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CaligulaKangaroo posted:I did a search for "Cinema Snob God's Not Dead" on YouTube, and this was one of things it pulled up: I'm hesitant to watch this because the idea of a Christian version of the Nostalgia Critic is too  for me.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Angry Joe could have been the Buddy Holly of Internet Reviewers. Dunno, wouldn't AVGN and the Nostalgia Critic have had to have been on the same plane? Equeen posted:I'm hesitant to watch this because the idea of a Christian version of the Nostalgia Critic is too I remember scripture so YOU don't have to!
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A good poster posted:Where'd the joke about calling the Redlettermedia people "hack frauds" in the comments of their videos come from? Usually in their ads for merch, new commentary tracks, or upcoming projects either Plinkett with refer to Mike, Jay, and Rich as "hack frauds", or they'll just flat out refer to themselves as that. It's just RLM fans beating a dead horse into paste at this point.
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boom boom boom posted:Space Cop on blu ray is now available for order That movie is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuck (according to some rando a dozen pages back)
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Equeen posted:I'm hesitant to watch this because the idea of a Christian version of the Nostalgia Critic is too Honestly? Better than Doug.
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Jan 13, 2016 05:38
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Todd's worst list is up for Patreons. #1 is Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor. This is the first year where I've actually been more excited to see the best-of list.
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Celery Face posted:Todd's worst list is up for Patreons. #1 is Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor. As God intended. I heard like two lines of that song and thought "worst of the year and probably several years to come."
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Celery Face posted:Todd's worst list is up for Patreons. #1 is Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor. Yes.
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Wow that Christian Nostalgia Critic guy is....actually not terrible. That's legitimately shocking, he's actually pretty level headed in the video, I was expecting him to be mega conservative.Jay O posted:As God intended. I heard like two lines of that song and thought "worst of the year and probably several years to come." It's such a....weird song. Like aside from the awful lyrics, the cadence and beat are so out of sync with what the song is meant to be. OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Usually in their ads for merch, new commentary tracks, or upcoming projects either Plinkett with refer to Mike, Jay, and Rich as "hack frauds", or they'll just flat out refer to themselves as that. It's just RLM fans beating a dead horse into paste at this point. I think they've also made some off-handed comments now and then about how "the people in the comments are gonna call us hack frauds" and stuff like that
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Yeah, I've already seen Todd's list. The songs I most agree with are 'Only', 'Dear Future Husband' and 'Marvin Gaye'. If you guys want to listen to a Nicki Minaj song featuring Drake and Li'l Wayne that isn't complete garbage, 'Truffle Butter' says hi. I honestly think 'Marvin Gaye' might be worse than 'Afternoon Delight'. At least Bill Danoff and company didn't besmirch the names of any deceased soul legends! Also, it got to #1 in the UK. I can't remember if I've mentioned that here, but I may as well remind people of that fact, because WTF, Britain. 'Common People' didn't get to #1 but this garbage did? Eurgh.
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ZakAce posted:I honestly think 'Marvin Gaye' might be worse than 'Afternoon Delight'. At least Bill Danoff and company didn't besmirch the names of any deceased soul legends! There was no such thing as online streaming in 1995.  Anyway, I like Meghan Trainor well enough, but Charlie Puth? He doesn't have soul. I'm pretty sure Michael Bolton has more soul than him. Mick Hucknall probably has more soul than Charlie Puth. How can you pay tribute to a soul singer if your song's all sexless and gutless and just not soulful at all? It's a bit like Pat Boone covering Little Richard.
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ZakAce posted:Yeah, I've already seen Todd's list. The songs I most agree with are 'Only', 'Dear Future Husband' and 'Marvin Gaye'. 'Marvin Gaye' is worse than 'Afternoon Delight' for the sole reason that the statement "'Marvin Gaye' is worse than 'Afternoon Delight'" can now exist without a hint of irony or contrariness.
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Part 2 was blocked by WMG before I could watch it. 
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ninjahedgehog posted:Part 2 was blocked by WMG before I could watch it. It's on his vimeo channel. Check his twitter.
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Mad Lupine posted:It's on his vimeo channel. Check his twitter. 
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Why does lovely pop acts keep remixing the truly great "Hermetico" by the Balkan Beat Box . Its a good tune, it deserve better then the abuse it suffered by jason derulo and whatever girl band put it through this year.
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"Marvin Gaye" makes me glad I've not listened to mainstream pop music in years, because Todd's video is the first I've ever heard of it.
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Holy Jebus, that Marvin Gaye song was incredibly terrible. Well, we now have a new definition for "the whitest thing ever", I suppose. Some of the songs I didn't think were *that* bad. The Taylor Swift song didn't make my skin crawl - and for me, skincrawlingness is a higher criteria for a worst list than banality. Girl Crush was dirge like and terrible in every way (I suppose if you were really overthinking it you could assume that she's *trying* to justify her feelings for that lady as some warped heterosexual thing, when in fact it's just gay). I feel like it needed to be higher on the list.
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I will never understand Todd's love of Nikki Minaj. Her voice is just plain irritating.
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I actually don't think Marvin Gaye is a bad song. It's pretty good and catchy, but what drags me about it is that it could be appropriative of a black musician for...Infamous Sphere posted:"the whitest thing ever" ...that. Mokinokaro posted:I will never understand Todd's love of Nikki Minaj. Her voice is just plain irritating. She's an acquired taste.
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WickedHate posted:I actually don't think Marvin Gaye is a bad song. It's pretty good and catchy, Obviously that's going to be a matter of individual taste, but my problem is that it's ostensibly paying tribute to a soul singer while being completely and utterly soulless. It's lazily written too, which makes it worse than any of Michael Bolton's soul covers, because whatever you think of the quality of the covers, you can't dispute the quality of the songwriting. In any case, I always go back to The Commitments, of all things, because it comes up with my favourite definition of a genre of music ever when it describes soul music: "It grabs you by the balls and lifts you above the shite." That's what you get, I think, when you listen to somebody like O. V. Wright or James Carr or Otis Redding or Tina Turner.
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I've listened to Marvin Gaye a couple of times since the Todd video, and I think when it comes down to it it has the same problem as most of Meghan Trainor's other songs (no idea about this Puth guy): it's pretty decent until you listen to it closely. The problem is basically that I could get the same experience listening to any random '50s doo-wop song and get the same experience with better lyrics (better is relative, doo-wop doesn't generally have amazing lyrics, but that's a step up from dumb and awful). To be fair, I think  was effectively that it's this deliberately lame white-bread '50s song about loving, but the writing wasn't anywhere near clever enough to sell it.
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Jsor posted:To be fair, I think 50s song parodies won't ever top the this video, aka the best song of any and all years.
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I think an example of a song that "sells it" is Paradise By the Dashboard Light which starts off sounding like something straight out of Grease and then goes off the rails from there, but it's still not quite the same thing.
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Hahaha I totally missed it, but Moviebob's last upload was him defending his weird "which characters should be amiibos" list in the most passive aggressive way. Also he should never turn to his side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt1-5VHctuI
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That Marvin Gaye video is super gross to me, mainly because nobody appears to have ANY sex appeal, so it just turns into a bunch of people mashing their flesh together mechanically. That and, as Todd points out, neither performer has any sex appeal. It's very much like watching a wholesome relative try to be sexy. It's OK, Megan Trainor, you don't HAVE to be sexy! You can be the twee one! You can stand out from the crowd that way! Please stop trying so hard, it's just making everyone uncomfortable.
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Jsor posted:I think an example of a song that "sells it" is Paradise By the Dashboard Light which starts off sounding like something straight out of Grease and then goes off the rails from there, but it's still not quite the same thing. The entire Bat Out of Hell album is partly a Phil Spector homage and partly a Bruce Springsteen / Pete Townshend parody. For instance, the opening monologue of "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" (the "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?" bit) is an homage to the spoken word parts you had in all the teen idol hits from the post-Elvis, pre-Beatles era where Phil Spector had his heyday (i.e. 1960-1964), then it has the "kick kick-kick snare" Hal Blaine drum part made famous in "Be My Baby". The song "Bat Out of Hell" itself is a cross between "Thunder Road" and old teenage snuff ballads like "Tell Laura I Love Her". "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" is a direct reference to Elvis Presley's version of "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You". To be quite honest, I genuinely can't imagine it as having worked with any singer other than Meat Loaf. Maybe Bonnie Tyler or Roger Daltrey, but it's a narrow field. See also: An Innocent Man by Billy Joel.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The entire Bat Out of Hell album is partly a Phil Spector homage and partly a Bruce Springsteen / Pete Townshend parody. For instance, the opening monologue of "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" (the "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?" bit) is an homage to the spoken word parts you had in all the teen idol hits from the post-Elvis, pre-Beatles era where Phil Spector had his heyday (i.e. 1960-1964), then it has the "kick kick-kick snare" Hal Blaine drum part made famous in "Be My Baby". The song "Bat Out of Hell" itself is a cross between "Thunder Road" and old teenage snuff ballads like "Tell Laura I Love Her". "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" is a direct reference to Elvis Presley's version of "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You". I'd always wondered about the opening to "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth".
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I don't get how Todd, who's listened to so much country music, missed that Girl Crush is a retread of Jolene, not a lesbian tease song.
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Mr. Fowl posted:I'd always wondered about the opening to "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth". I think the answer is that Jim Steinman is a pretty weird dude.
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So, Skallagrim is a bit of a different Internet Critic, in that he reviews swords and other melee weaponry, as well as discussing HEMA sparring and general historical military knowledge. Poor guy got swiped by a car while cycling to class.
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DStecks posted:I don't get how Todd, who's listened to so much country music, missed that Girl Crush is a retread of Jolene, not a lesbian tease song. sometimes Todd's interpretations of things absolutely baffles me. Like when he thought Dexy's Midnight Runners was a reference to people running around high on meth instead of drug runners.
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Alaois posted:sometimes Todd's interpretations of things absolutely baffles me. Like when he thought Dexy's Midnight Runners was a reference to people running around high on meth instead of drug runners. Wasn't Midnight RUnners a reference to like Moonshine runners?
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DStecks posted:I don't get how Todd, who's listened to so much country music, missed that Girl Crush is a retread of Jolene, not a lesbian tease song. Given the title, it's obviously meant to be mistaken for a lesbian tease song. It just uses the term in a completely incorrect way.
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DStecks posted:I don't get how Todd, who's listened to so much country music, missed that Girl Crush is a retread of Jolene, not a lesbian tease song. WTF, how does it have anything to do with Jolene? I don't see that connection at all, and I thought his interpretation (girl singing about wanting to BE the other girl her man-crush likes, using imagery that suggests she wants to instead gently caress said girl but bait-and-switch-tee-hee-no-homo) was completely accurate.
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Testekill posted:Wasn't Midnight RUnners a reference to like Moonshine runners? According to the Dexys Midnight Runners biography I read just after Christmas, the name emerged from a group brainstorming session: Kevin Rowland had brought "Dexys" to the table and it was indeed a reference for dexedrine, which was one of the most popular uppers on the northern soul scene at the time; "Midnight Runners" was suggested by their original drummer, John Jay, who left before they'd recorded their first album. I don't think there's an agreed-upon version of exactly what it means. I think it could very well refer to how dancers used cocktails of dexys, black bombers and weight loss pills to keep themselves moving all night.
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Archer666 posted:Hahaha I totally missed it, but Moviebob's last upload was him defending his weird "which characters should be amiibos" list in the most passive aggressive way. Also he should never turn to his side
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I'm happy to report that Marvin Gaye has replaced C'est la Vie by Bewitched as "song that will not leave my head"  Jay O posted:WTF, how does it have anything to do with Jolene? I don't see that connection at all, and I thought his interpretation (girl singing about wanting to BE the other girl her man-crush likes, using imagery that suggests she wants to instead gently caress said girl but bait-and-switch-tee-hee-no-homo) was completely accurate. There's some superficial similarities where in the first verse Dolly plays up how amazing and beautiful Jolene is, but that's about it.
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Keromaru5 posted:Speaking of which, every week I like to do the Matt Jones crossword, which is syndicated in my town's indie paper, and the latest one has a reference to MovieBob's "Pixels" review.  What was the clue/answer?
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