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.
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 RU-vid'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".
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...
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.
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.
@@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.
"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.
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.
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.
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''?
MrParkerman6 well, i haven’t watch the movie in full just watched some clips at RU-vid, 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
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🤙🏿
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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
Nostalgia Critic is like the Venom of RU-vidrs. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
the Wall is quintessentially British Cinéma vérité about the societal change from the deferential British society of the postwar era to the rebellion of the 60's and is a great insight into the workings of the human mind with only the Pixar movie Inside Out coming a close second in its dissection of the human condition.
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.
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 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
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.'
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
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 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.
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.
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 thought it was arrogant for Tool to change the lyrics to No Quarter. I have no words for this. Except maybe that it makes Corey Feldman sound like Kurt Cobain.
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'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.
Is it wrong to say the first minute and a half of this video was legitimately funnier and better constructed than anything that spawned from Doug’s review/album?
As someone who has never listened to Pink Floyd before, even I know how disrespectful Doug's 'review' was to the meaning/messages that Floyd's record brought.
You're not missing much from the video. It's basically really bad green screen and Corey Taylor staring at the TV for 40 minutes, with ads popping up every 3 minutes.
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.
Watching so many people drag the Nostalgia Critic has reinforced a powerful lesson: don't fuck with rock fans', because they take their shit seriously.
