Todd In The Shadows

Is Todd In The Shadows a lolcow?

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James Rofl said:
I wouldn't mind requesting something for ohw or trainwreckords - i'd like to request a trainwreckord for Linkin Park, but $1000 is far too much imo.
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I don't think that'd be appropriate if it's One More Light, considering Bennington killed himself two months after the album's negative reviews and his reactions to them got to him. It'd be like pissing on his grave.
 
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I read a comment on his newest video that said something about this being a replacement for VH1's Popup Video, which was true. No one gives a shit about his milquetoast leftist politics or personality. We just want to find out interesting facts about bands who made a song or two we've heard of and forgotten about. When he sticks to it, his videos turn out decent or good, when he doesn't, it's unwatchable garbage.
 
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Idiot Asshole said:
As an example "Telstar" by the Tornados was a number one hit; the first ever by a British band, written by a homo who murder-suicided his landlady after being taken to court for plagiarism (which was thrown out) and was the first ever electronic music hit. Plus it was based on a satellite's launch over the backdrop over the Space Race. He could shit an episode about it easily in half a week, but I suppose he spends most of his spare time masturbating to photos of circa 2011 Lindsay and stabbing a specially commisioned dakimakura of her soyboy now-husband so it's too much to ask for.
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This would be a great one actually, he could include that one song, "Do you come here often?", Which features a spoken word bit featuring gay slang from the 60s spoken by two straight guys who hadn't a clue what any of it meant and that stuff about Joe meek talking to a possessed cat and his apparent prediction of buddy Holly's death a year before it happened. I think for the did they deserve better Telstars could go either way but Joe meek is kind of a yes imo soley because he died early in 1967 before the psychedelic stuff really started peaking and I think itd have been interesting to see him produce some of that stuff. /Sperg over
 
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Bonesjones said:
I read a comment on his newest video that said something about this being a replacement for VH1's Popup Video, which was true. No one gives a shit about his milquetoast leftist politics or personality. We just want to find out interesting facts about bands who made a song or two we've heard of and forgotten about. When he sticks to it, his videos turn out decent or good, when he doesn't, it's unwatchable garbage.
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TBH, I’d be down for a Pop Up Video revival or replacement. I’m just the kind of guy who just really likes learning about stuff.

Horace P. MacTittes said:
I don't think that'd be appropriate if it's One More Light, considering Bennington killed himself two months after the album's negative reviews and his reactions to them got to him. It'd be like pissing on his grave.
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There was also the fact that Chester killed himself on the anniversary of Chris Cornell taking his own life, which I heard he took REALLY hard and talked about it in the sense of losing his best friend. Hell I think he even said he couldn’t imagine a world without Chris in it.

I think Todd has even said that if an artist takes their own life, then there’s a good chance that the relevant work is ineligible.

TBH, I’d have to say if Linkin Park were to get the Trainwreckords treatment, it’d be this most recent album From Zero, if only because they have a new lead singer and this is their return from a lengthy hiatus.
 
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Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
Hell, the term "one-hit wonder" in general is already questionable and debatable, with a lot of music snobs arguing what constitutes a band to be classified as such. Some purists go by chart success, in which case they'll argue that regardless of how ubiquitous and financially successful a band is, they're technically a one-hit wonder simply for only having one Top 10 hit song. Because of this absurd argument, The Grateful Dead, Rage Against the Machine, and KISS are classified as one-hit wonders. Retarded, right?

Then you have people like Todd who get autistic and say, "Um, actually [insert artist] wasn't a one-hit wonder: they had a follow-up song that also charted!", such as Hanson, Rick Astley, and Paper Lace. The latter of which, Todd even acknowledged that they were a two-hit wonder in his video about The Night Chicago Died.

For me personally? I define a one-hit wonder as a band/artist who was unknown at first, then caught lightning in a bottle with a popular song (regardless if it charted), then would fail to recapture their initial success – ultimately being regarded as only creating that one song. In that sense, Modern English's Melt With You fits that description to a T – especially considering the song didn't initially chart. I sure as hell also don't consider Chumbawumba's Tubthumping to be in that category, because their follow-up song Amnesia got a fuck-ton of radio and MTV airplay back when I was young.
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Professor of Rock specifically avoids using the term "one hit wonder" and instead prefers "bottled lightning". Of all of Todd's videos that analyze one hit wonders/bottled lightning, I think the best representation would be Bobby Boris's Monster Mash song:
  1. Relatively unknown artist prior to his big hit
  2. Released a huge song that blew up on the charts
  3. Every subsequent followup song was either a failure or just a rehash of his big hit
  4. Spent his remaining years milking the success of his big hit, so much so that it became always commonly associated with him
Bobby will forever throughout history be known as "the Monster Mash guy", and nothing else.

In that respect, yes, referring to Grateful Dead as a "one hit wonder" is just plain stupid. Same with KISS: sure, they only had a small handful of songs that charted in the top 10, but their success came from concerts and albums, not hit singles. Hell, Metallica didn't even crack the Billboard charts until they released the Black Album, and their hit single (Enter Sandman) only ever reached #16. They never had a #1 hit. Meanwhile, Metallica is pretty much The Beatles of heavy metal and a household name for rock music in general.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
TBH, I’d be down for a Pop Up Video revival or replacement. I’m just the kind of guy who just really likes learning about stuff.


There was also the fact that Chester killed himself on the anniversary of Chris Cornell taking his own life, which I heard he took REALLY hard and talked about it in the sense of losing his best friend. Hell I think he even said he couldn’t imagine a world without Chris in it.

I think Todd has even said that if an artist takes their own life, then there’s a good chance that the relevant work is ineligible.

TBH, I’d have to say if Linkin Park were to get the Trainwreckords treatment, it’d be this most recent album From Zero, if only because they have a new lead singer and this is their return from a lengthy hiatus.
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Like hell it'd be From Zero, there's nothing wrong with the album, it was pretty good, Emily Armstrong wasn't bad, there's no way Todd is gonna pull the same cheating crap he did with Kid Rock's recent album. If anything, A Thousand Suns would be a better candidate because it divided the LP fanbase further than Minutes to Midnight did.
 
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Horace P. MacTittes said:
Like hell it'd be From Zero, there's nothing wrong with the album, it was pretty good, Emily Armstrong wasn't bad, there's no way Todd is gonna pull the same cheating crap he did with Kid Rock's recent album. If anything, A Thousand Suns would be a better candidate because it divided the LP fanbase further than Minutes to Midnight did.
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I’ll be honest, I haven’t really followed LP’s career as much as other bands and artists, but I will say that most talk about Linkin Park, it’s those first two albums. Also, Minutes to Midnight was pretty good and it had the end credits song for the first Michael Bay Transformers film.

Also, I have to wonder if Chester’s death just means the band will never be featured. Or if From Zero or some other future album with Emily will get a video on the grounds of Linkin Park being in “a new era as a different type of band” or being “the Star Wars sequel trilogy of modern music”. I’m sure Todd could find a way to justify it if he really wanted to.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
I’ll be honest, I haven’t really followed LP’s career as much as other bands and artists, but I will say that most talk about Linkin Park, it’s those first two albums. Also, Minutes to Midnight was pretty good and it had the end credits song for the first Michael Bay Transformers film.

Also, I have to wonder if Chester’s death just means the band will never be featured. Or if From Zero or some other future album with Emily will get a video on the grounds of Linkin Park being in “a new era as a different type of band” or being “the Star Wars sequel trilogy of modern music”. I’m sure Todd could find a way to justify it if he really wanted to.
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I love Minutes to Midnight because it was so different. Hybrid Theory hooked me, Meteora sucked me in, MtM made me love them, and a Thousand Suns killed them for me. Didn't listen to anything after that.

If Todd did ever do LP, he'd probably feel the need to address how he used to mock them. I remember a number of digs at them, especially Chester, in the early years, though nothing specific. He'd probably spend a few minutes self-flagellating over what an awful person he was to mock someone's mental health struggles.
 
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Arthur Morgan said:
I love Minutes to Midnight because it was so different. Hybrid Theory hooked me, Meteora sucked me in, MtM made me love them, and a Thousand Suns killed them for me. Didn't listen to anything after that.
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That was actually one of the last albums I ever bought before permanently sailing the high seas for music..

I actually hated it lol. It had like 2 good songs on it (and neither were that transformers song which, which was mid at best and overrated af.) All the other songs on that album sounded exactly the same.... Whiny, weak, and extra emo (even for Linkin Park.)
 
Any guesses for Best and Worst Lists? I'm guessing The Heart Part 6 being on the worst list I the Top 5 and Not Like Us being on the best list at number 1.
 
Ninon42 said:
Both Tipsy and Hot To Go must be in the top 10 or we riot. Todd will probably find them too basic, but dammit they are fun and catchy.
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Considering how Todd took down pop timism in his Not Like Us review, sounds like you may be disappointed.

Seriously, the whole “taking down music that’s just there to make money in favor of music that says something about the world, has a message, or takes the listener on a journey, or tells a story” just feels elitist and is off putting to me. Both can coexist, and both can do other than what the critics say they only do.

Sorry if I’m getting too fixated on this one Kendrick Lamar track. I just haven’t really disagreed with Todd so much on one song, in my opinion.
 
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