Now I fully realize how good Philip Seymour Hoffman is in Almost Famous
@coachmitch7399
10 ай бұрын
The best KZread comment EVER!!!!!
@Luxie195 жыл бұрын
Phillip Seymour Hoffman played him brilliantly in Almost Famous 🎶❤
@themrchimpie
5 жыл бұрын
but he was smaller than him. Lester Bangs was 6'1, Philip Seymour Hoffman was 5'6.
@Guitarplayer724
3 жыл бұрын
pinco palla who gives a shit?
@semperfi818
3 жыл бұрын
@@themrchimpie Regardless, Hoffman became Bangs to the life while in role, feeling every bit as physically imposing and intense as Lester himself.
@nolanrandall4242
3 жыл бұрын
The voice is very similar.
@semperfi818
3 жыл бұрын
@@nolanrandall4242 "Ig-gy _Pop!!!_ " Yes, PSH caught Lester in mid-flight like Audubon limning a hawk in a power dive.
@julieswahn13 жыл бұрын
ohh the fights he'd get into with Lou Reed! That mag was my bible through my teens and I loved Lester immensely.
@andu1854
3 жыл бұрын
Man those two did a lot of drugs
@scottjulie273 жыл бұрын
“I’m always home, I’m uncool.” :)))
@nholt13 жыл бұрын
Phillip Seymour Hoffman played Lester Bangs in the movie Almost Famous perfectly. Phillip nailed it. My favorite movie!
@iamremmie9 жыл бұрын
"'Cause we are uncool."
@avosg213 жыл бұрын
His opinions are timeless. He could be talking about the present in this interview. We need him now as much as we did then.
@BigSmoke-bu6ib
2 жыл бұрын
@DEEZ LIKES what's the deal, do you just copy and paste this lame joke to every comment you see? Cookie cutter.
@dashingeduardosuarez
Жыл бұрын
the most generic comment on fcking youtube....ever
@MonkeyGami3 жыл бұрын
Lester Bangs nailing the Philip Seymour Hoffman impersonation! Amazing...
@barrabasi8 жыл бұрын
Never imagined drug lord Pablo Escobar was that knowledgeable about rock music!!!
@bubhub64
6 жыл бұрын
barrabasi Lol!
@mckinleylowman6412
4 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahshs
@dantean
4 жыл бұрын
Though I can only assume you knew Lester to have been that knowledgeable about coke, right?!
@voteZDLR
4 жыл бұрын
He does look like real life Pablo Escobar doesn't he? I think part of it is is that this was kind of happening around the time Pablo was building up that empire, and the clothes are all contemporary to the time. But more than that it's his face as well and the hair
@semperfi818
3 жыл бұрын
@@dantean To say nothing, alas, of the off-label uses of Romilar(TM)...
@calchick8212 жыл бұрын
God Bless Lester Bangs! This clip shows why he was so great. No journalists, critics, reviewers or "reporters"(especially on those horrid entertainment/gossip shows) would ever talk about musicians or actors so honestly like that today. No, they're too busy kissing their asses!!!
@janiterinadrum1627
2 жыл бұрын
Lester bangs was a shitbag NyQuil did to him what the rest of us were thinking
@BigSmoke-bu6ib
2 жыл бұрын
@DEEZ LIKES you're a well known adjective that describes two grown men who love each other very, very much.
@eustacebagge4008
Жыл бұрын
@@BigSmoke-bu6ib excellent!
@PennsylvaniaHistoryBuff13 жыл бұрын
I urge everyone to read Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. Lester's writing is a huge influence on me.
@AndyFromEssexUk.
3 ай бұрын
Lester and Hunter S Thompson two of my favourite writers 🇬🇧.
@KayAmooty4333 жыл бұрын
His comments on Bryan Ferry!
@krisscanlon4051
2 ай бұрын
Scathing
@jacobjenn1
Күн бұрын
I always though the clothes were supposed to be just part of the aesthetic I could totally see him not being into most of the rockstar shit at the time. I mean hell, he’s still alive so he surely didn’t get too lost in the sauce
@Queen_of_Mean3 жыл бұрын
We need another Lester Bangs.
@Sangria
Жыл бұрын
We do. Anthony Fantano
@palespectre4835
Жыл бұрын
@@Sangrialol no. Fantano seems like a nice enough guy but he seems barely qualified to do what he does. He also doesn’t have the edge and vision of Bangs; just a lukewarm KZreadr
@Johnnybomb1
2 ай бұрын
@@SangriaNah
@Krimthemachine3 жыл бұрын
I wish he had made it to see Rap, Hardcore Punk and Grunge take over the 80s. Or Bubblegum Pop. Man, just heartbreaking thst he couldn't make it out. Truly a visionary!
@brandonhendrix7223
3 жыл бұрын
He did review some hardcore punk. He wasn't impressed (surprised?). He did like the Circle Jerks and...the Exploited (!!). He also took Jello Biafra down a notch (who's such a pompous egomaniac, he needs it!) in an article. I think (just based on his writings I've read) he may have been receptive to some rap but would've likely loathed grunge.
@mariecruze259
2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonhendrix7223 did he like Damaged? Cristigau knew good enough to praise that album...
@brandonhendrix7223
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariecruze259 I don't know. Bangs didn't have much good to say about Black Flag, so I doubt it.
@brandonhendrix7223
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariecruze259 Christgau is my least favorite rock writer. Anyone who calls himself "the dean" and grades albums like a teacher is a schmuck in my book. He trashed the Cramps too. So screw him.
@mariecruze259
2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonhendrix7223 trashed the Cramps? Oh hell no lol...I suppose it could be funny though...the rockabilly Era happened when he was young...so trashing rockabilly revivalism would make for a good joke
@reethkitchards9 ай бұрын
We need a Lester Bangs for everything, especially now...
@susancarter23653 жыл бұрын
I love Lester. I wish he was here.
@Sweetish_Jeff_2 жыл бұрын
One can only wonder what Lester would think of today’s music. He probably would say, “modern country is for people who couldn’t make it in rock”.
@belasgirl69 жыл бұрын
What I would not give to discuss music with him....I am sure we would agree and argue and it would be most fun.
@cgh733710 ай бұрын
I wonder what Lester Bangs would think about music in 2023, especially 'rock music'?
@antonymscalia39249 жыл бұрын
Why Lester Bangs was so important as a rock critic is that he did not write to be agreeable, he wrote what he found entertaining to him, and his writing, while occasionally a mixed bag, was frequently brilliant and incisive. Even if I didn't agree with him, I always wanted to know what he had to say, then formed my own opinion. Lester would make you _think_ about his subjects.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@kenneth cloward we know you are
@mercydudley11 жыл бұрын
miss you Lester!
@eml30772 жыл бұрын
I wanna be a music journalist because of this guy!!! I love talking music 😊
@Frijolero1810 жыл бұрын
This guy's favorite record is Astral Weeks, so the least I can do is listen to what he has to say.
@ceejay1794
3 жыл бұрын
Frijolero18 great pic for favorite record
@JohnBonini
10 ай бұрын
@@ceejay1794It took me four decades before I first heard “Madame George” and I was way too late.
@markg0410 Жыл бұрын
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of Bangs was SPOT ON.
@SonofMrPeanut12 жыл бұрын
This is because music of all forms saw a splintering going into the 70's. The -isms that gave such stars a position started fading out in favor of a more individualized approach. Instead of one catch-all aspiration we have a collective of groups that grew more varied as time went on. The search for individual sounds in the late 60's was certainly a key factor in this. Parallel to this, almost anyone who could be considered a star since didn't carry that same sense of purpose.
@emmaduncan299111 жыл бұрын
Damn good writer.
@alexrichardson52365 жыл бұрын
When you think about rock in general what comes to mind? A music of teen rebellion or a music that can be melded with other influences? The answer is both. Rock is quite multifaceted than what most can expect from it.
@theformernihilist98918 жыл бұрын
CREEM = Punk magazine before Punk magazine.
@rjplamf6110 жыл бұрын
My God he could pass for Pablo Escobar's double. FN uncanny.
@johnrobinson444510 ай бұрын
"...and that was two years ago..." Maybe it was Peter Frampton, who fizzled out due to a bad artistic choice but who looked like the next hero for awhile.
@latenightlogic2 жыл бұрын
I like Lester as an icon but disagree with virtually everything he says. If he were here today he’d look back and see how enormous the 70s were. It’s difficult to see from within the boundaries but retrospect shows the giant that it truly was.
@someonesomewhere1600
2 жыл бұрын
I agree. However, you could see the enormity of rock at the time it was happening. What has been so shocking is that it died in a manner we never saw coming and is now a carcass that the occasional band tries on, usually with limited success. The 70s were fantastic and entertaining and a high-water mark for rock.
@hackapump
2 жыл бұрын
I think you couldn't possibly be anything but nearsighted while it's actually happening. Every decade had its detractors, yet no one has really managed to capture the essence of a decade while it's still ongoing. The final analysis comes years, perhaps even decades later, and it's never done by a single person. Lester strikes me as a guy disappointed in where things seemed to be headed. But a decade is never one thing, one trend, one genre. As bashed as the 80s has been, it still gave us the college radio revolution that set the stage for the ultimate triumph of punk rock in 1991. Were there also a lot of dreck? Of course. There always is. But why focus on that?
@katmd03
2 жыл бұрын
@@hackapump “the ultimate triumph of punk rock in 1991” You mean when it became commercialized and watered down for a mass audience?
@hackapump
2 жыл бұрын
@@katmd03 No.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
The best things of the 70s were The Clash, the Ramones, Suicide, the Dolls, The Cars, and Iggy Pop. Some things did happen, but not much.
@JohnnyPappas11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this.
@sonicregurgitation11 жыл бұрын
"music sterility at its pinnacle" ahhhh you never lived to see technical death metal
@lucaslaino72929 ай бұрын
He was amazing.
@Jasonificatiation10 жыл бұрын
that was pretty damn brilliant.
@cordovalark52953 жыл бұрын
Anywhere we can find the full interview?
@desienfever35732 ай бұрын
When I heard Tommy by the who with a candle I saw my future and I want to be a journalist and interview rock bands like William in “Almost Famous” and it gave me an opportunity to watch the movie every day for the rest of my life. #AlmostFamousMovie #Movies2000s
@CarissaConti5 жыл бұрын
Phillip Seymour Hoffman did an excellent job portraying him. Nailed the voice.
@yz40433 жыл бұрын
Such a mood
@KatesFree10 жыл бұрын
Even though I absolutely love the bands he's ripping into here, I still think what he had to say was valid.
@joesmith2124
6 жыл бұрын
No, this guy is ripped off speed and it's easy to judge everything when you've not accomplished a third of what the bands that this guy judges has lol. Just because PSH played him in a movie doesn't mean this guy has any reverence. His opinion is outdated and drug fueled chatter. But people who feel that their opinions matter and that everything is stupid like him.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@joesmith2124 You’re so wrong
@joesmith2124
2 жыл бұрын
@@curly_wyn You're stupid, go out into the world and hate everything thinking that everything you think and feel is truth.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@joesmith2124 Except Bangs actually made good points. Like with Beatlemania resurfacing in 1981 after John Lennon was killed. He pointed out that nothing great was happening at that point and people were desperate for a group to look up to, especially with living in the past for bands that seem the most familiar to us. Nostalgia can be a very toxic thing, and people have found out that you can make billions off of it.
@joesmith2124
2 жыл бұрын
@@curly_wyn What he says isn't fact, it's merely his opinion. You choose to deify him.
@PamK362 жыл бұрын
Dead for 40 years and still pissing off people. Amazing.
@samuelwatson891010 жыл бұрын
Hey Josh, I agree with your point of view...nice man!
@dwaynesbadchemicals2 жыл бұрын
C’mon Lester. Stop sugar coating it. 😆
@ThefightingCelt4 жыл бұрын
All music journalists are frustrated rock stars . Lester Bangs was no different . He did get one thing right though : Astral Weeks is indeed faultless .
@PerryCuda7 жыл бұрын
Bangs cared enough about music to hate those who were destroying it. He assailed people who were nothing more than actors with guitars, jestering. They often were nothing more than cliche sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll acts. Talent without passion and authenticity would get you nowhere with him.
@andrewherrera9769
7 жыл бұрын
He died of accidental overdose not too long after this, no shit he didn't go on reviewing music. That's the dumbest point I've ever seen anyone try to make.
@tomandaj13 жыл бұрын
God, I miss his honesty
@PTRS9K12 жыл бұрын
Listen to Bryan Ferry, " Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" . You will see what Ferry is really about, Supremely Talented.
@classiclife7204 Жыл бұрын
My man hated prog rock, which is eternally to his credit
@rjplamf6112 жыл бұрын
Wow! I did not know that Lester Bangs was Pablo Escobar's identical twin.
@yinoveryang4246 Жыл бұрын
If this is 70's his finger is spectacularly off the pulse isn't it. Bangs showed everyone that being able to write well, is very different from having an opinion worth listening to
@classiclife7204
Жыл бұрын
What was he wrong about? Pretentious prog bands were bad.
@nomoniker7917
Жыл бұрын
@yinoveryang Bravo, Thank You for that. Lester Bangs was a stupid contrarian just for the sake of being so, he was a dimwit loser who had very little judgement when it came to valid criticism.
@cdavidlake2
11 ай бұрын
Huh? Lester *was* the pulse.
@nomoniker7917
11 ай бұрын
Lester didnt live long enough to have any true objectivity. Critics right in the thick of their industry, be it music or movies, are just a cog in that industry. The ones with past & future vision, removed objective context, those are the most genuine. Some of Lester's opinions dont hold up at all this far out.
@david_rahtz7 жыл бұрын
stefanobonelli83 any chance you know where these interviews come from? a broadcast segment or a documentary?
@TheKevlar48 жыл бұрын
The OG Chris Ott
@OverlandOne3 жыл бұрын
Lester was a great writer. RIP.
@Ridersonthestorm88992 жыл бұрын
All critics love The Stooges and The Ramones,its compulsory apparently.
@alingard13 жыл бұрын
I'd pay good money to hear lester's thoughts on music right now...... all you ever hear is how great music is, I dont think its ever been worse. vacuous , heard it before crap.
@GriefTourist12 жыл бұрын
he knew..he knew!
@EyeMixMusic5 жыл бұрын
Early 1970s. Incredible music is pouring out of the UK glam rock scene with T-Rex, David Bowie and many others. More incredible music is pouring out of the Detroit garage rock scene with The MC5, The Stooges and Alice Cooper inventing the blueprint for punk. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are shaping the future of heavy metal, Pink Floyd and King Crimson are pushing the boundaries of progressive rock. The Grateful Dead are defying categorisation to evolve rock 'n' roll into something uniquely wonderful. Rock 'n' roll as a whole has never been more diverse, vibrant and exciting. Lester Bangs: "Nothing has happened."
@CarissaConti
5 жыл бұрын
He was "that guy," that's why. There's always "that guy." :D
@DiamorphineDeath
4 жыл бұрын
I think that’s utter nonsense. The greatful dead were trash that just put out bootleg after bootleg and record after record of just them jamming to their stoned contention, for their stoned fans who followed them around due to A) being too high to function, and B) being baby boomers with absolute shit taste in music. Iggy tore up that world, and was not given any recognition, as Lou Reed was doing the same thing with the Velvets. Emerson Lake and Palmer were playing music no kid could emulate in their garage band, as was King Crimson and everyone else. Prog was bloated, it was self fellating, and self obsessed, and ultimately and thankful creating the foundation for punk rock in all its reactionary fervor. Led Zeppelin was nothing revolutionary, and T Rex and the same bloated glam scene had overstayed their welcome and produced nothing of note to begin with. Stairway to heaven is one of the worst songs ever made right alongside hotel California. Just boomer platitudes in corporate rock form. Roxy Music and Brian Eno were gods, but the self obsessed vapor and decadent aspect they brought with them made sure their music would be short lived and there ability to produce reflective of that. Punk came into the scene, shone brilliantly and then died in the same fashion. It became a parody of itself in the same way glam and prog and rock music had done. To take away anything Bangs says here is ridiculous, he was spot on and did it in tradition Lester Bangs fashion. It ain’t the summer of love as the imperial dogs said in ‘74, and thank god we’re finally getting far enough away from that time period of liberal hippie drivel that’s dominated our culture for the last half century. Good riddance.
@rokyericksonroks
4 жыл бұрын
Emerson Lake & Palmer needed to fall on their sword in order for there to ever be a punk scene. Bangs provided them the sword. Next thing you know, we’re all in for The Ramones and Dead Kennedys. The 80s came along and coke was everywhere.
@likearollingstone007
3 жыл бұрын
@@DiamorphineDeath Sooo, what are you listening to these days ?
@kingboobs20
3 жыл бұрын
@@DiamorphineDeath Nothing good came out of punk, zip, nada. VU and The Stooges are the two undisputed worst bands of all time and were objectively the worst thing to ever happen to music, that is a fact, anyone who doesn't accept it is a fool.
@slackdude12 жыл бұрын
Everyone’s crazy except me. I have much more serious issues to contend with. I wish he had lived. It’s like he felt obligated because the alternative sucked. Great writer.
@obfuscated30905 жыл бұрын
Cue endless stream of butthurt comments because people confuse what they enjoyed in their youth with quality as opposed to "fun"! It's perfectly OK to enjoy shlock, but never pretend it's not shlock. Bangs was important in spreading awareness of good and great bands before the internet. The internet has been around so long few remember how musical awareness spread before it.
@amberpaigejames9054 Жыл бұрын
"Musical sterility..." Love it!
@georgeadams8230 Жыл бұрын
I was a huge emerson ,lake and palmer fan back then and in looking back he wasn't wrong, as he said of keith emerson, trained fingers might as well be trained seals if there's not a mind behind it.
@Musistics Жыл бұрын
Lester Claypool, you are the cutest actor.
@07foxmulder12 жыл бұрын
after viewing this i praise philip seymour hoffman's portrayal of him in almost famous lol it was spot on.
@absurdjunk Жыл бұрын
The bunny rabbit story 😆Philip Seymour Hoffman nailed this impression.
@MagusMirificus9 жыл бұрын
And then punk rock happened.
@pgroove163
6 жыл бұрын
another shit scam
@mitchelvalentino1569
5 жыл бұрын
Lester Bangs loved The Exploited.
@dantean
4 жыл бұрын
"Happened?!" Punk "happened" to precisely the extent that any other loser clown bullshit "happens." The punks spent all their time demanding the rest of us notice their "shocking" hair styles (already done), anti-corporate attitude (ooh, fresh!), and preparedness to burn their draft cards under the circumstances of no one actually they go out and die for your countries. If there was anything more original about "punk" than farting in one's own oatmeal it has yet to be discovered.
@outis439-A
4 жыл бұрын
@@dantean MUSIC. Not the fashion. You twat, we are talking about music.
@lumpyfishgravy
3 жыл бұрын
@@dantean 45 years later Punk still carries the torch of Rock and Roll. Or do you prefer the sham that is Foo Fighters?
@Cthuuulu11 жыл бұрын
I like Pavement, particularly the early stuff but my subjective tastes have moved largely toward drone and noise the past few years.
@meflove11 жыл бұрын
Very true!
@zachflakerton6 жыл бұрын
The 1970s were probably the best decade for music although the more I look into that period, the more disappointed I get and can see eye to eye with Bangs. The youth movement of the late 60s was probably the last ground up movement that pushed it's way into the mainstream, some of its residue leaking into the 70s. However, the 70s were increasingly being plagued with the main problem people have with modern music, the music industry. If it wasn't vapid disco or baroque pop clogging the top charts, it was vapid "rockstars, carrying the torch" from the original groups in the 60s, it's just that most of them were missing an identity or a point. Note that I say top charts, as in, not encompassing everything at the time. In modern times we tend to filter out the best from the past, often stuff that was ahead of its time and did not make the charts, but that's normal. Of course there was the punk movement which was ground up but that wasn't nearly as influential as the 60s youth movement, nor did it carry the numbers to make it's way into the mainstream. Two different realms of music are traditional music and popular. Traditional is ground up and dances around/ projects to a certain idea, popular has the only point of making money. It's not 100% scrupulous but as we head further and further through time, you will have to sell out to the popular route, not the traditional. You have to be someone who wants to be a "star" and have a strong identity whilst not actually saying anything and make a lot of money. The 70s just seems like the decade that sealed the deal for that cancer.
@smkxodnwbwkdns8369
Жыл бұрын
and now we have almost no music industry. is it better yet? have these glorious grassroots movements spawned your afflatus?
@juniorjames7076
11 ай бұрын
Well....everything you just wrote can be applied to how Hip Hop music was basically destroyed by the mid 2000s. It is finally unrecognizable and completely cut off from its artistic/spiritual roots. Its fascinating to see an artform from your era of youth disappear. Inevitably you are looking back on your life. In a radio podcast last year, De La Soul was asked by some (Gen X) fans why hip hop sucks so much now, and they said "Look....you guys grew up, finished college, got jobs, brought home, started raising families and STOPPED buying music as much. You left!"
@poopmcstuffins44176 жыл бұрын
i just noticed he has a picture of lou reed hanging up behind him.
@elliecrabbe3 жыл бұрын
Phillip Seymour Hoffman did his homework.
@theodoreconstantini2548 Жыл бұрын
This was filmed in 1972, and yet Lester does mention Led Zeppelin, or seem to consider them an important band, when they were easily the biggest band in the world.
@thewkovacs316
10 ай бұрын
glorified cover band
@handoverfist1113 жыл бұрын
I wish this full interview was available somewhere. He was on the mark more often than not. Dave Marsh never came close to him.
@duncefunce151311 ай бұрын
As someone who loves prog-rock, I totally agree with him on ELP. One of the biggest musical disappointments of my life.
@SinisterSinemaProductions5 жыл бұрын
according to Lester Bangs who was the biggest band of the 70s?
@deeg88492 жыл бұрын
1:14. Perfectly sums up ELP and other bands like em
@dropd2913 жыл бұрын
The same thing in the 70`s, the same thing now.
@stephanysuydam6019 Жыл бұрын
Two words... Rolling Stones. 😍
@Mallen15113 жыл бұрын
There was good music then, there is good music now. There was bad music then and there is bad music now, but in the 60s and earlier there was GREAT music. In my opinion,that was his point. I can't say I agree 100%. There is still great music today and there was great music in the 70s, but over time it became easier to find the bad stuff than the good stuff. Now there is plenty of good stuff but it is much lower key than the bad. With a few exceptions...
@mailman871206 жыл бұрын
He looks like my Dad.
@NotQuiteFirst11 жыл бұрын
Lester Bangs on about music
@curly_wyn Жыл бұрын
People like Lester Bangs are needed now more than ever, because if all we’re surrounding an artist with is yes-people, we’re gonna get pretty shit art.
@ThisIsMyRodrick
Жыл бұрын
Facts.
@scottlebrun67829 жыл бұрын
hahahahaha... awesome
@geraldobrien73234 жыл бұрын
What he says about ELP, I think the same thing about Rush.
@ceejay1794
3 жыл бұрын
Gerald O'Brien me too, and I’ve seen both. Soulless, good word
@JustineLaLoba
3 жыл бұрын
so true....FM dogshit
@kingboobs20
3 жыл бұрын
Funny that's what I think about The Beatles, objectively the worst band of all time.
@kingboobs20
3 жыл бұрын
@deadvoguestar He held whatever opinion he thought was edgy at the time. He was a tryhard edgelord.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@kingboobs20 I agree with you about the Beatles, very overrated
@diskochimp11 жыл бұрын
He recorded several LPs.
@franklinloll2229 Жыл бұрын
I didnt care for his ceaseless grinding on bands he didn't like. I did enjoy when he spoke of bands he did like or waaa hen he got in fights with performers.
@Primitiveimage8 жыл бұрын
what year was this recorded?
@PlanetRockJesus7 жыл бұрын
I miss Lester Bangs. He told it how he saw it, and I mostly agreed with him. Oh for the days when Creem and Circus were the two solid rock magazines.
@subsubsubsub5413 Жыл бұрын
I forget, what was the name of his band? How many albums did they put out?
@Crimson288 жыл бұрын
Nirvana and Pantera happened in the 90's
@Stranglehold43212 жыл бұрын
@DamnLyke Sorry, it's ''All YOU need is love''
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
Fuck your love, all you need is Hate.
@Sisudio11 жыл бұрын
i like all the music he likes. but i don't understand why you can't also dig a little bit of emerson lake and palmer. for example lucky man and from the beginning are sexy ballads.
@alexrichardson52367 жыл бұрын
How in the world is ELP sterile? I understand bangs didn't like progressive rock because it did not fit his idea of how rock should be, but it was anything but sterile. To me on the other hand I really like because it's different.
@PerryCuda
7 жыл бұрын
Their sound is easily one of the whitest ever recorded and is a jam band that doesn't jam in any real interconnected sense. Just a bunch of different solos.
@alexrichardson5236
7 жыл бұрын
Well other than progressive rock I do listen tho things like psychedelic rock, hard rock & heavy metal, glam rock, post-punk and a little bit of new wave, folk rock, jazz fusion. Plus I'm always buying albums but not just from the mainstream but also obscure underground groups that might never have gotten the attention they deserved. complex and sophisticated or plain and simple I'll take it just as long it's good.
@diskochimp11 жыл бұрын
How exactly?
@Cthuuulu11 жыл бұрын
GY!BE is an excellent group also.
@wellesradio12 жыл бұрын
@alexlancer11 I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying. He loved their music and was really hoping for Roxy Music to tear the lid off of rock'n'roll. But when he met Bryan Ferry he realized that they guy behind it all was about all the wrong things and just didn't have it in him. At least according to Bangs. Ferry gave (and still does imho) the impression of being overly shallow. And so Roxy Music never hit their true potential.
@iamremmie9 жыл бұрын
PSH did this guy justice
@rileyandersen734610 ай бұрын
Jimmy Buffet x Pablo Escobar combined.
@woodychadwick98346 жыл бұрын
I did not know he was a real person
@creekandseminole7 жыл бұрын
I really think he would have like the indie/college rock scene of the 80's and 90's when rock music was deconstructed down by bands like R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, and Pavement.
@johnolson3270 Жыл бұрын
It takes the box tops less than 2 minutes to accomplish what jethro Tull HOURS to NOT ACCOMPLISH 😂
Пікірлер: 451
Now I fully realize how good Philip Seymour Hoffman is in Almost Famous
@coachmitch7399
10 ай бұрын
The best KZread comment EVER!!!!!
Phillip Seymour Hoffman played him brilliantly in Almost Famous 🎶❤
@themrchimpie
5 жыл бұрын
but he was smaller than him. Lester Bangs was 6'1, Philip Seymour Hoffman was 5'6.
@Guitarplayer724
3 жыл бұрын
pinco palla who gives a shit?
@semperfi818
3 жыл бұрын
@@themrchimpie Regardless, Hoffman became Bangs to the life while in role, feeling every bit as physically imposing and intense as Lester himself.
@nolanrandall4242
3 жыл бұрын
The voice is very similar.
@semperfi818
3 жыл бұрын
@@nolanrandall4242 "Ig-gy _Pop!!!_ " Yes, PSH caught Lester in mid-flight like Audubon limning a hawk in a power dive.
ohh the fights he'd get into with Lou Reed! That mag was my bible through my teens and I loved Lester immensely.
@andu1854
3 жыл бұрын
Man those two did a lot of drugs
“I’m always home, I’m uncool.” :)))
Phillip Seymour Hoffman played Lester Bangs in the movie Almost Famous perfectly. Phillip nailed it. My favorite movie!
"'Cause we are uncool."
His opinions are timeless. He could be talking about the present in this interview. We need him now as much as we did then.
@BigSmoke-bu6ib
2 жыл бұрын
@DEEZ LIKES what's the deal, do you just copy and paste this lame joke to every comment you see? Cookie cutter.
@dashingeduardosuarez
Жыл бұрын
the most generic comment on fcking youtube....ever
Lester Bangs nailing the Philip Seymour Hoffman impersonation! Amazing...
Never imagined drug lord Pablo Escobar was that knowledgeable about rock music!!!
@bubhub64
6 жыл бұрын
barrabasi Lol!
@mckinleylowman6412
4 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahshs
@dantean
4 жыл бұрын
Though I can only assume you knew Lester to have been that knowledgeable about coke, right?!
@voteZDLR
4 жыл бұрын
He does look like real life Pablo Escobar doesn't he? I think part of it is is that this was kind of happening around the time Pablo was building up that empire, and the clothes are all contemporary to the time. But more than that it's his face as well and the hair
@semperfi818
3 жыл бұрын
@@dantean To say nothing, alas, of the off-label uses of Romilar(TM)...
God Bless Lester Bangs! This clip shows why he was so great. No journalists, critics, reviewers or "reporters"(especially on those horrid entertainment/gossip shows) would ever talk about musicians or actors so honestly like that today. No, they're too busy kissing their asses!!!
@janiterinadrum1627
2 жыл бұрын
Lester bangs was a shitbag NyQuil did to him what the rest of us were thinking
@BigSmoke-bu6ib
2 жыл бұрын
@DEEZ LIKES you're a well known adjective that describes two grown men who love each other very, very much.
@eustacebagge4008
Жыл бұрын
@@BigSmoke-bu6ib excellent!
I urge everyone to read Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. Lester's writing is a huge influence on me.
@AndyFromEssexUk.
3 ай бұрын
Lester and Hunter S Thompson two of my favourite writers 🇬🇧.
His comments on Bryan Ferry!
@krisscanlon4051
2 ай бұрын
Scathing
@jacobjenn1
Күн бұрын
I always though the clothes were supposed to be just part of the aesthetic I could totally see him not being into most of the rockstar shit at the time. I mean hell, he’s still alive so he surely didn’t get too lost in the sauce
We need another Lester Bangs.
@Sangria
Жыл бұрын
We do. Anthony Fantano
@palespectre4835
Жыл бұрын
@@Sangrialol no. Fantano seems like a nice enough guy but he seems barely qualified to do what he does. He also doesn’t have the edge and vision of Bangs; just a lukewarm KZreadr
@Johnnybomb1
2 ай бұрын
@@SangriaNah
I wish he had made it to see Rap, Hardcore Punk and Grunge take over the 80s. Or Bubblegum Pop. Man, just heartbreaking thst he couldn't make it out. Truly a visionary!
@brandonhendrix7223
3 жыл бұрын
He did review some hardcore punk. He wasn't impressed (surprised?). He did like the Circle Jerks and...the Exploited (!!). He also took Jello Biafra down a notch (who's such a pompous egomaniac, he needs it!) in an article. I think (just based on his writings I've read) he may have been receptive to some rap but would've likely loathed grunge.
@mariecruze259
2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonhendrix7223 did he like Damaged? Cristigau knew good enough to praise that album...
@brandonhendrix7223
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariecruze259 I don't know. Bangs didn't have much good to say about Black Flag, so I doubt it.
@brandonhendrix7223
2 жыл бұрын
@@mariecruze259 Christgau is my least favorite rock writer. Anyone who calls himself "the dean" and grades albums like a teacher is a schmuck in my book. He trashed the Cramps too. So screw him.
@mariecruze259
2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonhendrix7223 trashed the Cramps? Oh hell no lol...I suppose it could be funny though...the rockabilly Era happened when he was young...so trashing rockabilly revivalism would make for a good joke
We need a Lester Bangs for everything, especially now...
I love Lester. I wish he was here.
One can only wonder what Lester would think of today’s music. He probably would say, “modern country is for people who couldn’t make it in rock”.
What I would not give to discuss music with him....I am sure we would agree and argue and it would be most fun.
I wonder what Lester Bangs would think about music in 2023, especially 'rock music'?
Why Lester Bangs was so important as a rock critic is that he did not write to be agreeable, he wrote what he found entertaining to him, and his writing, while occasionally a mixed bag, was frequently brilliant and incisive. Even if I didn't agree with him, I always wanted to know what he had to say, then formed my own opinion. Lester would make you _think_ about his subjects.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@kenneth cloward we know you are
miss you Lester!
I wanna be a music journalist because of this guy!!! I love talking music 😊
This guy's favorite record is Astral Weeks, so the least I can do is listen to what he has to say.
@ceejay1794
3 жыл бұрын
Frijolero18 great pic for favorite record
@JohnBonini
10 ай бұрын
@@ceejay1794It took me four decades before I first heard “Madame George” and I was way too late.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of Bangs was SPOT ON.
This is because music of all forms saw a splintering going into the 70's. The -isms that gave such stars a position started fading out in favor of a more individualized approach. Instead of one catch-all aspiration we have a collective of groups that grew more varied as time went on. The search for individual sounds in the late 60's was certainly a key factor in this. Parallel to this, almost anyone who could be considered a star since didn't carry that same sense of purpose.
Damn good writer.
When you think about rock in general what comes to mind? A music of teen rebellion or a music that can be melded with other influences? The answer is both. Rock is quite multifaceted than what most can expect from it.
CREEM = Punk magazine before Punk magazine.
My God he could pass for Pablo Escobar's double. FN uncanny.
"...and that was two years ago..." Maybe it was Peter Frampton, who fizzled out due to a bad artistic choice but who looked like the next hero for awhile.
I like Lester as an icon but disagree with virtually everything he says. If he were here today he’d look back and see how enormous the 70s were. It’s difficult to see from within the boundaries but retrospect shows the giant that it truly was.
@someonesomewhere1600
2 жыл бұрын
I agree. However, you could see the enormity of rock at the time it was happening. What has been so shocking is that it died in a manner we never saw coming and is now a carcass that the occasional band tries on, usually with limited success. The 70s were fantastic and entertaining and a high-water mark for rock.
@hackapump
2 жыл бұрын
I think you couldn't possibly be anything but nearsighted while it's actually happening. Every decade had its detractors, yet no one has really managed to capture the essence of a decade while it's still ongoing. The final analysis comes years, perhaps even decades later, and it's never done by a single person. Lester strikes me as a guy disappointed in where things seemed to be headed. But a decade is never one thing, one trend, one genre. As bashed as the 80s has been, it still gave us the college radio revolution that set the stage for the ultimate triumph of punk rock in 1991. Were there also a lot of dreck? Of course. There always is. But why focus on that?
@katmd03
2 жыл бұрын
@@hackapump “the ultimate triumph of punk rock in 1991” You mean when it became commercialized and watered down for a mass audience?
@hackapump
2 жыл бұрын
@@katmd03 No.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
The best things of the 70s were The Clash, the Ramones, Suicide, the Dolls, The Cars, and Iggy Pop. Some things did happen, but not much.
Thanks for sharing this.
"music sterility at its pinnacle" ahhhh you never lived to see technical death metal
He was amazing.
that was pretty damn brilliant.
Anywhere we can find the full interview?
When I heard Tommy by the who with a candle I saw my future and I want to be a journalist and interview rock bands like William in “Almost Famous” and it gave me an opportunity to watch the movie every day for the rest of my life. #AlmostFamousMovie #Movies2000s
Phillip Seymour Hoffman did an excellent job portraying him. Nailed the voice.
Such a mood
Even though I absolutely love the bands he's ripping into here, I still think what he had to say was valid.
@joesmith2124
6 жыл бұрын
No, this guy is ripped off speed and it's easy to judge everything when you've not accomplished a third of what the bands that this guy judges has lol. Just because PSH played him in a movie doesn't mean this guy has any reverence. His opinion is outdated and drug fueled chatter. But people who feel that their opinions matter and that everything is stupid like him.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@joesmith2124 You’re so wrong
@joesmith2124
2 жыл бұрын
@@curly_wyn You're stupid, go out into the world and hate everything thinking that everything you think and feel is truth.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@joesmith2124 Except Bangs actually made good points. Like with Beatlemania resurfacing in 1981 after John Lennon was killed. He pointed out that nothing great was happening at that point and people were desperate for a group to look up to, especially with living in the past for bands that seem the most familiar to us. Nostalgia can be a very toxic thing, and people have found out that you can make billions off of it.
@joesmith2124
2 жыл бұрын
@@curly_wyn What he says isn't fact, it's merely his opinion. You choose to deify him.
Dead for 40 years and still pissing off people. Amazing.
Hey Josh, I agree with your point of view...nice man!
C’mon Lester. Stop sugar coating it. 😆
All music journalists are frustrated rock stars . Lester Bangs was no different . He did get one thing right though : Astral Weeks is indeed faultless .
Bangs cared enough about music to hate those who were destroying it. He assailed people who were nothing more than actors with guitars, jestering. They often were nothing more than cliche sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll acts. Talent without passion and authenticity would get you nowhere with him.
@andrewherrera9769
7 жыл бұрын
He died of accidental overdose not too long after this, no shit he didn't go on reviewing music. That's the dumbest point I've ever seen anyone try to make.
God, I miss his honesty
Listen to Bryan Ferry, " Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" . You will see what Ferry is really about, Supremely Talented.
My man hated prog rock, which is eternally to his credit
Wow! I did not know that Lester Bangs was Pablo Escobar's identical twin.
If this is 70's his finger is spectacularly off the pulse isn't it. Bangs showed everyone that being able to write well, is very different from having an opinion worth listening to
@classiclife7204
Жыл бұрын
What was he wrong about? Pretentious prog bands were bad.
@nomoniker7917
Жыл бұрын
@yinoveryang Bravo, Thank You for that. Lester Bangs was a stupid contrarian just for the sake of being so, he was a dimwit loser who had very little judgement when it came to valid criticism.
@cdavidlake2
11 ай бұрын
Huh? Lester *was* the pulse.
@nomoniker7917
11 ай бұрын
Lester didnt live long enough to have any true objectivity. Critics right in the thick of their industry, be it music or movies, are just a cog in that industry. The ones with past & future vision, removed objective context, those are the most genuine. Some of Lester's opinions dont hold up at all this far out.
stefanobonelli83 any chance you know where these interviews come from? a broadcast segment or a documentary?
The OG Chris Ott
Lester was a great writer. RIP.
All critics love The Stooges and The Ramones,its compulsory apparently.
I'd pay good money to hear lester's thoughts on music right now...... all you ever hear is how great music is, I dont think its ever been worse. vacuous , heard it before crap.
he knew..he knew!
Early 1970s. Incredible music is pouring out of the UK glam rock scene with T-Rex, David Bowie and many others. More incredible music is pouring out of the Detroit garage rock scene with The MC5, The Stooges and Alice Cooper inventing the blueprint for punk. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are shaping the future of heavy metal, Pink Floyd and King Crimson are pushing the boundaries of progressive rock. The Grateful Dead are defying categorisation to evolve rock 'n' roll into something uniquely wonderful. Rock 'n' roll as a whole has never been more diverse, vibrant and exciting. Lester Bangs: "Nothing has happened."
@CarissaConti
5 жыл бұрын
He was "that guy," that's why. There's always "that guy." :D
@DiamorphineDeath
4 жыл бұрын
I think that’s utter nonsense. The greatful dead were trash that just put out bootleg after bootleg and record after record of just them jamming to their stoned contention, for their stoned fans who followed them around due to A) being too high to function, and B) being baby boomers with absolute shit taste in music. Iggy tore up that world, and was not given any recognition, as Lou Reed was doing the same thing with the Velvets. Emerson Lake and Palmer were playing music no kid could emulate in their garage band, as was King Crimson and everyone else. Prog was bloated, it was self fellating, and self obsessed, and ultimately and thankful creating the foundation for punk rock in all its reactionary fervor. Led Zeppelin was nothing revolutionary, and T Rex and the same bloated glam scene had overstayed their welcome and produced nothing of note to begin with. Stairway to heaven is one of the worst songs ever made right alongside hotel California. Just boomer platitudes in corporate rock form. Roxy Music and Brian Eno were gods, but the self obsessed vapor and decadent aspect they brought with them made sure their music would be short lived and there ability to produce reflective of that. Punk came into the scene, shone brilliantly and then died in the same fashion. It became a parody of itself in the same way glam and prog and rock music had done. To take away anything Bangs says here is ridiculous, he was spot on and did it in tradition Lester Bangs fashion. It ain’t the summer of love as the imperial dogs said in ‘74, and thank god we’re finally getting far enough away from that time period of liberal hippie drivel that’s dominated our culture for the last half century. Good riddance.
@rokyericksonroks
4 жыл бұрын
Emerson Lake & Palmer needed to fall on their sword in order for there to ever be a punk scene. Bangs provided them the sword. Next thing you know, we’re all in for The Ramones and Dead Kennedys. The 80s came along and coke was everywhere.
@likearollingstone007
3 жыл бұрын
@@DiamorphineDeath Sooo, what are you listening to these days ?
@kingboobs20
3 жыл бұрын
@@DiamorphineDeath Nothing good came out of punk, zip, nada. VU and The Stooges are the two undisputed worst bands of all time and were objectively the worst thing to ever happen to music, that is a fact, anyone who doesn't accept it is a fool.
Everyone’s crazy except me. I have much more serious issues to contend with. I wish he had lived. It’s like he felt obligated because the alternative sucked. Great writer.
Cue endless stream of butthurt comments because people confuse what they enjoyed in their youth with quality as opposed to "fun"! It's perfectly OK to enjoy shlock, but never pretend it's not shlock. Bangs was important in spreading awareness of good and great bands before the internet. The internet has been around so long few remember how musical awareness spread before it.
"Musical sterility..." Love it!
I was a huge emerson ,lake and palmer fan back then and in looking back he wasn't wrong, as he said of keith emerson, trained fingers might as well be trained seals if there's not a mind behind it.
Lester Claypool, you are the cutest actor.
after viewing this i praise philip seymour hoffman's portrayal of him in almost famous lol it was spot on.
The bunny rabbit story 😆Philip Seymour Hoffman nailed this impression.
And then punk rock happened.
@pgroove163
6 жыл бұрын
another shit scam
@mitchelvalentino1569
5 жыл бұрын
Lester Bangs loved The Exploited.
@dantean
4 жыл бұрын
"Happened?!" Punk "happened" to precisely the extent that any other loser clown bullshit "happens." The punks spent all their time demanding the rest of us notice their "shocking" hair styles (already done), anti-corporate attitude (ooh, fresh!), and preparedness to burn their draft cards under the circumstances of no one actually they go out and die for your countries. If there was anything more original about "punk" than farting in one's own oatmeal it has yet to be discovered.
@outis439-A
4 жыл бұрын
@@dantean MUSIC. Not the fashion. You twat, we are talking about music.
@lumpyfishgravy
3 жыл бұрын
@@dantean 45 years later Punk still carries the torch of Rock and Roll. Or do you prefer the sham that is Foo Fighters?
I like Pavement, particularly the early stuff but my subjective tastes have moved largely toward drone and noise the past few years.
Very true!
The 1970s were probably the best decade for music although the more I look into that period, the more disappointed I get and can see eye to eye with Bangs. The youth movement of the late 60s was probably the last ground up movement that pushed it's way into the mainstream, some of its residue leaking into the 70s. However, the 70s were increasingly being plagued with the main problem people have with modern music, the music industry. If it wasn't vapid disco or baroque pop clogging the top charts, it was vapid "rockstars, carrying the torch" from the original groups in the 60s, it's just that most of them were missing an identity or a point. Note that I say top charts, as in, not encompassing everything at the time. In modern times we tend to filter out the best from the past, often stuff that was ahead of its time and did not make the charts, but that's normal. Of course there was the punk movement which was ground up but that wasn't nearly as influential as the 60s youth movement, nor did it carry the numbers to make it's way into the mainstream. Two different realms of music are traditional music and popular. Traditional is ground up and dances around/ projects to a certain idea, popular has the only point of making money. It's not 100% scrupulous but as we head further and further through time, you will have to sell out to the popular route, not the traditional. You have to be someone who wants to be a "star" and have a strong identity whilst not actually saying anything and make a lot of money. The 70s just seems like the decade that sealed the deal for that cancer.
@smkxodnwbwkdns8369
Жыл бұрын
and now we have almost no music industry. is it better yet? have these glorious grassroots movements spawned your afflatus?
@juniorjames7076
11 ай бұрын
Well....everything you just wrote can be applied to how Hip Hop music was basically destroyed by the mid 2000s. It is finally unrecognizable and completely cut off from its artistic/spiritual roots. Its fascinating to see an artform from your era of youth disappear. Inevitably you are looking back on your life. In a radio podcast last year, De La Soul was asked by some (Gen X) fans why hip hop sucks so much now, and they said "Look....you guys grew up, finished college, got jobs, brought home, started raising families and STOPPED buying music as much. You left!"
i just noticed he has a picture of lou reed hanging up behind him.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman did his homework.
This was filmed in 1972, and yet Lester does mention Led Zeppelin, or seem to consider them an important band, when they were easily the biggest band in the world.
@thewkovacs316
10 ай бұрын
glorified cover band
I wish this full interview was available somewhere. He was on the mark more often than not. Dave Marsh never came close to him.
As someone who loves prog-rock, I totally agree with him on ELP. One of the biggest musical disappointments of my life.
according to Lester Bangs who was the biggest band of the 70s?
1:14. Perfectly sums up ELP and other bands like em
The same thing in the 70`s, the same thing now.
Two words... Rolling Stones. 😍
There was good music then, there is good music now. There was bad music then and there is bad music now, but in the 60s and earlier there was GREAT music. In my opinion,that was his point. I can't say I agree 100%. There is still great music today and there was great music in the 70s, but over time it became easier to find the bad stuff than the good stuff. Now there is plenty of good stuff but it is much lower key than the bad. With a few exceptions...
He looks like my Dad.
Lester Bangs on about music
People like Lester Bangs are needed now more than ever, because if all we’re surrounding an artist with is yes-people, we’re gonna get pretty shit art.
@ThisIsMyRodrick
Жыл бұрын
Facts.
hahahahaha... awesome
What he says about ELP, I think the same thing about Rush.
@ceejay1794
3 жыл бұрын
Gerald O'Brien me too, and I’ve seen both. Soulless, good word
@JustineLaLoba
3 жыл бұрын
so true....FM dogshit
@kingboobs20
3 жыл бұрын
Funny that's what I think about The Beatles, objectively the worst band of all time.
@kingboobs20
3 жыл бұрын
@deadvoguestar He held whatever opinion he thought was edgy at the time. He was a tryhard edgelord.
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@kingboobs20 I agree with you about the Beatles, very overrated
He recorded several LPs.
I didnt care for his ceaseless grinding on bands he didn't like. I did enjoy when he spoke of bands he did like or waaa hen he got in fights with performers.
what year was this recorded?
I miss Lester Bangs. He told it how he saw it, and I mostly agreed with him. Oh for the days when Creem and Circus were the two solid rock magazines.
I forget, what was the name of his band? How many albums did they put out?
Nirvana and Pantera happened in the 90's
@DamnLyke Sorry, it's ''All YOU need is love''
@curly_wyn
2 жыл бұрын
Fuck your love, all you need is Hate.
i like all the music he likes. but i don't understand why you can't also dig a little bit of emerson lake and palmer. for example lucky man and from the beginning are sexy ballads.
How in the world is ELP sterile? I understand bangs didn't like progressive rock because it did not fit his idea of how rock should be, but it was anything but sterile. To me on the other hand I really like because it's different.
@PerryCuda
7 жыл бұрын
Their sound is easily one of the whitest ever recorded and is a jam band that doesn't jam in any real interconnected sense. Just a bunch of different solos.
@alexrichardson5236
7 жыл бұрын
Well other than progressive rock I do listen tho things like psychedelic rock, hard rock & heavy metal, glam rock, post-punk and a little bit of new wave, folk rock, jazz fusion. Plus I'm always buying albums but not just from the mainstream but also obscure underground groups that might never have gotten the attention they deserved. complex and sophisticated or plain and simple I'll take it just as long it's good.
How exactly?
GY!BE is an excellent group also.
@alexlancer11 I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying. He loved their music and was really hoping for Roxy Music to tear the lid off of rock'n'roll. But when he met Bryan Ferry he realized that they guy behind it all was about all the wrong things and just didn't have it in him. At least according to Bangs. Ferry gave (and still does imho) the impression of being overly shallow. And so Roxy Music never hit their true potential.
PSH did this guy justice
Jimmy Buffet x Pablo Escobar combined.
I did not know he was a real person
I really think he would have like the indie/college rock scene of the 80's and 90's when rock music was deconstructed down by bands like R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, and Pavement.
It takes the box tops less than 2 minutes to accomplish what jethro Tull HOURS to NOT ACCOMPLISH 😂