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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'ANTHONY FANTANO Talks Radiohead, Abbey Road, Drake vs. Kendrick' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-19. Transcript available.

ANTHONY FANTANO Talks Radiohead, Abbey Road, Drake vs. Kendrick

- Should we do the Abbey Road thing or not?
- If you are.
- I don't know what the thing is to you.
- Okay, look at how schizophrenic these notes were.
This is how angry you're making me.
- Are you talking about a ranking that I did
or just the Abbey Road review?
- What do you mean?
You ranked the songs in Abbey Road?
- Nevermind.
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?
- Good evening and welcome back to the Adam Friedland Show.
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It would be safe to say that Fantano is perhaps the world's biggest music
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Please enjoy my interview with Anthony Fantano.
Our guest today has amassed over a billion views cross-platform.
He is perhaps the biggest music critic in the world.
I think that's actually, you could argue that.
Everyone, please welcome Anthony Fantano.
Bigger.
More.
More.
More.
How's it going?
Good.
How you doing?
I watched your Abbey Road review last night and it literally infuriated me into
not being able
to sleep for two hours.
Why?
We're going to get to that later.
You just brought it up now.
It really does elicit such a...
What's wrong with my Abbey Road review?
No, we're going to get to that later.
No, tell me.
We're going to do a whole segment where we go through the...
You're going to have to defend whatever the...
Okay.
Insanity is.
Who do you think you...
You're a...
You're...
I think you're a psycho.
I think you're a sicko.
You're going 2x on this crap.
I'm not listening to all the music that I review casually.
I mean, there are a lot of records that I review and I just don't listen again.
Either because I don't like it or maybe it's like, you know,
not calling back to me in the way that some other albums are.
But like those albums that do like stick with me and I am like listening to in
a casual way
and showing my friends or like seeing a show.
Like, you know, I mean, for example, like, you know, in my downtime last year,
I was listening to Brad a lot, you know, and there was like a lot of...
Brad Pitt.
Charlie XCX.
Oh, that.
Yeah.
Yeah, that.
But that's kind of a...
Well, because of how much I was listening to that, yeah,
there's a lot of stuff that was happening in my life last year that I associate
with that album.
I mean, that was the biggest album of last year.
I mean, for me, for a lot of people.
I guess it's...
Does it get exhausting needing to think something about something?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Because for me, I listened to it.
I was like, gay guys are probably having the best time to this, but like, I don't
know, it's just...
And it's fine.
Yeah.
I'm glad they're having a great time, but it's just like,
I don't need to have an opinion about it.
Not everything is going to appeal to everyone.
And I mean, as opinionated as I am about a lot of things, like...
And I'm not gay.
I'm definitely...
Yeah, we know you don't like the album.
I just want to say, yeah, the apple and the turn of the tree.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I've heard...
I mean, it's every...
It's an Uber and stuff.
Yeah, not liking Brad is like, probably like, the straightest thing that you
can do.
I don't not like it.
I just didn't respond to...
Well, I mean, it doesn't resonate with you.
Yeah, it was just like, I could tell.
It's like, people...
There are people that are like, this is amazing.
Right.
And I feel I'm going to live forever.
And for me, it was just like, I don't know.
There's one song that...
The short one that sounds like Radiohead.
I like that one.
Oh, with like the sad synths in the background?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, no, that's a great one.
It's up.
She's called Charlie IDF, though, right?
What are your, like...
What are your earliest music memories?
Like, how did you get into music?
Were you from Connecticut?
Yeah.
And your dad's got big muscles and stuff?
Yeah, he's a bodybuilder.
He was a powerlifting coach.
And you're a bodybuilder as well?
I mean, I know how to lift because he taught me, yeah.
It's a family, like, thing.
I wouldn't say it's an institution, but like, you know.
You want your body to match your dad?
Fuck no.
Yeah.
No, he was in very bad shape and bad health for a long time
because of how far he kind of pushed himself.
Oh, because he was lifting too many weights?
He's torn.
Muscles had to have surgeries and so on and so forth.
That's ridiculous.
You know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why would you even want to get muscles, like fashion muscles?
That's your fault?
I guess he was getting other guys buff, too?
Yeah, he was a coach.
It must be, is that, was he like a chill dad?
Oh, no, absolutely not.
If my dad was so buff, I would like, that would have, I wouldn't have liked it.
He was, he was very imposing.
He was very heavy on the threats.
So why'd you get muscles, too?
To patch things up, maybe?
No, I just, I just liked going to the gym.
What was your first, your musical memory?
First musical memories.
That's really what you want to know?
Yeah.
Like, why do you like music?
That's why I like music.
Yeah.
Because I was a kid and my parents played me Paul Simon Graceland.
I remember being a kid and listening to it.
So there's a nostalgic aspect to it.
I mean, I love that for you.
Number one.
That's a little, I don't like, I love that for you.
That's what women say to their friends.
Um, they say that, like, when they get a new boyfriend, he's like, for you.
It's kind of also like, it sounds like an old Jewish man, too.
For you, I love, I like that.
What do you mean, you like that for me?
I do like that for, specifically you.
Why for me?
It's a great album.
What are you talking about?
I don't know if I would want that to be my first.
You know, it's like, but like, honestly, what was your first?
My parents never had that moment with me, like you just described, where they
sat me down.
It's like, hey, this is like, I'm trying to put you on.
It was just in the car and stuff.
But no, it's like, either way, in the car, whatever.
Yeah.
They were never like, you got to check this out, you know?
So it's like, whatever was kind of popular at the time.
Like I just kind of just osmosis just took in based on whether or not it just
appealed to me instantly.
And that was like, you know, Green Day.
It was like Nirvana.
It was like TLC.
It was like Coolio and Biggie and, you know, just stuff that was popular at the
time.
I don't know if I would want that to be my first.
I mean, I was kind of, you know, again, I agree.
I don't think if your parents say to you, I want you to check this out,
then you're, by virtue of the fact that they're your parents, you're not going
to like it.
Conversely, I had a lot of friends who were like into certain bands and certain
artists.
And like, I would hear, I would even like see, you know, them say stuff like
this.
Like, turn that garbage off, you know?
Like, while my parents like didn't necessarily push me in any direction,
they were kind of down with whatever I felt like I was into,
which I felt like kind of gave me the ability to just kind of decide on my own
what was cool and what wasn't.
They let you listen to any music.
Whether it was like metal or rock or rap or pop or whatever, you know, it was
like, it was cool.
That's nice of them. Yeah. Do people's parents still do that?
I feel like it's like the town from Footloose they would do that.
There's like a lot of younger people that watch me.
And sometimes like when they do kind of describe such experiences to me,
that I generally get like, you know, positive stories about like,
oh yeah, my dad's into all these bands that I'm into.
Or like, I mean, there's a generational shift now.
You know, there's like kids that tell me like, yeah, my dad put me on a Sonic
Youth.
And it's like, what the fuck?
I couldn't name one track.
Of Sonic Youth?
Yeah. Everyone says, acts like it's a...
I mean, that's, that's fine.
I couldn't name one track.
Things have shifted in such a way to where for some parents, that's like oldies
now.
Like Sonic Youth is oldies.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Like, like Smashing Pumpkins is oldies.
I like, that's a good band.
They're a good band.
I'll say it this way.
But they were a new band when I was young.
The one time my parents were like, I want you to check this out.
My mom, and I feel so bad about it.
She, she came into my, I was in high school.
She was like, hey, Adam, like, she had like a CD in her head.
She's like, hey, Adam, like, you like reggae, right?
And I was like, yeah, I love reggae.
What information was she basing that off of?
That you were a big reggae guy?
She knew I liked Bob Marley and stuff.
Yeah.
I mean, whatever.
I mean, it's not that crazy of a thing to know about me.
So my mom, so when I was in high school,
the one time my parents suggested I, I check something out,
my mom walked in my room.
She said, hey, Adam, you like reggae, right?
She had a CD in her head.
And I was like, yeah, I like reggae.
And then she goes, well, there's a rabbi who does reggae.
And I got the CD.
And I thought, and I was like, get the out of my room right now.
I was like, that will never be cool.
That is the worst idea for it.
I, that is the, you.
I think I said, I called her gay.
Maybe I was like, you're gay, mom.
And then I got to school.
I went to public school and my non-Jewish friends were like,
yo, there's this rabbi that does reggae.
This is the Matas Yahu guy?
Yeah, it was Matas Yahu.
It was the most shocking thing in the world.
He was like so huge when I was in college.
I shouldn't have spoken that way to my mother.
Yeah.
I can't believe I spoke to her that way.
Yeah.
She was right.
He popped off when I was in college and a lot of people thought it was cool.
The protocols of the elders of Zion.
You know, if you throw away, if you throw around terminology like that,
eventually you are going to get a reggae rabbi.
It's going to happen.
Right.
There were like a couple, there are like moments you remember your whole life
that like,
yo