The worst part is when he mentions something about "obligatory Oscar bait song", totally ignoring the fact that music from The Wall was written YEARS before it was ever even a film.
You know, I was watching the "Freddy Got Fingered" review by Rob and Doug. There is a quote from Rob that hurts me till this day. It went something like this: "As a comedy writer, this film destroys me on a personal level". I immediately felt disgusted at the fact that he legitimately thinks he's a good comedy writer. He is so unaware of his lack of skill to the point where it's infuriating.
Doug seems to have very conflicting feelings about the album/movie. It's like he wants to critique and mock it whilst also pretending he gets it and sees at as some sort of masterpiece but can't say so cause he's the Nostalgia Critic. It's just... bizarre. He wants to be seen as intelligent but is also terrified of being seen as stupid.
agreed - I guess the intention was to find a middle ground, but clearly even that got away from him, because instead it really does sound and look like he just doesnt get it or really have much to say. You almost get the vibe that he hated and rejected it as a teen, like some kind of edgy hipster, and resented other people for liking it.
There have been many videos where he says something positive with restraint. Like "OK, I'll give this movie a point, but I won't be nice the whole time." That's because the N.C. is a character that Doug feels have to be as negative as possible for comedy sake.
To explain the spongebob cover: Corey has this tradition during his solo events (his solo events are where he basically talks with the fans and answers their questions) where he plays the spongebob theme because his son would request it. I hope the clears stuff up
Honestly, it doesn't, because I still don't understand why its on this album. This is, in theory, a satirical analysis and comedy rock revision of "The Wall", so why is the Spongebob theme here at all? Great for Corey playing it at his shows and having fun but its irrelevant to this album.
What, his son in the video? His teenage son in the video? His teenage son who should be too old for spongebob in the video? His teenage son who should be too old for spongebob and who likes nostalgia critic and thats why he's in the video? That son? Probably a different son, huh?
Keep on mind, you only listened to this. Trust me when I say it gets even worse with the video. It's "Clockwork Orange" levels of torture, transforming music in nothing but pain.
I have actually since looked at the video itself. Personally, I found it hilarious in a super ironic way, but maybe thats just because the album already made me numb to all of this and I've just lost my mind. Regardless, its all a travesty, undeniably Nostalgia Critic's worst project to date.
Dill Pickled That would be hilarious... I discovered Todd and the Rap Critic during the Change the Channel movement, and they are far funnier and more analytical than modern Nostalgia Critic could ever hope to be...
Minor update: I have seen the 'review' that is apparently tied to this comedy record. Its garbage, but on the bright side, its at least kinda funny, in a super ironic way. It's UA-cam's answer to "The Room" - clearly some people tried to make it work, and it doesn't, but its funny as shit. The music is, unsurprisingly, the most depressing thing about it all, and its still pointless as fuck. Like Nostalgia Critic still isn't saying anything aside from 'this is dumb, this is long, etc.'. So I guess if you have to pick between the two, pick the movie, because at least you won't want to shoot yourself afterwards.
His "review" is only "funny" like some of the tragic pictures on gore sites: it's horrible, you're wincing, everyone involved is a worse person for participating. But we learn something about our darker natures, and we chuckle wanly, knowing we are not directly involved.
Nostalgic Critic ironically doesn't know how to critique film. I honestly never saw his appeal because he doesn't understand filmmaking or comedy in general. He appeals to the lowest common denominator, I guess.
Nah I almost shoot myself with the review too The part with the terribly designed CGI creatures is probably one of the worst things I've ever seen in a video. It's kind of impressive actually
The fact that NC thought anyone would want to spend money on this says so much about him. Also I’m calling it that he’ll do a video just like this for Bohemian Rhapsody Edit: #savecorey since he’s obviously being held hostage
@@aksebkato7170 makes sense I guess - I remember watching a lot of Nostalgia Critc as a teenager. Just sucks for poor Corey to get roped into this, especially following the MASSIVE success of "We Are Not Your Kind".
If he just did a regular NC review of it and had his rendition of 'Follow the Worms' it would've been fine. But he really thinks he's a profound filmmaker.
I used to love watching NC and still likes when he does straight-forward reviews and editorials, but this was the most painful video I’ve ever seen from him and you did a perfect job describing how bad the music was. This was my first video watching of yours and I really like how you described how the instruments had no punch to them and the abysmal “joke” lyrics. The only good thing to come from this is I wanna go listen to Pink Floyd now who I never have done a deep listen to all their music. This just makes me appreciate their art and music so much more.
@@marikoth Well, I just learned that they already knew each other - Corey had appeared in a video review of "The Sorcerers Apprentice". His son was with him too, so I'm guessing he's a fan and that's how this all got started.
I honestly don't hate rob scallon too much for the mediocre recreation of the music, he probably knew this was going to suck and was just on cruise control the whole time. I guess the Walker brothers can still roll out decent paychecks despite their incompetence.
That's basically what I was thinking. I have no idea who Rob Scallon is, but the reviews of NC that's I've seen have said he's a great guitar player. Any good musician knows you can't record a decent album in the span of a month, especially one as epic and iconic as The Wall. He probably did it because the price was right.
Clinton Wilcox that and I think he’s good friends with the Critic and dated Tamera for a while. Took the paycheck, did them a favor, and cheaply recreated with the short time limit he was given. That being said still probably didn’t put his all into the instrumentals.
@@XxXAlexXxX101 This is still kind of really complicated, though, and maybe it's unfair to judge Scallon's decisions in hindsight, but think about it: the review/album were certain to receive a lot of attention of fans of Pink Floyd and rock in general, and those people *care a lot* about music. They would clearly hear how half-assed and cheap the production is, and for someone not previous acquainted to his work, it's easy to assume he's a cheap hack. I suppose Scallon thought he didn't need to put that much effort into a parody made by Doug, but, you know, when you're a musician and you don't put effort into your music, it just makes you look careless or incompetent; and when you're making a parody of such a revered, *impeccably* recorded and produced album, it just looks like disdain. So, maybe he got a paycheck, but at what cost?
@@XxXAlexXxX101 The Wall is famously known as being the album to have spent the most hours in the studio ever. Some 900 hours, where an entire top- professional studio team alongside Pink Floyd would work tirelessly, like possessed. Roger Waters and David Gilmour would nitpick about the smallest of things, the level of quality expected from a fidelity standpoint, was immense. It was a pure analogue recording, not a single computer was present in the studio in 1978 during recording and mixing. No one could record this today, with just a shred of the sound- quality and fidelity present on this recording. And I'm talking actual top current studios. Rob scallon stood no chance.
MrParkerman6 well, i haven’t watch the movie in full just watched some clips at UA-cam, so i don’t know how bad it is. But judging from Change The Channel fiasco, i’m gonna say they’re not having fun like the previous movie projects
I dunno, this review was AFTER the whiskey had kicked in. I watched this sober, and think this the "Live action Disney remake" of the wall. Unnecessary, badly done, and a literal chore to sit through. You would have to pay me in Hookers and Cocaine to watch it again, liberally.
"Kahunas" as "cojones" is a strong mood: Doug has cojones to put out a whole career seppukku, but no kahunas to make it work at the levels he intended; comedic, musical, and critical. Failure on all three counts. No sauce. No juice. And the way he's rapidly going, no clout.
Corey Taylor is in the "review" of The Wall that this album comes from. He doesn't say a word until right at the end where he asks Doug where the critique was, and Doug says "It was fine. A little full of itself." Irony is dead.
8:30 Apt metaphor: Doug thinks he's making monkfish when I wouldn't trust him to whip up a competent tuna salad. "But we have the Spongebob theme!" Ight Imma head out🤙🏿
How bout the fact that in '''Goodbye blue sky'' ''satire'' they took the giant black bird which is a metaphor for Nazi regime attacking London to ''oh its a symbol of the artist's ego''?
I just heard about this mess of an album only a couple of days ago. Just the clips of the music alone I heard from other people who made reaction videos about it show that it’s complete shit. The instrumentation sounds like it was put together on a $1.00 keyboard, the vocals sound like a horrible attempt at the vocals one hears in show tunes and there’s the fact that The Wall thematically was based on very personal things Rodger Waters went through growing up with abuse in the school system being one of them if I heard correctly when researching the history of when the Wall was conceived. So the fact that Walker makes fun of these issues as a consequence of shitting all over the album shows what trash this is. It’s one thing if one dislikes the album itself, but when the personal issues are made light of and disrespected on which the album was based and satire is used as the excuse, then one can’t dismiss this as being the issues of Doug Walker simply disliking the album enough to put out this mess. Whatever the authorial intent, when one creates something like this and the personal issues of the original creators are disrespected in the name of satirizing the original work, then the satirized work needs to be denounced and called out for what it is. It would be like if there was a play written by Jews who survived the horrors of Nazi Germany and people of today’s age satirized it by way of using almost every anticemitic trope they could find. That being said, fuck Doug Walker and fuck this load of Bullshit he shit out!!!
The Metal Meltdown Thanks. I’m glad you liked my reply. I always try to be as in depth when giving my thoughts on music I either like or dislike, and I think this trash by Walker deserved as much hate as I could give it. Hope you’re having a good evening.
After your...colourful description of the album, I think I'll just skip that one. A shame that Rob Scallon came out on the bottom here, I do quite enjoy his artistic talent. As far as I know, Nostalgia Critic makes one review in two weeks. I guess that they didn't use much more time for the writing/casting/recording of the album.
I do feel bad for Rob, and to be fair this would be a difficult task for ANY musician or band - recreating such a legendary record and re-adapting it into an entirely different setting, with supposedly 2 weeks time to record? Fuck that, I know I'd say no.
My biggest complaint is one of the points you make: it sounds terrible. I mean apart from all the other terrible things about it (the video, the cringe, the everything). I mean I re-listened to the actual Pink Floyd album just to double check that I hadn't been hearing it wrong all these years and nope, it's still as powerful as the first day I heard it. The mix/master of NC's take on it is just weak, flat, thin, hollow, all the bad things you want to keep OUT of a recording. Nice review man. :)
There are cover bands in shitty bars that perform this material with more gusto, skill, and enthusiasm than Rob Scallon and Doug Walker, two seasoned internet personalities and entertainers. Its embarrassing honestly. And glad you enjoyed!
This was the most scathing review of Doug Walker's """parody""" album and I'm absolutely living for it. He doesn't get parody, he clearly doesnt get The Wall, and I'm hoping that in the end of this he gets a real hard dose of reality.
Here's the dirty little secret to this review; it's no different to anything he has done before as the Critic. It's the same pedigree of humour that he's always done except, with this album, we've hit the dry end of the tank.
Good video man. I have not listened to the entire album, yet from 1 to 2 clips in the NC's review I can see how it really sounded like bad karaoke in general. Not to mention that nothing irritates me a lot more than a critic who misses the point of an entire work of art. Also, do not even get me started with the number of unnecessary, pointless skits and unfunny jokes that have nothing to do with what he thinks of the movie. Admittedly, I used to be a fan of the NC back when I was in high school and early college, but in the last few years the quality of his work has declined so much that I lost interest for a while already.
no shame in that man, used to watch Nostalgia Critic a lot myself when I was younger. And trust me, if you havent heard the full album yet, then screw it, dont finish it. Go listen to 'The Wall' instead.
In the review and maybe in the album Doug honestly is Rock stupid enough to claim that neither the film or album of the wall have characters or tell a story, when the entire album is a story about a character.
Years later I am reminded that this album did in fact exist. As much as it may have emotionally scarred you to listen to, I commend you for doing so and posting this review. These disgusting and god awful art pieces shouldn’t be swept under the rug, they need to be put in a “museum of crap” in order to remind us that this shit did in fact exist.
Nostalgia Critic is like the Venom of UA-camrs. Very influential, amazing for his time, but ultimately not that very talented. And when the spotlight on him became bigger and bigger, his flaws were way more exposed. That, and many of the people he influenced have long beaten him at his own game... the same way Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth left Venom in the dust.
The wall is my favorite album. While some parts of dougs review were kinda funny, he missed the entire point of the album. His reviews aren’t even reviews anymore. I just hope those who haven’t heard the wall album aren’t turned off from listening to dougs version
@The Metal Meltdown I’m one of those people who’ve never actually listened to Pink Floyd, but honestly I might watch The Wall just because I don’t want my only memory of Pink Floyd to be epic internet funnyman Doug Walker singing with poorly designed cgi furries.
@@dono5529 Oh wow, please go listen to those records then! And watch that movie! Some seriously inventive and ambitious material, and even if you dont like it, at least itll wash the memory of NC from your mind lol
If this situation were to be somehow symbolized, the review of Nostalgia Critic's The Wall is basically his personal production, the Killing Joke Movie version. What I mean by this is that when the movie version of Killing Joke was announced at the time, people had a lot of hype around it and everything seemed to fall so brilliantly, but when it did, this movie version of the comic book masterpiece became one of the most hated movies ever. The same syndrome happened with The Wall's critique. Doug Walker treated it like a masterpiece, there was a lot of high expectations around this review, and it seemed that the review would be a milestone for Channel Awesome. But whatever happened, anything that could go wrong also went wrong. And now The Wall review is considered to be the last nail in the coffin of Channel Awesome and Nostalgia Critic. Or I don't know.
Damn, I didn't realize this was a super-hyped up production from Nostalgia Critic. That does kinda make this all the more sad. Nostalgia Critic & Channel Awesome have survived some real deep shit over the years, even despite the public reveal of gross misconduct, so I don't see why they can't still jump back after this. But I know for sure I won't be paying attention to future content (frankly, I already haven't for maybe 2 years now? maybe longer? I dunno).
I wasn’t aware anyone was waiting for this. I caught wind of it from the reaction videos! I do enjoy epic failures though... this was really lame. Will he keep this up? Can he?
I agree, it's okay to make fun of The Wall but it has to be done well and by talented people. Not the case here. Flo and Eddie formerly of The Turtles did a short parody of The Wall as part of their early 80's live shows that they called The Fence. Clone High also did a good episode with some references to The Wall.
It's not long, though. It's 1½ hour long. Half the run-time of To Boldly Flee and about a million times better. Doug claims he admires Siskel and Ebert and it's worth noticing that both of them liked the movie. Ebert thought it was amazing.
Imagine if someone took Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell and just replaced the songs with References to Tommy Wiseau’s the room. “Haha what a story Mark” but it’s tune is lost children of the sea.
You know you got a good video on your hands when you start with badass soul music, an Iron Maiden poster on the wall and a dude wearing a Cattle Decapitation walks in
One good thing about the review is that it taught me The Wall exists! But thats about it. But if you already knew it existed then you don't get anything out of the review. But if you didn't know about it you don't get any of the references. Wow thats quite the paradox.
In 2017, we had emojis ruined by the release of The Emoji Movie. In 2018, we had Half Life ruined by the release of Hunt Down The Freeman. In 2019, we had Pink Floyd's The Wall ruined by the release of Nostalgia Critic's The Wall. We live in dark times everybody.
Never let him near anything pink Floyd related or anything classic rock or music related again as a pink Floyd fan and a fan of music in general this genuinely offended me
I think Critic should have done some research on both the album and the movie before he started mocking it. If he did research on it he would understand things more. But instead he just mocks it with out knowing anything about it.
Well, to be fair, I don't think he hasn't done his research - that's evident in the blueprints of the album and video review. The problem is his lack of understanding and even respect for both, as he doesn't seem to grasp the meaning of the original "The Wall" and dumbs down what very little he does know into 'this is long, this is weird, etc.'
As both a born and raised Des Moines Native Maggot since the days of Hairy Mary's and Super Toad as well as a dyed in the wool Floydian (Live in Pompeii is the single best concert film in history), there is no verbalizing my seething disdain for both the video and album. The only possible language even profane enough to do so is the black tongue of Mordor itself.
I'm not the biggest fan of Pink Floyd, but even I was offended by this piece of crap Doug Walker put out. Especially what he did to Goodbye Blue Sky & Comfortably Numb.
NC obviously doesn't understand what the album or the film was all about and what it was trying to do. That was his first mistake. Hell yeah for bringing up NSP! An actually good comedy band. I love them.
I haven't been keeping up with NC (or any of Channel Awesome really) since seeing that documentary of the controversies. I wasn't even aware that he reviewed an album until now. Also, why do this to yourself Corey Taylor!?!?! But anyways, thanks for listening to this so we don't have to (pun intended). Nice shirt btw.
That's some righteous fury brought to the defense of The Floyd; blessings upon thee. I don't know how you made it through the entire [nost.crit.] record. I'd need a looooot of whisky for that one. Suffering so we don't have to, hopefully.
I've said this before on other people's videos concerning nostalgia critics the wall. Pink floyd is my favorite band, I've been listening to them literally since I was born and this album/video makes me feel extremely violated and offended. Just the lack of respect and the lack of self awareness just makes me feel so offended.
I agree - its genuinely insulting how Doug and the NC crew treat this material. I'm not above a comedy rock re-interpretation of Pink Floyd, but these guys clearly don't have the talent or vision to make it happen.
Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall was one of the most unfunny, tasteless, moronic and insulting "comedy rock" albums I’ve ever listened to. Definitely the worst record of 2019. Rob Scallon’s instrumentals were the only listenable aspect of it but they are soooo horribly mixed and produced; sound like they were recorded in the span of about two or three days. I’ve only listened to once to it when it was released in September and never will ever again
Yeah, it's really terrible tribute album to one of the best albums of all time. plus there actually is a good song called Comfortably Dumb by the band Extreme. I still can't even believe Corey Taylor even agreed to being part of the Nostalgia Critic
Being a classic rock fan and a Nostalgia Critic fan, this review and album Doug made me physically hurt and cringe. How do you manage to miss the point of one of the most iconic concept albums ever made?
I generally viewed The Wall as the Worst Pink Floyd Album (I never counted TFC, AMLOR, TDB or TER as Floyd albums as they didn't involve all four members of the band and were essentially Waters or Gilmour solo albums that just happened to have accompaniment from the other members) because while it's competently made, it was a big step down from the material the band had made in the past. I viewed it as inferior because they went from producing musically brilliant soundscapes like Echoes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Dogs that took your mind for a ride to brooding, boring, moody pretentiousness. I don't want to shit on people who like the album, but for me it was a significant downgrade compared t what Floyd was cranking out before. That being said, now that I have sat through the horrible Nostalgia critic review, I will give The Wall a lot more credit, at least it was nowhere near pretentious as the nostalgia critic's version. I can at least say that The Wall has SOME substance to what it was saying (it actually was trying to convey something with depth instead of observationally scraping the surface) and SOME passion to it; That I can't say for the Nostalgia Critic's review of it or anything he's done the past 7 or so years. The only good thing to come out of the nostalgia critic's review of the wall is it at least got me to appreciate the original more, because as doug demonstrated, it could have been a hell of a lot worse.
Truthfully "The Wall" was never my favourite of Pink Floyd's either (that credit belongs to "Wish You Were Here"), but I've always admired the integrity and ambition of that record, and the movie that followed. Plus, there were still some serious jams on there. And my appreciation for "The Wall" has only grown since this review, to the point where I'm actually excited to nab it on vinyl sometime soon. So yes, I suppose NC did accomplish at least one good thing at the end of the day.
The Metal Meltdown It was right up there with “Dark Side of the Moon”, another iconic rock album from the 1970’s. Both of these Pink Floyd’s albums “The Wall” and “Dark Side of the Moon” are legendary.
For me, it's a tie between "Atom Heart Mother" and "Meddle", I like both for different reasons, but in terms of when I think Floyd was best, it was their live material from 1970 - 1972 (examples of which could only be found on unofficial bootlegs, that is up until recently with the release of the Live at pompeii soundtrack and the early years boxset). This was when floyd was at their peak. Though Waters did take the helm for a lot of the direction, every member of the band was contributing to the formulation of the songs, and they got to really shine when performing the songs live. The instrumentation was the strength of early floyd, and that's one of my gripes with the wall. Take any two performances of a regularly performed song from that era (ie. "Careful With That Axe, Eugene") and listen to them back to back- No two are the same! With the Wall, everything's short, bound to a concise narrative and isn't structured to be expanded upon or improvised upon in a live setting. In comparison to their earlier material, they're all way too reserved and controlled (which I view as a big source of irony considering the album's anti-authoritarian narrative, given that it was all Water's vision and clearly had very little influence from the other members). Even when Waters started to really take over with "Animals", there was still some room allowed for creative instrumentation and musical sequences (ie. the two musical sequences in the middle of "Dogs"). I don't view it as a bad album, honestly, but I do view it as a bad Floyd album. I'm not saying it's uncreative, but it's a form of creativity that I view as way less significant to the creativity that they exhibited before.
Really must disagree, I mean, while Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite Floyd album, I find The Wall to be a fantastic album and my second favorite album too, but hey, that's just me
I listened to most of "Comfortably Dumb" including the final solo, and I can't believe how you didn't mention how fucking badly they butchered it. It's sounds like notes that could be from the song just flung together in an editing software with no coherent through line. It is literally just note after note after note not forming anything that could even represent or even classify as a guitar solo.
Lost so much respect for Corey Taylor for being in that video tbh, also it was sad to see how they treated their employees. Also stopped watching some UA-camrs cause they were trying to defend the shittiness of Channel Awesome.
The way I see it, after seeing The Rock Critic's own assessment and evisceration of it on his worst album list, it makes sense that The Wall is a satire because the criticism sarcastically criticizes his fans and opposes who watch his video...which puts people's hate for it in a better light for me.
I gotta say, given the recent wave of spicy hot-takes about awful the video review of The Wall is, it's nice to hear the perspective of someone who hates the accompanying album and didn't pay attention to the video.
I love how Doug complains about the songs in The Wall being too long despite the fact that The Walls longest songs are not even that long compared to Pink Floyd's other work
Trust me, I've seen the video. I even made a little vlog about it over on my channel, but to summarize... Yeah, the video isn't all that much better. And this is coming from a guy who LIKED The Nostalgia Critic at one point.
I hate to say it, but Nostalgia Critic lost his magic touch years ago. The show today is overly processed and kills the raw humor he had his first couple years he made videos.
This was just torturous in every way. I feel especially bad for Corey Taylor. They got an accomplished musician and vocalist and did nothing with him. If the sexual abuse and general mismanagement isn’t enough to bring Walker and company down, this certainly will.
"The Wall is too long"
-doug walker, the man who made a 4 HOUR LONG vanity project
Plus, the "review" itself was 40 minutes long! Bring THAT runtime down!
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I'd rather listen to 1,000 hours of Limp fucking Bizkit than 1 minute of this mountain of barf
Speaking as an OG fan? Yeah, I agree. I'm just saying there's a reason I give to Atop the Fourth Wall's Patreon, and not Doug's.
The worst part is when he mentions something about "obligatory Oscar bait song", totally ignoring the fact that music from The Wall was written YEARS before it was ever even a film.
Oliver Marijuana Jones Even then, what makes “Goodbye Blue Sky” in particular an Oscar bait song?
@@zoomerjack5435 WWII references. Because mentioning WWII means it's Oscar bait
Also ignoring the fact it was a British arthouse film, which would never have gotten a sniff at the Oscars anyway.
@Tee Wew28 Ya rly
Rob has pulled the album from his website now. Guess the embarrassment was too much for him
god damn! Well as far as I can tell its still on Spotify so I suppose if you still feel like torturing yourself, check there
Sorry but I sat through the actual video a few days ago and now undergoing shock therapy to try and erase it from my brain
Corey Taylor's still got a lotta 'splainin to do
When your album is so bad that your family members aren't going to support it, you know things went south quick.
You know, I was watching the "Freddy Got Fingered" review by Rob and Doug. There is a quote from Rob that hurts me till this day. It went something like this:
"As a comedy writer, this film destroys me on a personal level".
I immediately felt disgusted at the fact that he legitimately thinks he's a good comedy writer.
He is so unaware of his lack of skill to the point where it's infuriating.
Doug seems to have very conflicting feelings about the album/movie. It's like he wants to critique and mock it whilst also pretending he gets it and sees at as some sort of masterpiece but can't say so cause he's the Nostalgia Critic. It's just... bizarre. He wants to be seen as intelligent but is also terrified of being seen as stupid.
agreed - I guess the intention was to find a middle ground, but clearly even that got away from him, because instead it really does sound and look like he just doesnt get it or really have much to say. You almost get the vibe that he hated and rejected it as a teen, like some kind of edgy hipster, and resented other people for liking it.
NC.. Literally "Awesome"... fucking PINK FLOYD? ....meh....
But I've only ever thought of NC or Doug as cringe stupidity.
There have been many videos where he says something positive with restraint. Like "OK, I'll give this movie a point, but I won't be nice the whole time." That's because the N.C. is a character that Doug feels have to be as negative as possible for comedy sake.
eeeeeeeedgy boi thinks it’s 2007
Doug called this album a “love letter” to the wall, so I can’t even imagine how he can make anything worst with something he actually doesn’t like.
God if this is a love letter to Pink Floyd than I'd hate to see him write an actual love letter to an actual human being.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial To quote one of Doug's former contemporaries, it sounds more like a "Dear John" letter.
If this is love letter to the wall I can’t imagine what he would do to dark side of the moon. Or wish you were here
@@thomaslippiatt7107 Id rather not think of such things plz and thank you lol
Haven't you seen his MOULIN ROUGE review?
To explain the spongebob cover:
Corey has this tradition during his solo events (his solo events are where he basically talks with the fans and answers their questions) where he plays the spongebob theme because his son would request it.
I hope the clears stuff up
Honestly, it doesn't, because I still don't understand why its on this album. This is, in theory, a satirical analysis and comedy rock revision of "The Wall", so why is the Spongebob theme here at all? Great for Corey playing it at his shows and having fun but its irrelevant to this album.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial in the video they do it at the end, that's why it's in the album
at least from what i can tell
¯\_(._.)_/¯
What, his son in the video? His teenage son in the video? His teenage son who should be too old for spongebob in the video? His teenage son who should be too old for spongebob and who likes nostalgia critic and thats why he's in the video? That son? Probably a different son, huh?
Mach 69 Inc. “Too old for spongebob” bitch, what?
He said it was his "biggest hit". I think that it was supposed to be a joke.
Keep on mind, you only listened to this. Trust me when I say it gets even worse with the video.
It's "Clockwork Orange" levels of torture, transforming music in nothing but pain.
I have actually since looked at the video itself. Personally, I found it hilarious in a super ironic way, but maybe thats just because the album already made me numb to all of this and I've just lost my mind. Regardless, its all a travesty, undeniably Nostalgia Critic's worst project to date.
Well said and nice reference.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial You could sat that the album made you comfortably numb?
Does anyone consider this album bad enough to be on Todd in the Shadows’ Trainwreckords?
Dill Pickled That would be hilarious... I discovered Todd and the Rap Critic during the Change the Channel movement, and they are far funnier and more analytical than modern Nostalgia Critic could ever hope to be...
A record so bad it ended his career before it even began
Minor update: I have seen the 'review' that is apparently tied to this comedy record. Its garbage, but on the bright side, its at least kinda funny, in a super ironic way. It's UA-cam's answer to "The Room" - clearly some people tried to make it work, and it doesn't, but its funny as shit. The music is, unsurprisingly, the most depressing thing about it all, and its still pointless as fuck. Like Nostalgia Critic still isn't saying anything aside from 'this is dumb, this is long, etc.'.
So I guess if you have to pick between the two, pick the movie, because at least you won't want to shoot yourself afterwards.
His "review" is only "funny" like some of the tragic pictures on gore sites: it's horrible, you're wincing, everyone involved is a worse person for participating.
But we learn something about our darker natures, and we chuckle wanly, knowing we are not directly involved.
Nostalgic Critic ironically doesn't know how to critique film. I honestly never saw his appeal because he doesn't understand filmmaking or comedy in general. He appeals to the lowest common denominator, I guess.
Nah I almost shoot myself with the review too
The part with the terribly designed CGI creatures is probably one of the worst things I've ever seen in a video.
It's kind of impressive actually
I'd say it's more like UA-cam's answer to Garbage Pail Kids, ironically Doug's least favorite movie of all time
@@Handofcrom13 when he first started there was a charm about it, it felt like a guy just talking about his childhood favorites. Then TGWTG happened.
The fact that NC thought anyone would want to spend money on this says so much about him. Also I’m calling it that he’ll do a video just like this for Bohemian Rhapsody
Edit: #savecorey since he’s obviously being held hostage
God I really fucking hope not, do not need Nostalgia Critic to tarnish another legendary rock band.
Believe it or not, Corey’s kid is a fan of Doug. Somehow.
@@aksebkato7170 makes sense I guess - I remember watching a lot of Nostalgia Critc as a teenager. Just sucks for poor Corey to get roped into this, especially following the MASSIVE success of "We Are Not Your Kind".
Akseb Kato you gotta draw the line somewhere as a parent lol
Akseb Kato his son Is 17 so I would give him a break lol. I loved NC when I was that age he’ll grow out of it.
If he just did a regular NC review of it and had his rendition of 'Follow the Worms' it would've been fine. But he really thinks he's a profound filmmaker.
This review was AVGN levels of rage, I love it. Subbed.
well theres a reason im The Metal MELTDOWN, Lol. Glad you enjoyed it man!
I can see the AVGN calling the album a shitload of fuck.
@@l.gcallahan2840 avgn should do a video on it.
I feel sorry that you had to go through with this
your support is greatly appreciated in these dark, troubling times.
There needs to be a support group for atrocities such as these.
@@mck7646 I kinda feel like thats what this comment section has become lol, everyones venting and clearly has a lot to say.
I used to love watching NC and still likes when he does straight-forward reviews and editorials, but this was the most painful video I’ve ever seen from him and you did a perfect job describing how bad the music was.
This was my first video watching of yours and I really like how you described how the instruments had no punch to them and the abysmal “joke” lyrics.
The only good thing to come from this is I wanna go listen to Pink Floyd now who I never have done a deep listen to all their music. This just makes me appreciate their art and music so much more.
thank Floyd for that at least! No doubt you'll get more joy out of 1 minute of any Pink Floyd song than you would from this travesty of nature.
and dayum, perfect? thank you so much! 😊
His review made me uncomfortably numb (sorry bad joke😁)
still better than every 'joke' on this album.
That was funny
@@themetalmeltdownofficial Beat me to it
Get him up against the wall!
The youtube version of this has to be the worst thing I've ever watched on here.
I have no idea how nostalgia critic got corey taylor involved
@@marikoth Well, I just learned that they already knew each other - Corey had appeared in a video review of "The Sorcerers Apprentice". His son was with him too, so I'm guessing he's a fan and that's how this all got started.
I think "Annoying Orange" could do a better cover of Pink Floyd TBH.
I honestly don't hate rob scallon too much for the mediocre recreation of the music, he probably knew this was going to suck and was just on cruise control the whole time. I guess the Walker brothers can still roll out decent paychecks despite their incompetence.
That's basically what I was thinking. I have no idea who Rob Scallon is, but the reviews of NC that's I've seen have said he's a great guitar player. Any good musician knows you can't record a decent album in the span of a month, especially one as epic and iconic as The Wall. He probably did it because the price was right.
Clinton Wilcox that and I think he’s good friends with the Critic and dated Tamera for a while. Took the paycheck, did them a favor, and cheaply recreated with the short time limit he was given. That being said still probably didn’t put his all into the instrumentals.
@@XxXAlexXxX101 This is still kind of really complicated, though, and maybe it's unfair to judge Scallon's decisions in hindsight, but think about it: the review/album were certain to receive a lot of attention of fans of Pink Floyd and rock in general, and those people *care a lot* about music. They would clearly hear how half-assed and cheap the production is, and for someone not previous acquainted to his work, it's easy to assume he's a cheap hack. I suppose Scallon thought he didn't need to put that much effort into a parody made by Doug, but, you know, when you're a musician and you don't put effort into your music, it just makes you look careless or incompetent; and when you're making a parody of such a revered, *impeccably* recorded and produced album, it just looks like disdain. So, maybe he got a paycheck, but at what cost?
@@XxXAlexXxX101 The Wall is famously known as being the album to have spent the most hours in the studio ever.
Some 900 hours, where an entire top- professional studio team alongside Pink Floyd would work tirelessly, like possessed.
Roger Waters and David Gilmour would nitpick about the smallest of things, the level of quality expected from a fidelity standpoint, was immense.
It was a pure analogue recording, not a single computer was present in the studio in 1978 during recording and mixing.
No one could record this today, with just a shred of the sound- quality and fidelity present on this recording. And I'm talking actual top current studios.
Rob scallon stood no chance.
12:00 They made “To Boldly Flee”, how long was that movie? Three and a half hours long. Just sayin
fuck i havent thought of that in ages. You just unlocked a long locked away memory.
The only good thing about that film was the title, cuz it was very appropriate.
MrParkerman6 well, i haven’t watch the movie in full just watched some clips at UA-cam, so i don’t know how bad it is. But judging from Change The Channel fiasco, i’m gonna say they’re not having fun like the previous movie projects
Finaly someone who is just really angry at this embarrassment as it deserves
Everyone on the internet is trashing this crap. You new?
@@augustwest5356 yes they are but most voiced their displeasure in moderate ways.
This guy here goes all out and that's what I like about it.
I dunno, this review was AFTER the whiskey had kicked in. I watched this sober, and think this the "Live action Disney remake" of the wall. Unnecessary, badly done, and a literal chore to sit through. You would have to pay me in Hookers and Cocaine to watch it again, liberally.
"Kahunas" as "cojones" is a strong mood: Doug has cojones to put out a whole career seppukku, but no kahunas to make it work at the levels he intended; comedic, musical, and critical. Failure on all three counts. No sauce. No juice. And the way he's rapidly going, no clout.
Remember when the worst thing he produced was that playthrough of Bart's Nightmare? I miss those days.
Corey Taylor is in the "review" of The Wall that this album comes from. He doesn't say a word until right at the end where he asks Doug where the critique was, and Doug says "It was fine. A little full of itself."
Irony is dead.
Could you say this record drove you... up The Wall?
I cannot believe you are the first one to make that pun here. Congratulations.
This is wonderful, I haven't seen a Doug video be this widely reviled since that godawful Bart's Nightmare LP. It's been a long time coming.
Doug "I'm a comedian now laugh"
8:30 Apt metaphor: Doug thinks he's making monkfish when I wouldn't trust him to whip up a competent tuna salad.
"But we have the Spongebob theme!"
Ight Imma head out🤙🏿
his monkfish probably gets served burnt with cold white rice and no salt.
How bout the fact that in '''Goodbye blue sky'' ''satire'' they took the giant black bird which is a metaphor for Nazi regime attacking London to ''oh its a symbol of the artist's ego''?
The only good thing about the Wall "review" existing is that it created this rant that introduced me to your channel
I just heard about this mess of an album only a couple of days ago. Just the clips of the music alone I heard from other people who made reaction videos about it show that it’s complete shit. The instrumentation sounds like it was put together on a $1.00 keyboard, the vocals sound like a horrible attempt at the vocals one hears in show tunes and there’s the fact that The Wall thematically was based on very personal things Rodger Waters went through growing up with abuse in the school system being one of them if I heard correctly when researching the history of when the Wall was conceived. So the fact that Walker makes fun of these issues as a consequence of shitting all over the album shows what trash this is.
It’s one thing if one dislikes the album itself, but when the personal issues are made light of and disrespected on which the album was based and satire is used as the excuse, then one can’t dismiss this as being the issues of Doug Walker simply disliking the album enough to put out this mess. Whatever the authorial intent, when one creates something like this and the personal issues of the original creators are disrespected in the name of satirizing the original work, then the satirized work needs to be denounced and called out for what it is.
It would be like if there was a play written by Jews who survived the horrors of Nazi Germany and people of today’s age satirized it by way of using almost every anticemitic trope they could find. That being said, fuck Doug Walker and fuck this load of Bullshit he shit out!!!
God damn, next time ill call you for the review, save myself some time and alcohol. Hit the nail right on the head!
The Metal Meltdown Thanks. I’m glad you liked my reply. I always try to be as in depth when giving my thoughts on music I either like or dislike, and I think this trash by Walker deserved as much hate as I could give it. Hope you’re having a good evening.
Well the music wasnt that bad, it was the interpretation of Doug's dumb ass mind.
After your...colourful description of the album, I think I'll just skip that one. A shame that Rob Scallon came out on the bottom here, I do quite enjoy his artistic talent.
As far as I know, Nostalgia Critic makes one review in two weeks. I guess that they didn't use much more time for the writing/casting/recording of the album.
I do feel bad for Rob, and to be fair this would be a difficult task for ANY musician or band - recreating such a legendary record and re-adapting it into an entirely different setting, with supposedly 2 weeks time to record? Fuck that, I know I'd say no.
Apparently this review took months to work on and he releases a review once a week now...
@@ChriIvaBrunner ...THIS took months? Yeesh. Well alright then.
My biggest complaint is one of the points you make: it sounds terrible. I mean apart from all the other terrible things about it (the video, the cringe, the everything). I mean I re-listened to the actual Pink Floyd album just to double check that I hadn't been hearing it wrong all these years and nope, it's still as powerful as the first day I heard it. The mix/master of NC's take on it is just weak, flat, thin, hollow, all the bad things you want to keep OUT of a recording. Nice review man. :)
There are cover bands in shitty bars that perform this material with more gusto, skill, and enthusiasm than Rob Scallon and Doug Walker, two seasoned internet personalities and entertainers. Its embarrassing honestly.
And glad you enjoyed!
This was the most scathing review of Doug Walker's """parody""" album and I'm absolutely living for it. He doesn't get parody, he clearly doesnt get The Wall, and I'm hoping that in the end of this he gets a real hard dose of reality.
The reaction ive seen to this, on this video and others, will hopefully be that much needed dose. But only time will tell.
He's also a garbage human being too. Let's not forget any of that.
He also doesn't understand criticism or nostalgia either. He's out of his depth. Stay in the kiddy pool Walker.
@@augustwest5356 I'd pay to see him swim in a kiddy pool with Fred Figglehorn. He's stooped THAT low!
this is the first video ive seen of yours and i gotta say you are an excellent music critic. I'll defiantly be watching more of your content!
thanks man, glad you enjoyed!
Here's the dirty little secret to this review; it's no different to anything he has done before as the Critic. It's the same pedigree of humour that he's always done except, with this album, we've hit the dry end of the tank.
Well Sam Cooke’s the intro, this oughta be a doozie😂
Sam Cooke soothes the soul and heals what Nostalgia Critic broke.
Even Lou Rawls did with Sam Cooke on “Bring It On Home”.
Good video man. I have not listened to the entire album, yet from 1 to 2 clips in the NC's review I can see how it really sounded like bad karaoke in general.
Not to mention that nothing irritates me a lot more than a critic who misses the point of an entire work of art. Also, do not even get me started with the number of unnecessary, pointless skits and unfunny jokes that have nothing to do with what he thinks of the movie. Admittedly, I used to be a fan of the NC back when I was in high school and early college, but in the last few years the quality of his work has declined so much that I lost interest for a while already.
no shame in that man, used to watch Nostalgia Critic a lot myself when I was younger.
And trust me, if you havent heard the full album yet, then screw it, dont finish it. Go listen to 'The Wall' instead.
The best part of the entire "review" is Corey screaming at Doug "It's a Review!!"
And I can bet some money that it was out of character.
In the review and maybe in the album Doug honestly is Rock stupid enough to claim that neither the film or album of the wall have characters or tell a story, when the entire album is a story about a character.
honestly, he doesnt seem to grasp a lot of very basic information regarding this album.
Years later I am reminded that this album did in fact exist. As much as it may have emotionally scarred you to listen to, I commend you for doing so and posting this review. These disgusting and god awful art pieces shouldn’t be swept under the rug, they need to be put in a “museum of crap” in order to remind us that this shit did in fact exist.
NSP’s cover of Wish You Were Here is so amazing. It’s the only Floyd cover I’ve ever heard that I personally prefer to the original
It’s genuinely the worst album I have ever heard couple with the worst film review I have ever seen. Glorious.
Nostalgia Critic is like the Venom of UA-camrs. Very influential, amazing for his time, but ultimately not that very talented. And when the spotlight on him became bigger and bigger, his flaws were way more exposed.
That, and many of the people he influenced have long beaten him at his own game... the same way Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth left Venom in the dust.
The wall is my favorite album. While some parts of dougs review were kinda funny, he missed the entire point of the album. His reviews aren’t even reviews anymore. I just hope those who haven’t heard the wall album aren’t turned off from listening to dougs version
I hope not as well, but its likely for a lot of his younger viewers that this would be their first exposure to Pink Floyd so we'll see.
The Metal Meltdown hopefully they look up the real wall album and realize it’s a beautiful album worth listening to
@The Metal Meltdown I’m one of those people who’ve never actually listened to Pink Floyd, but honestly I might watch The Wall just because I don’t want my only memory of Pink Floyd to be epic internet funnyman Doug Walker singing with poorly designed cgi furries.
@@dono5529 Oh wow, please go listen to those records then! And watch that movie! Some seriously inventive and ambitious material, and even if you dont like it, at least itll wash the memory of NC from your mind lol
dono listen to it. It is amazing
If this situation were to be somehow symbolized, the review of Nostalgia Critic's The Wall is basically his personal production, the Killing Joke Movie version. What I mean by this is that when the movie version of Killing Joke was announced at the time, people had a lot of hype around it and everything seemed to fall so brilliantly, but when it did, this movie version of the comic book masterpiece became one of the most hated movies ever.
The same syndrome happened with The Wall's critique. Doug Walker treated it like a masterpiece, there was a lot of high expectations around this review, and it seemed that the review would be a milestone for Channel Awesome. But whatever happened, anything that could go wrong also went wrong.
And now The Wall review is considered to be the last nail in the coffin of Channel Awesome and Nostalgia Critic. Or I don't know.
Damn, I didn't realize this was a super-hyped up production from Nostalgia Critic. That does kinda make this all the more sad.
Nostalgia Critic & Channel Awesome have survived some real deep shit over the years, even despite the public reveal of gross misconduct, so I don't see why they can't still jump back after this. But I know for sure I won't be paying attention to future content (frankly, I already haven't for maybe 2 years now? maybe longer? I dunno).
I wasn’t aware anyone was waiting for this. I caught wind of it from the reaction videos! I do enjoy epic failures though... this was really lame. Will he keep this up? Can he?
For Doug's sake, he better hope he doesn't meet any Pink Floyd fans, because they will probably nearly beat him to death.
I agree, it's okay to make fun of The Wall but it has to be done well and by talented people. Not the case here. Flo and Eddie formerly of The Turtles did a short parody of The Wall as part of their early 80's live shows that they called The Fence. Clone High also did a good episode with some references to The Wall.
I feel sorry that FENNAH thought it was a brilliant idea to associate his work with the Bum Critic.
I mean he got a butt ton of new subscribers so it was surprisingly clever on his end
im not a fan of Fennahs work but I agree that Fennah definitely came out the victor here.
Imagine if he took the job just to outshine him in every department. A juicy powermove
@@koshavinka2995 would that make the rest of the review 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'?
@@themetalmeltdownofficial pretty much
Good review, but you need a new mic. Spend the money. It would greatly improve your videos.
It's not long, though. It's 1½ hour long. Half the run-time of To Boldly Flee and about a million times better. Doug claims he admires Siskel and Ebert and it's worth noticing that both of them liked the movie. Ebert thought it was amazing.
Imagine if someone took Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell and just replaced the songs with References to Tommy Wiseau’s the room.
“Haha what a story Mark” but it’s tune is lost children of the sea.
You know you got a good video on your hands when you start with badass soul music, an Iron Maiden poster on the wall and a dude wearing a Cattle Decapitation walks in
thats how we roll at The Metal Meltdown \m/
One good thing about the review is that it taught me The Wall exists! But thats about it. But if you already knew it existed then you don't get anything out of the review. But if you didn't know about it you don't get any of the references.
Wow thats quite the paradox.
Doug Walker is a prime example of ambition without talent. The actual hubris and ego alone is enough for a pretty interesting case study.
This has to be his next biggest Folly.. next to his Let's Play of Bart's Nightmare in 2011.
Why are there suddenly like 70 different people's videos about this in my recommendations ??? Did all of The UA-cam population cover this????
You thought the album was bad... wait untill you see the review.
God awful visuals.
Oh I've seen it good sir, don't you worry. My eyeballs nor my ears will never be clean again...
In 2017, we had emojis ruined by the release of The Emoji Movie.
In 2018, we had Half Life ruined by the release of Hunt Down The Freeman.
In 2019, we had Pink Floyd's The Wall ruined by the release of Nostalgia Critic's The Wall.
We live in dark times everybody.
im scared for 2020.
Maybe in 2020, Mario will be ruined by Illumination Animation. Or Onision will make a cover of a Slayer album.
Oh nooooooo!!! D:
@@themetalmeltdownofficial Wow, this did NOT age well…
Never let him near anything pink Floyd related or anything classic rock or music related again as a pink Floyd fan and a fan of music in general this genuinely offended me
I think Critic should have done some research on both the album and the movie before he started mocking it. If he did research on it he would understand things more. But instead he just mocks it with out knowing anything about it.
Well, to be fair, I don't think he hasn't done his research - that's evident in the blueprints of the album and video review. The problem is his lack of understanding and even respect for both, as he doesn't seem to grasp the meaning of the original "The Wall" and dumbs down what very little he does know into 'this is long, this is weird, etc.'
As both a born and raised Des Moines Native Maggot since the days of Hairy Mary's and Super Toad as well as a dyed in the wool Floydian (Live in Pompeii is the single best concert film in history), there is no verbalizing my seething disdain for both the video and album. The only possible language even profane enough to do so is the black tongue of Mordor itself.
We must toss it back into the fires from which it came.
This is like rerecording The White Album or Thriller, it's one of the most talked about music experiences ever just... why??
SHHHH, QUIET!! We don't wanna give Doug any more ideas...
I'm not the biggest fan of Pink Floyd, but even I was offended by this piece of crap Doug Walker put out. Especially what he did to Goodbye Blue Sky & Comfortably Numb.
6:51 "We will fucking kill you"
That's a fantastic Anaal Nathrak song!
1:12 10/10 cover of Young Lust.
The music was the least terrible thing from the video he made.
And that's really saying something!
NC obviously doesn't understand what the album or the film was all about and what it was trying to do. That was his first mistake.
Hell yeah for bringing up NSP! An actually good comedy band. I love them.
Oh dude, nice cattle decap shirt, and thanks for going through this with us!
hilarious review dude! this album is so abhorrently bad and needed a really good thrashing and i'm glad you gave it one! consider me subbed
I haven't been keeping up with NC (or any of Channel Awesome really) since seeing that documentary of the controversies. I wasn't even aware that he reviewed an album until now. Also, why do this to yourself Corey Taylor!?!?! But anyways, thanks for listening to this so we don't have to (pun intended).
Nice shirt btw.
that pun is still better than this entire album lol, so no harm done. Glad you enjoyed \m/
1:00
Still better than Doug Walker's singing
Nostalgia Critic
Comedian
I think that would be "Comedian" cause there is no comedy within the man.
I get your point, but your 7 year-old self is so funnier than Nostalgia Critic.
Fuck, maybe I should go back in time and write a comedy record then...
That's some righteous fury brought to the defense of The Floyd; blessings upon thee. I don't know how you made it through the entire [nost.crit.] record. I'd need a looooot of whisky for that one. Suffering so we don't have to, hopefully.
I've said this before on other people's videos concerning nostalgia critics the wall. Pink floyd is my favorite band, I've been listening to them literally since I was born and this album/video makes me feel extremely violated and offended. Just the lack of respect and the lack of self awareness just makes me feel so offended.
I agree - its genuinely insulting how Doug and the NC crew treat this material. I'm not above a comedy rock re-interpretation of Pink Floyd, but these guys clearly don't have the talent or vision to make it happen.
Man, even being picked up from what sounds like a phone speaker, Sam Cooke sounds amazing. Love that man's music.
Love NSP.. great video man keep up the good work
Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall was one of the most unfunny, tasteless, moronic and insulting "comedy rock" albums I’ve ever listened to. Definitely the worst record of 2019. Rob Scallon’s instrumentals were the only listenable aspect of it but they are soooo horribly mixed and produced; sound like they were recorded in the span of about two or three days. I’ve only listened to once to it when it was released in September and never will ever again
I'd rather play the Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe.
Yeah, it's really terrible tribute album to one of the best albums of all time. plus there actually is a good song called Comfortably Dumb by the band Extreme. I still can't even believe Corey Taylor even agreed to being part of the Nostalgia Critic
Being a classic rock fan and a Nostalgia Critic fan, this review and album Doug made me physically hurt and cringe. How do you manage to miss the point of one of the most iconic concept albums ever made?
I generally viewed The Wall as the Worst Pink Floyd Album (I never counted TFC, AMLOR, TDB or TER as Floyd albums as they didn't involve all four members of the band and were essentially Waters or Gilmour solo albums that just happened to have accompaniment from the other members) because while it's competently made, it was a big step down from the material the band had made in the past. I viewed it as inferior because they went from producing musically brilliant soundscapes like Echoes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Dogs that took your mind for a ride to brooding, boring, moody pretentiousness. I don't want to shit on people who like the album, but for me it was a significant downgrade compared t what Floyd was cranking out before.
That being said, now that I have sat through the horrible Nostalgia critic review, I will give The Wall a lot more credit, at least it was nowhere near pretentious as the nostalgia critic's version. I can at least say that The Wall has SOME substance to what it was saying (it actually was trying to convey something with depth instead of observationally scraping the surface) and SOME passion to it; That I can't say for the Nostalgia Critic's review of it or anything he's done the past 7 or so years.
The only good thing to come out of the nostalgia critic's review of the wall is it at least got me to appreciate the original more, because as doug demonstrated, it could have been a hell of a lot worse.
Truthfully "The Wall" was never my favourite of Pink Floyd's either (that credit belongs to "Wish You Were Here"), but I've always admired the integrity and ambition of that record, and the movie that followed. Plus, there were still some serious jams on there.
And my appreciation for "The Wall" has only grown since this review, to the point where I'm actually excited to nab it on vinyl sometime soon. So yes, I suppose NC did accomplish at least one good thing at the end of the day.
The Metal Meltdown It was right up there with “Dark Side of the Moon”, another iconic rock album from the 1970’s. Both of these Pink Floyd’s albums “The Wall” and “Dark Side of the Moon” are legendary.
For me, it's a tie between "Atom Heart Mother" and "Meddle", I like both for different reasons, but in terms of when I think Floyd was best, it was their live material from 1970 - 1972 (examples of which could only be found on unofficial bootlegs, that is up until recently with the release of the Live at pompeii soundtrack and the early years boxset).
This was when floyd was at their peak. Though Waters did take the helm for a lot of the direction, every member of the band was contributing to the formulation of the songs, and they got to really shine when performing the songs live. The instrumentation was the strength of early floyd, and that's one of my gripes with the wall. Take any two performances of a regularly performed song from that era (ie. "Careful With That Axe, Eugene") and listen to them back to back- No two are the same!
With the Wall, everything's short, bound to a concise narrative and isn't structured to be expanded upon or improvised upon in a live setting. In comparison to their earlier material, they're all way too reserved and controlled (which I view as a big source of irony considering the album's anti-authoritarian narrative, given that it was all Water's vision and clearly had very little influence from the other members). Even when Waters started to really take over with "Animals", there was still some room allowed for creative instrumentation and musical sequences (ie. the two musical sequences in the middle of "Dogs").
I don't view it as a bad album, honestly, but I do view it as a bad Floyd album. I'm not saying it's uncreative, but it's a form of creativity that I view as way less significant to the creativity that they exhibited before.
I meant all 4 from 1970-1972. Didn't include Syd for obvious reasons (though he definitely took the helm more from 1965-1967).
Really must disagree, I mean, while Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite Floyd album, I find The Wall to be a fantastic album and my second favorite album too, but hey, that's just me
I listened to most of "Comfortably Dumb" including the final solo, and I can't believe how you didn't mention how fucking badly they butchered it. It's sounds like notes that could be from the song just flung together in an editing software with no coherent through line. It is literally just note after note after note not forming anything that could even represent or even classify as a guitar solo.
God damn that rage got me dying dude subbed
I’m here from your 5 year anniversary review,how you change.
I thought your shirt said "The despacito"
no but now I wish it did
What do you make of The Dark Side Of The Moon?
Lost so much respect for Corey Taylor for being in that video tbh, also it was sad to see how they treated their employees. Also stopped watching some UA-camrs cause they were trying to defend the shittiness of Channel Awesome.
Nostalgia critic is dead to me
Thank you for taking all of the bullets, for us. This was cathartic in ways I did not know were possible. Subbed.
Cathartic for me as well man, glad you enjoyed! \m/
Imagine unironically listening to Comfortably Dumb, or literally any song on this album. lmao
honestly
The way I see it, after seeing The Rock Critic's own assessment and evisceration of it on his worst album list, it makes sense that The Wall is a satire because the criticism sarcastically criticizes his fans and opposes who watch his video...which puts people's hate for it in a better light for me.
"What's the fucking point of this record? WHAT IS IT?"
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Cattle Decapitation (my favorite band) shirt? Ninja Sex Party fan? Ripping this piece of shit album to shreds? SUBSCRIBED BRO!
HELL YES! Happy you enjoyed everything man!
I gotta say, given the recent wave of spicy hot-takes about awful the video review of The Wall is, it's nice to hear the perspective of someone who hates the accompanying album and didn't pay attention to the video.
never even knew much bout the review until after this went up to be honest lol
I love how Doug complains about the songs in The Wall being too long despite the fact that The Walls longest songs are not even that long compared to Pink Floyd's other work
Yeah like most of them are under 4 minutes and a good number of them are literally like a minute and a half
That first exhale, we feel ya bruh
Trust me, I've seen the video. I even made a little vlog about it over on my channel, but to summarize... Yeah, the video isn't all that much better. And this is coming from a guy who LIKED The Nostalgia Critic at one point.
I hate to say it, but Nostalgia Critic lost his magic touch years ago. The show today is overly processed and kills the raw humor he had his first couple years he made videos.
This was just torturous in every way. I feel especially bad for Corey Taylor. They got an accomplished musician and vocalist and did nothing with him. If the sexual abuse and general mismanagement isn’t enough to bring Walker and company down, this certainly will.
This makes St.Anger look like a masterpiece.
the only good songs that album has are the own St. anger and some kind of monster