QUICKIES!: BEST and WORST Albums of 2016 

My favorite part of this video is the part where Crash said things.

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These are my top 5 ROCK albums 5. Blackstar, David Bowie 4. Revolution Radio, Green Day 3. Shape Shift With Me, Against Me! 2. The Stage, Avenged Sevenfold 1. The Boy Who Died Wolf, Highly Suspect

1. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. 2. death Grips - Bottomless pit 3. Weezer - The white album 4. NOFX - First Ditch Effort 5. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate

My Top 5 Rock Albums of 2016: 1. "A Moon Shaped Pool" - Radiohead 2. "Teens of Denial" - Car Seat Headrest 3. "Blackstar" - David Bowie 4. "Promise Everything" - Basement 5. "Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not" - Dinosaur Jr. Honorable mention to the Downhill Willows' self-titled EP for quenching my thirst for a new My Bloody Valentine album until we eventually get one…I hope.

Surprised Weezer didn't show up at least as a honorable mention lol.

25.) Waterparks- Double Dare 24.) Alter Bridge- The Last Hero 23.) Saosin- Along The Shadow 22.) Fire From The Gods- Narrative 21.) Green Day- Revolution Radio 20.) The Devil Wears Prada- Transit Blues 19.) Cilver- Not The End Of The World 18.) Frank Iero & The Patience- Parachutes 17.) Young The Giant- Home Of The Strange 16.) The Fall Of Troy- OK 15.) Pierce The Veil- Misadventures 14.) Protest The Hero- Pacific Myth 13.) Sum 41- 13 Voices 12.) Deftones- GORE 11.) Blink 182- California 10.) Panic At The Disco- Death Of A Bachelor 9.) Taking Back Sunday- Tidal Wave 8.) Beartooth- Aggressive 7.) Periphery- 3: Select Difficulty 6.) Dance Gavin Dance- Mothership 5.) Metallica- Hardwired... To Self-Destruct 4.) Thrice- To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 3.) Crobot- Welcome To Fat City 2.) Hands Like Houses- Dissonants 1.) A Day To Remember- Bad Vibrations

YES CRASH TEAR ATTILA TO SHREDS

Crash, if you haven't already, you should give The White Album another try. It holds up well, and has some kick ass melodies. It goes away from the pattern the EWBAITE put out, and they owned it (and EWBAITE was a good album anyway)! All I'm saying is, maybe give Weezer another try this year, I'm sure you'll like what you find

+The Rock Critic DUDE. FOR REAL. Thanks so much for really pushing Thrice's new album out their for everyone to observe and feel like checking out! I just went into listening into the CD after buying it blindly and OH MY GOD lyrically and instrumentally this is the album I've needed all year! Keep the great work up, man! Also, I'd recommend you check out the album Eternity, In Your Arms by Creeper once it's out next year and review that new ATDI song!

Highly Suspect? Animals as Leaders? Weezer? pls, Crash...

New idea for a drinking game: take a shot every time there's a fart noise

My favorites: Weezer - White Album Decendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate NOFX - First Ditch Effort Korn - Serenity of Suffering Pears - Green Star Suicidal Tendencies - World Gone Mad Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Lake Michigan - Gleaming Saccharine - We Both Became the Sky

Hey Crash, just as a suggestion for Taking Back Sunday, I would recommend the band's self-titled record as well. I think it's the album that marked their "grown up" sound by incorporating more mature lyrics and melody, and especially since it's their first album to have the original lineup since their debut. Lots of good stuff there.

Hi Crash, Branden here. I've been following your excellent channel for awhile. Thank you Going forward, I enjoyed your Best and Worst Albums of 2016 video very much. However, your dislike of Megadeth - Dystopia spurred me on to check it out. I can see why Dave's political outlook could rub you the wrong way but I'm happy in North America we have the ability to openly express our opinions. This is largely not the case in many lands that Mustaine so openly is speaking of. Overall I love this album and thought it was bold of Dave to put himself out there like this.Thanks Crash for introducing me to a fantastic Megadeth album which is one of the band's best! Here's my Top 5 of 2016: #1 Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct #2 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool #3 Megadeth - Dystopia #4 Green Day - Revolution Radio #5 Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression Cheers! Keep up the good work.

34:04 YES, please make another favorite bands, hell go a step further make a favorite punk, metal and women fronted bands of all time, I mean its obvious at this point you left Tool out of the first list alongside Skillet, Weezer, Green Day and The Ramones.

OH. AND. King 810 cancelled a show literally the day before this came out because they wouldn't let people bring guns into the venue. I can't wait until we see the video of Davey here deep throating an M19. And no that's not a suicide joke, I mean literally deepthroating

Great list, Crash. EVen though I'm a bit iffy on Megadeth being on the Worst List, I can understand why you put it on there and I respect that! As for my top 10 of the year: 1) Hardwired... to Self Destruct by Metallica 2) The Ninth Hour by Sonata Arctica 3) The Puzzle by Dark Sarah 4) The Shadow Self by Tarja 5) Clearview by Poets of the Fall 6) Death of a Bachelor by Panic! At the Disco 7) Maximlism by Amaranthe 8) Dystopia by Megadeth 9) California by blink-182 10) Metal Resistance by Babymetal.

I was expecting you didn't review The Stage because it would end up on here, but I guess now. Any chance we're going to get your thoughts?

41:23, yep. This aged well....

Radiohead, Metallica, weezer? No mentions?

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 2. David Bowie - Black Star 3. Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP 4. Immune - Breathless (now delisted from its label due to copyright issues, but I believe it's still on youtube if you search for it) 5. 65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (seriously, whatever you think of the game, check out the soundtrack album)

I loved California, and I'm so happy to see it on a list! About the most consistently catchy, engaging record I'd heard in a while... except for my favorite of the year, which was Weezer :)

Been looking forward to this list and it didn't disappoint! Keep it up Crash! Here's to a better 2017.

Good News: You're totally right, California is the best album Blink has released in years. Bad News: That still doesn't save it from being mediocre as hell. Dad Punk/Pap Punk is real, and this is Document A.

Im gonna have to disagree with you on Megadeth.

While I think your stance on Dream Theater is....... I think the nicest way to put it would be misguided, I am happy you enjoyed The Astonishing. Personally I wasn't a big fan of it at first but it did grow on me over time. At first I considered it on the lower end of their discography but now I feel it's in the middle. When you stack up against albums like Scenes from a Memory, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Awake, there's absolutely no contest in my eyes. However I definitely think it has more going for it than some of their weaker outputs like Falling Into Infinity, When Dreams and Day Unite. I was also very shocked to see just how well it worked in a concert setting. I was actually a bit worried before seeing them live that watching them play the entire album would be a bit much, but it actually turned out to be an extremely engaging and fun show with a great sense of flow and balance. Cool list btw, some stuff I think you should have checked out though were Similitude of a Dream by the Neal Morse Band and Transcendence by the Devin Townsend Project, really good stuff!

Top 3 albums of the year1. Dinosaur Jr. - A glimpse of what yer not2. Bernard Fanning - Civil Dusk3. Weezer - White Album

A few last minute items before 2016 wraps up if you don't mind the offhand recommendations. Gemini Syndrome- Memento Mori. Kongos- Egomaniac. Testament- Brotherhood Of The Snake.

Red hot chilli peppers and green day still going strong

To Be Everywhere is to Be Nowhere is such a gem. Thanks again for showing me that album Crash.

How you felt on the Train Does Led Zeppelin II album was my reaction to that godawful Black Parade covers album. I was almost expecting it to make the list. But overall, great video!

After you brought up Beartooth, I had to give them a try. After listening, your comparison with Papa Roach is pretty accurate. Even as a fan of Papa Roach, I can agree that Beartooth is leagues better. As for Papa Roach, I always felt that people tended to judge them for Last Resort and nothing else. Most of those people can't name another song by them if they tried. While they are more of a guilty pleasure band for me, I think Papa Roach is alright for the most part.

I cannot fucking wait for the green day series, although it won't be fun for me to watch Dos (IMO the only good album out of the trilogy) to get shit on

Chevelle's The North Corridor was the best of the year.

This was my Best of 2016 List: 1. Touché Amore - Stage Four 2. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate 3. Frameworks - Smother 4. PUP - The Dream is Over 5. Warehouse - Super Low 6. Prince Daddy & the Hyena - I Thought You Didn't Even Like Leaving 7. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon 8. Super Unison - Auto 9. I Love Your Lifestyle - We Go Way Back 10. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost 11. Blowout - No Beer, No Dad 12. Big Ups - Before a Million Universes 13. Norma Jean - Polar Similar 14. Microwave - Much Love 15. Pinegrove - Cardinal 16. Arrows in Her - It Tired Me All the Same 17. Joyce Manor - Cody 18. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry 19. Culture Abuse - Peach 20. Into It. Over It. - Standards

what's up with weezer?

hey crash do u ever listen to sonic youth?

34:04 I think a part 2 or more would be excellent and all those things you promised in that video that haven't been fulfilled... get on that shit! Please? :3 At least after Green Day is done of course. Seriously I understand a little bit of the "review stress" bud. I also left you some questions in Messenger.

The thing is... That Donots album was released on may 2015

Well On The Bright Side, The Cubs Won The World Series in 2016.

What did you think of the Every Time I Die album?

"It's Drake...if he didn't exist." Really good description. :D

I actually did hear _Blackstar_ first, but I don't regret it because it made me love Bowie's experimental side. I'm that one weirdo who prefers _Station to Station_ over _Ziggy Stardust._

The white album anyone?

You know, I watched both the catch-up review and this on the same day, and for both time whenever you show a live show of for the From Ashes to New album; one thing keeps on going through my mind. WHERE THE F**K IS THEIR THE BASS PLAYER?!

36:17 YOUR DAMN RIGHT HE'S WRONG! Though I'm curious. What he had to say on Skillet's Unleashed... where do you fall into with that at this point?

I KNEW IT! I FUCKING KNEW KING 810 WAS GENERIC TRASH FROM THE MOMENT IT WAS SHOWN TO ME!

Crash, if you're getting into Japanese metal/rock bands check out Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas. I've never heard anything quite like them before.

I saw Sum and I clicked like. :)

Yes we would want to see another updated favourite band's list.

Crash, ya know I like Dave Mustane, but that impersonation at 44:52 is awesome! had me craking up, lol

ok the music at the end isn't bad but what you used before added more of an epic feel to the coming episodes.

Hey Crash, said this on the last upload, good list man (also, I love your review style, just throwing that out there). Also, I threw this suggestion at you on your last catch up quicky, and just want to suggest it one last time in case you didn't see it, check out All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us by Architects. It's a fantastic album that was written while the lead guitarist/ songwriter was dying of terminal cancer, and one of my favorites this year. You really should check it out if you haven't.

I'm slightly suprised Man Machine Poem wasn't in here unless I missed something! Especially considering what Gord is going through currently

Shit, pity you've had to pull the original down :/ I'll repeat my question from the original video then: any chance of doing a similar list for the albums you didn't review on the show, or weren't rock, but resonated with you this year? Not necessarily in a video form, even as a Facebook post or something like that?

Asking Alexandria's The Black is the Dragon Ball GT of their discography. It exists but it's no longer canon.

How about this? Attila stole its name from a rock duet Billy Joel was part of in the seventies prior to making "Cold Spring Harbour".

What you feel about Skillet, I feel about Chevelle (and vice versa tbh).

Nooooo! My comment about The Getaway is gone :( It took 12 years to make and I was quite proud of it

With all due respect, how you feel about Red Hot Chili Peppers is how I felt about Select Difficulty. I completely disagree with the sentiment that it was better than Juggernaut; maybe it's just my perspective of the band's sound as a whole, but the only things I could get behind in Select Difficulty were Marigold (because that song is fucking beautiful), Habitual Line-Stepper and the lyrics for Motormouth. The music itself didn't appeal to me.

53 MINUTES?! Jesus dude, imagine the Game and Crash video, it might be as long-

2016 was the greatest year of all time and 2017 will be even better.

I can relate with your touche amore comments. I lost my grandmother to cancer 4 years ago, and my grandfather is struggling with alzheimers. I just wish I could have done something. Great video.

titles the video Quickies. Makes it an hour long.

And where is Alter Bridge????

33:37 was 3edgy5me

Man, Crash REALLY underestimated From Ashes to New's staying power. Thankfully, it was mostly due to some major lineup changes, but still.

What is that Band that Crash compared Babymetal to at 14:02 and how do you even spell it?

The Donots are giving me faith in humanity, went to their 1000th show this year and it was the biggest fuck you to Nazis everywhere, just a glorious experience. I love this band very much, we really need bands like them here in Germany at the moment

Any thoughts on Along The Shadow by Saosin?

I've been asking for a new favorite bands list for a while now, so hell yeah!

I too am a RHCP devotee, I too have their symbol tattooed on my flesh, I would have put their new album #1 on the worst list. Should not even be called a Chili Peppers album.

I got into Bowie thru Blackstar and came out with Diamond Dogs being my favorite album of his. idk what you're talking about when you say Blackstar isn't a good starting point.

So LetLive broke up :( damn

how could anything not named Angelic 2 the core take the worst of the year spot?

*sigh* and yet again, Parachutes receives no attention.

I don't even like King 180 that much but I truly think that people give them way too much shit than they deserve. there is more their stuff than being scary unlikeable monsters

Baby Metal is the shit.

Man revisiting this video reminds me of how many times I gave Stage Four a spin and especially Skyscraper and Palm Dreams. How time flies by...

California is the pinkerton of this decade.

Can't wait for your Green Day Rise Fall thing. Really interest about the second part of the Opera one because 21st Century Breakdown is my favourite of them, and probably one my favorite albums period (top 50 something), and it clearly looks like you have issues with it. Just curious what you are gonna say about it. I also didnt really care about Your Weezer thing because I don't have any interest in them at all, and for alt pop rock im general...

I don't know if you've ever listened to this band or featured them in one of your videos, but if you're really into industrial music I would try out 3TEETH as long as you don't mind a few dubstep elements mixed in

Nice list, you should check out highly suspect. I think you would really love mister asylum

What about testament's brotherhood of the snake?

20:58 Glad someone appreciates Sophie Dee. Nice taste

I actually think Blackstar is Bowie's BEST album... Please don't kill me

Tilian Pearson*

crash, I want to thank u for the dystopia segment for respecting the other side of the political spectrum. keep making vids, u have been a huge influence on me and my album review channel. thx

Personally I loved Dystopia musically however I do with you on the lyrics but when I look past the lyrics I loved it. It's also hella catchy.

14:45 Holy crap, like 40% of that pic are chilean bands!! My country was a monster at creating nu-metal stuff XDDD

Excuse me? The Black was amazing.

I wish Crash could have gone more in depth into why King810's La petite Mort was awful because all he left it at was "This band is trying hard to shock me and I don't want any part in it". Which is fine, but for the sake of clarity I wish I could get more of an understanding as to what else he doesn't like about it, like more in depth into the lyrics, the music etc. Though I totally understand why he hates that band, believe me, I used to defend these punks. Turns out they're not even FROM Flint, they're from the literal next town over. Which shows that they were willing to use another town's tragedies for posturing.

I'm super late to the channel, but from that year, check out Alas Salvation by Yak. They came out with another record this year called Pursuit of Momentary Happiness. Badass punk band from England in the vein of the Stooges, I suppose. They're awesome. Trust me.

God bless whoever told you about Arrows in Her, that band sounds fucking amazing

Hey Crash you should check out this band called "Hackenschmidt" they're super new so you can only really find them on bandcamp but my god are they amazing. I'd definitely suggest listening to them especially their songs "Nice Peace" and "Twintail Sex Company" they're amazing.

2:33 I thought you thought 2016's Good Charlotte album was serviceable?

I actually really loved the getaway sure it's a slower album but songs like goodbye angels this ticonderoga and the getaway are some of my favorites that I hear go robot and feasting on the flowers also have great sing along lyrics to me I'd have to agree to disagree

I really enjoyed Terminal Redux by Vektor and Arkóasis by Obscura, and of course all three big 4 albums and Brotherhood of the Snake by Testament

Don't want to be stupid about things, but when did you talk about King 810's album other than this? Just a question from a fan.