"Nostalgia Critic’s, The Wall." - proclaimed everybody.

That rant about Doug Walker... I think that hits on the real reason why I lapsed on the NC after all these years. People love to complain about how he goes after plotholes in the stuff he reviews, but I've always felt that was never the problem. The real problem was that Doug came to believe his own hype. He believed that he was the best in the business, that his opinion mattered more than anyone else's, including his audience's opinion. He grew to believe he was better than us. It's the same problem CinemaSins has too: they're so hate-fuckingly arrogant that it makes it impossible to enjoy their work anymore (and I was never all that down on CinemaSins in the first place). They really are just Pitchfork Media in a smaller package.

Now I fully understand why you had to kill The Rock Critic. It sounds too eerily similar to a Critic that no one wants to associate with anymore. Thus, you had to kill the last remaining reminder of that critic and become reborn and forge a new identity; one...that you can fully call your own: *Crash Thompson* 👏

Poor Corey Taylor for being associated with NC's The Wall. At least he still has a career after it

It really is a shame that Rob Scallon was involved with Nostalgia Critic’s atrocity.

Scott Stapp? More like Scott STAHP

I’m really pissed that Rob Scallon was on NC’sTW. Rob is really good, and even he knows how shit this is. He’s never mentioned it on his channel.

When someone pisses off an English major:

This was the best roast of Doug Walker I’ve heard so far. It’s what he deserves. Also, shame on Corey Taylor for contributing on that audio bile of a record.

Timestamps, for those who want them! Dishonorable Mentions: 0:40 #10 - 6:55 #9 - 10:16 #8 - 12:08 #7 - 14:32 #6 - 17:00 #5 - 19:54 #4 - 23:18 #3 - 25:57 #2 - 28:29 #1 Leadup - 32:10 #1 - 34:28

Rivers is a walking meme. More Hu-meme than Hu-man.

That speech at the end was simply beautiful, Shakespearian even. And as a fellow jaded Nostalgia Critic fan, it was extremely cathartic to hear.

Crash looking like he's trying hard not to sing: "Nobody likes you, everyone left you, they're all out without you having fun" while criticizing Doug Walker.

My favorite part was at 20:50

The guy from Attila may be a sad old man. But do you know who else is a sad old man? Doug Walker.

That speech about Doug was simply glorious and, honestly, highly necessary. Like you, I am incredibly thankful for never having associated with him and that it was the right decision to stop watching him years ago.

Nostalgia critics the wall is a definite pick.

"Skillet's music is so watered down, Jesus could turn it into wine" might be the most savage thing i've heard...

Crash instantly became The Judge in The Trial

Papa Roach: Who do you trust? Me: NOT YOU

Nostalgia Critic really is a real life version of his show Demo Reels.

Someone finally recognising how bad Okilly Dokilly is. They don't even bother to write more than just the one reference. They're no Austrian Death Machine.

Crash, the last ten minutes of this video are the greatest review of an album I've ever seen

I was NOT expecting NC’s The Wall, probably because I didn’t see it as a rock album

Crash...your bashing of Nostalgia critic’s The Wall...we all salute you. Thank you.

Even my friend who's an attila fan couldn't defend villain. Now when you have a 15 year old kid who wants to listen too your music that thinks you stink, that's just sad

I'm going to assume that Puddle of Mudd and AJR are gonna top the list.

That's why NC did that "review" of The Wall. With his website's collapse, he's built a wall around himself to isolate himself now that he realizes everyone has completely turned on him.

AJR is rock music for people who have never listened to rock music

You know, another band who seem to have become a victim of the Imagine Dragon: Highly Suspect, a band whose first two albums were intense, biting, and hard-as-heck rock. And then this past year, MCID came out, and they became more of an electro-pop type act where the lead guy tries rapping on several tracks? There are a few solid songs on there, namely Canals and Upperdrugs, but it's nothing like the Highly Suspect I first got into.

As an A Day To Remember fan, I’m honestly scared that they’re gonna make the list next year

As a former fan of Doug Walker and Channel Awesome, your monologue I think hits the nail on the head. Walker wasn't even trying in the video, his performance and critique were almost vehemently bad with the exception of taking pot-shots at the people who felt betrayed or outraged by the things detailed in the Change the Channel doc. I think part of him recognizes that he's become a puppet held up by his brother and Mike Michaud, the CEO of CA, but he literally can't do anything and probably wouldn't if he could because - like you said - everyone outside of his in-group who criticizes him is an enemy. He wanted to make sketch comedy but has resigned to playing this character who I think he hates and I think that's very sad. But after all he did to the people who worked with him and trusted him, he deserves it.

NC's The Wall, both the album and the review itself, were a long time coming. They both stand as the apotheosis Doug's own hubris as it currently stands. The way he talks about The Wall is infuriating, not just that he obviously doesn't get it, but he thinks it's so beneath him that he doesn't have to get it. I don't even like The Wall in the first place, but I at least feel like I understand it. Doug calls The Wall pretentious and up it's own ass, and yet he's the one went out of his way to make an entire album and musical review criticizing it, and terribly at that. And that's not to mention his reviews for Moulin Rouge, Les Miserables, his reenacted reviews, and the entirety of To Boldly Flee. Then there's the Change The Channel controversy, in which Doug was rightfully called out for all of the shitty things he did to his former employees, and yet he has the audacity to make an entire forty minute video lashing out against all of the criticism and bile he justifiably received. Doug needs to get a fucking reality check and learn that he is not above scrutiny, especially when he has negatively affected so many people.

Not gonna lie, when it came to #1 and you decided to go out of character for that bit I had a strong feeling it was gonna be Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall. Hell, I myself finally decided to leave NC for good in 2019.

Now I understand why you gave up the Rock Critic. I thought the name had a lot of value, but in context it makes a lot of sense that it doesn't. Your best videos as the critic were the ones that took the formulas in a positive direction (top 10 BEST nu metal bands, giving Into the Unknown and One Hot Minute fair hearings). "How to get into" is a format that more critics should do - at the end of the day it's about helping people find something special for themselves. Even your takedowns of bad songs and albums were very far from intellectually lazy and dismissive. Gratitude and compassion are the way forward and you embody that while still being an effective and useful critic. And you keep on growing instead of doubling down on mistakes. We all want to build the wall sometimes - good on you for building something better instead. Rock isn't dead, but it's less popular - it may be going the way of jazz and its best days are ahead of it (stole that from another video - David Bennett Piano is a good channel if you haven't seen it). If that's the way it goes, you have the right mix of appreciation and understanding to shepherd people into finding truly great experiences through rock music. Thank you for everything you do.

I’m sensing Papa Roach’s, “Who Do You Trust”, will be a contender for this list.

That speech had as much drive, pathos, and soul behind it as Charlie Chaplin's speech at the end of Great Dictator. That was amazing and so very cathartic.

Doug's wall album was so bad it made a guy change his name

You know what I find funny about Papa Roach's album? Not even two months later, Mark Morton (Lamb of God's guitarist) released an album with a song featuring Jacoby Shaddix that is LOADS better than the Papa Roach album.

Doug Walker pissing away almost ten years of good will in a short amount of time is astounding. I would say it will go in the internet history books, but no one wants to give him that much credit or even remember him.

People: Charlie Chaplin gave the greatest speech of all time Crash: 34:28

Wow 😯 that speech at the end.... truly left me speechless, it’s scary what fame and the internet can do to somebody....

I wasn't surprised that Papa Roach got swallowed by the Imagine Dragon, because all they've really been is a band that chases trends.

As a middle finger to Doug Walker, someone should do a rock opera themed around the former TGWTG/Channel Awesome members rebelling against the Nostalgia Critic, or something like that.

Crwsh, you are way more humble than Doug could ever be. You don't have half his ego.

Honestly if Weezer wanted to keep fans on their side for the Black Album they should’ve just released High as a Kite as the lead single. It’s the best and least objectionable single of them all.

The things you said about Doug's wall that he's been building, I agree. I've been there, and I destroyed that wall before it got to high. He needs to try to make amends for his actions.

Oh woah that Weezer dig... that cut deep Crash that cut deep

Anybody else with me that Doug Walker is like the worst traits of Adam Levine and Chris Fronzak mixed together? For reasoning, he's like Adam because he let his ego and fame overtake him, and he's like Fronz because he's unreceptive towards criticism and every single negative thing that's ever been said about him.

There's even evidence of his friends abandoning him. One of James Rolfe's associates said that he was reportedly cutting ties with Doug Walker. Now, this may be fake, but if James, Mike, or Kyle ever confirms it, would we be so surprised? No. Because at least when James Rolfe screwed up, he admitted to it, and when presented with something controversial, he doesn't ever take the low road, he just says that everyone has said everything about stuff like Ghostbusters, the Irate Gamer, and many other things he's involved with, and asks why he needs to say anything about it. Doug Walker doesn't admit that he screwed up, respond nicely to the controversy surrounding himself, and, most of all, he's unprofessional, to the point that it's inevitable that Channel Awesome is gonna die off, and get bought out by another company, possibly Cinemassacre or some other internet company, and they will hopefully restrain the Walkers a little bit, take the Nostalgia Critic IP from Mike Michaud, and even fire Michaud for the crimes he has committed. A downside is by then Mike Mattai and James Rolfe would be put in charge. Not saying they're bad, but they'd have a big mess to deal with if they buy CA, they would have to prove to KZfaq that they're nothing like them, and make a public apology for those negatively affected by the old company, like, getting dehydrated while filming, turning a previously respected guy (Justin Carmichael) into a sexual predator, allowing people like the two evil Mikes, Michaud and Ellis, while letting go Bhargav who was at least trying to be professional, and, hating on crowdfunding while doing the exact same thing they're doing, very poorly mind you. And, how will they attract new people to join the MCN after souring relations with the older ones? These are questions I have to ask because, if none of this happens, then, Channel Awesome will be forgotten about completely and the Walker Bros. will never be taken seriously again.

In Doug’s case, he lived long enough to become the villain.

"A change is coming, you best be ready for it." - Mavis Staples from "Let Me Out" by Gorillaz

Pretty sure Hollywood Vampires is entirely for my mother.

Wait...Buckcherry released an album in 2019? Damn, shows how much I care about them.

I think it says a whole lot that NC's The Wall video has some 50k less views than Fantano's video about how bad it is. And it's deserved too.

Themes for worst albums each year: 2014: Sociopathic idiot albums 2017: What are you doing to your sound?!(And Imagine Dragons becoming a genre) 2018: Albums that stood out for all the wrong reasons, and even the best of bands phoning it in. 2019: Who are these albums for?

So you're saying that, since the Creed days, Scott Stapp's voice has... Weathered... a good bit?

Crash Thompson, listened to and watched an awful "album" and review so we didn't have to. See what I did there?

Holy shit. You completely tore apart Doug Walker. I don't think I've ever heard you be that angry before. Good. That "album" deserved everything you said and more. It's one thing to make a bad album. It's an entirely other thing to take a great album and make it vile.

That ending was POWERFUL

Rivers Cuomo wanted to make a dark album following his own vision, but fails at it? Rivers Cuomo is me? Also, the cover of Who Do You Trust is gorgeous. I want to swim in that sea so badly~

You know you’re in serious trouble when your record gets a “0” from Crash.

You deserve an award for that trashing of NC's disgrace of an "album". And as for NC himself, after that album, he just needs to fade away and classify himself as OBSOLETE!

I tried to listen to Dougs album out of sheer curiosity. About 10 minutes in I thought to myself, wtf am I doing? Then turned it off and forgot about it.

25:32 “I want a Percocet! *pout*” best description of Cokie the Clown

32:00 for the part you're coming back to rewatch.

WOW!....I can't believe I've only JUST come across your tearing apart of Doug's hateful abomination! I've recently been going through a phase of revisiting all of the hilarious reaction videos to his perversion of The Wall, and it suddenly ocurred to me....I wonder why I haven't seen Crash's response to it! I looked up Fantano's worst of 2019 first (knowing it would be there without a doubt), then your own worst list appeared and I had to see what you had to say, and you know something.....holy crap, a tear was nearly brought to my eye by how clear you made it! Doug's been building his own wall this whole time! At first, I figured he hated The Wall so much because he maybe once had a girlfriend who loved it (and dumped him), or some other personal situation where someone was giving Pink Floyd more attention than they were giving him. That sort of thing, to me, seemed to be at the heart of it. Something deeply painful. Especially his bitter, fucked up take on Goodbye Blue Sky. Military brat, was he? That seems to speak to a lot. Maybe Daddy told him at a tender age to Quit Whining! - there are bigger problems in the world than YOURS!...This may be a stretch, but why otherwise put such an extreme, unreasonable thrashing on a song that anyone can see (if you watch the video), with no prior knowledge of what the song or the album are about, is about the horrors of war. Oscar bait? I mean, that came out of left field. What, is he pissed off that an Oscar is something he'll never get, himself? This venom all just smacks of something closer to home - JUST as you said. Well done, man. I wish someone would clip this part out of your video and dedicate it as its own reaction video. It deserves the attention, and I think most would agree with your take on the way Doug's been digging his own grave.

I still come back just to hear that rant about Walker. Glorious.

probably one of the few times in ANY of the reviews of Doug Walker's shitty Wall cover that people mentioned how the "Run Like Hell/Waiting for the Worms" bit is just him bitching about Change the Channel

NC’s cover of the wall is just another reason why TGWTG shouldve been shut the fuck down after the Change the Channel scandal

This is the single best take down of Doug

Ngl that Weezer statement was a bit harsh but reasonable, although I'm excited for Van Weezer based on the one pretty good single

I found my self doing a slow clap by the end of this video over that review of the #1. Like...Holy crap, Crash! That was inspirational.

Oh lord that number one pick was savage

Man, is it just me, or does anyone else find it really hard to go back and enjoy NC episodes after these past couple years? Even ones I used to like. I try to separate the art from the artist when I can, but NC's videos and personality just feel so annoying to me now.

Might as well post my list Dishonorable Mentions: Switchfoot- Native Tongues. Korn- The Nothing. Mac DeMarco- Here Comes the Cowboy. Starset- Divisions. Black Star Riders- Another State of Grace. 15- Avril Lavigne- Head Above Water. 14-Nemesea- White Flag. 12-Nine Shrines- Retribution Therapy. 11-Puddle of Mudd- Welcome to Galvania. 10-311- Voyager. 9-A Broken Silence- Soul. 8- Highly Suspect- MCID. 7-Third Eye Blind- Screamer. 6-Papa Roach- Who Do You Trust. 5-To the Rats and Wolves- Cheap Love. 4-Chase Atlantic- Phases. 3-Being As an Ocean- PROXY. An A.N.I.M.O Story. 2-King 810-Suicide King 1-AJR- Neotheater.

I remember the days when i loved every single album from Switchfoot. Now, we're lucky if we get a single song like "Take My Fire" on each album, with most of the album leaving me thoroughly unimpressed. I'm disappointed to know we may never get another NWTBH, LTB, Beautiful Letdown, NIS, Gravity, Hurricane, or Verses again.

I love the tearing down of Doug's horrid atrocity that was his parody of The Wall. Thank you, Crash. That was cathartic.

In an ideal world, Weezer would be having a razor fight in a pit with the Dave Matthews Band to determine the most boring fucking band on the planet.

I been giving channel awesome a chance even after the controversy just so I could be reminded of the disneycembers and the commercial episodes,even if some of the more recent videos weren't the best, I still stuck with him. After I saw the wall "review" however I basically said FUCK IT. that was the final straw. Even though I dont think the wall has many flaws, I would've like to seen him give a different viewpoint of the album/movie, but it rarely even tried to do so and just came off more as complaining. I'll give Scallon that he is a good musician, but there's little he can do when he basically given around 26 songs that already exist and have to make sure they don't get copyright claimed for it. And Corey taylor... well at least we have WANYK from him.

Anyone else totally not realize Crash is 34 until this video? 😂

Holy fuck, Okilly Dokilly has to be one most painfully gimmicky bands ever. That first album just sucked every single drop of life from me, and that second album wasn't much better.

Puddle of Mudd, AJR, Weezer, and Papa Roach are likely going to be on here.

Out of all the videos and retrospectives that have come out on Doug Walker in recent times, I have you say. Your speech on him was hands down the best. Doug 's creative down spiral these past few years has been one of the most stunning cautionary tales of the decade about fame and ego and that is saying a lot. While I do believe he startled off a good and humble guy who just wanted to have fun riffing on movies, over the years he really has brought into his own hype and vision to the point where it has become unhealthy and self-destructive. So many people have suffered as a result of his choices, but the one person he is hurting the most is himself. He has to live with every terrible thing he's done or is complicate with for the rest of his life. He has to live knowing that he cannot do anything else with his online platform except Nostalgic Critic which has shown no sign of evolution since 2013. He has to keep going on pretending that none of this is happening and enjoy his tiny corner of the internet, oblivious of the damage he's left in his path. And how is he going to do that, by building a wall so tall and thick that even Roger Waters would be impressed. Maybe one day he will wake up and realize all the harm's he caused, but I'll doubt it. But if it does happen, well I hope he'll be ready for the biggest reckoning of his life.

if you scramble up the letters in imagine dragons you get.... ...migraine gonads fits them perfectly

Hey KZfaq, this is how you recommend shit, subscribed after one vid, didn't even know half these albums (Thankfully) and had good stoned laugh. Subscribed and also thank you for ripping Doug a new ass again, it seriously only gets better the more people roast him on considering he still hasn't spoke on it.

That ending was... um... wow. I can't think of anything to say about it. I think you put into the best words why I stopped watching the "old guard" of youtube. They just became old people, hating to hate, wondering why the world turned without them. I feel the same thing happened to AVGN, though those guys had nowhere near the infamous fall of Doug Walker. Good on you, Crash. Good on you for running in the opposite direction.

DISCLAIMER POINTS: 1) I HATED Doug's review of The Wall. Not because I disagreed with it (although I don't AGREE with it), but because it was SO FREAKING BIZARRE!! Went WAY off the rails and left me scratching my head. 2) I have currently NOT watched The Wall (snippets and one short form music video), so I CAN'T speak on the creativity that went into it (But EVERYBODY I know who has seen it speaks HIGHLY of it!) Now that I've gotten THAT out of the way, I'd just like to remind everybody that Doug actually LIKED The Wall. He even said so near the end of his "review". But, yeah, he should've known better...

Cokie the Clown is a great album; raw, tragic, gut wrenching and painfully honest. I don't think it's meant to be funny at all. Mike's cleaning out his closet and being more real than most will ever dare to be. It's definitely not an easy listen but it's one of my favourite of the year so I had to defend it.

Damn dude... I think you're right about how The Wall relates to Doug Walker... did he manage to make The Wall more beautiful by becoming an example of it?

37:34 Doug Walker: (chuckes) “I’m in danger!”

That Doug Walker rant left me in awe and cemented you as one of the best channels on KZfaq. Crash, you are absolutely, without a doubt, inspirational.

Hands down, one of the biggest disappointments of the year was Highly Suspect's new album MCID, I know based off the title, this was a dedication to their fans, but this was just a giant sellout with vacant electronic elements and guest rapping and it tanked in the process so they don't even have that. What makes it even worse was that The Boy Who Died Wolf was one of my favorite albums of 2016, I just listened to it again last night and it's just as good as I remember it, and MCID doesn't have a drop of the quality TBWDW had. Oooofff, just, just ooofff

If Doug saw that speech at #1 he'd probably have a stroke. I watch a lot of Channel Awesome refugees, like Todd in the Shadows and the Rap Critic, and after they severed their ties to that megalomaniac, my stress levels dropped dramatically. It's such a relief knowing I'm not giving Michaud and the Walkers any money anymore. Michaud is a monster, Doug is an angry puppet, and Rob is right in between. A part of me wonders what would've happened if Doug hadn't signed the rights to the Nostalgia Critic character to Michaud. Maybe he could've left, could've been redeemed, could've become entertaining again. But no. Instead, his own toxicity was exacerbated and corrupted by his corporate overlords to the point where he's simply a figurehead, a puppet for the real rulers. Doug Walker is a broken man, one whose ambitions and megalomania became so intertwined they became indistinguishable. A man whose vile visions and lust for the rich man's gold blinded him to the truth that he was being used. A man who no longer exists, who has become a mangled, empty husk of what he once was. Channel's been changed. Nobody still wants to be anywhere near him. He's crossed the event horizon, and now there's nothing he can do to save himself. You know, Crash, rock music isn't my genre, but your videos are so enjoyable it doesn't matter. Subbed.

It’s that time of year yess! Let’s flush this shit down the drain.

It really must be a slow year for bad albums when Okilly Dokilly makes the same list as Doug Walker. I've never listened to a full OKDK album beyond a couple songs, since they're a one-trick pony joke band with no lyrical variation than straight-up quoting Ned Flanders, but to share a space with something as mean spirited and hateful as Doug says a lot about how good this year was for music! Have you heard of Raised by Owls? They are a grindcore band with songs based around British humour. Quite recommend them.

Is the Nostalgia Critic going to build his wall on the US-Mexican border?

I've always viewed Skillet as one of those bands I always see on anime music videos, something that isn't particularly deep or impactful, but fun to listen to. And while Victorious is the band's weakest album, there are a couple tracks I did like. Same for Thousand Foot Krutch, they're cheesy but fun to listen to on occasion. Also Nostalgia Critic's The Wall sucks. Doug Walker really hit rock bottom with this one.

Lemme guess... Number one is Ned Chricton's The Line, isn't it? EDIT: Called It! Complete with an epic speech and decision to retire the "Rock Critic" branding because Doug is such a maniac!

33:33. Personal time stamp for shit getting real.