Your awesome. Its sick as f

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5-eeKZql9bJooU.html Love this song

Please no.

I don't know why it popped out of my head but I would love to see a duo with Billy Corgan!

Dear Miss S.Vincent I would like to thank you for changing the way the guitar is played and sounds in a musical setting. you are the most refreashing thing ive heard since frank zappa. I hope to hear more sonic sounds from your instrument. I just recently found your music, if it wasnt for the internet im not sure if i would have been blessed with this music

Shes inspired nobody.

lol. She moat certainly did not.

Ok

I love this comment

cringe

the pleather is uhhhh helping

Yes

Crying

Dear god, thx 🙏

ROFLMAO

Bhaha ha

Nailed it👍

Sister tharpe did similar stuff back in the day. Women of rock mannn..... Amazing lol

Looks like her whole being nailed down the musics flow

Shes definitely attractive first. Guitarist.....26th.

Ha I just commented similar before reading your comment...

Maybe in her style but if u think her playing mimics prince's playing, u are high as a kite

The difference being prince could play, i guess.

@@valebliz I'm glad somebody else says it because price can actually Shred she's trying to do these non tonal riffs that don't even make any sense if she wasn't as pretty as she is she would be completely looked at differently straight up I know Midwest garage rock bands that do the same thing but at least they can write decent guitar parts

Nah maybe from 3:19 but her playing is nothing like prince…. Prince is more melodic but I still love her playing regardless I’m new to her music

It's only technical enough if it's the same scales and copycat tricks that every shitty bedroom guitar player plays because they don't have even a bruise of creativity. And even then it helps to be a man because men are relatable and women are pretty and mean.

@@morbidhandle13x The type of people who are like yeah my song has 500 time signature changes but it only shifts between 6/4 and 7/4 repeatedly for 10 minutes and the riffs are awful and all based on an open E string

How does this atonal, unlistenable racket serve any song? This is poserdom for the 21st century, with added hipster effects like fuzz and octavia.

@@MetalMan73100 that's literally your opinion man you just dont like these kinds of sounds in your music

Steve Vai invited Tosin Abasi to the G3 tour, not her! 😉

Pacho Stan It’s specifically not for the type of metalheads, classical, jazz, and blues players who think technically mastering their style is the only way someone can be considered “good”.

Any body that actually likes this....is A mindless Fuck.....and has sever psychological issues Really......wake up

@@dannymorgan1052 thank you man! I have tried to listen to this so called music but it’s just crap!

I have to almost prep myself mentally her albums, there's so much going on. These solos do nothing for me, though.

That’s all that matters to you, sure. It doesn’t matter to me at all that you love her.

Marcus Chen haha that's sweet thank you !!

@@strangevincent6525 Mischievous of you to take a leaf out of the copy book and get the natives in an uproar by dragging out the tired old "Guitar Gods" cliché. I can imagine nothing more tedious than technically proficient guitar shredding with no meaningful content. A lot of this bad-mouthing reminds me of remarks made by the support act at an early Hendrix gig at the Country Club. I only wish I had kept the shoe, I might've started a cult..

@@rodparsons6719 now what are you saying? Can you explain

We are Blessed Unique Music in every way. St. VINCENT Bliss

@@grahamreid7836 Okay, we are blessed with unique music I can agree to that!

At 50 seconds. Performance of birth in reverse? It reminds me of something off of an old Devo record(and I love them by the way so actually I'm giving her accolades).

Annie Clark's got skill, guts & dares 2B different. B4 others criticize, they ought to ask themselves, 'WTF have I dared to do - EVER, muchless lately?' ;-)

@john cash I’d surely hope someone has a better reason for disliking someone’s playing than their lack of introverted traits.

Everywhere I go on the internet, there are angry americans... Jesus, you make Northern Ireland seem chilled out by comparison

@john cash no, I'll leave going to the middle East to angry americans...

@john cashthanks....by the way, big fan of John(ny) Cash...

Thanks for this comment! I live in my own little bubble. I work in a kitchen by myself all day and have recently discovered St Vincent and I am constantly hearing Adrian Below in her work but I haven't really listened to him in a long time so I thought maybe I was crazy, BUT I'M NOT I'M NOT!

Seriously, like WTF is she doing with a guitar? It's annoying as hell.

It sounds fucking awful

That’s that Johnny Greenwood effect you two basic bitches

She is a genius

@@darkestification For some people it's AC/DC or nothing.

You're never old as long as you are a musician and playing for your enjoyment or others. I'm 65 and still approach and appreciate the sounds I make on my guitar whether on purpose or the happy accidents.

Sure dude, it's her tight as hell leotards that have you captivated.

@@joesmith8398 - Not hardly. I think you missed my point.

@@joesmith8398 way to reduce her worth to her looks. Youre the reason women musicians are looked at as low brow jackass

Then I don't believe you play guitar hahahah

She says in a video that her first concert was Steely Dan.

No.

I deadass agree with u I’m glad Joan jett and the runaways destroyed that barrier which still happens today…. They really opened doors for women to play

Annie gets compared to Prince Crackheads aren't that messed up to go that far...and they're crackheads The overratedness of Annie and not enough lady competition for a top spot just lessens the whole thing down to a charade.

Annies competitors chose to do only fans. Got too lazy. Easy money

Here's some 6/10 lyrics and 6/10 guitar playing. Why aren't you impressed?

“ men” that’s the best you got ? I’d be more than happy to say “ it” was good, I’f “ it” was. Regardless off the persons sex that’s, and I graciously say this “ playing that guitar”

"Guitar goddess" 😅😅😅😅

Except Josh is talented.

@@joejackson9986 in what world, is St. Vincent not talented?

@@DaHatBat the real world

She has zero talent and an annoying "style" yet all the ego of someone who does. Uggh.

@@dragonskylords9032 exactly.

Noise. I have yet to hear her play a legit solo.

Those are good analogies. I can hear the intention in what she’s doing. She studiously avoids the obvious choices. There’s an emotional ambivalence to it.

dude she's pretty good but she's nowhere in the same league as adrian belew. i think she'd be the first to tell you that.

@@bigmonmagoomba9634 Then don't listen to her. She pretty fucking good - and original.

@@ikkenhisatsu7170 I've been playing guitar almost 40 years and I think she's outstanding, very original, and has a sense of rhythm up there with Corea and DiMeola.

yes, musically and tonally spot on, but the GO4's rhythm was much more punk/funk, Annie definitely has an element of prog-rock in terms of rhythm. I don't feel the urge to dance, I want to listen. I have to pay attention!

They were closer to DEVO than Annie Clark.

I think people here doesn’t have a fucking clue of what playing an instrument should sound like lmao

@@sebastianreyes4839 I dont get yall. its all in key and she has a nice albeit chaotic tone. haters

@@johnnygringo2239 any proof that its not in key? lol

its shit

Guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet...but your kids are gonna love it

@@FoardenotFord she pretty basic

@@poison4822 and yet shes on the big stage and you're not

@@forgetmyhead2115 cardi b too

It must have been like fingernails on a chalkboard.

It's not good! Yuk! Sounds like when I give my guitar to my six year old granddaughter. She thinks it's great. But it doesn't!

Try a fuzz pedal and you can be better than her

@@teknokont Wouldn't take much to sound better than her. Really. She's not that good. Me no likey.

Accept zappa was a guitar god

Meh

Adrian Belew too!

Matthew Keys ooo i'll put it in the next one

Agreed. She is on the cusp of superstardom!

Well said!

I dont hear the talent, anyone can be weird

@@lonelycake4114 or you mean you aren't capable of appreciating technique(s) that don't suit your tastes? I find I don't like a lot of her music but when I observe what she is doing and why her talent is undeniable...but again maybe myself and say the people who run Ernie Ball/Music Man don't know what talent is......lol

@@alanagottalottasay997 What happened to hary moore and music with feeling? But she definateöy got talent for feeling empty. I think youre overhyping her cuz shes a lady tbh. Her playong is very static and quirky, i guess thats the whooe poont doesant mean its good or enjoyable thou Hardly a guitar god, just sayin. As much as jack white is none either thou people serm to tjink that Now frank zappa was a huitar god. Is she even in the same ballpark?

Maybe some inspiration but nothing more

Fart noise

Give a guitar to a 10 year old that's never played before and there you go. You've now heard someone play like this.

@@guitarofdestiny You have a rather conventional and limited appreciation of the instrument and little understanding of what someone can do with it.

@@nattyboyo2404 lol if playing like shit and swaying back and forth like she is in some kind of groove is the new way then yes, please call me conventional. Her playing can very accurately be compared to handing a child a broomstick and having them pretend it's a guitar. Except someone handed her an actual guitar. Haha

She plays like every single left field guitarist I have ever heard, from Syd Barrett, Hendrix, Phil Manzanera, Fred Frith to Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Robert Quine, bits of Wilko Johnson, too many others to mention...a cavalcade of alternative techniques and textures. She can make any sound she wants, and I think it's another way to escape being easily categorised, playing with identity. She can do what she wants.

@@LucyOLastic Syd Barrett, Fred Frith, Robert Fripp, I like your taste. Very rare to stumble upon a Henry Cow fan in the wild

only thing missing is talent and study

I've heard this style described as everything from shit to fucking shit

I’m not hating on her playing but it does stress me out so bad

It's not only tension... she's also.out of tune hahah

@@nielslohmann6727 As Eddie Van Halen said, if you make a mistake , make it again so it look intentional.. It's all about confidence... Cohones .. LOL

Fermented Frank Zappa style comes to ( my) mind .. but it is artful , no denying..

To be honest I don't who she is, but there's certainly swagger and style to her playing and that get's 10/10 from me but sure she's isn't playing anything technical per se.

@@adamdam "guitar god" implies people such as jimmy page, Jimi Hendrix, eric Clapton, etc.

@@theloniouszappa ok boomer

@@big_cuff_ not even close

@@theloniouszappa Depends who we choose to look up to and personally idolise I suppose, but yeah guitar gods in that sense that are universally worshipped, you are not wrong.

Jackson Catlett I agree she’s a damn fine guitarist but she’s no guitar god, the “men” you refer to probably compare her solos to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, her tone to David Gilmour and criticise her riffs in comparison to legends like Jimmy Page. Whilst she isn’t a god it makes me happy to see musicians incorporating real instruments

sam apple she’s not trying to be Jimi Hendrix. She’s St. Vincent.

Jackson Catlett yes EXACTLY she has her own way of playing and that’s good because she’s not just another formula but compared to guitar gods her method is unorthodox and I’m going to be honest I think she really does need to practice more she isn’t the best.

sam apple but like... nobody asked. Why can nobody compliment someone without someone having to storm in and invalidate their skills. She’s also not a show off. She makes music she likes, not music to show off to crowds about how talented she is.

sam apple i can guarantee she does not care about a KZfaq commenters constructive criticism nor did she ask for it. I give constructive criticism to people that want constructive criticism and will actually care what I have to say. I don’t feel the need to voice my opinions when they’re useless.

Yeah

Something being technically difficult alone does not make it good, it’s probably technically difficult to eat discarded sheet metal but nobody wants to do that

Best description EVER

Its definitely harder than you think

@@aaron-do4bk Well, good is subjective

She's just playing random shit like a kid in a guitar store

St. Vincent is awesome live!

@@mouloudo u try it and make a video and we will be the one to judge

@@ethanm856 give a 7 year old child a $20 acoustic and they could replicate this ear rape, quit being so insecure and listen to music you actually like

​@@briang8579projecting quite hard She's not the best i know that but if you are into avant garde jazz stuff this is pretty sick Yes people actually like this music and its okay if you want to stay on your elitist horse you're better than everyone else Here take a candy 🍬🍭

You have pretty low standards. :D

loser

Congratulations. You are a simp.

not a fan of dissonance?

@@big_ol_ball838 is that what we call bad playing now lol? I’m pretty dissonant when I get a few drinks in me. Heck, the boys and I get straight up cacophonous when we get really rowdy and are feeling our oats lmao

@@zentazym1 nah to me it’s just messing with expectations. i’m a fan of all her work and i know most of her songs pretty well. when comparing the studio versions to the live ones it seems like there are specific times where she wants to stay true to the song, times where she wants to through in some unexpected yet still nice improv, and other times it’s just about having fun and making sound loud noise. i mean come on tell me the one where she walks into the crowd didn’t sound insane

@@big_ol_ball838 I like her as a studio artist. Which makes it even worse because she’s clearly talented and knows how to play, but chooses to do this instead. I think she’s got too much pressure on her to be a guitar virtuoso when she’s more or less just proficient and is trying to do some (kinda amateurish ngl) avant garde stuff and throwing a fuzz pedal on top of it. None of that is to say she’s bad or anything obviously and she’s again great on record but they’re probably filtering the best of her experimentation on record and when she improvises live it just sounds a bit rubbish to me and even on a technical level she’s not doing much impressive in any of these clips

@@zentazym1 the full live set that most of these clips are from is pretty good. also on her newer sets she’s playing some kinda 70s stuff and it’s all a little bit more tasteful. as for the pressure thing i think kinda just does whatever she wants. she’s always been changing things and approach to live sets and improv. i’d give this set a look

Where exactly are you perceiving anything close to a melody? I doubt that if you could hum anything she played by memory. That means she’s got no melody.

@@joejackson9986 There is more to melody than your traditional hummed standards.

@@michaelgraham9774 melody=an agreeable succession or arrangement of sounds, implying rhythmically ordered movement from pitch to pitch... how in the hell is this "agreeable", "rhythmically ordered" or "pitch to pitch"?

@@joejackson9986 bit subjective there. Jazz fans find complex melody agreeable and they WILL have musical theory that proves them right, I don't like it myself. St Vincent's stuff is rhythmically ordered, Annie wrote her music very carefully. She CAN do conventional - check out Love This Giant that she wrote with David Byrne. I'd say St Vincent was melodically challenging!

@@garideb yeah sounds like Captain Beefheart and his magic orchestra

If this is your Guitar Hero I guess rock and roll is actually dead

@@herocity1165 is this fun for you?

@@ChelseaColeslaw no it's pretty painful to listen to

@@herocity1165 no, I meant going into KZfaq comment sections to tell random strangers that you don't like the music they like. Is that fun for you? Unless you were trying to make a joke. It isn't really clear.

​@@herocity1165I'll stick with John Petrucci, Benjamin Baret, Devin Townsend, Steve Morse, Tim Henson...

your therapist would be very interested in continuing this conversation

That's a very strange comparison. I'd say she's more a Jack White.

That’s a strange comparation I love meg but that is a strange comparation Just because both are women or what?

@@macarron5729 he's insinuating she can't play

hardly. Meg White was picked by Jack cuz she couldn't play. She dusts Jack White on guitar TBH.

Imsorry

@@ashleytaylor6770 why?

You haven't had many, then. And they were all bad...apparently. She suckles the big duckles!

i think its prince johnny

@@ozzy541 Just because you don't have the mind for unusual time signatures and avant-garde freakiness... doesn't mean it's junk. Just means you haven't branched out very much musically.

@@ozzy541 tell that to your subscribers

This type of self expression belongs in the bathroom with the door closed. If you catch my drift.

@@dragonskylords9032 i see

She sounds bad. Incoherent. Fingernails on a chalkboard bad!

Matt Sweeney. Guitar Moves.

Don’t care what school of music she’s from, that sound is atrocious full stop. Forget abstract bull shit, it’s just plain awful.

@@shanegriffiths3441 it's kind of like that free branch of modern art. I probably could take a dump and proceed to throw it at a canvas. If i do it regularly, I might even get pretty good at it and some people will see an artistic revelation in it. and they might not even be wrong. it's just a very special aesthetic and it's the same way with her sound it seems. seems she doesn't give a f about technique but rather just noisescapes, in a way, if that makes any sense

Janelle Monet did this exact thing at one of the best concerts I’ve ever been too. They are very different artists but she also had us wrapped around her finger. I love them both.

? I guess you aren't talking about this bit, around 1:45 , camera's and mobiles like a wall , peeps 3 feet away from her couldn't see her.

Jared Letto actually did that

Lol wut

she’s not playing licks. she’s not playing anything.

@@joejackson9986 Your abject ignorance is showing... You should have that looked at.

More like a guitar dog. As in if you give a guitar to a dog this is the sound they would make.

@@guitarofdestiny jesus you’re sad lmfao

Play for around 6 months and youll surpass her skill, but if its female guitarists you want as inspiration you should look into Nita Strauss, she is one of the best guitarists in the past decade and shes the guitarist for Alice cooper

@@hoteldelta2453 Exactly well said mate

All of the dudes replying saying that they could do better piss me off. Any time there is a female guitar player, guys all the sudden think they know more than she does.

@@harpertodd980 what are you an idiot?

​@@fray1242 then why are y'all under her videos'? like dont watch it. your opinion doesnt matter to us. she is like one of the best performer, musician and absolutely artist out there yet 'you' who doesnt have slightest achievement of her come here and claim that she is not good... just go to your male 'artists' and watch them instead of hanging around St. Vincent's videos.

@Deli 6505 No

Yeah, I can strum some random ear raping riffs like that too, is that what innovation is about?

Dont play it hip, that's just aweful

My little cousin falls on that category as well. He can shred, he’s just 5, never played before and totally smashes it. Scales are overrated, melody and harmony are just another way to oppress people.

Sheanahaa

A human who is talented and put years of work into developing their skills.

​@randyrandall8274 "talented"

for real. Didnt know if the title was a joke. If they think she is a guitar god...

She sucks! And her playing is bad, too! I wouldn't walk out of her concert...I would run! Puke!

i don't know how much you've listened to but if ur looking to hear her play more u should check out surgeon, los ageless, and melting of the sun

??? what the hell is this comment even. If she couldn’t “replicate” it (replicate her own style what?) then she very well wouldn’t be on a huge fuckin stage in front of a huge crowd like WHAT

“If she is doing it on purpose” bitch she’s playing ain’t she?

Jfc and if she isn’t doing it again and again then she’s improving all of that and your comment is even more pointless... like seriously I just heard of her clicking into this video just now not even a fan but you sound like you don’t know anything about... well presenting a class presentation let alone music or live performances...

@@hstrangemusic this made me laugh out loud. 😂

@@hstrangemusic somebody is upset

Simp

@@jeekyboi9564 😂 Well, I know she‘s gay…

@@landesart that makes the simping even worse

@@jeekyboi9564 that’s ok

Meditating to block out the noise?

On crack, just before he dies... perhaps

Amazingly terrible! I will puke now. Yuk!

Kid Charlemagne solo by memory...My guy, reevaluate :p Her solos in her songs are a different discussion though

Lmao That’s so real this girl plays like a 2 year old in factv

@@wavetech_ Well its a different thing trying to play a solo than.. actually playing it(Kid Charlemagne)and what do you mean by memory when you learn a solo you dont need partituras i respect her as an artist David Byrne collabs etc but shes not a guitar player a good one at least and certainly NOT a guitar god!

@@gethabeat She's been playing for a long ass time and clearly understands the instrument. Whether you like what she does or not, i'm sure it's all played intentionally

@@p.n__ ofcourse its all intentionally...thats all she knows..

Remind me to never take Xanax. Sounds terrible.

Yes. If Zappa had no talent.

Minor 2nds aren't a thing, that's probably why the guy sounds so confused when she says it. The second degree of the scale is the same in minor and major scales. It is flattened in modes such as Phrygian but then it is referred to as b2 and not minor 2nd. If anything this shows that she doesn't understand the theory behind what she is playing.

@@brayans2859 "Minor 2nds," or maybe she means a flat 2nd; the note just 1 note above the root note. Not that I know much if anything about "music theory," that's just the best I can guess.

He would get even more hate and you know it lol