Music Facts to Share at The Dinner Table: Vol. 2
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Billion-dollar ringtones, trance music at the airport, 1950s indie rock: This is your second round-up of weird music facts that didn’t make the cut for a full Bandsplaining video, but are deliciously intriguing nonetheless.
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0:10 Fact #1: Weird Music Formats
1:00 The Champs – “Tequila” (ringtone edition)
1:23 Franz Ferdinand – “Take Me Out” (ringtone edition)
1:30 Soulja Boy – “Crank That” (ringtone edition)
2:05 Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance”
2:13 Incogni
3:35 Fact #2: Weird Music Venues
4:30 Zero Gravity – “Sensorium”
5:37 Sylvester – “You Make Me Feel”
5:58 Moskwa TV – “Tekno Talk”
6:12 Dance 2 Trance – “Sit Together”
8:02 Fact #3 Weird Eras
9:18 “Boogie Woogie” Royalty free music by Giorgio Di Campo http://freesoundmusic.eu
9:25 Howlin’ Wolf – “Smokestack Lightning”
9:30 The Supremes – “Come See About Me”
10:00 The Coasters – “Searchin”
10:09 Led Zeppelin – “How Many More Times” (live)
10:46 Sigur Rós – “Svefn-G-Englar”
10:47 Lil B – “Flex 36”
10:49 SOPHIE – “It’s Okay To Cry”
10:52 Saint Pepsi – “Enjoy Yourself”
11:20 Chuck Berry with John Lennon & Yoko Ono – “School Days”
11:25 Fact #4: Weird Languages
11:39 The Kingsmen – “Louie Louie”
11:47 Las Ketchup – “The Ketchup Song”
11:51 Sigur Rós – “Untitled #8”
12:12 Adriano Celentano – “Prisencolinensinainciusol”
12:22 Adriano Celentano – “Jailhouse Rock”
12:25 Adriano Celentano – “Impazzivo Per Te”
12:30 Adriano Celentano – “L’emozione non ha voce”
13:13 Adriano Celentano – “Prisencolinensinainciusol” (Bandsplaining Remix)
@Char10tti3
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
0:33 I am a zillenial (1997) in the UK they were popular because kids could use their SMS credits to get songs because most didn't have computer or internet access or a way to put in account or debit card information. The other thing is, since they clipped the song you would have to get more than one to get the part you might want to switch between.
Sometimes companies would sign you up to pretty sneaky recurring bills to download one song most would miss because of the smallprint it was a games and music service.
@aliyai4000
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Speaking of weird nonsensical languages, I'd give Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest a slight shoutout because they didn't just send one song in an imaginary language in the competition, but rather two and both in the 21st century. Their first, Sanomi, almost won the edition, only coming 2 points short from the one that actually won it and it's highly praised by hardcore fans of the contest. The second attempt wasn't as equally lucky as it failed to qualify from the semis in 2008.
Netherlands tried their hand at playing partially with this trope in 2006 too, but they also failed to qualify.
@niteshades_promise
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
nah we had free ringtones as my band made them. i miss hearing my music every time i got a text. younger people did not understand this at all and used stock tones. 😂 🍻
@kylelyons6088
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Can i find one YouTuber who doesnt try to sell some bullshit companies subscription service?
@gianlu4357
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
It's so cool to see Celentano mentioned here in an english video, he truly is just a 0-fucks-given artist and he's really iconic here in Italy.
@Rolleyessmiley
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Hey, what's this cheap shot at Franz Ferdinand ?
Anyway, Celentano's biggest hits are probably not his forgotten 80s romance songs, but his 70s hits like I want to know (a song on the housing crisis !), Il Ragazzo della via Gluck (one of the first songs on gentrification, which is also sung in a French version by Françoise Hardy) and of course Svalutation (the only song I know of on devaluation…)
@topirwoi
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
please brought something about a genre called trip-hop
@Tyoxy
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Cool stuff
@bookaufman9643
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Depeche mode was NuWave not techno. I'm not the type that normally argues about this stuff but I grew up in the New Wave and early Southern California punk scene and worked as a DJ back then. Techno music didn't really get played on the radio play New Wave bands like Depeche mode or echo & the bunnymen got a lot of underground or college radio play. I always liked the more intense new wave that came out of the new romantic scene or even the new romantic scene itself. It never got any better than the band Japan.
@bielaggs
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Gen Z isn't 10 years old, plenty of us remember CDs and the 2000s, the generation starts in 1997
@HerrBert1976
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
One great story is about the stranding of a cargo ship in Cabo Verde. In one of the containers there was a shipment of the newest keyboards made in Japan, destination a tradeshow in Rio. These keyboards were distributed by the government to music schools on the islands jumpstarting the rise of music from Cabo Verde. A mix of tradional sounding songs with the latest sounds from Japan.
@HerrBert1976
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Never understood the ringtone hype. I just cut my own using cool edit.
@federicopucci
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Fun fact: Prisencolin was released on an LP which is basically also the first ever mixtape album (Nostalrock) with samples, skits, new versions of old songs, overall a very loose record with an experimental, wacky and personal vibe. Celentano, truly a hip-hop pioneer 🙂
@shiftybat7318
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
When it comes to nonverbal vocalizations I really like the term falderal, often attributed to bards of olde filling empty lyrical space with simple syllables or other nonsense, i.e; your la-la-la's and tra-la-la's. Wait – did you just touch my tra-la-la?
@paulfromperth5713
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Don’t buy ringtones, make your own from the music you own. There are so many great intros you can use as ringtones.
@mafeuk
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Bad Bunny doesn't belong to an independent label. He is the quintessential industry plant
@TimBarrett-b2u
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
3:48 And who can forget the Denny's Grand Slam?
@brantisonfire
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
I downloaded an application on Windows that allowed me to edit just about everything on my LG phone. I wsa able to clip MP3s and save it under the ringtones folder without ever having to pay for any ringtones. Also, the phone had a decent speaker on it so it was able to play the MP3s at a higher fidelity than if I had downloaded ringtones off the Verizon store.
@easlern
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
We start with click bait and then go straight into an ad bold move
@DidYaServe
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Wait, you get 30 scam calls a month?! I’m never using a smartphone?
@nicholasharvey1232
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Is Bandsplaining still working on that "Least American Hit Songs" video?
@alexjohnson9798
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
There was a whole subgenre of bling era rap called 'ringtone rap' which was probably a low for the genera
@cupuacu4life13
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
the way this dude talks like gen Z dont know what ringtones are, sir, i dont remember twerking to a dua lipa song with an iphone in hand back in 2005, we've all watched TV ads back in the day telling to SMS a certain word to a certain number to get a David Guetta whatever Nelly Furtado ringtone or smth so YEA WE'RE AWARE, WE PLAYED JAVA GAMES, WE USED WINDOWS XP, WE REMEMBER THE 2000s, Z starts in 95, i'm 27 years old, i remember linkin park i know what a PS2 is, jesus christ.
@Roxasedge
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
I had originally heard that Adriano Celentano was annoyed at how popular American music was in Europe and thought that Europeans would listen to anything that sounded American and didn't care what the song had to say, so he wrote prisencolinensinainciusol to expose and embarrass them a little
@HerbieBancock
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Dude's face looks like a potato that somebody punched and the personality matches perfectly.
@accade_acaso
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
I grow up with those experimental albums of Celentano. I was just a baby learning to walk and learning to dance with his music and some ABBA, some Beatles and some Mina (another Italian singer). It’s an interesting question that I like to ask when I met someone new: what music did you first hear because of your parents/family?
@nothingelse1520
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
I do computers for a living. When I got my first cellphone that supported MP3 ringtones I made my own in Windows, then used a USB cable to put it on the phone. I actually STILL have that ringtone on my Android 15+ years later. I just have my phone on silent now.
@woelikeme
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
When I was in middle school I'd text a friend asking them to send me anyone in our classes number. I'd text those new people and say "hey this is woelikeme, got any ringtones?" And I'd stockpile like that
@KremBotop
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
I legit have a lot of childhood nostalgia for 50 Cent's In Da Club and Soup Dragons' I'm Free since my dad had them as ringtones in the 2000s.
@fkflip
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
One of my favorite Japanese bands is highly influenced by Eyehategod, so all their songs in English are doubly unintelligible
@Jami3Boi
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Time to share them at my own funeral >:3
@SASTSimon
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
hi
@lakrids-pibe
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Oh man! How I miss my Nokia ringtone.
I had the Austin Powers shaguar ringtone, wich was really just the presidential telephone ringtone from Our Man Flint , but in reverse.
If I watch the Austin Powers or Flint movies, I still get a jolt when the sounds come up.
The sound for text messages was a gong sound from football match-of-the-day on TV
@lurnatic
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Talking about weird music venues, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have performed in Lukiškės Prison in Lithuania a few weeks ago, as well as many more artists. The prison was still open for the purpose of keeping inmates as late as 2019 until they got moved out (whether that's related to staff allegedly psychologically abusing inmates or that the prison looked too gorgeous for inmates to live in) and since then Lukiškės Prison became a public tourist attraction and also a venue for concerts. I am gonna see Denzel Curry perform there in a couple weeks, but afaik Viagra Boys & Kamasi Washington will also perform here in the summer.
@rozzgrey801
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Can't handle the twitchy head movements and eye rolling.
@theneonchimpchannel9095
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
I never bought a ringtone, I worked out how to create my own. It was Day Tripper by The Beatles.
@steveblingitz682
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
You look like if the two guys from Supermega fused together
@candidjam
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Doing drugs at a rave underneath an airport….. Yet another thing 9/11 took from us.
@josefrees
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Whenever I talk to other people about music it’s never not awkward maybe you should do a video on tips on how to talk to other people about music
@VideosJacked
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
I've seen a few of your videos here and there and I am still sad you're not Raymond of Everybody Loves Raymond.
@kaksikymmenta3
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Trance is named after The KLF's What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance 1) from 1988.
@lemiwinks9124
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
Fun fact; the gibberish Spanish song Asereje you mentioned, is actually supposed to be a drunk Spanish speaker, trying to sing rapper’s delight by the sugarhill gang
@OffendingTheOffendable
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 am
You could make your own ringtone , if you had a clue
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