This is just a post to remind you to vote in the Song vs. Song poll, we are closing out 2021 with "Happier Than Ever" by Billie Eilish vs. "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo, please vote! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-happier-59742902
I was hoping to have the Worst List done by now, as always the lists are absolutely exhausting and my least favorite videos to make of the year. (Someday, wh...
2021-12-18 20:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“Real L year for J. Cole,” remarked a friend of mine at the end of 2020. (“L. Cole,” I texted back.) Naturally, it did not matter – J. Cole’s status as one of the premier lyricists alive was completely intact when he released his next album the year after, and his underwhelming tracks from 2020, “Snow on tha Bluff” and “Lion King on Ice,” were swept under the rug. Much like everything that happened that year, it already feels like a bizarre half-forgotten dream (oh man, re...
2021-12-01 00:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
/edit sorry about that, had to fix a tiny error. should work now
This one takes some odd turns. As always, catch any errors for me.
Oh, and of course vote in the Song vs. Song poll. We're doing Kris Kross's "Jump" vs. House of Pain's "Jump Around." https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-jump-vs-58567327
2021-11-19 01:57:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies, I forgot I hadn't posted this last month. You're getting a new one this month, don't worry
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If you want to get to know me, here’s a factoid that’s probably helpful: The riff from “Ziggy Stardust” is basically always playing in my head. If I sit down at my piano, there’s a decent chance that it’s the first thing that comes out of my hands. It’s such a perfectly circular riff; I don’t know what I mean by that but that’s the shape it feels like when ...
2021-11-02 23:29:56 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll! We're doing New Order's "Blue Monday" vs. Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence." https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-blue-vs-57943777
Secondly, as always, please tell me if I made any errors!
/edit apologies, I swear to God I fixed the couple glitches last night immediately but for some reason it didn't go through
/edit I'm g...
2021-11-01 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't forget to vote in the Song vs. Song poll. "Karma Chameleon" vs. "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-karma-57376072
If you caught any mistakes, let me know.
Enjoy.
2021-10-16 07:14:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, full disclosure, I'm taking the rest of the month off because I need a break. I was supposed to be taking the whole month off but I got bogged down and am now putting this episode out late. As always, let me know if you see any errors. This one's not going up right away for sponsorship reasons so enjoy!
Oh right and please vote in the Song vs. Song poll where we're doing "What's My Age Again" vs. "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" 2021-09-07 21:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Mutt Lange is, with Rick Rubin and Bob Rock the only others even in the conversation, probably the greatest hard rock producer who ever lived. Everything he touches sounds absolutely fantastic; every guitar crunches, every drum smashes. Back in Black alone would mark him as one of the greats, let alone his work on Foreigner’s 4 and every single second of Def Leppard’s good songs. He’s a notoriously reclusive man – even during his high-profile marriage to Shania Twain...
2021-08-30 01:19:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We've only just begun.
Anyway, please vote on Patreon for our poll on "Song vs. Song" where we're doing "Band on the Run" vs. "Mr. Blue Sky," you love it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-band-on-54899711
And please catch any errors
2021-08-18 07:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
There is basically no profit in defending “Space Jam”; trust me, I am fully aware of what a nostalgia-goggled idiot that makes me look like. For what it’s worth, I have no love for “Hook” and “Hocus Pocus,” a couple other beloved ‘90s-kid staples that I think are both pretty lousy. But fuck it, I’ll defend it anyway; I think people underrate just how much “Space Jam” (unlike its new sequel) is a perfectly functional kids’ sports movie with clear stakes, coherently anim...
2021-08-03 05:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post
All right, first off, hey everyone, check out the new poll! School is for fools, so help us decide what's the best anti-teacher song, "School's Out" by Alice Cooper or "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-schools-54278257
Anyway, here's a new song and whoo buddy, there's some shit going on here. If you see any mistakes, let me know.
In c...
2021-08-01 06:45:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't forget to vote in the poll! We've got a fish-eye lens battle, "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" by Busta Rhymes vs. "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" by Missy Elliott! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-woo-hah-53779298
Thanks and point out any mistakes if you see any!
2021-07-18 07:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies, I only just realized that I hadn't put up a Ramble On for June. This is last month's Patreon reward, this month's will (hopefully) still be on time.
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I had a surprising revelation last year that I was actually rooting for Imagine Dragons. I’m hardly alone in this – backlashes often get backlashes of their own, so at some point Dan Reynolds’s beleaguered band began garnering apologists for their bombastic millennial arena rock. I’m not one of them, I s...
2021-07-05 20:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll, especially because we're doing a big one, "Stairway to Heaven" vs. "Free Bird"! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-to-vs-52967841
As always, please point out if you saw any errors.
https://vimeo.com/569710415/c18d4dccc2
2021-07-01 06:23:23 +0000 UTC View Post
First off, as always, vote in the Song vs. Song poll where we have a late '70s art-pop showdown, Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" vs. Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights." https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-hill-vs-52457860
As always, let me know if you caught any errors!
2021-06-17 15:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“Matchbox Twenty Finally Finishes Watering Down Long-Awaited New Album,” read an Onion headline in 2004. That got a good laugh. I also used to read the articles posted on the Napster knockoff site Audiogalaxy; one of its writers, Will Sheff (also the leader of indie folk band Okkervil River) absolutely hated Rob Thomas and would dunk on him at every opportunity – “not fit to hold a real musician’s jock,” I remember him saying. Part of it was Rob’s weird, donkey-like vocal phrasi...
2021-06-01 08:09:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to bitch about "Bitch"!
As always, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll, this week we are doing "Runaway" by Kanye West vs. "Marvins Room" by Drake! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-runaway-51827171
And as always, if there's errors please inform me!
2021-05-31 15:37:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll! We are doing an early '00s club-banger battle, "Hot in Herre" vs. "In da Club" https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-hot-in-51338539
As always, if you saw any issues or errors, let me know
2021-05-17 05:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Celine Dion announces her arrival in the video for 1990’s “Where Does My Heart Beat Now,” her first American hit. She starts with her back to the camera, she dramatically turns around, the video turns from black-and-white to color as her face appears, she’s glowing (literally, because of the backlight). The drummer pounds his drums, the spotlight hits, the crowd cheers. It’s a striking moment if, like me, your overriding image of Celine is a woman old before her time – born ...
2021-05-01 04:48:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Regular service resumes! First off, the next Song vs. Song poll! Please vote on "Move Along" vs. "Ocean Avenue"! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-move-vs-50587472
As always, please let me know if you spotted any egregious errors! Or even tiny ones!
/edit The error at 20:31 has been fixed, if you want to know what i was trying to say there
2021-04-28 16:53:11 +0000 UTC View PostDon't forget to vote in the Song vs. Song poll! We are doing two '90s alternachick classics, so please vote on the Breeders' "Cannonball" vs. Veruca Salt's "Seether"! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-seether-50067679
Hey, Todd, don't you usually do this with the new video? Where's that? Yeah, about that. I have hit a rare creative snag after 11 years of doing these videos because I've g...
2021-04-20 23:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Quack quack, bitches.
As always, I need votes in the Song vs. Song Poll! "Teenage Dream" vs. "Poker Face" this week, so a big one. https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-teenage-49194257
And as always, please point out my numerous fuckups so I can fix them.
2021-04-01 05:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I first started getting into soccer in 2010. I was not really into sports at the time; I had watched various New York teams with my dad as a kid but I had grown out of it after leaving home. But I was jobless, just out of grad school and bored that day, and I remembered that the World Cup was happening so I flipped it on. That day I got to watch the defending champs Italy get bounced out in the first round by lowly Slovakia, and I started to fall in love. In 2012 I visited Ireland, and all th...
2021-03-31 21:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
You wanted it.
As always, if you notice anything, even the littlest thing that needs fixing, please let me know.
2021-03-21 06:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Normally, I ask for votes when I put up with the new episode, but these Trainwreckords episodes take forever, so I don't think it's gonna be up in time. It's gonna be great once it does! But in the meantime, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll. We are doing two Lilith Fair classics, Melissa Etheridge's "Come to My Window" and the Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine"! Please vote, and I swear, the next Trainwreckords is coming, and it'll come even quicker if you vote.
The video for “Falling in Love (Uh-Oh)” is credited to Gloria Estefan on YouTube, even though upon its release in 1986 it had been credited to the group Miami Sound Machine. In fact, all of Miami Sound Machine’s songs are now labeled that way on YouTube. It’s open to debate when the Sound Machine stopped being a real band, and whether they deserve the distinction from Gloria’s solo career; by 1990, bandleader Emilio Estefan had completely pushed out the original core of the group an...
2021-03-01 08:42:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't forget to vote in the new Song vs. Song poll! It's "Welcome to the Jungle" vs. "Enter Sandman," you all surely have strong opinions on that. https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-welcome-47965404
Also, as always, you catch any stupid errors, you let me know
2021-03-01 06:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hooray! A new episode! But before you watch it, please remember to vote in the poll. This week, we are arguing about art chick songs from 1993, please cast a vote between Bjork's "Human Behaviour" and Tori Amos's "Cornflake Girl"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-human-47425949
And as always, if you see any errors, lemme know
2021-02-18 08:27:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, the Biden era has begun.
I don’t think there’s a single thing funnier right now than there being a song calling for unity called “Undivided” that’s literally by a divided band. In the lead-up to the 2020 election, the country music world was awash with rumors of Florida Georgia Line clashing and potentially breaking up over politics. In what can only be called insultingly on-the-nose writing from reality, it was Tyler Hubbard, the Georgia half of Florida Georgia Line, w...
2021-02-01 04:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, please check out the Song vs. Song poll and vote on "New Slang" vs. "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-new-vs-46793134
As always, please let me know if I fucked up anything
2021-01-31 07:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post