The only reason Corey Taylor agreed to help with this album was because his son was a big fan of the nostalgia critic and because him and his son didn't really hang out all that much he thought it would be a good bonding experience for them, so despite this album being doo doo feces at least 1 good thing came out of it.
,,can confirm this was in fact my first experience of pink floyd 😭😭 to this day I have only ever heard pink floyd in videos reviewing the nostalgia critic video.
@@raythepretentiousnerd I agree! At least you'd know it was made for goofs and not meant to be taken seriously, while Doug tries waaaay so hard to be taken seriously.
That's not what he said. He said that Nostalgia Critic's The Wall is almost the "lazy way" to create the worst album of the decade, and that Fantano himself could make "the worst album of the decade by badly recreating every instrumental from OK Computer [in MIDI format] and just added random fart noises all over it.” Get it right, fucko! BOOOO!
Funnily enough, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 somehow won the British Academy Award for Best Original Song. I have no idea how considering it was a 2 or 3 year old song at that point, but it is a fun fact. But yeah, they clearly didn’t do much research when it came to reviewing this movie and it shows.
It’s so funny how Doug completely doesn’t understand the album and it’s story. He watched the movie and just said “haha weird animation. So pretentious” and called it a day. He has such a surface level take on everything the album is about. He takes the whole thing at face value and thinks he’s smart for saying it, while completely misunderstanding it all.
@@TheBrawlingBrothers this is how i imagine Nostalgia Critic reviewing Shakespeare: "the characters talks funny, the plot is derivative, and there isn't even an official movie adaptation. Mid."
Which is a fine format when you review shitty kid movies. But totally out of place when you review one of the most critically acclaimed concept album by one of the most influencial band ever. Plus his surface level analysis and weak arguments managed to miss the point every time and be condescending and insulting to everyone who likes it at the same time. Incredible.
@@redjakOfficialit's so fucking embarrassing. It's like taking a toddler to a 5 star restaurant and then he complains the restaurant is bad because there aren't chicken nuggets on the menu and doesn't even order anything.
This album is such a pure distillation of anti-intellectualism. It's honestly unsettling to think that there are people that put this little thought into their interactions with the world. I can't even begin to understand.
Someone pointed out to me that the album cover is designed wrong because if he were actually punching through a wall, you wouldn’t be able to see his back hand, and I can’t unsee it since. Mans is leaning through a hole in the wall holding the Superman pose 😂
So he just found a broken wall, lazily attempted to make it seem like he broke through it, and made a photo of it. Yep. Sounds like something that Doug would do
It’s so funny how the songs he keeps coming the hardest down on are the ones where Roger Waters talks about his fucking dad and how much he misses him, which above all else shows how little research Doug does on anything he does.
Right? Its like his take is "If you suffered through something and feel the need to make art about it, you have a massive ego and think your suffering is more important than other peoples". Like I wonder what he'd have to say about some of Corey Taylors art? What a dick.
Also the fact that he keeps railing on it for being "angsty." Like, yeah Doug. It's a little hard to write this kind of story without it being a bit angsty, and you'd probably realize that after just one Google search about the context behind everything lol
@@BaBaBaBenny given a decent number of former channel awesome contributors are ardent nu metal haters I really wouldn’t be surprised if Doug doesn’t actually like Slipknot at all. The collaboration was Corey Taylor’s idea to begin with
"When the Wall Broke Free" is the most galling to me. His version ends with a line about the song being whiny; the original ends with "AND THAT'S HOW THE HIGH COMMAND TOOK MY DADDY FROM ME."
The entire point of it is literally in the first sentence from the Wikipedia page for When the Tigers Broke Free. I don't think Roger Waters could have been any more explicit with the meaning behind that song than with that line and it still went over Doug's smooth head. He is either purposely stupid or actually stupid
I think the worst part of this is that you can tell Doug just fundamentally does not understand the album he’s “parodying.” Throughout the album, he refers to The Wall as a “movie,” saying that Goodbye Blue Sky is “Oscar bait.” He thinks it’s an album made for the movie, not a movie made to visualize the album.
You mean like The Wall. Not the Nostalgia Critic's unfunny parody of it, I would presume. Sure they do. You just have to make the effort to go looking for it because they won't play this stuff on the radio anymore. Some albums to check out.... Porcupine Tree- Deadwing/ In Absentia/ Stupid Dream RPWL- World Through My Eyes IQ- Dark Matter/ The Road Of Bones/ Frequency Transatlantic- Bridge Across Forever/ The Whirlwind Spock's Beard- Snow Mystery- Delusion Rain Nightwish- Endless Forms Most Beautiful/ Once/ Imaginarium Blackfield- Blackfield I/ Blackfield II Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase/ The Raven That Refused To Sing/ Insurgents
ALSO, a lot of the messaging in the original album came from the writers experience in a very specific time and place (post world war two thatcher era educational system), a context that doug walker was either too dense to realize or too egotistical (Dan Olsens video about this was so interesting and well put together, even if you've never listened to either the wall or doug walkers "parody" its still so worth a watch)
the album references Roger water's dad a lot who died in war when Roger was only a kid and my guy is too insensitive to at least respect the parts about it
"ALSO, a lot of the messaging in the original album came from the writers experience in a very specific time and place (post world war two thatcher era educational system)" Except the Floyds went to school way before Thatcher. They went to school in the 1950s, Thatcher wasn't Prime Minister until 1979. Glenda Jackson's speech in the Commons on the Parliamentary session to eulogise the bitch more accurately reflects Thatcher-era education - from the already decades old Portakabin classrooms to the text books that were as old as the teachers in the class, let alone the pupils using them bound in (and held together by) offcuts of wallpaper... oh yeah and Section 28, the Don't Say Gay Act before it was cool. I know... I was there...
Yea I remember watching a video about doug walkers the wall and it was so obvious that doug viewed "another brick in the wall part 2" through the lens of the current American education system and not the post WWII british education system... like how media illiterate do you have to be to take an album from an English band released in 1979 and not understand the context behind it...
I think this might be the most disrespectful parody album of all time. The Wall was a very personal project for Roger Waters, Pink Floyds front man, the album talks about his struggles growing up in the blitz, the loss of his father, his overprotective mother, his self isolation, and his addictions, and to see all that boiled down into a mockery is frustrating, and shows that Doug never cared about The Wall, or anything it was meant to say.
Fawning over how amazing the Unhappy Refrain video is and then hearing literally some of the worst music generated by man is truly the Brad experience.
not saying you should react to it on stream, but i HIGHLY recommend folding ideas' review/essay on this album. way more in depth than fantano's and one of the most thorough and interesting breakdowns on both the original and doug himself. it's one of my all time favorite youtube videos, every several months i go back and watch through it again
Dan Olsen also worked for/with Doug in the very early Channel Awesome days so he has more insight than most. Not that it takes a lot of insight to see through Doug Walker
I consider Lady Emily's video on Doug Walker's Demo Reel series a companion piece to Olsen's video. It's an amazing breakdown of Doug's philosophy regarding his creative process, why it's so poorly conceived and how that bleeds into his work including The Wall Review
The Another Brick In The Wall ""parody"" pisses me off to no end. Imagine listening to a song about how an educational system allows children to be constantly mistreated and traumatized (one of the first things you hear in The Happiest Days of Our Lives is _"there were certain teachers that would hurt the children in any way they could"_ like come onnnnn man) and where every deviation from the norm is punished, and the only thing you get from that is "so what you're saying is uhhhh... 'school sux'? thats kinda cringe bro."
To be fair, Doug was referring to Rob Scallon's work on the album as a "love letter," not the 'lyrics' that he wrote. Still, to call this album a "love letter" is a joke, regardless of context
Doug talks abt ABITW as if Waters was a teenager singing abt highschool in the 2000s. Is he not aware of how awful school probably was in a post WWII UK??
This reminds me of the time that Ben Shapiro tried to "critisize" Imaging by J. Lennon and got passivelly crushed and owned by the music and the lyrics that he was "critisizing", juct because of how powerful the music was, this guy got it to the next level i guess, all the time that i was listening to this shitshow i was just reminded how timeless The Wall is. Thank you Nostalgia Critic.
Pink Floyd's The Wall 2 perfectly encapsulates the current modern climate and it so smoothly captures the fact that society is not the same as it was, my favorite track is "The Song After This One Is Really Good". overall i give this album a
Someone tossed that Dan Olson quote out as a superchat and honestly, I've gone back and rewatched Dan's video about this like 4 or 5 times, it's a really great breakdown of just how utterly broken and wrong Doug's take is
I love how Brad read the quote aloud about how Doug isn’t interested in how other people think or feel, and before he could say anything, “We need more victimization” started playing as if on cue.
This is one of those albums where sometimes i for real can’t tell if a noise im hearing is from brads soundboard or if its actually a part of the music
Besides the horrendous lyrics and vocals... the instrumentals are still great because it's Pink Floyd's THE WALL. Brad, you gotta hear The Wall, it's worth your time
For what it's worth, Doug himself as a person doesn't actually seem to be the type to go around claiming videos that criticize or make fun of his work, at least not to my knowledge (and plenty of people have had their go at him for a good while now). He at least seems to take criticism better than some other previous Channel Awesome members (Spoony or Linkara come to mind)
It's a shame what happened to Channel Awesome. It had some truly amazing creators, but aside from NC, they pretty much either left or went insane. Sad, really.
I haven’t watched all of Brad’s videos but every time I do, regardless of the quality of the song, he’s always smiling. When the guy is constantly in a state of cringe, disappointment and anger, you know it’s bad.
Honest to god, this makes me appreciate The Wall (the original one) far more than when I walked into this video Honestly Im probably gonna re-listen to it tommorow lmao
I have never heard someone get an album less than Doug Walker gets The Wall. Like every criticism he makes just makes the original look better and better because he is just so wrong so much. Edit: Corey Taylor has made some undeniably brilliant and important music, but he should be ashamed of himself for his involvement in this album. It is an affront to God.
@@jeremyusreevu237 AJRs music is bad from a technical and enjoyability standpoint. I'm not hating, you can enjoy it, but people have very valid reasons to dislike or hate on AJR and it's not because they don't get it. They're Walmart Twenty One Pilots
@@pankace3296 I'm not saying you can't dislike AJR, but like, I look at the AJR reviews of people like Mark from SpectrumPulse, Jon from ARTV, Crash Thompson, and Rocked, and they literally go out of their way to miss the point on every single song, analyzing the lyrics on the most surface level, basic way imaginable (Seriously, criticizing Dear Winter for Ryan not being concerned about what his wife would name the kid is like a Cinemasins level nitpick), and acting like their problems aren't real, and that they're "privileged" because they aren't like the worst thing ever.
@@jeremyusreevu237 Some people have pretty bad takes on their lyrics, but their lyrics are frankly infantile lol. They're not deep. If anything, my main criticism of a lot of their work is how fake-deep and disingenuous they are.
On one hand, Nostalgia Critic’s “The Wall” is, objectively, the worst. But on the other hand, had he never put out “The Wall,” we would have never been blessed by Folding Idea’s masterpiece of a takedown
i still don't understand all the sheer effort they went through to recreate the entire album and make a 40 minute youtube cringe epic when they had no jokes and two criticisms that were wrong.
The wall: a story about not confining to the system of war, A love letter to his father, and the way education shapes and molds children into soldiers giving children trauma even through there adult lives 😢 NC the wall: yep lets make fun of this one and say IT'S AN OSCAR SONG in an album that is to loved?! (I might be a fan of NC but this "review" of this made my blood boil and i almost left his channel after watching his "review") that has no facts and just felt like he didn't understand the album so instead of you know learning about it he just said its terrible because HE dont get it.. R.i.p to my great grandpa who told me his story of this album he died when i was 6-7 but i still remember this line "trauma doesnt have a number and pain can follow you at any age" he was a WW2 soldier 🪖 he died of ptsd.. And the fight with the main characters inner demons in the wall animated part by the end of the wall was amazing
How horrifyingly tone deaf to make a whole album mocking someone for ‘playing the victim’ when that album is full of songs about his dead father and getting beaten regularly as a child and how he coped by using drugs and isolating himself. Jesus.
Pink Floyd is one of my dad's favorite bands and there's probably a lot of sentimental value for him since his brother, who died very young, loved them. I love Pink Floyd a lot; they're not my favorite band of all time (that goes to AiC :3), but they also have sentimental value for me. Music can create powerful connections and the music makes me feel connected to him. And weirdly enough, connected to my late uncle. Keep in mind, he died around 20 years before I was born. My point is, music is important to a lot of people; dealing with emotions, building connections, it can just mean a lot to someone. So with that being said, this parody genuinely makes me angry. It's not a love letter to one of the best concept albums ever made (like seriously, I'm obsessed with the storyline that plays out over the course of 80 minutes). It was made in bad faith; it's ass. There's no love in this, it's just mean spirited. And I get it. Roger Waters *does* seem like a bit of a tool, that's normal for old guys in extremely popular bands. But this actually explores his trauma and the pain he went through; dealing with abusive school systems, just getting out of a war, dealing with the fear of another war being drilled into your head. It's rough now, I bet it was rough back then, too. And what does this guy do? Say it's victimization and say he needs to suck it up. I don't care that this is old now, this "album" sucks ass and nostalgia critic doesn't have any critical thinking skills when it comes to analyzing media. Literally zero fucking reading comprehension, just making the easiest digs he can with no substance whatsoever. This album is the cinemasins of music. I'm gonna go listen to the real thing again and maybe I'll forget this exists lmao. If there's a silver-lining, it's that listening to this makes me appreciate The Wall for the work of art that it is. Imagine making such an iconic album only for some nerd on the internet to ruin everything that made it work 40 years later. As Anthony Fantano said, "We don't need this lame-ass album".
13:47 dude really thought that making a """parody""" of a sad and beautiful song about the horrors of fascism and WW2 (which the band members went through, they were literally kids during WW2 and two of them lost their fathers to the war) calling it "oscar bait" was a good idea
The only reason Corey Taylor agreed to help with this album was because his son was a big fan of the nostalgia critic and because him and his son didn't really hang out all that much he thought it would be a good bonding experience for them, so despite this album being doo doo feces at least 1 good thing came out of it.
That's nice.
That's really cute actually.
I heard now the kid's got a band, saw a video of Corey vibing at one of their performances
that's sweet
wholesome tbh
Not so fun fact: Nostalgia Critics version of The Wall is at least 1 persons first experience of Pink Floyd.
Probably quite a few people's first experience. I doubt everyone watching nc at that time were born before the year 2000
I was about 15 when people were making fun of this album so I decided to give Pink Floyd a proper listen for the first time afterwards 😭
,,can confirm this was in fact my first experience of pink floyd 😭😭 to this day I have only ever heard pink floyd in videos reviewing the nostalgia critic video.
That's sad
Why hello there! I am that person.
Calling nostalgia critics the wall an album is the equivalent of calling a filthy frank video a crime documentary
I have more confidence in George making a crime documentary with the FF persona. Than anybody considering this an album.
We clearly saw multiple people get murdered by Filthy Frank, that's definitely a crime documentary
Well, those are definitely not documentaries...
It's more like calling a filthy frank video a snuff film
@@tlk2ty I mean........
Quote from Fantano: “This
Is like if I badly recreated every instrumentation from OK Computer and just added random fart noises all over it.”
"Actually, that would be way better than Nostalgia Critic's The Wall"
@@jennifertrandafir And he is right. It would be more interesting and less shitty. You know what I mean.
@@raythepretentiousnerd I agree! At least you'd know it was made for goofs and not meant to be taken seriously, while Doug tries waaaay so hard to be taken seriously.
That's not what he said. He said that Nostalgia Critic's The Wall is almost the "lazy way" to create the worst album of the decade, and that Fantano himself could make "the worst album of the decade by badly recreating every instrumental from OK Computer [in MIDI format] and just added random fart noises all over it.” Get it right, fucko! BOOOO!
what video he say that?
I still love the line “So long, Oscar bait song” when the song couldn’t even technically qualify for an Oscar lmao
Funnily enough, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 somehow won the British Academy Award for Best Original Song. I have no idea how considering it was a 2 or 3 year old song at that point, but it is a fun fact. But yeah, they clearly didn’t do much research when it came to reviewing this movie and it shows.
It's so ironic because this what Doug did is even more of a bait!
It’s so funny how Doug completely doesn’t understand the album and it’s story. He watched the movie and just said “haha weird animation. So pretentious” and called it a day. He has such a surface level take on everything the album is about. He takes the whole thing at face value and thinks he’s smart for saying it, while completely misunderstanding it all.
Afaik the only song that would have qualified was When The Tigers Broke Free, but they never entered it for consideration
@@TheBrawlingBrothers this is how i imagine Nostalgia Critic reviewing Shakespeare: "the characters talks funny, the plot is derivative, and there isn't even an official movie adaptation. Mid."
this album is literally just this dude managing to go "well, ackshually!!!" for like an hour it's like incredible
Which is a fine format when you review shitty kid movies. But totally out of place when you review one of the most critically acclaimed concept album by one of the most influencial band ever. Plus his surface level analysis and weak arguments managed to miss the point every time and be condescending and insulting to everyone who likes it at the same time. Incredible.
🤓: The Album
@@redjakOfficialit's so fucking embarrassing. It's like taking a toddler to a 5 star restaurant and then he complains the restaurant is bad because there aren't chicken nuggets on the menu and doesn't even order anything.
@@uzi_the_dronei agree Uzi
Im fairly sure its mostly just a character Doug does lol
This album is such a pure distillation of anti-intellectualism. It's honestly unsettling to think that there are people that put this little thought into their interactions with the world. I can't even begin to understand.
Sooo... we're going to see Brad react to Pink Floyd's version after.... right..? RIGHT? BRAD'S GONNA LISTEN TO THE WALL, RIGHT GUYS?
He most likely has heard it already
@@mocapcow2933he said in the video that hes only heard half of it
@@TheCharlieCoast I know. Tragic.
Why the cover version of NC's the wall? I dont get it
@@cbtalks6966 someone sent it in basically as a joke
Someone pointed out to me that the album cover is designed wrong because if he were actually punching through a wall, you wouldn’t be able to see his back hand, and I can’t unsee it since. Mans is leaning through a hole in the wall holding the Superman pose 😂
He just went at such an immense speed that both hands were in front of the wall before he stopped punching.
So he just found a broken wall, lazily attempted to make it seem like he broke through it, and made a photo of it. Yep. Sounds like something that Doug would do
@@KeDe1606sums up the whole album really
@@gonemunting Sums up his entire career, tbh
Dang, now I can't under it either.
You know it’s fucked up when the sound bites that Brad plays genuinely make the music way better and more enjoyable and not just a silly good
I love the samples of Binky Barnes and Kid Rock outta nowhere. "DEE-TROYT TILL I DIE!"
I LOST MY WAY AH-GAINNNNNN
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It’s so funny how the songs he keeps coming the hardest down on are the ones where Roger Waters talks about his fucking dad and how much he misses him, which above all else shows how little research Doug does on anything he does.
Right? Its like his take is "If you suffered through something and feel the need to make art about it, you have a massive ego and think your suffering is more important than other peoples". Like I wonder what he'd have to say about some of Corey Taylors art? What a dick.
It’s such a dumb idea of what “satire” is, I mean jeez is Doug annoying.
Also the fact that he keeps railing on it for being "angsty." Like, yeah Doug. It's a little hard to write this kind of story without it being a bit angsty, and you'd probably realize that after just one Google search about the context behind everything lol
Imagine being angsty about losing your dad at a young age in the war, what a fucking baby amirite
@@BaBaBaBenny given a decent number of former channel awesome contributors are ardent nu metal haters I really wouldn’t be surprised if Doug doesn’t actually like Slipknot at all. The collaboration was Corey Taylor’s idea to begin with
Finally Brad is reviewing REAL music!
Real garbage music
Someone paid $372 dollars to make Brad suffer and I find that admirable.
"We Need More Victimization" is the polar opposite of "Don't Stay in School" in the worst possible way
He wasnt taught what laws there were guys
@@haydenfisher1387vine boom
@jaredjams4267 how so?
He does not know
This video is such a love letter to Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall.
"When the Wall Broke Free" is the most galling to me. His version ends with a line about the song being whiny; the original ends with "AND THAT'S HOW THE HIGH COMMAND TOOK MY DADDY FROM ME."
The entire point of it is literally in the first sentence from the Wikipedia page for When the Tigers Broke Free. I don't think Roger Waters could have been any more explicit with the meaning behind that song than with that line and it still went over Doug's smooth head. He is either purposely stupid or actually stupid
I think the worst part of this is that you can tell Doug just fundamentally does not understand the album he’s “parodying.” Throughout the album, he refers to The Wall as a “movie,” saying that Goodbye Blue Sky is “Oscar bait.” He thinks it’s an album made for the movie, not a movie made to visualize the album.
A classic from my childhood. They don’t make music like this anymore. 🔥🔥Thank God🔥🔥🔥
True!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Faxxx 🧨🧨🧨🔥🔥
I agree with this entirely 🔥🔥💥💥
You mean like The Wall. Not the Nostalgia Critic's unfunny parody of it, I would presume.
Sure they do. You just have to make the effort to go looking for it because they won't play this stuff on the radio anymore.
Some albums to check out....
Porcupine Tree- Deadwing/ In Absentia/ Stupid Dream
RPWL- World Through My Eyes
IQ- Dark Matter/ The Road Of Bones/ Frequency
Transatlantic- Bridge Across Forever/ The Whirlwind
Spock's Beard- Snow
Mystery- Delusion Rain
Nightwish- Endless Forms Most Beautiful/ Once/ Imaginarium
Blackfield- Blackfield I/ Blackfield II
Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase/ The Raven That Refused To Sing/ Insurgents
@@timothygregor9828 Spilling your autism on the floor like this 🎉🎉
JARcast did a great breakdown of this and all the WWII historical context that Doug either chose to ignore or refused to learn in the first place
Yay another jarling, bear bear
@@ALIEN-DUDEi do declare….
So did Folding Ideas! 😁
I’m just glad that Todd in the Shadows and Lindsay Ellis were able to get out of Channel Awesome. Angry Joe is alright too.
+ KyleKallgrenBHH
Wasn’t RapCritic also in Channel Awesome? So many TH-camrs were apart of Channel Awesome like it was Machinima.
angry joe is far from alright
@@hutch8668 !?! Okay...
Phelous is pretty good and linkara's videos are decent too bad Lewis is a bit of a weenie.
THIS ALBUM IS GASS WITHOUT THE G 🔥🔥🔥
AS 🔥🔥🔥
And an extra "s" at the end
@$$
@@maffieduran TO HELP THIS OUT, ADD THE WORD "ACTUAL" BEHIND ASS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥THIS ALBUM KILLED MY MOM🔥🔥🔥
The fact that Brad's soundboard sounds like a part of the album 😭😭😭
The fact that Corey Taylor agreed to this.
Honestly, doesn't feel real
Apparently he was doing a favour for his kid? That's the only reason I want to believe the guy did this.
HAD to be a favor for his kid, no rockstar would be caught dead disrespecting pink floyd otherwise
Rob Scallon as well
That's the worst part of everything in this album.
9:00 The Kid Rock drop actually works beautifully here. Multiply a negative with a negative and you get a positive!
underrated comment fr
Nostalgia Critic be like:We truly do live in a society *20 minute long parody that really only parodies itself*
tbf, nothing wrong with it, but the Wall is kind of the quintessential "We live in a society" album. A pioneer of the genre.
This is truly the album of all time. Its got lyrics, guitar, drums, and bass. Absolutely a /10
He called the most memorable song in the album "The Forgotten Song", really is one of the projects of all time.
It's insane what people pay you. Props man. There's some real suckers out there.
yeah i suck. suck d- *GUNSHOT NOISE*
Screagle is a big sucker 100%
Paid reaction for Pulse Demon when? (Not that I think it sucks, but it just seems like the perfect troll move)
@@NeonBeeCat More like Screagle is Bradley's god of infinete money!
better than fans only rich fans
Man that Super Monkey Ball gameplay really redeems the audio terrorism we have to endure
This album is a love letter to The Wall in the same way Mark David Chapman was a fan of John Lennon
"I don't like Pet Sounds"
Well there goes your chances of ever writing for Pitchfork
I LOVE Pet Sounds, best album I've ever listened to
But it's also definitely an album I can understand why some people wouldn't enjoy it
brad's most reprehensible take
"Heey Critic, leave The Wall alone."
"All in all, it's just not very funny at all..."
@@cdvideodump "All in all, it's just-"
NOT. GOOD.
It's NOT GOOD.
**boom**
@@cynicalip Wh-what is this?
Gay parodies provide more to the music industry than Doug Walker ever could.
i love when i can't tell the difference between the soundbites and the album. really adds to the experience
ALSO, a lot of the messaging in the original album came from the writers experience in a very specific time and place (post world war two thatcher era educational system), a context that doug walker was either too dense to realize or too egotistical
(Dan Olsens video about this was so interesting and well put together, even if you've never listened to either the wall or doug walkers "parody" its still so worth a watch)
the album references Roger water's dad a lot who died in war when Roger was only a kid and my guy is too insensitive to at least respect the parts about it
"ALSO, a lot of the messaging in the original album came from the writers experience in a very specific time and place (post world war two thatcher era educational system)"
Except the Floyds went to school way before Thatcher. They went to school in the 1950s, Thatcher wasn't Prime Minister until 1979.
Glenda Jackson's speech in the Commons on the Parliamentary session to eulogise the bitch more accurately reflects Thatcher-era education - from the already decades old Portakabin classrooms to the text books that were as old as the teachers in the class, let alone the pupils using them bound in (and held together by) offcuts of wallpaper... oh yeah and Section 28, the Don't Say Gay Act before it was cool.
I know... I was there...
Yea I remember watching a video about doug walkers the wall and it was so obvious that doug viewed "another brick in the wall part 2" through the lens of the current American education system and not the post WWII british education system... like how media illiterate do you have to be to take an album from an English band released in 1979 and not understand the context behind it...
I think this might be the most disrespectful parody album of all time. The Wall was a very personal project for Roger Waters, Pink Floyds front man, the album talks about his struggles growing up in the blitz, the loss of his father, his overprotective mother, his self isolation, and his addictions, and to see all that boiled down into a mockery is frustrating, and shows that Doug never cared about The Wall, or anything it was meant to say.
Brad should make an album in this style of critiquing but it’s about Madhouse by Tones and I lmao
Honestly would rather listen to Tones and I then Doug Walker whinging and attempting to be making a point
@@missy_of_strange868 nahhh that’s super valid tho lol
Fawning over how amazing the Unhappy Refrain video is and then hearing literally some of the worst music generated by man is truly the Brad experience.
that's like going to the peak of Mt Everest and then jumping off into the Mariana Trench
not saying you should react to it on stream, but i HIGHLY recommend folding ideas' review/essay on this album. way more in depth than fantano's and one of the most thorough and interesting breakdowns on both the original and doug himself. it's one of my all time favorite youtube videos, every several months i go back and watch through it again
Also Hat Dan ❤
Dan Olsen is the fucking goat.
Dan Olsen also worked for/with Doug in the very early Channel Awesome days so he has more insight than most. Not that it takes a lot of insight to see through Doug Walker
And also Cactus Malpractice.
I consider Lady Emily's video on Doug Walker's Demo Reel series a companion piece to Olsen's video. It's an amazing breakdown of Doug's philosophy regarding his creative process, why it's so poorly conceived and how that bleeds into his work including The Wall Review
The Another Brick In The Wall ""parody"" pisses me off to no end. Imagine listening to a song about how an educational system allows children to be constantly mistreated and traumatized (one of the first things you hear in The Happiest Days of Our Lives is _"there were certain teachers that would hurt the children in any way they could"_ like come onnnnn man) and where every deviation from the norm is punished, and the only thing you get from that is "so what you're saying is uhhhh... 'school sux'? thats kinda cringe bro."
Just a reminder that in the video for this, they advertise this album as a love letter to The Wall…
To be fair, Doug was referring to Rob Scallon's work on the album as a "love letter," not the 'lyrics' that he wrote. Still, to call this album a "love letter" is a joke, regardless of context
feels like more of a pipe bomb haphazardly shoved into roger waters's mailbox
"Coming up is... The best song in The Wall"
That's not even correct because that's obviously Comfortably Numb.
Right?
Doug talks abt ABITW as if Waters was a teenager singing abt highschool in the 2000s. Is he not aware of how awful school probably was in a post WWII UK??
Context for "The Forgotten Song": it parodies Hey You, which is one of the most famous songs off the original album but wasn't in the movie at all
The scene for Hey You was actually recorded! It just wasn't used since they weren't sure how it fit, but then again, the Live show did it better.
So can we all agree that he now needs to listen to The Wall to get this out of his head?
Nah, the Wall would be a kinda boring listen
@@micha3l7 Eh, everybody is a nostalgia critic these days 😒😆
@@Noah_Tindell And they remember it so you don't have to.
Someone in chat said "Onisions belt is my favorite constellation" dumb af but it got me 🤣🤣
It's really easy to take any piece of art that is supposed to convey emotions, call it pretentious, then laugh at it.
Who allowed this man to create the greatest album of all time?!?!?!?
Nobody!
Rob Scallon did us dirty with this one 😔
Him being in this is my equivalent of Pedro Pascal being in that video where all the celebrities sang Imagine
the existential fear I felt looking at that thumbnail could not be matched
then I watched the video and my existential fear was matched
This reminds me of the time that Ben Shapiro tried to "critisize" Imaging by J. Lennon and got passivelly crushed and owned by the music and the lyrics that he was "critisizing", juct because of how powerful the music was, this guy got it to the next level i guess, all the time that i was listening to this shitshow i was just reminded how timeless The Wall is. Thank you Nostalgia Critic.
Ayo Brad, in case you ever think about embarking on Onisions music discography, do it with STRANGE ÆONS :)
I'd love that collab, I think their contrasting personalities would play off each other while they tear Greg's "music" to shreds.
In another dimension it was OK Computer instead of The Wall... I wonder how bad that is
Pink Floyd's The Wall 2 perfectly encapsulates the current modern climate and it so smoothly captures the fact that society is not the same as it was, my favorite track is "The Song After This One Is Really Good". overall i give this album a
I’ve never been more excited for a Brad video
Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall is the textbook definition of ‘missing the point’
19:20 the Mr. Krabs quietly playing in the background fucking kills me everytime 😭😭😭😭
Someone tossed that Dan Olson quote out as a superchat and honestly, I've gone back and rewatched Dan's video about this like 4 or 5 times, it's a really great breakdown of just how utterly broken and wrong Doug's take is
I love how Brad read the quote aloud about how Doug isn’t interested in how other people think or feel, and before he could say anything, “We need more victimization” started playing as if on cue.
This is one of those albums where sometimes i for real can’t tell if a noise im hearing is from brads soundboard or if its actually a part of the music
glad i have a way to hear this with commentary now, cause no way would i listen to the original on its own
Besides the horrendous lyrics and vocals... the instrumentals are still great because it's Pink Floyd's THE WALL. Brad, you gotta hear The Wall, it's worth your time
This is why they let Todd in the shadows handle music criticism for channel awesome instead of Doug
Although Todd and Doug did do a crossover reviewing The Wiz.
For what it's worth, Doug himself as a person doesn't actually seem to be the type to go around claiming videos that criticize or make fun of his work, at least not to my knowledge (and plenty of people have had their go at him for a good while now). He at least seems to take criticism better than some other previous Channel Awesome members (Spoony or Linkara come to mind)
It's a shame what happened to Channel Awesome. It had some truly amazing creators, but aside from NC, they pretty much either left or went insane. Sad, really.
I haven’t watched all of Brad’s videos but every time I do, regardless of the quality of the song, he’s always smiling. When the guy is constantly in a state of cringe, disappointment and anger, you know it’s bad.
Honest to god, this makes me appreciate The Wall (the original one) far more than when I walked into this video
Honestly Im probably gonna re-listen to it tommorow lmao
Dan Olsen does a god tier take down of this album. So god tier i watch it once a month.
oh no... this again... I wish i could live in a timeline where this doesn't exists... I can't even joke about it
Truly the best album of all time
Truly the album
Truly
I love how someone did the lyrics for the first song and immediately gave up on the rest.
That first sentence in the first song just sent 2009 internet humour down my spine. Oof
I have never heard someone get an album less than Doug Walker gets The Wall. Like every criticism he makes just makes the original look better and better because he is just so wrong so much.
Edit: Corey Taylor has made some undeniably brilliant and important music, but he should be ashamed of himself for his involvement in this album. It is an affront to God.
"I have never heard someone get an album less than Doug Walker gets the wall."
I don't know, 90% of AJR haters give Doug a stiff competition.
I’ll give Corey a pass on a lot of stuff, not this.
@@jeremyusreevu237 AJRs music is bad from a technical and enjoyability standpoint. I'm not hating, you can enjoy it, but people have very valid reasons to dislike or hate on AJR and it's not because they don't get it. They're Walmart Twenty One Pilots
@@pankace3296 I'm not saying you can't dislike AJR, but like, I look at the AJR reviews of people like Mark from SpectrumPulse, Jon from ARTV, Crash Thompson, and Rocked, and they literally go out of their way to miss the point on every single song, analyzing the lyrics on the most surface level, basic way imaginable (Seriously, criticizing Dear Winter for Ryan not being concerned about what his wife would name the kid is like a Cinemasins level nitpick), and acting like their problems aren't real, and that they're "privileged" because they aren't like the worst thing ever.
@@jeremyusreevu237 Some people have pretty bad takes on their lyrics, but their lyrics are frankly infantile lol. They're not deep. If anything, my main criticism of a lot of their work is how fake-deep and disingenuous they are.
Absolutely LOVE the Doug Walker-esque thumbnail 😂
On one hand, Nostalgia Critic’s “The Wall” is, objectively, the worst. But on the other hand, had he never put out “The Wall,” we would have never been blessed by Folding Idea’s masterpiece of a takedown
i still don't understand all the sheer effort they went through to recreate the entire album and make a 40 minute youtube cringe epic when they had no jokes and two criticisms that were wrong.
That intro music you were listening to sounded insane. Gonna listen to it right away
The wall: a story about not confining to the system of war,
A love letter to his father, and the way education shapes and molds children into soldiers giving children trauma even through there adult lives 😢
NC the wall: yep lets make fun of this one and say IT'S AN OSCAR SONG in an album that is to loved?!
(I might be a fan of NC but this "review" of this made my blood boil and i almost left his channel after watching his "review") that has no facts and just felt like he didn't understand the album so instead of you know learning about it he just said its terrible because HE dont get it..
R.i.p to my great grandpa who told me his story of this album he died when i was 6-7 but i still remember this line "trauma doesnt have a number and pain can follow you at any age" he was a WW2 soldier 🪖 he died of ptsd..
And the fight with the main characters inner demons in the wall animated part by the end of the wall was amazing
About time Brad covered a good album 😤
Also Brad taste in thumbnails
How horrifyingly tone deaf to make a whole album mocking someone for ‘playing the victim’ when that album is full of songs about his dead father and getting beaten regularly as a child and how he coped by using drugs and isolating himself. Jesus.
Last week I legitimately fell asleep listening to Nostalgia Critic's The Wall
And remember, this was sold for money as a "love letter" to Pink Floyd.
The ULTRA rare TRIPLE soul steal 😱😱
He wrote this the same way Bart Baker wrote his song parodies where the lyrics are like "THIS SONG IS REALLY BAAAAAD". Not even creative
“HEY!!!! CRITIC!!!!! LEAVE THE WALL ALONE!!!!!”
Nostalgia critic seems to have the same opinion of this album that I did when I was the most insufferable eighteen-year-old that you've ever met
My guy needs to watch the video. That's were the real cringe is at.
I'd think brad would die watching that
Thank god brad put the monkey ball game play
I would have died halfway through this
she doug on my walker 'till i'm Spongebob Theme
Love it or hate it, you gotta admit he did the impossible: made something more cringe than "Melvin, Melvin, Brother of the Joker".
This feels like Velma if it were an album
To date, out of everything he's reviewed, this is the album Anthony Fantano hates the most.
Pink Floyd is one of my dad's favorite bands and there's probably a lot of sentimental value for him since his brother, who died very young, loved them. I love Pink Floyd a lot; they're not my favorite band of all time (that goes to AiC :3), but they also have sentimental value for me. Music can create powerful connections and the music makes me feel connected to him. And weirdly enough, connected to my late uncle. Keep in mind, he died around 20 years before I was born.
My point is, music is important to a lot of people; dealing with emotions, building connections, it can just mean a lot to someone. So with that being said, this parody genuinely makes me angry. It's not a love letter to one of the best concept albums ever made (like seriously, I'm obsessed with the storyline that plays out over the course of 80 minutes). It was made in bad faith; it's ass. There's no love in this, it's just mean spirited.
And I get it. Roger Waters *does* seem like a bit of a tool, that's normal for old guys in extremely popular bands. But this actually explores his trauma and the pain he went through; dealing with abusive school systems, just getting out of a war, dealing with the fear of another war being drilled into your head. It's rough now, I bet it was rough back then, too. And what does this guy do? Say it's victimization and say he needs to suck it up.
I don't care that this is old now, this "album" sucks ass and nostalgia critic doesn't have any critical thinking skills when it comes to analyzing media. Literally zero fucking reading comprehension, just making the easiest digs he can with no substance whatsoever. This album is the cinemasins of music.
I'm gonna go listen to the real thing again and maybe I'll forget this exists lmao. If there's a silver-lining, it's that listening to this makes me appreciate The Wall for the work of art that it is. Imagine making such an iconic album only for some nerd on the internet to ruin everything that made it work 40 years later.
As Anthony Fantano said, "We don't need this lame-ass album".
i thought some parts of the album were soundbites i'd never heard before lol
it's about time brad reviews one of the greatest cover albums of all time
This album's the whole reason why Pink built the wall.
It feels like this has been out for a decade not only 4 years.
Also if this is really your first exposure to the wall thats sad
“All in all it’s just a, monkey inside a ball”
Bradley does not mess with The Sawtooth Grin‼️❓
It's like if your 45 year uncle made an album after watching too much doug walker.
13:47
dude really thought that making a """parody""" of a sad and beautiful song about the horrors of fascism and WW2 (which the band members went through, they were literally kids during WW2 and two of them lost their fathers to the war) calling it "oscar bait" was a good idea
That monkey ball gameplay actually helped a lot
Uncomfortably Doug.
I think that SpongeBob thing at the end is the most fun had across the whole record. In, like, 30 seconds.