Ep431: Pat Finnerty - Creator of "What Makes This Song Stink?"
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Pat Finnerty is the creator of the hilarious YouTube series "What Makes This Song Stink?", which comments and critiques songs and artists for lousy music. We discuss the creation of the show, Pat's history with music, parodies, records and more.
- Popularity of WMTSS #8
- Have you ever heard back from any artists?
- Chad Smith / Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Major reasons for bad songs
- How he picks the songs for WMTSS
- Challenges of being an elitist music nerd
- Practising patience – focusing on Genesis this week
- Putting music into context – Big Star example
- Pat is a huge Tom Petty guy
- Lou Reed is the cool Don Henley
- Clams and out of tune guitars everywhere
- Guitar tuners are a relatively new invention
- Records of Pat's youth
- Building a record collection these days
- The "cool" Air BNB
- Early days of his YouTube channel
- Respectful parody of Rick Beato
- Tropes of YouTube creators
- Timing of a parody / commentary on a song
- Avoiding the tropes, going with your gut
- Response of his audience / 3 Doors Down signed guitar
- Ideas/hints for future WMTSS episodes
- How Pat creates the scripts and storyline for his videos
- Creating the gags, extra animations, alternate endings on his Patreon
- I got nervous with Dave Meniketti of Y&T
- Time spent on research, prep and editing
- Pat's appearances on vinyl
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, how's it going? This is Pat Finnerty. You're listening to the vinyl guide. |
| 0:03.7 | Eddie Trunk isn't because Eddie Trunk doesn't like vinyl. And the reason why I know that is that I listen to the Eddie Trunk show on Series XM every day. I don't know what I'm doing with my life. This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer. The Best Record Cleaners and Protective Sleeves for your vinyl collection. Ask for the groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com. |
| 0:22.2 | Discount code, vinyl guide 10. And now on with the show. Welcome to the |
| 0:28.8 | vinyl guide. The podcast for record collectors and music nerds. Here's your host. The biggest |
| 0:33.9 | record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. Well, hello, everyone. |
| 0:39.3 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:40.9 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:41.8 | Episode 431, and I think you're going to really enjoy this episode, folks. |
| 0:46.5 | Just a bit of perspective. |
| 0:48.4 | Last week we had on the show, Episode 430, Mr. Rick Beato. |
| 0:53.6 | And Rick is a music commentator, a YouTuber. I mean, he's |
| 0:59.1 | got 5 billion subscribers who follow his videos. And Rick regularly breaks down songs on his |
| 1:08.1 | YouTube channel, popular songs into their core elements, and explains what's |
| 1:12.6 | happening. |
| 1:13.2 | In a series, he calls, what makes this song great? |
| 1:16.4 | So in a fortunate slash bizarre yin-yang turn of events that only this universe can provide, |
| 1:24.2 | we have on the show this week, Mr. Pat Finnerty, who has a YouTube channel. |
| 1:28.6 | He's a music commentator as well. His series breaks down songs that are annoying or that he thinks |
| 1:34.0 | stinks. And of course, his series is called What Makes This Song Stink? And they're absolutely |
| 1:38.9 | hilarious videos. If you haven't seen Pat's videos, pause this podcast and check some of them out. |
| 1:45.8 | What makes this song stink number six with Danny California or number eight with Jason |
| 1:51.2 | L. Dean? Those are amongst my favorites, but I think they're all funny. And Pat really knows his |
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