It's a choice

  • @pliozhkapliozhkapliozhkapl7414
    @pliozhkapliozhkapliozhkapl7414 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Zero sum has King Crimson vibes like Read the room. you know, this Robert Fripp'ish buzzing guitar and weird rhythms

    • @gorskiy1
      @gorskiy1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Reminds me of KC Discipline era

    • @_uohaloran
      @_uohaloran 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@gorskiy1 I agree. I wonder if Anthony was thinking about the cover for Discipline when he said Red instead of the album name itself, being Discipline. There's such a confidence in being the front a center of a song while playing those relentless frenzy of notes. Definitely dug Zero Sum a lot.

    • @dv1860
      @dv1860 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gorskiy1I like how it looks like more bands are taking inspiration form that era of KC, in the 1990’s and 2000’s it was more the 70’s era that inspired more groups.

  • @LEMOnBRaINn
    @LEMOnBRaINn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    Comparing Thom Yorke to tame impala is like comparing Greta van fleet to led zeppelin Fantano is one big walking L

  • @AnnQuebecPolska
    @AnnQuebecPolska 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Cutouts is an absolute gem ! 💙 I shed tears when I heard Foreign Spies for the first time this evening. It amazes me how Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood still comes up with new creative material after over a 30 year career ! Tom Skinner is a brilliant drummer. I'm so thankful I got the chance to see them live! ❤

  • @ummmidontknow
    @ummmidontknow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    That comment section. You know most of them weren’t even listening, they were too busy thinking up a clever negative comment…and comparing what they’re hearing to RHCP, the smiths and the stokes (may have been more), 3 VERY different bands, bands that sound nothing like what was playing

  • @justmyllty
    @justmyllty 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I don’t think I will ever understand this man.

  • @pastywhiteboy9393
    @pastywhiteboy9393 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    The King Of Limbs is one of the best Radiohead albums and Fantano will always be incorrect. :)

    • @exert2020
      @exert2020 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      I'm loving more the more I listen to it. Its definitely a grower. If I'm having a shower in the morning I go to KOL and Moon SP before any of their other stuff. Soooo good.

    • @yomuin5389
      @yomuin5389 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Real

    • @Matthew-zv8qe
      @Matthew-zv8qe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      no, lol

    • @AmnesiacReal
      @AmnesiacReal 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like me

    • @diaperwarfare5138
      @diaperwarfare5138 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      It’s really not, but it’s not bad and an interesting direction for the band but let’s relax

  • @masterninja9716
    @masterninja9716 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The Smile is amazing. It takes multiple listens until your brain re-wires a bit. Like OK Computer did to me in 1997.

  • @relaxedphylax
    @relaxedphylax 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    bro keeps spitting out the dumbest takes

    • @christianmogildea4963
      @christianmogildea4963 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Iean, he looks like that Sonic villain.

    • @PalaceDude
      @PalaceDude 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Fr, mf said "they're B sides" cuz they're called cutouts, just another way to shit on it.

  • @TheLunarnotes
    @TheLunarnotes 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Zero Sum needs to go on much longer, why did they end it so abruptly? it was worthy of another 2 mins at least

    • @PalaceDude
      @PalaceDude 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Real, I am so editing the chorus and will make it last at least 8 more bars.

    • @TheLunarnotes
      @TheLunarnotes 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@PalaceDude haha, well, I didn't necessarily want it to repeat but I wanted it to evolve into something more, make it happen!

    • @pantalaemon
      @pantalaemon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      leaving you wanting more is an art too

    • @thallakai
      @thallakai 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love how it doesn't go on for too long. Very replayable and always providing new dynamic ideas.

  • @Jaies_
    @Jaies_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This is an A-side album lol

  • @apharms
    @apharms 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    “gen z animal collective”

  • @Hadm98
    @Hadm98 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Why isn’t anyone talking about their lyrics? "Don’t Get Me Started" feels like a response to the Israel-Palestine conflict and helped me undertand Yorke more.

    • @John.Christopher
      @John.Christopher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Anyone who stopped listening is a delluded childish idiot

    • @RailwayScholar
      @RailwayScholar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I actually had the same idea today. what do you think he's trying to say?

    • @zeno6169
      @zeno6169 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Hadm98 u a zionist too?

  • @Walloflce
    @Walloflce 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    contrary to popular belief, I'm beginning to believe this is Jonny Greenwood's scrap material band and NOT Thom's.. I don't think Jonny is a lyricist (as far as I know) but that is Thom's main contribution. They're all equals in the Smile but I read/hear a lot of "this is Thom's extra stuff" but its actually Jonny's..

    • @sepi_
      @sepi_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly bro

    • @ghostchannel65
      @ghostchannel65 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It’s pretty even across the board, imo. There are plenty of songs that melodically sound like Thom Yorke compositions. That’s being said, these two are Jonny’s for sure. And it certainly isn’t scrap material by any stretch.

  • @costcoexecutivemember
    @costcoexecutivemember 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Somewhere we’re all still waiting for Foreign Spies to end

  • @pantalaemon
    @pantalaemon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    hardest song ever written about windows 95 dont @ me

  • @orots
    @orots 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    god this guy is so annoying

    • @thisoldman5050
      @thisoldman5050 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Especially picking on us old baby boomers...

    • @isaiah147
      @isaiah147 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@thisoldman5050 Fantano sucks it's not a secret

  • @JoeJoeJoe25
    @JoeJoeJoe25 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    They didn't hear "The Slip" yet?

    • @Teeheehee093
      @Teeheehee093 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      There's no way to listen to it officially without owning the vinyl. Doubt he cares enough to seek it out.

    • @RailwayScholar
      @RailwayScholar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Teeheehee093it was on TH-cam and now it's officially released

    • @WesJohnson-v8e
      @WesJohnson-v8e 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My first favorite after my first listen

  • @GIBKEL
    @GIBKEL 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Ouch! I quite enjoyed them.

    • @Mulch-Muncher
      @Mulch-Muncher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I’m happy Fantano and giggens like it. It’s just that chat go along with the way Fantano might be acting towards the track like when he made those national geography jokes, the votes dropped.

    • @GIBKEL
      @GIBKEL 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Mulch-Muncher Yeah…he’s a joker. I guess I took it on the chin a bit as liked that ‘Don’t get me started’-nice low end.

  • @murkyfluid7625
    @murkyfluid7625 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you haven't already fantanto, check out the smile tiny desk. As a bassist I enjoyed the low end in the set. Plus Johnny plays bass on the first track it's pretty sick

  • @PalaceDude
    @PalaceDude 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can't give two shits about what these two think, but I am defo glad Fantano liked Zero Sum, it goes HARD!

  • @Nick_Salcido
    @Nick_Salcido 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    iiiiiinnnnnn ahhhhhhhhh BEAUTIFUL WORLD!

  • @luizspindola
    @luizspindola 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude, those Anthony Kiedis impressions were underrated

  • @furiorcrt2537
    @furiorcrt2537 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Si good the smile

  • @thallakai
    @thallakai 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    we're mathin'

  • @OwenCubitt-j6z
    @OwenCubitt-j6z 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Not a b-side album Anthony! Haha

  • @masaltmusic
    @masaltmusic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    idk what anthony is yammering on about but ok

  • @himmelektronik
    @himmelektronik 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    chat is unbearable in this video smfh

  • @ferdiaobrien3238
    @ferdiaobrien3238 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Why people would listen to someones opinion on music who obviously doesn't have a single musical bone in their body is beyond me 😂😂😂

    • @misterbowlerhat
      @misterbowlerhat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He play da bass

    • @ferdiaobrien3238
      @ferdiaobrien3238 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @misterbowlerhat he can play the magical pink skin flute for all I care, if your a fan of his opinions you most likely don't have an original opinion of your own 😅

    • @SoloSlater
      @SoloSlater 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ⁠@@ferdiaobrien3238I don’t agree with many of his opinions but that guy was just pointing out he played bass, which he does. No need to say we’re agreeing or anything when that wasn’t mentioned

  • @NoCoder10
    @NoCoder10 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The older I get, the less I give a fuck about what people think about the music I love. Music is art and will hit every person differently. The music I don't like, is not bad because I don't like it, it has value for someone.
    Listening to a pretentious snob give his "opinion" on music is meaningless.
    One of my favourite sayings about critics - Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

  • @BullyMaguire4ever
    @BullyMaguire4ever หลายเดือนก่อน

    Critics are insufferable people honestly.

  • @thedarkcranberry
    @thedarkcranberry 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Our generation is fucked.

  • @Outrjs
    @Outrjs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why could they not play these songs with Radiohead?

    • @bugsbunnywearingasmoking801
      @bugsbunnywearingasmoking801 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I think people expect too much from a new radiohead album, so the smile is freedom

    • @Outrjs
      @Outrjs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @bugsbunnywearingasmoking801 Yes, you're right. The Smile is a garage band. Make an album, go and play it.
      Radiohead is a production. Make an album, promote, sell, pay outside entities, getting the whole band together.
      I agree with you. Freedom

  • @antiallison7321
    @antiallison7321 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is just "content" lmao. I'll wait for the main channel review.

  • @Teeheehee093
    @Teeheehee093 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Zero Sum is amazing
    But yeah i dont like Foreign Spies, Thom rarely uses synths i straight up don't like but those synths sound cheap

    • @randoH3000
      @randoH3000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Synths sound cheap lol wtf

    • @middaymeds
      @middaymeds 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thom usually uses hardware synths which can sometimes lag behind their VST counterparts in a few areas. Analog synths in general trade fidelity for a warm and lofi sound. But they're DEFINITELY not cheaper.

    • @NOKK72
      @NOKK72 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You need to get better ears.

  • @bryantorresart
    @bryantorresart 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He said he liked both songs lol why is everybody hating in this comment section?

    • @costcoexecutivemember
      @costcoexecutivemember 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Anything short of unbridled praise triggers your average yorke fan

  • @romeohadjuliette
    @romeohadjuliette 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fantano is the most boring music critic in the world. He’s like this annoying White Lotus character. Talking as if he was objective, but then hiding behind “hey, it’s just my opinion” mask. Lou Reed called this “a lowest form of life”. But hey, “it’s just an opinion”.

  • @tennenyt5311
    @tennenyt5311 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    can't say I love the synths on Foreign Spies, something kind of lame about it. It's a nice song overall but not the best

  • @M3GAMAN100
    @M3GAMAN100 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this album is kinda ass, saying this as a thom yorke enjoyer