Rick! The WMTSG series should make a comeback. These shorts you've been putting out based on those videos... It just reminds me of how good those breakdowns are. And they were the reason I started following your (great) content!
He stopped because he got too many copyright strikes. He can’t risk being demonetized. He’d have to hide them behind a paywall. Or find a platform that isn’t full of communists
The best part about Beatto’s channel is how he dignifies such polarizing music. Lotta “serious music fans” would trash this song, but it is indeed a masterpiece
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd dunno how your local scene is, but mine is still alive and well and baddas as ever. If your only exposure to punk is via mainstream channels then I can see how you have this point of view
We played this in a short set at my daughters wedding last year. Did not expect the mathem - the spkr stands were waving back and forth. Sometimes the joy of rock can be pretty simple, doesnt have to be but theres nothing to hate o when it is. Remember this is the music that buddy holly and eddie cochran invented, we shouldnt get all precious about enjoying All of it
Of the many things I've learned from your What Makes This Song Great series, the bit about the synth from the episode on All The Small Things has stuck in my mind for years. I hear it now every time I listen to that song.
@@gbg3663 i know i'm in the minority but it's just an ok album to me (the 2003). Enema is way better and i prefer all the previous albums to that. Their inspiration for the self-titled album was The Cure and The Smiths (Mark is a big fan of them) but it does not sound as great as those bands. Just my opinion.
What makes this song great is the divergence of the harmonies on the verse, then the voices comento unison on the pre-chorus. Of course anything Barker does.
Love your analysis and your breakdowns. Thank you so much for your channel it's become one of my favorites I take a lot of enjoyment out of your educational information
Rick you inspired me to listen to enema of the state on my morning commute today, and I’ve never heard this album in such a way after 25 years of listening to it. I love your assessment of the added synth, but just as amazing is when they take away. Listen to Dysentery Gary. one thing I noticed, on the first two choruses where the lyrics are “life just sucks, I lost the one…” there’s a vacuum musically. NO RHYTHM guitar. Just the tension of the lead guitar melody with those vocals and then in the outro chorus the lyrics change to more aggressive, like the emotional mood is past hurt and depression and has shifted to anger and moving on, so they queued up that rhythm guitar and let her rip!!!
It's just dead notes on the bottom 2 strings, and if they're not muted fully they could be interpreted as A5 or Am. That would also imply the classic I-V-vi-IV chord progression or if you want to get crazy you could say it implies an Fmaj7 since the E-A move to F-C. So Am would absolutely work really well in that spot.
You should check out the Wipers, a massively underrated punk band from the 80s that somehow manages to perfectly mesh the heavier sound, attitude, emotion and passion of the hardcore scene with some of the catchiest melodies I've ever heard from the punk scene. As an added bonus, Kurt Cobain credited Greg Sage (lead singer and songwriter of the Wipers) with having created the "grunge" sound years before the term was ever used in music
it's not so strange that only a few years after Cobain died the industry took so much of the good he brought to music in terms of reviving punk pop for Americans, and repackaged it into inane teeny-bopper saccharine. what is strange to me is that Rick must have actually dug this in his 30s. for most people I know in my generation, nirvana were a signpost leading away from the mainstream and into exploring the indie world that, in their wake, gained exposure. e.g. acts off Matador, SubPop, Touch and Go, Drag City, Rough Trade, 4AD etc. Relatively fewer musicians seemed to graduate from Nirvana to Teenage Dirt bag.
I love when Rick shows love to the hard pop 4/4 masterpieces. I know in 3 seconds whether I like a song or not, especially in rock, punk, metal. Long intros make me wanna go to sleep. Unless you're Dave Gilmour in 1979 just get on with it. That part about the octave Cs is masterful, like He said. A pop masterpiece. Green Day does it better . This is a little too YA for me, but it kicks ass.
I love Green Day until Warning... I lost track of them after that. But is just 2 different styles within the same cathegory. Nimrod is my favourite of theirs, being Take Off Your Pants my Blink's favourite.
True. Brilliant song, also. But I must admit: this song was never the same since I heard/saw Tommy Johanssons Christmas version, right here on YT. It's like the next level. Different. Pop Power metal?
Is it just me do we really need this era of rock producers to come back? I like every kind of guitar-based music. But to my ear and personal taste, it seems like this kind of super-tight, "big" rock songwriting totally disappeared in the late 2000s, when a lot of the labels to started to collapse and drop bands. Maybe those producers became too expensive, retired/passed, or were stuck working on pop and hip-hop. But I remember the end of that era vividly, when I would come home from baseball practice after school and MTV TRL and VH1 Top 20 had began to totally change. I vividly remember Carson Daily saying on TRL, "come on everybody, let's vote some rock back into the top 10!". But the songwriting started to diminish as bands had to scramble to find labels and producers willing to work for less than a million bucks per album.
The quintessential skate boarder teen carefree rebellious summer anthem & superb production. My Bonus (step) daughter loved them as a teen in the very early 2000's. Nothing wrong with a little light summertime fun, but being your age Rick, in that era I preferred Gorillaz & a host of others. But every Generation deserves it's own Nostalgia 🎶😎
There was a whole list of songs from that area that was so good and they were most of them were on Howard Stern's studio daytime things after my divorce yeah I love that stuff and I used to play along would mind using a few as they were so good😮😮😂
Rick you know I love you. Put this band has no business being called punk rock. It's pop music. The absolute worst thing to come out of San Diego they should be embarrassed.
ok, a producer what can double as a hired gun. what can we do if i have a grand to work with? I'm talkin cash baby! have your people call my people. oh wait I have no people. dang it! alright, Beato, you won this round but I'll be bock!
Until this analysis, what stands out and well remembered about this song is the wonderful (and borderline annoying back then) music video, parodying "I Want It That Way" (BSB). 😅 😝
Rick I need a Allen horse box I have a rotten one and I sounded terrible and yeah I need I will pay for that but you know I don't know where to get these things it's my life ahead of me I want to play my guitar.😂
Nerds going back and forth analysing things is so annoying, acting as if the uneducated, drugged up writers deliberately did, what they are analysing, anything past ‘yeh that sounds good’
Cool. I get to reprise the nanas whilst playing this live on the bass. Why do you mention b9? The only time I get that interval is B and C, but in that case it seems so much like a Gadd4, the droning Cs over the 5chord’s triad. So, get it, yet I don’t, Just wonder how your brain works that a dissonant half step that’s both the 3 & 4 notes of the chord, and the 7&8 notes of the key, and your mind calls out the flat 9?! Must be a C an octave higher, more noticeable to you? as a pianist? Or the perfect pitch leanings? (I hear “relatives” well, but sometimes confuse octaves, “is that C4?” etc…) But definitely, if I’m missing something, let me know 😉
So we all had to listen to this BS bc our girlfriends right? Like no guy just listen to this alone in his car, I mean unless it was started with the garage closed 😂
Rick! The WMTSG series should make a comeback. These shorts you've been putting out based on those videos... It just reminds me of how good those breakdowns are. And they were the reason I started following your (great) content!
I agree. Same here.
I also like this new "shorts" videos and the new stuff but I loved the wmtsg-videos and I would love to see a comeback 😍❤
agree all the way
He stopped because he got too many copyright strikes. He can’t risk being demonetized. He’d have to hide them behind a paywall. Or find a platform that isn’t full of communists
Did they stop, because some jerk artists made copyright claims?
Jerry Finn was a master at his craft. Shame he was taken from us so early.
The best part about Beatto’s channel is how he dignifies such polarizing music. Lotta “serious music fans” would trash this song, but it is indeed a masterpiece
Absolutely this
I could do without this coming on at a bar lol. But I've always given Blink their flowers for it. It's a perfect pop song. Catchys catchy.
It's a masterpiece of a song, and the video was a masterpiece too. I have trouble fathoming that it will be 25 years since it came out this fall
The strangeness of punk rock... a simple rebellious anti establishment vibe, but that arranging separated the backyard bbq bands from the superstar.
i love backyard bbq music
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xdNot at all, check out the new bands that are emerging
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd the essence of pop punk and punk could not be more different. Punk by definition cannot be mainstream milk toast bullshit
@@ChickenJoe-tq6xd dunno how your local scene is, but mine is still alive and well and baddas as ever. If your only exposure to punk is via mainstream channels then I can see how you have this point of view
Sadly it turned to pro establishment
We played this in a short set at my daughters wedding last year. Did not expect the mathem - the spkr stands were waving back and forth. Sometimes the joy of rock can be pretty simple, doesnt have to be but theres nothing to hate o when it is. Remember this is the music that buddy holly and eddie cochran invented, we shouldnt get all precious about enjoying All of it
Of the many things I've learned from your What Makes This Song Great series, the bit about the synth from the episode on All The Small Things has stuck in my mind for years. I hear it now every time I listen to that song.
People forget that this song was satire, purposefully deconstructed and over simplified to poke fun at the boy bands of the late 90s.
Enema and take off are great all the way through!
Self titled is perfect top to bottom as well
@@SDTimboxi don’t think they have a bad album minus a few i won’t count 😅
imo All the small things is an exception within the album, their 2003 self-titled album is ages ahead of their other albums
@@gbg3663 i know i'm in the minority but it's just an ok album to me (the 2003). Enema is way better and i prefer all the previous albums to that. Their inspiration for the self-titled album was The Cure and The Smiths (Mark is a big fan of them) but it does not sound as great as those bands. Just my opinion.
This was the first episode of the "What Makes This Song Great" and I was immediately hooked.
love this series more than words can describe
What makes this song great is the divergence of the harmonies on the verse, then the voices comento unison on the pre-chorus. Of course anything Barker does.
It is indeed a pop punk masterpiece, all time classic.
I’d love to see Rick bring on George Lynch.
^ +1 to this
This song was the best pick me up after a hard day in the industrial kitchen 😊
Throwback to the very first WMTSG 🤘🏼
Love your analysis and your breakdowns. Thank you so much for your channel it's become one of my favorites I take a lot of enjoyment out of your educational information
Rick you inspired me to listen to enema of the state on my morning commute today, and I’ve never heard this album in such a way after 25 years of listening to it.
I love your assessment of the added synth, but just as amazing is when they take away. Listen to Dysentery Gary.
one thing I noticed, on the first two choruses where the lyrics are “life just sucks, I lost the one…” there’s a vacuum musically. NO RHYTHM guitar. Just the tension of the lead guitar melody with those vocals and then in the outro chorus the lyrics change to more aggressive, like the emotional mood is past hurt and depression and has shifted to anger and moving on, so they queued up that rhythm guitar and let her rip!!!
Rick, I kind of feel validated for teaching the chorus and outro of blink-182's "Feeling This" as an example of good triple counterpoint... Cheers!
Beautiful song
it just plain makes you feel good
Until someone told me I had no idea he was singing about a little windmill at the end lol after like 25 years!
What did you think he was saying lol
@@ehd.f4269 I knew it will, is normally the go to for that song. And Walk alone instead of wore cologne in what's my age... The classics.
@@ehd.f4269 truth be told I didn’t know what it was!
ITS NOT I WALK ALONE? MY LIFE IS A LIE @@waynekerr7013
enema of the state is a masterpiece
Wow !!! Comedy master piece that is!!
I can't unheard the synthesizer lick now :) never even noticed it before.
Say what you want about blink, but they are amazing songwriters.
This is top 3 what makes this song great
Very underrated American song writers
Love this, Rick - always appreciate your insight
Pure genius
I've already been 100% that the string muted part of that intro is actually an Am. Not sure if the bass plays on the A but it absolutely fits.
It's just dead notes on the bottom 2 strings, and if they're not muted fully they could be interpreted as A5 or Am. That would also imply the classic I-V-vi-IV chord progression or if you want to get crazy you could say it implies an Fmaj7 since the E-A move to F-C. So Am would absolutely work really well in that spot.
Pop punk will always mean a lot more to me than any '70s CBGB or '80s hardcore band. Bring on those "na na na"s, baby!
You should check out the Wipers, a massively underrated punk band from the 80s that somehow manages to perfectly mesh the heavier sound, attitude, emotion and passion of the hardcore scene with some of the catchiest melodies I've ever heard from the punk scene. As an added bonus, Kurt Cobain credited Greg Sage (lead singer and songwriter of the Wipers) with having created the "grunge" sound years before the term was ever used in music
it's not so strange that only a few years after Cobain died the industry took so much of the good he brought to music in terms of reviving punk pop for Americans, and repackaged it into inane teeny-bopper saccharine. what is strange to me is that Rick must have actually dug this in his 30s.
for most people I know in my generation, nirvana were a signpost leading away from the mainstream and into exploring the indie world that, in their wake, gained exposure. e.g. acts off Matador, SubPop, Touch and Go, Drag City, Rough Trade, 4AD etc. Relatively fewer musicians seemed to graduate from Nirvana to Teenage Dirt bag.
I love when Rick shows love to the hard pop 4/4 masterpieces. I know in 3 seconds whether I like a song or not, especially in rock, punk, metal. Long intros make me wanna go to sleep. Unless you're Dave Gilmour in 1979 just get on with it.
That part about the octave Cs is masterful, like He said. A pop masterpiece. Green Day does it better . This is a little too YA for me, but it kicks ass.
I love Green Day until Warning... I lost track of them after that. But is just 2 different styles within the same cathegory. Nimrod is my favourite of theirs, being Take Off Your Pants my Blink's favourite.
It's a lot of fun to play also.
Didn’t even notice the octaves until you pointed it out. Earworm pop songs got so much to them that are under-appreciated
I love Rick. he's so awesome
Again, the phenomenon of stacked fifths.
“Stick It” 😁 movie
You are so good at articulating music!
Having the great Roger Manning Jr on the track sure helps 😉Pure pop punk bliss.
Banger.
? I hardly know her...
That song was arranged by sound engineer the late Jermone Gregory Finn (1969-2008). Amazing talent, gone far too soon.
True. Brilliant song, also. But I must admit: this song was never the same since I heard/saw Tommy Johanssons Christmas version, right here on YT. It's like the next level. Different. Pop Power metal?
Love it
Once Rick pointed this out it’s all I can hear during the chorus. 😆
If you think about it, it’s very early Beatles
Is it just me do we really need this era of rock producers to come back? I like every kind of guitar-based music. But to my ear and personal taste, it seems like this kind of super-tight, "big" rock songwriting totally disappeared in the late 2000s, when a lot of the labels to started to collapse and drop bands. Maybe those producers became too expensive, retired/passed, or were stuck working on pop and hip-hop. But I remember the end of that era vividly, when I would come home from baseball practice after school and MTV TRL and VH1 Top 20 had began to totally change. I vividly remember Carson Daily saying on TRL, "come on everybody, let's vote some rock back into the top 10!". But the songwriting started to diminish as bands had to scramble to find labels and producers willing to work for less than a million bucks per album.
The quintessential skate boarder teen carefree rebellious summer anthem & superb production. My Bonus (step) daughter loved them as a teen in the very early 2000's. Nothing wrong with a little light summertime fun, but being your age Rick, in that era I preferred Gorillaz & a host of others. But every Generation deserves it's own Nostalgia 🎶😎
I remember when they were a garage band from San Diego County.
Well, they're still from San Diego county haha
Love you rick
Even the middle tier bands of the 90s put out better music than any group today.
You should review After Midnight by Blink 182 please!!!
i think i've listened to it too many times. i wish i could go back in time and love this song again. what happened to me??
Van Halen's Jump does a similar thing with the C note. C4 to C6 maybe?
Couldn't agree more
The vocals reminded me of the Beach Boys 😅
I miss the beautiful sounds of Robin trower , Santana, Beatles stones Zeppelin black Sabbath Hendrix and of course Alvin lee
There was a whole list of songs from that area that was so good and they were most of them were on Howard Stern's studio daytime things after my divorce yeah I love that stuff and I used to play along would mind using a few as they were so good😮😮😂
If this came out today then you would have panned it!
❤
Well done! I'd love to see you break down a song from Rush especially Neil Pearts expertise.
"Keep your head still" and the camera stops shaking 😂
Ramones had a baby with the Chipmunks
Drove to Poway to get it
All the hate in these comments is laughable. So many pathetic, jealous people. Meanwhile this album sold over 15 million copies …
music snobs gonna music snob lol
Clearly, they are fans of YES
Amen!
Please analyze lover you should’ve come over by Jeff Buckley🙏🙏🙏
Jerry Finn’s work
Blink 182 can't capture all those layers live as a three peice, they need an entire chorus ensemble.
Would never have known
i didn't know anthony Bourdain played guitar
And triplets..
Rick you are awesome teacher what patience.Great guitar 🎸🎸🎸
Wow, octaves, 3 chords "Na na na na" and the melody of a children's song. The Barry Manilows of pop punk.
The cover by Puddles Pity Party is so much better than the original!
Rick you know I love you. Put this band has no business being called punk rock. It's pop music. The absolute worst thing to come out of San Diego they should be embarrassed.
Now do carousel...
Those octave Cs always irritated my ears in this song. It's not so hidden to me. 😖
ok, a producer what can double as a hired gun.
what can we do if i have a grand to work with? I'm talkin cash baby!
have your people call my people. oh wait I have no people. dang it!
alright, Beato, you won this round but I'll be bock!
Its not hidden now, I can't not hear it...
They do be Na Na’n
The song sounds like it's blinking.
Sorry, i cant make the jump to Blink 182 😅
Wow god forbid Rick like something yall don't
has a bit of a The Who vibe .
Until this analysis, what stands out and well remembered about this song is the wonderful (and borderline annoying back then) music video, parodying "I Want It That Way" (BSB). 😅 😝
A most masterful arrangement (no kidding) of one of the most annoying songs 😜
S’why Mr. Beato rocks! 🤘😎
Rick I need a Allen horse box I have a rotten one and I sounded terrible and yeah I need I will pay for that but you know I don't know where to get these things it's my life ahead of me I want to play my guitar.😂
Holdsworth
What is that key sound?
Mars code.😂
And it still goes off at parties with young people lol
Nerds going back and forth analysing things is so annoying, acting as if the uneducated, drugged up writers deliberately did, what they are analysing, anything past ‘yeh that sounds good’
Ahahah the best lyrics isn't it Rick? 😂
Cool. I get to reprise the nanas whilst playing this live on the bass.
Why do you mention b9? The only time I get that interval is B and C, but in that case it seems so much like a Gadd4, the droning Cs over the 5chord’s triad. So, get it, yet I don’t, Just wonder how your brain works that a dissonant half step that’s both the 3 & 4 notes of the chord, and the 7&8 notes of the key, and your mind calls out the flat 9?! Must be a C an octave higher, more noticeable to you? as a pianist? Or the perfect pitch leanings? (I hear “relatives” well, but sometimes confuse octaves, “is that C4?” etc…) But definitely, if I’m missing something, let me know 😉
:)
If this song came out today Rick would tear it to shreds
I doubt it
Nah, the song is super melodic
No he wouldn’t.
Hey break down CROWD CHANT by Joe satriani
So we all had to listen to this BS bc our girlfriends right? Like no guy just listen to this alone in his car, I mean unless it was started with the garage closed 😂
These guys did for punk what The Beatles did for Rock 'n' Roll.