Name: Anthony Fantano on Abbey Road
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Anthony Fantano on Abbey Road' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Anthony Fantano on Abbey Road' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-22. Transcript available.

We should we do that the Abbey Road thing or not if you there are like I don't
even know what the thing is to you
I went just okay look at how schizophrenic these notes were this is how angry
you're making me okay
there's like different pieces of paper it's there's no logical flow okay should
I actually
you're talking away you're just talking about my classic Abbey Road review just
a standalone review
the album are you talking about are you talking about a ranking that I did or
just the Abbey Road review
you what do you mean you rank the songs in Abbey Road never mind you're you're
just talking about
my straight up Abbey Road review you had an issue with it you ranked the
Beatles no stop talking have
you ranked the Beatles listen what I listen to you talk about Abbey Road just a
review which is a
okay you've got the it's so but it's like it's so brave of I mean it's crazy
you're a sick man
to say what like for context for everybody who's watching this thing for
everybody who's watching
this who is sane I did a classic Abbey Road review classic Abbey Road review
that is very positive and
very glowing because I do think it is my favorite Beatles album so I'm perplexed
you just don't as
to what you hate about it what do you hate about the way loving that album
because you you're the way
you're talking you're making it sound like I shat on the record and talk like
it was the worst thing ever
you didn't shit on it but the way you talked about it really how did I talk
about it that you got
pissed off about you said that the okay you said the Golden Slumbers medley was
art art pop yeah that's
like a that's a very that's a very no that's not a thing do you understand that
this is where
very well-established opinion no you're like I'm the love shack baby it's not
art pop it didn't exist
nothing is they made that's not I mean that they made these are not art pop it's
a new wave oh you
put on a fucking big suit fucking what now I understand why you're pissed it's
it's it's in terms of a term
it's like it's it's a it's offensive to my ear why because it's a it's a our
pop is a thing it's a
contemporary term it's like saying um well wait it's it's like the Golden Slumbers
medley was
Twitter I like it's just like it's it's it's not it's it's an inappropriate
like uh like phrasing
for it because it's it is the thing it is like that Rosetta Stone right for the
time period
that record was progressive in in artsy by pop standards I mean it's sort of
like it's not art
pop though when because that's like a lesbian in in the 1990s I I I I I
understand I understand
it's just it's it's not it's offensive to to the Beatles I understand the era
of music that that term
is usually attached to because obviously it's sort of like snowballed into
something bigger that was
like a larger musical movement yeah we're talking about a band and we're
talking about the Golden
Sleppers medley was swinging revival yeah who were ahead of the curve it was
cloud rap yeah we're
talking about artists who were ahead of the curve and like it wasn't ahead of
the curve it was they
invented pop music this is they did not invent pop music yes they did no they
did not they invent do you
play the Beatles did not invent pop music do you play guitar pop music precedes
the Beatles I know
that yeah yeah but do you understand like everything comes there it's the it's
it's the source a lot of
things do which is everything why I and other the Beatles obviously came from
other places right
sure and there's a lot of people who uh rightly acknowledge the fact that like
you know uh I want
you she's so heavy the last passages that that's that's like one that's like
one of the first metal
riffs it's not the first like metal riff yeah you know so sick but the thing is
like how do they
know how you can exist you could call that like metal in a sense while also
acknowledging that like
metal as we know it came later what do you mean that's that's not that's not to
say that's not to
say that riff is that's not to say the Beatles are a metal band because they
did that riff it's just
it didn't sound it was grating on my ear to say the Golden Slumber which is the
probably the best
song it's probably the best moment in music to me but you're just mad that I
use the term
art pop because it's like offensive because it's it's the it's the most
important thing
and I I just okay let's go back through my look at it I'd like a this is like a
manifesto earlier
you accused me of okay being of being you said you said I think you're I
admitted 11 admitted 11
you're you're you're reviewing oh darling right okay which is a fucking emotion
the fucking like
how fucking pissed he's singing at the end how much pain he's in okay right he's
in love on that song
you said that you wish that he Paul could sing uh more regular yeah like what
gives you the right
come on just don't say but what gives you the confidence to say I'm honestly I'm
I'm because
because I look because I look at Paul McCartney and I don't and I don't see
when you tell me you
know I mean I get that he can do it you think that doesn't sound sick it's it's
like John Fogarty
singing about being from down by the bayou he's he's not okay have you heard
the the BG song
Massachusetts they've never been to Massachusetts they'd never they they didn't
know what Massachusetts
was they didn't know what it was it sounded good there okay and it does sound
good there
so what do you mean that that when you told me do you understand that they
consumed American rock and
roll no I get that it and they lived in a place no one even knew what Liverpool
was right until they
came here and then they gave it back to us and as a cultural exchange it's
incredible it's it's like uh
I you can't possibly say I wish Paul would sing more regular here yeah in and
he has the capacity to
you know we've heard hey Jude what you wanted to sound that's just don't say he's
just he's just
singing straighter on that song he cut that for him it's just you wanted it to
sound more like hey
Jude I didn't want to say I just wanted him to sing a bit straighter on that
let it be the Beatles
it's it's just it's there it's been there already you don't have to say oh it's
it's it's why like
what's the point of it it stresses me out I'm stressed again just thinking
about it I am
and I know like listen if you're talking about it how my kid sees it and you're
that's that's that's
great right but like what you're so brave and crazy and you're sick in the head
for like for even saying
I wish Paul would do a little bit more of a regular voice in the in this moment
I think like I think we
should be allowed to be critical of everything like as the greatest songwriter
of all time
Paul McCartney the greatest songwriter of all time yes point blank period Bob
no competition Paul
Bob Dylan Paul McCartney yeah yeah in my opinion I mean like you're wrong there's
there's probably okay
Maxwell Silverhammer you said that um you said that it was like disturbing yeah
but that's what's funny
about it but you understand that the words they're they're just saying any word
no no that's did you
see get did you see the Beatles do have songs where they consciously did say
just any words and on
purpose just because there were people who were reading too much into their
music well how are you
disturbed by it it's a baby song it's the we've we all know it why do you what
are you talking you
said that this this qualified that it qualifies everyone thinks that John is
the is the weird
artist and Paul is Paul is the normal one but he writes this we this disturbed
most disturbing song yeah
it's but that's what's fun that's about you're confused first of all John was
the emotional
one I'm citing this is like this is a positive interesting characteristic of
the record I'm
exhausted right now I've been up all night okay in when he says and I will sing
you a lullaby
right and then and then the next the next word is what the slumber crescendo
okay
you take issue with the fact that it wasn't a lullaby that comes next no I didn't
I took issue with it
not no you said that a lullaby should come next no I did not it's right you're
driving me now you're
just making stuff up I did not say that check it can someone check it I did not
say I did not say
I'm mad that's what I punched I didn't say you were mad you're like you would
be expecting a lullaby
I did not say that I did not say I think you did that I was upset or that there
was anything bad about
not a lullaby following that part I know for a fact I put out a lot of content
and I can't remember
every second of it but I guarantee I did not say that there was an issue with
not a lullaby following
that I'm pretty sure a lullaby would you listen what you're gonna have to do is
I think I'm right
what you're gonna have to do is spliced in the clip of me saying I don't want
to hey you know what
you know what really would have been good here a lullaby with golden slumbers
we get this very big
dramatic showing of strings and horns and pianos for a lullaby that is
described in the lyrics but never
really quite happens I mean it is gorgeous and it is powerful but I would be
pretty angry if Paul
McCartney uh went through all of this trouble to set up a lullaby uh only for
him to uh kind of lead
into boy you're gonna carry the weight no what it is is that just music means
so much to people
and that's why they respond so much that you make up stuff to be mad about