Monty Python Talks About... Music

[bowow0807]

i wonder whats his reaction if he ever heard dubstep?

[WatchVenusSpa]

In John's defence, after the Beatles, what else do you need?

[pryletoncyo]

@WatchVenusSpa Lennon's Imagine? I hope to do a new rickroll meme here, in a very friendly and funny way, but Connie Talbot is awesome.

[budman89799]

@pryletoncyo Lennon"s "Imagine" is a clean soft sounding song but it is nothing but Marxist/Communist talk. If you don't like it, listen to the song and read what Communism is all about. Sucks to say it --- I love John Lennon, but it's true.  Greatest Lennon cd = "Plastic Ono Band."

[sinbysin666]

@WatchVenusSpa Iron Maiden.

[constantpoo2]

21 people are dull, drab, gruesome, and all around miserable

[WatchVenusSpa]

Taylor Swift should be arrested for the assault she has laid on millions of ears worldwide! 

[budman89799]

@WatchVenusSpa How about Harry Nilsson? He sang behind the piano. Harry should be ok with John Cleese, he did an album called "NILSSON SINGS NEWMAN" where every song was written by Randy Newman.

[TheDivision29]

CRUNCHY FROG!!!

[dewhistle]

Wonderful man.

[GamingJesters]

Well at least he likes Cole Porter

[633Cait]

I agree. Down with Country music :p

[Warlicmaster]

Welcome... TO KING TRYNDAMERE

[vh747]

I don't mind it but how can someone not know which band jagger plays in HAHA

[MrLazyEyes]

By Monty Python, they mean John Cleese.

[Monaqute]

where "where's the pleasure in that?" has been?

[Asdatale]

I'm with Mr. Cleese: I like classical music. It's definitely better than modern pop. :)

[piromaniac9999]

@Asdatale modern pop isn't necessarily bad.

Look at the beetles and the who and also queen and rem and tom petty and neil young.

Are you saying that because they are popular that they are automatically shit?

That is a generalization statement that is false.

All generalizations are wrong by definition because they are black and white and there is no just black and white,there are also gray zones too.

There are great musics and there are also horrible stuff.

classical can be pop too you know

[piromaniac9999]

@Asdatale You know:mozart is pop too.

Pop=popular and mozart is very popular amongst people who like classical music.Most people have heard of mozart or beethoven or bach,

Also:remember there was also some classical music that wasn't very good.

I heard some stuff that wasn't as good as other stuff in classical.

[Asdatale]

@piromaniac9999 haha erm, I guess such stuff is subjective XD

But I thought Pop is commonly used to refer to modern popular music (which is today). As in it's a term t help identify what music we're talking about. Classical symphonic music (that would be emcomapssing all the eras we know I guess XD), though popular amongst the people of eras past would not be refered at "pop" by them. It's a modern term...I guess.

Yay we started a pretty interesting conversation here! =D

[piromaniac9999]

@Asdatale The definition pop doesn't mean modern it means popular.

modern music would be modern such as:modern rock but even that is rather vague because 30 years ago,rock was different from what i t was 20 years ago.

the 70s rock could be heavy but during the 80's we got really heavy metal because the further back you go,the softer it was.

in the 60's it was rock and roll but it was nowhere near as hard as it is now.

Now you got things like death metal which is pure noise and also heavy.

[piromaniac9999]

@Asdatale The beatles though was pop because it was 60's pop because they were VERY VERY influential on music as was the who.

The issue with modern day music,is the meaning itself of the music and work put into it.

More and more often,we are encountering a bunch of girl bands and boy bands that their ultimate goal is to make money and not necessarily make a work of art for the love of art.

First comes the art then the business part,otherwise you have nothing but some cheesy music.

[Asdatale]

@piromaniac9999 Agreed, as songs today (and even in the old, old days) were made for people to listen and in the process pay for them. I guess that's how musicians make a living: they 'make use' of their talent for music making to get by...

But I think there probably are people who make music because they love it. Or they love music, that making money from them is probably just a side intent...I don't know XD

Say are you a music lover? :D

[piromaniac9999]

@Asdatale Yes i am,is it obvious?

The thing about music:Some people argue that you have to be comercial to get money.

There is a difference between comercial music that is good because you are doing it also out of love for art.

And someone who just wants to make money and doesn't care about any work put into it.

A lot of rap for this reason is comercial but not necessarily good.

Same goes for a lot of techno r&b in modern era and soul.

You had music that was more comercial in the 60's too.

[piromaniac9999]

@Asdatale the archies are from the 60's and i never liked the monkeys.



[Coonassanova]

I do listen to both kinds of music. Country AND Western.

[xsimaster]

@Coonassanova Leisure suit Larry reference?

[boogster123321]

haha that line about country music is priceless

[Roflcopter4b]

Hmmmf. Sounds like me.

[TheIgraenne]

@Roflcopter4b you wish...

[Roflcopter4b]

@TheIgraenne What? I meant know almost nothing about music same as him. What are you getting at?

[karik333]

Cleese and I seem to have some things in common. I like the classics, I'm OK with the Beatles, and if anyone talks to me about some modern artist, I will just give them a vacant expression.

[acrobaticaromatic]

@karik333 but why the blank look? you should check out some modern music. Some of it is exceptionally brilliant. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the charts are reflective of ALL modern music. In fact, the charts are representative of one thing only; shite.

[karik333]

@acrobaticaromatic

I realize that...

It's just that, for some odd reason, I'm not as excited by more modern music as I am by the classics or by tunes from back in the 60s...

[LouiseKinsmanUK]

I love almost any kind of genre really. Deep country is what I admire like Lee Ann Womack or Garth Brooks. Good taste though John :D

[MarauderOSU]

I can't stand what they call country music these days. Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, that was the real stuff.

[redeadnixon]

@MarauderOSU you should listen to trashville by hank williams iii

[videogamenostalgia]

John Cleese is like a Grandpa- sure he's grumpy and opinionated, but he's also undeniably awesome!

[maaskeimorgen]

I wonder if he likes Yann Tiersen .. xD

[GreatGrumbledook]

These tedious old fools!

[tnekkc]

I don't care if he's never heard Mick Jagger's voice.

I do care if he wants to spew collectivism on the media.

All we individualists must get serious, now that Obama is doing theft and destruction on our country.

Cleese supported Obama.

Who cares what music the guy listens to?

[vanvalydir]

@tnekkc he's british, not american. why does it matter who he supported

[tnekkc]

@vanvalydir

He is a collectivist living here is the USA with access to the media and attention.

We must stand up to liberals like we did to slavery.

Taxing most of what someone makes is slavery.

Regulating everything someone does is slavery.

We have a moral obligation to object to liberals like Cleese at every chance.

[flabarple]

@tnekkc Really? It's confirmed, then: there is no internet topic today that does not bring Obama-bashing to mind for some people, however randomly.

Do you do this all day with various topics?

[tnekkc]

@flabarple

What is more important than fighting Obama's attempts to destroy America?

[flabarple]

@tnekkc Well, if you believe this, I suggest you go fight it somewhere where it doesn't make you look silly. Walk door-to-door or something, join a group.

[tnekkc]

@flabarple

It is a war of words.

The liberals have controlled the media and education.

In this way a small group of misguided people have misguided society into the Obamaination.

It is the duty of people like me who are practical get things done, and design things, and build things, to spend some time just communicating, as do the liberals who cannot do anything practical.

[Sylderon]

@tnekkc Could I have some of whatever it is you have, because you sound like you're higher than the fucking moon.

[tnekkc]

@Sylderon

Drugs are for libs like Cleese.

[Sylderon]

@tnekkc I was simply pointing out that your statements have no logical or factual basis, so could perhaps be explained by the influence of narcotics. If you would like to offer an alternative explanation, I'd be glad to hear it.

[tnekkc]

@Sylderon

Cleese is good at logic, the processing of conditional facts.

The problem is Cleese's assumptions, that form the basis for his collectivist beliefs.

This is the big tragedy of the last 100 years on earth.

Collectivism.

Cleese is a media villain, promoting this evil.

[Sylderon]

@tnekkc I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about, and I have a feeling that neither do you. My point is that, if liberals do have such a complete control of the media and education, as you claim, how then do you explain the continued existence or conservatives, in their current numbers? Either that control is ineffective at spreading liberal propaganda, or, more likely, is simply nonexistent.

[tnekkc]

@Sylderon

Lie down and avoid thinking. You are not up to it.

[Sylderon]

@tnekkc Yes, and rather than try to refute the point that I've made (probably because you can't), you try to insult me. But then again, you're the one who has to clumsily shoehorn your political beliefs into a totally unrelated movie. You have wasted enough of my time, goodbye.

[tnekkc]

@Sylderon

The conservatives are taking over through the spread of the underground word from Rush and FOXNEWS.

ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and John Cleese are all DNC shills.

The American public is looking at the DNC as the devil now, and the propaganda machine is not going to change that.

[IlyaPitta]

@tnekkc nice trolling

[tnekkc]

What a closed minded person.

[Chark711]

@tnekkc He's a python. Thats what they're paid to be.

[ChrissieBana]

american country music is almost like classic compared to the turkish country music, trust me. but i agree with john. jazz, beatles... that's the stuff. and uh... eric idle... everything eric idle wrote just blew my mind.

[Howler54]

Is there anywhere I could watch the full interview ?

[breedlove94]

terry gilliam should of done animation for music videos

[Aslann1211]

Yay for Beatles reference! :D

[FlamingoKicker]

That's biting words from someone whose people inflicted the bagpipes on us.

[XsebT]

Though I might agree on his taste, music can only be considered subjectively and no one will ever be right in a discussion about music. Music is used very differently from person to person.

[sturmraist50]

@XsebT Well said.

[JordanWolfe]

Amen, John, Amen.

[THEPLASTICPARROTS]

wheres the pleasure in that? i was at a country show last weekend and videod some country music, i can t see where the pleasure in it is. if anyone can find any pleasure in it kindly explain yourselves. mmmm

[genevievehaag]

Yaay, Beatles <3

[nfdog]

@genevievehaag Best band ever! hands down =)

[kkkaaassshhh]

Cleese, master! For those about to laugh, we salute you!

[OverlordJake]

lol! I love when he trashes country and western music.

[jilloplo]

See, country music is good in my opinion. What is now considered country is absolute shit. Toby Keith and those people. That's not country. That is shit in the form of sound.

[RaileeLunaClaw]

That reminds me of something my friend once said about music. Wait, was she a friend? Well, she was a friend of a friend, and she's pretty funny when you give her chocolate. She's all "OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!" and stuff. Oh yeah, right, quote.

"Music is like candy: It's great once you get rid of the rappers."

[Whackooyzero]

He met Genesis? Wow that must have been a room filled with so much ownage that they could levitate the building.

[xemily91]

the ONLY thing I disagree with him about is country. Sorry Cleese, but everything else is absoultely true...the Beatles are amazing. (:

[MsMoonTheLoon]

"What's Mick Jagger's voice like? I never listened to..what's the name of the group?" :D

[opheliadickie]

Cleese is a comedy great, hours of fun but a fucking neanderthal about the rest of life; Alice Bloody Faye Goldbricker? Jesus, mistake 652...

[gcoffman06]

Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?

Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.

[hazbutler]

@gcoffman06 rolling rolling rolling, keep them doggies rolling.....

best movie ever made

[toddles822]

I think there is something from every broad genre that everyone can enjoy, even country, which I think is almost all total garbage... don't want to hear anyone talking about running over their dogs with their pickup trucks over twangy redneck music. But there are some instrumental country songs (Nervous Breakdown by Brad Paisley) which are awesome.

[sarutobifreak]

you have to live in that right region to enjoy country music. people from the east and west coasts hate country, and people the the midwest and south hate, just about everything else.

[cha5]

I love Johnny Cash and Boxcar Willie, but apart from those two

Country itself just doesn't

 do too much for me.

[Robwik]

He´s is absolutely right ^^

[pocketlint60]

wait, they call country MUSIC now? How many laws or Geneva Conventions (@mentalrectangle) are they breaking?

[mentalrectangle]

Country/Western is outlawed under the Geneva Conventions I believe.

Unfortunately I live in a country that ignores those.

[ultimateSpagety]

you and me both

[cod3r1337]

@mentalrectangle John Cleese himself couln't have said it better :-)

[george4ever26101]

@6020e3 Actually, he does. He emigrated to America long ago.

[6020e3]

@george4ever26101 I think you're talking about Eric Idle. As far as I know Cleese still lives in England.

[6020e3]

@george4ever26101 Now that I've researched it, I found out he actually lives in America. Seems you are right.

[304totchi]

Haha he's awesome in those Gigantti ads :D

[DARi05]

Totally agree about Country - most dumb genre ever! Only americans can do that... fuckin` cowboys yiiiihaaah

[CF1975]

Altough I do not enitrely agree with John Cleese (there is so much beautiful, brilliant music) : he likes the Beatles and that says a lot.

[thesixstringplayer]

Our band is called Flying Circus. It's a tribute to you, Monty Pythons. We love you!!! :D

[Dodo251]

Well, he prefers Beatles and classical tuneful music over the rolling stones. It seems to me he knows more about the music business than most of the people do.

[irishmauddib]

I have been on a mission to meet or talk to tom lehrer. IF anyone can help me with this please contact me and i will do what little i can to reward you. IT wont be much but you at least will not be sorry you helped, if that counts.

[iwannabeyourdog1969]

really incredible that john hasn't listen to the stones... ever..

[rayjr62]

No it isn't. And when you consider the crap they have put out since the mid-1980s, I wish I could say the same thing.

[adamcrookedsmile]

I wonder who did the whistle at the end of "Eric the Half a Bee"??

[EruIluvatar]

What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[Rotaderp1]

What do you mean? An African or European Swallow?

[EruIluvatar]

What? I don't know that .

[gdbalck]

No wonder I find him to be one of my favorite actors/comedians. :)

[smilieblomstervase]

He's fun though :P

[Rajhoul]

Not even zappa John, not even zappa ?

[RynarStudios]

Well, I love country music, but i don't hold that against him, as ive heard much worse ways of people describing their distaste for it... and this guy's awesome so i cant really get mad at him!

[Bazza598]

YEAH Beatles are better than the stones!

[HumanxNature]

Did he seriously forget the name of Mick Jaggers band was the Rolling Stones?!

XD

Oh man I love him.

[orchfader]

Should be "John Cleese talks about music" really.

[rentatrip1]

no he is a wonderful creative humorist - obviously you have no tolerance for people who have differing views on life -

So now who is the "SNOB" ?

I would be surprised if you have knowledge of 20's & 30's tuneful melodies ...

But where is the pleasure in that?

[MySerpentine]

You have no sense of humor, do you?

[hippojuice23]

Not a music guy. Still like him, though.

[bo31411]

RANDY NEWMAN FOR LIFE

[mastermind256780]

go john!

[Gaxo2]

He got old.

[mstern18]

it happens, after a while, i guess.

[kyrastube]

they all did. exept for graham whos been a pile of ashes for the past 20 years. john turned 70 a few months ago. but hey, his mom lived to be 101, so if we are lucky he will be with us for a few decades more. :)

[lapislazuli7]

John Cleese, you do know nothing about music - but you do know Randy Newman?!? I guess I love you ;-))

[AnimaRaptor]

lol I wonder what he'd have to say about my music taste; death metal, black metal and groove metal. XD

[kyrastube]

haha, I was thinking the same thing. but in my case its more punkrock, old school heavy metal and some glamrock

[The40thThief]

That's a Monty Python taste in music. Offensive to some, intelligent and odd.

[3oTooLe]

well put

[iggypopbowie77]

@The40thThief

He said :Noel Coward and Cole Porter.YES!

Too bad that most American morons have no notion any more of what great american music really was! Its all past tense now of course.

[piromaniac9999]

@iggypopbowie77 hmm the great stuff is still there,just ignore the bad stuff.

Sure its old and some of them are dying and or very old,but there are a few good ones coming in.

I hear texas is where some of the really good rock is coming out of,i don't know for sure so don't quote me on this.

[nearadyn]

Wow. I feel the same way. I hear people talking all the time about music they like and I have no idea what they are talking about. I like old music like Mr. Cleese does, and I like Loreena McKennitt's music. Beyond that I'm clueless, and I'm only 29.

[Raao1]

Nice ornaments behind you John. I like them. They look so original and clever done, the shapes are amazing - do they taste good?

[classclown13579]

lol. 0:58

[fiddlercrab3]

Oh for crying out loud, people, he's got his tastes in music just like the rest of us do. Don't bend your life around it.

[GCMPJLRMYLIFE]

Phew....

Well at least he likes the Beatles!

If he didnt i dont think i could watch Monty Python again!

[pooabigpoo]

lol, nothing could make me stop watching python but even he has to like the beatles :P

[AquaxRhapsody]

I hate country too =P

[heavydiggari]

I like Country :D:D: Well actually, hank williams and johnny cash only.

[ananiasacts]

That was one of my favorite lines too... from The Crunchy Frog.

[audreey23]

"why people, who haven't commited any punishable offence, listen to country and western music is absolutely beyond me."

greatest thing i've ever heard.

[VenusHeadTrap]

It is the greatest "where's the pleasure in that?" I hate country too lol

[dimitreze]

@audreey23 I will carry this line for the rest of my life!!

[GrobmotorikJones]

@audreey23 well i like country :D

[Satisfied9000]

John Cleese doesn't like the the rolling stones and Jimi Hendrix! He made me cry :(

[PrudenceNumberNine]

Oh, God, I know!! When I was little, my mom used to listen to the country radio station in the car. I LOATHED every second of it.

[Gold753]

Pink Floyd were Monty Python fans.

ALBATROSS!

[andarsjukir]

What Flavor is it?

[Jwlphoto]

Makes me think of a t-shirt I saw once: Rap + Country = Crap

[ipodxdude]

YEA :D

[petrino]

there is no crap without rap :P

[Gozaburo1]

No, that would be 2(crap).

[webkahmik]

Now GO AND PLAY THE CELLO!!

[heckamuch]

ha ha hi love country they just sing about good stuff like family drinking women dancing going to the bar America but that sad shit is just a bmmer like my wife died, dog died lol or some sad shit

[hellpmaboab]

best country line of all time? here we go:.

(pause to put break in voice)

"and that ain't mah truck outside her door..."

Priceless. Just the kind of stuff that country haters love to love

[blckprljin]

Totally... after the beatles... it's all just "bleh."

Why do people torture themselves and listen to country and western? Mr. Cleese, I have no clue.

[jamesjohnking]

I'm with him on the Country & Western music! Yecch!

[Radar510]

"What kinda music do you play here?"

"Both! Country and Western."

[ThingsWeSaidToday]

Oh my gosh Blues Brothers you're my new favorite person!!!

Well, I'm glad he likes the Beatles at least...

[MachineMinder]

The Rolling Stones, Johnny boy. The Rolling Stones.

[CelticSouthland]

When the Jewish Media Mafia took over the Music Industry, it all went to Hell!

All the good music is still performed by the independent musicians outside of the Jewish Music Industry.

[elavyeth]

I hear ya John, The Beatles rule. And Western and Country are terrible for me to listen to as well... Just a matter of taste, though, I probably like other kinds of music that don't please the general public.

I could listen to you for hours, you have an appealing non-monochromatic voice lol. Add a fireplace and hot cocoa and it's perfect.

[SharkyArthur]

non-monochromatic voice?

[elavyeth]

As in colourful, wavy, exciting, luring, non-boring. =P

[SharkyArthur]

Why say non-monochromatic? Why not just chromatic? Sound doesn't have colour.

[elavyeth]

Why not?

[DresdenStarwing]

...Can I safely assume that you've never played an instrument?

[SharkyArthur]

I play the piano. The sound that makes doesn't have colour either.

[DresdenStarwing]

I can assure you it does...tone, timbre...feelings, emotions...Anything that has a musical quality to it, does have a sense of 'colour'

Yes, sound does have tone. Yes, it can evoke feelings and emotions within people. It may even be able to make