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I think I can easily say the worst album of this year—or any year—is #TheWall. Not by @PinkFloyd, of course, because I hear that's actually a very good album (and a very good picture), but by the Nostalgia Critic, or, as everybody knows him now, the ever-troubled Doug Walker.
It was so bad that @YouTube CEO @SusanWojcicki just had to cue up ads for such advertisers as @TheConnersABC and @CoxComm. I didn't even bother to skip these ads, nor did I feel the urge to do so, because, unlike Doug Walker's The Wall, they were actually creative and inventive.
On the other hand, the video, for which he went as far as putting out a soundtrack album, is just him tacking his own way-too-cynical criticisms of the picture into the pre-existing instrumentals and visuals from the picture that was adapted from the two-record set . . .
. . . to the point where I want to see how many of you can hear @RogerWaters' not-quite-erased vocals in the background. Of course, speaking of the soundtrack album, he managed to plug it in the review as well, and I am tempted not to buy it in favor of the real @PinkFloyd album.
At least a lot of the people who sing in the review have very good voices. That's not saying much. The only other good thing about it is that we get to hear the C.A. gang sing @SpongeBob's theme at the end. These are virtually the only two praises I can extoll about the video.
The rest of the is so bad that, since I collect VHS tapes, I am tempted to get the Domo Video VHS of the film, from Italy, which was shown in this video. And the reason why I am tempted to get that tape is because that way it can have much better things to be remembered for.
The parody lyrics, to such songs as "Comfortably Numb" and "Another Brick in the Wall", are some of the least inspired that I have ever heard in my entire life. They were written by @RobScallon, who I am tempted to feel sorry for because it sounds like he wrote them at gunpoint.
The visuals are also very lacking and ill-conceived in comparison to the picture, even though they are CGI-animated instead of hand-drawn. It's fine that a guy named Doug Walker doesn't care for that picture. After all, not everyone praised it when it came out.
But Siskel and Ebert didn't waste thirty-nine minutes of valuable television time panning another 1982 musical, #TheBestLittleWhorehouseinTexas, nor did they set their criticisms to the melodies of the songs from that musical, a adaptation of the Broadway show of that name . . .
. . . which starred @DollyParton and the late Burt Reynolds, nor did they put the results on a record album. Instead, Siskel and Ebert kept their review of the film, on @PBS' #SneakPreviews, at seven minutes and did not sing ANYTHING during its duration.
In fact, to the best of my knowledge, Siskel and Ebert never put out ANY albums together. And watching the Nostalgia Critic's review of #TheWall gives us a good idea of why the late Chicago-based critics didn't do so.
[This review was revised due to a grammatical error in the original version, which can be seen at this link.] threadreaderapp.com/thread/1178235…
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