I'm on tour with my band The Darkness right now in the UK & Europe - if you fancy coming to see me live you can get tickets here: www.thedarknesslive.com/tour-dates/

“Kickstart My Heart” also has a good “whoa”, plus a good “yea” AND “baby”.

Man, I love it when someone is really knowledgeable about something and also a really great story teller. What a genuine pleasure it is to listen to this man ramble on about music

That John Byrnes Band song, When the sky starts to fall, great woahs all over that one

Totally awesome channel Justin, I never really thought about this too much, I will now be noticing ‘Woah’s’ everywhere I go.

Hey Justin. I found your channel a couple weeks ago and have been watching since. Id like to let you know that you are one of the reasons I play guitar. I believe in a thing called love had such an impact on me at like 20 yrs old when it came out its hard to say. Its literally the first riff I play on every guitar I touch. Its what i play to warm up my hands. It's what I play when I'm just noodling to have a guitar in my hands. I test amps and pedals with it. I know if my guitar is out if tune by playing it. Thank you and the band for that one.

The band that sticks out in my mind for most WOAH's sprinkled through near every song is The Offspring. So much so that NOFX wrote a song about it called "Whoa On The Whoas" Lol

I love this kind of videos, feels like we were chatting in the living room or something about something funny but deep at the same time about music, those details that make them richer. I really enjoyed it, thanks Justin, for the videos and the music :)

I love these videos. Justin can play everything by ear (I assume), and he explains things in a simple way that explains to people what music is about and what makes it connect with people. Also, The Darkness are a criminally underrated band, especially in the States. Justin's vocal range needs to be in the discussion when we talk of great rock singers (or just singers).

Love how, on the fly, he figured out the key to unlock the mystery of a good woah. The fader test is a pretty brilliant way to put it.

"The woahs can go either way." Yes, they can. Love your analysis of the lyrical hook, mnemonic device, otherwise known as "woah."

so love this channel and as a musician and music writer myself it's so relatable. keep it up 'The Jussmeister'

I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel; I love these videos, and it has made me rediscover The Darkness. Thanks Mr. Hawkins!

This channel is brilliant!

My new favorite channel!

I just assumed people were riding horses around the studio while recording and occasionally required the horse to stop. But your theory is fine too.

Great stuff Justin, loving hearing your take on stuff. I’m not sure about whoa’s, but I’ve noticed the over use of Na Na’s in recent years.

Howard Jones harnessed the almighty Woah perfectly in "Things Can Only Get Better" (1985)

Love the Starship T-shirt!! And the channel!

I'm so -pleased to find your channel! As a fellow Lowestoft chap, and former regular at the Triangle and O'Reillys (where I also worked), hearing you chattering away like this takes me back! Oh, and while more a 'Woo' than a 'Woah', Fortunate Son has several good ones.

This is my new favorite channel. You’re insightful and hilarious

Hey Justin! I would love to see you do one about guitar solos. Is a simple solo better or a super fast shred. Personally I like simple but “ with feeling” Gary moor type thing. That would be ace. Cheers.

It's fine .. we know the difference between musicians.. and all the noise that's been produced now days . This is quite possibly the best channel on KZfaq.. correct me if I'm wrong.. but we don't have great musicians getting this close to the fans and being real . Keep it up !

This is like a chat with my mate. love this channel.

Your brilliant Justin. Love your channel and your great personality the camera zoom ins while you were talking about the Coldplay whoahs was comedy gold🤣👌🏻

Fader Test is the name of my band. Well it is now.

This guy respects his audience, he can simplify music and make it funnier, an excellent educational source because he has got all of the required ingredients: Vocalist, instrumentalist and the spirit of the old school

The fabled woah is used as a way to get the audience in synch with the band, and also each other. A little bit surprised you didn't mention this tbh. Absolutely loving the content though, superb. To have these insights from a current working true musician is amazing. Thank you

Just discovered your channel, I think it's great, I enjoy your down to earth analysis and as a fellow musician I relate to your opinions, thanks for your time!!

Rush’s “Finding My Way” starts with an epic “yeah, woah yeah!” It’s hauntingly beautiful. :-)

Great stuff Justin. Two cracking woah intros for you - kung fu fighting by Carl Douglas and since you been gone Graham Bonnet in Rainbow. In fact they are almost interchangeable- what a mash up that would be! Some woahs are punctuation- I am sure Dave Lee Roth uses them when he speaks normally.

Wow, Justin, you've got yourself a KZfaq channel and I only found out about it now! I've instantly subscribed of course, but I'm looking forward to watching more content. Huge Darkness fan since the beginning - and I even had a Darkness tribute band in Brazil in 2003 haha. All the best for you and yours!

I love the whoa in The Trooper cause even if it's sustained (like in that Coldplay song) it's so full of passion and energy you can't help but sing along

We are more into the “YEAHS”

What a gig in reading last night Cheers guys..didn't get any sleep last night for darkness songs rattling around my head🤘

It's Tommy. Tommy used to work on the docks... 😁 Thank you for all that you do, Justin! Love your channel!

Woah means "stop" to horses. In literature it functions to say, "stop and listen to this really important thing I'm about to say, because you're just a passenger on this crazy wagon train." - Wordsmith

Loved this video and now that you have me thinking about it, I quite like the woah in Infinite Dreams by Iron Maiden. Every time I listen to the song, the image of Bruce Dickinson falling down an abyss, or an open manhole - comes to mind.

You‘re hilarious and educational. ROCK ON!!!! Lot‘s of love from Germany 😻🙌

World of Woahcraft! Great video! :)

This is nonsense which makes absolute sense, I love it. The fader test is genius

The ‘millennial whoop’ woah is pretty prevalent in 2010’s pop music. It’d be interesting to hear your thoughts on that particular woah Justin. Great content by the way!

Keep these videos up, some great insights. Would be great to see you lock horns with Rick Beato on here some day!

That was the music lesson I've never had before, but for which I am extremely grateful. So thank you Mr Hawkins. What you have just taught me shall not go unused, I promise. Wonderful insight: we are privileged.

I don't know that Justin could stop being entertaining, no matter how hard he tried.

"Contemplate this...on the tree of Who-ah."

Just subscribed. Been watching all day.. absolutely brilliant Justin. Keep going. 👍👍👍

I love your video production style

The Misfits and Danzig are the master of whoa's and gang vocals in general. Danzig himself, always gets me hyped with a good YEAHH.

Never realised how hilarious Justin is. Also, he'd make a great secondary school music teacher!

I didn't know you had a channel. Big fan. Enjoy your music... I expect a Whoa! in a new Darkness song soon... ha ha.

A good vid on Woah's look forward to one on Yeah yeahs, there is a lot of them around. Anyway look forward to seeing you and the guys rock out in Hamburg next Feb, Gonna be Fucking Ace!!

I've always felt you're up there with McCartney as far as melodists go, Justin. AKA: Captain Hook.

A great woah that is guaranteed to illicit feelings of both excitement and dread simultaneously is when one’s friend almost drops a tray of beers en route from the bar. I imagine a song that attempts to capture the beer-sodden essence of group pub atmosphere whilst watching someone cautiously bring a tray of beers back would be perfect setting for a singalong wooah hook line ✌️🔥❤️

Wonderful gig in Cambridge this week and enjoyed so much of the set, including My Heart Explodes. Would love to have heard 'Last of our Kind'

“It’s a poised chalice” 🤣🤣🤣 I absolutely love you Justin !! This whole video….could had been an hour…I would had watched !!

I like this fella

Damn, I’d actually LOVE to hear The Darkness do a cover of Livin’ On A Prayer. Justin would MURDER those vocals.

Best band (The Darkness) of the '00's.....wish we had more bands like this coming up. Great channel Justin...greetings from Greece!

Best intro catch phrase ever, I need it every video now 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Kurt Cobain was the master of the “hey” and “yeah” imo. Heart Shaped Box, Lithium, Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissing, even if you don’t know a single lyric to any of these songs, you can still sing along to the heys and the yeahs. And it never sounded too poppy either and maintains a lot of the heaviness of the rest of the song, which is something I think is really hard to do with that kind of hook motif in a non-pop tune.

Indie Rock/Pop really is my fave kind of music, but the gratuitous whoah-ing (especially when performed by, like, a small choir) really is the telltale sign of a band and/or producer bereft of original ideas, going for the cheap, transparent effect. It's default mode for the very worst bands and artists of the genre and it has been one of my pet hates for some time. Indie used to be the box where you put the weird stuff that did not fit anywhere else. Indie was synonymous with original, arty, bright, witty, scruffy, unruly, aware... too many bands/artists that tick NONE of these boxes and only retread a tired formula and play it safe are today sadly being perceived as what constitutes indie - when in fact they represent the very opposite.

Dude I really dig listening to talk about what ever you're talking about at the time. You have a great sense of humor and plus the music critiques are great too. Don't take this the wrong way but you would be awesome with a straight man.

Please keep this introduction! Also im still playing motorheart all day!

“The whoa is a poison chalice” fuckin gold lol

The very best of course, being "WOAH YEEAAAAAAH" to kick off Skid Row's Youth Gone Wild.

A whole youtube video on the word woah... awesome!

Feeling a moment by Feeder. Couldn't tell you the next line after the woos

Biffy Clyro have some tremendous woahs - the captain and many of horror are both good examples imo.

Jokerman by Bob Dylan has some cracking woahs on the chorus.

So glad I have found this channel, don’t want to say your the RB of the music world but 😂😂😂 thats never a bad thing your a pleasure to listen to with the British humour added, keep it up fella.

It’s not a woah, but I’ve always been a fan of the ‘wooooooo’ in Is It Just Me? especially as we get to see it written down.

I'd argue the coldplay woah is the most memorable part of the song (which doesnt come in til post chorus 2...or a bridge if you will) and almost needed because the chorus is memorable though wordy so the bridge woah is used as a counterpoint to the wordy chorus that is solid on its own...but the song definitely needs a singable part...hence woooooahhhhhhoooooohhh woooooahhhoooooohhhhh I'd consider the lumineer's style "hey!" much worse in that vein.

Queen has a cool "Woah Yeah" in their song "One Vision". But you can always count on Queen to handle the poison chalice of woah properly every time.

One of the best conversationalists on youtube

I know it's intended as a sort of Living On A Prayer pastiche but that one what you done with Steel Panther was a good whoa. WHOA-OH-OH-HEY HEY HEY

As soon as he said Imagine Dragons, I immediately started singing the hook for Radioactive in my head. “They seem like a band with woahs.” - Yes. Yes they are.

"That [Imagine Dragons] seems like a band that would have a 'whoa'...just because...you know..." - Justin perfectly summing up the banality of today's popular music

Woah! Cool T-Shirt! 🤩👍

There's a nice Woah in "stand and deliver" by Adam in and the Ants. Oh-oh woah!

Friends don't let friends 'woah' in the recording studio without a well structured song around it

Motlëy Crüe 'Kickstart My Heart' has a huge Wo-ah!!! & I'm sure Def Leppard has afew! 👍🏻👍🏻

Some of my fave reccurent words/phrases - 'Woah', 'Baby, 'Honey', 'Castles in the sky', 'If I stumble and I fall', 'Child', 'Woman', 'Sugar', 'Ivory tower'. All ubiquitous but essential in the songs we all love xx

Thank you for an amazing gig in Cardiff tonight! Really enjoyed ❤️ Managed to get 3rd row centre, thanks to my mate Stuart Pearson 😁 He knows how much I love you and is a musician himself....he Politely pushed through and took me with him! Best night ever. Thanks guys ❤️❤️❤️

I think there’s a big difference in how Bon Jovi or Aerosmith use the “whoa” and the way Chris Martin used it. The former use it as a guttural exclamation or punctuation. Coldplay uses it as a full on melodic line. I don’t think they really intended it to have the same kind of punch as the former two. You sort of alluded to that. Do you reckon Coldplay should have used a different interjection or sound? Anyway, nice, fun channel. Thanks.

This discursion on good woahs vs. bad woahs reminds me of this anecdote, from Ginger Wildheart's tour diary, Saturday 14th February 2004: 'I hear of Jon Bon Jovi having a nasty bite at The Darkness, claiming that he hates the band with a passion. Justin’s reply, is simple but typically classic. "I’m very disappointed to hear that. I wonder what the rest of the cast of Ally McBeal think about it?"' ("I hate The Darkness. They suck," said Jon Bon Jovi in 2004, "They're trying to mimic Spinal Tap." I think this little fit of pique came after Justin described Bon Jovi's show at Hyde Park in June 2003 as "Like a barn dance without the barn. Rubbish.")

Thank you Justin. At last another soul identifies a problem I've had for a few years now

Just as I'm searching for something to watch over dinner. Hero.

I feel like pop punk really drove 'woahhs' into the ground, that California album by Blink 182 uses every woah melody cliche in the book 🤣

I would absolutely love to hear Wanker being played live, if that was added to setlists that would be phenomenal I love what you do in The Darkness but I sometimes feel like OWTTHAB is underrepresented live, there would be nothing better to honour an album than playing a B-Side from said album! Or something

Woah,Justin!

The "whoa" is vocal instrumentation and also reflects that pop music is vocal dominant

I'm more of a fan of the hum that Dio did a lot. It's like a powerful "woah" with his mouth closed.

It's Tommy. Not Johnny.

Great vide-whoa👍🤘

The woahs in "Heart Explodes" are a great pad underneath the acoustic in that bridge section, and they're totally subtle which makes them work just fine, imo. But also I'll defend that tune to the ends of the earth, it's a classic.

Manic Street Preachers 'Hold me Like a Heaven' - James had the woah in as a placeholder in the chorus to be over-written on final recording by strings. The woah's he considered a cliche but sounded so good they retained it. Woah's 1, Strings 0.

That's why I love the woah in Givin' Up as only fans of The Darkness know the exact timing 😂

Justin at my saturday morning breakfast, Woohoho!

An ad for Kings of Leon followed your video, with the song 'Use Somebody' on it....that has a whole background chorus of 'woahs' Weird