History Funny / ToddInTheShadowsTrainwreckords2022

* Todd making fun of the 1994 SelfTitledAlbum (despite ultimately saying it's a decent album overall), where John Corabi replaced Vince Neil as lead singer:

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* The episode begins with footage from a 2022 UsefulNotes/LasVegas residency concert, with Katy [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext introducing "California Gurls" by coming out of a giant toilet]], followed by Todd immediately and laconically declaring: "She's done. I'm calling time." Later in the intro, he reveals that this performance also included a singing piece of poop, just to drive the point home.

* Todd summing up Music/NeilYoung's thoughts on the rest of the band by the end of the 70s, after a fitting clip where Young sings "Thrasher", with a pretty decent impression of Young's vocal style:
-->'''Todd:''' ♪ ''You're a bunch of washed-up hippie burnouts, and I'm Neil fucking Young...'' ♪

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** Todd would eventually reveal [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1608194542234398720?t=aM3pkTY8loZx_hZ_I71oHg&s=19 on Twitter]] that it was supposed to be a one-off gag at the start, but as he was writing he realised that some of the gags he wrote for those bits weren't anywhere near as funny as simply flashing up the rule and acting like he's in physical pain trying to stop himself.

* On a darkly humorous note, one of the lines in "Tell Me Why" asks "why did all them priests have to act so ill?" As Todd [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1521930094528241664 later clarified]] on Twitter, when Will said "act so ill," he meant "[[PedophilePriest molest children]]," making for one hell of an {{understatement}}.

* Since Neil Young is the one overseeing production as per the agreement, Todd brings up where Neil himself was creatively at the time: [[AudienceAlienatingEra "makin' the worst shit of his life"]], even as he was trying to go ''less'' experimental and more commercial. The brief clip shown of "Weight of the World", off ''Landing on Water'', has Neil's vocals being drowned out by his own sludgy guitar riffs and programmed drums (which are placed far higher in the mix than everything else), amid the same kind of bad digital phasing effects that are all over ''American Dream''.
** He further points out that the band recorded the album ''in Neil's house'', so Neil couldn't get fed up and/or flake out and walk away mid-record, ''again''.

* While recounting the generally sad, bitter decline and dissolution of CSN as Neil Young soon [[CareerResurrection reached new heights as a solo artist]],[[note]]Leading to a probably entirely justified suspicion that Young had been uninterested in the project from the start and kept his good material for himself.[[/note]] Todd brings up, as a positive, two things the four can still agree on: all of them consider ''American Dream'' [[CreatorBacklash a mistake]], and none of them [[https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077653424/crosby-stills-nash-young-spotify like]] Creator/JoeRogan. [[note]]As one comment later noted, CSNY's albums returned to Spotify roughly a month after the episode was released, the exception being the songs written by Young, as he's continuing with the boycott. However, the one exception of this in turn is ''American Dream'', where all the songs are available, even Young's. Made more hilarious by the comment's conclusion drawn from this being that they all forgot this album existed.[[/note]]

** The updated 1997 version, contrary to the hype, is just the same song played a little bit "harder" and more industrial, with what Todd calls "the riff from [[Music/WhiteZombie 'More Human Than Human']] over it".[[note]]This observation would become even funnier a few months after the episode's release, when Mick Mars retired and was eventually replaced by his tour stand-in, former Rob Zombie guitarist John 5.[[/note]]

* Todd relates that, when he was a kid, he thought Will Smith was the "single coolest human being I could possibly imagine". By the time he was a "slightly older kid" (and, as he acknowledges, not a cool one himself, either), that opinion... had not held up. Cue the infamously gaudy 1999 MTV [=VMAs=] performance of "Film/WildWildWest". He even cites the film as the moment where "[he] learned the cruel lesson that people [he] loved and trusted could rip [him] off out of [his] ten dollars."

''[Cue footage of people frolicking, paddling and sliding as the flute riff plays]''

* Todd theorizes that "Switch" was meant to be the theme song for ''Film/{{Hitch}}'', but was cut because "rom-com rap theme songs are not a thing, we're not making ''Film/SpaceJam''". Oddly enough, "Switch" is not the only song that Todd speculates was rejected ''Hitch'' soundtrack material -- he points out that the lyrics from "If U Can't Dance (Slide)", a track from later in the album, seem to be an extended reference to a scene from the film in which Will's character Hitch tries to teach Albert Brennaman to dance. The track "Pump Ya Brakes" -- which Todd also briefly touches on in this part -- in particular seems tailor-made for the movie, literally being nothing but Will and Music/SnoopDogg giving you advice on how stay cool around the ladies.

* "If you told me before the Oscars someone get up their seat and smack a presenter, I'd have picked Creator/LizaMinnelli before I guessed Creator/WillSmith!" With some major CrossesTheLineTwice, as Minnelli was in a wheelchair and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma5SGTqkXeM downright struggling to read a teleprompter.]]

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--->'''Todd:''' ...Seems like you guys are trying to smell me the same old shit with a thin veneer of 90's.

** The claim Pamela makes that Crüe -- one of the last decade's most prominent glam[=/=]hair metal bands, who had changed almost nothing about their sound since 1981 -- "refus[ed] to be pigeonholed into any specific genre" is so patently false that Todd needs to pause for a second.