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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm Crash Thompson, and remember: the only opinion that really matters is your own. Cheers."]]
Crash Thompson (formerly known as '''''The Rock Critic''''') is a Website/YouTube music review and comedy channel, running since August 2012.
As the name implies, the channel mainly focuses on rock music, as well as adjacent genres such as metal, alternative, and the occasional foray into pop (provided the artist in question either [[Music/NeonTrees has]] or [[Music/TeganAndSara at some point in their career has had]] some sort of rock influence). The channel consists of full-length videos that delve into a specific album by a notable rock band - usually one that stands out sharply from the band's other output in some way, be it in sound or critical reception - in detail, lengthy retrospectives that cover the entire careers of bands across multiple full-length videos ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2W2vSITgpw&list=PLW_tPidOE9IsqeFs_fV2Yz19tTu4humlI The Rise And Fall Of]] Music/{{Weezer}} and the [[Music/GreenDay Green Day]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jYwebuYkZU&list=PLW_tPidOE9IumsL1JcBb0CS-tdrb4IZU9 Retrospective]]), "Quickies" which are shorter videos that cover recently released albums with Crash talking over footage of the band in question accompanied by brief visual gags, year-end lists of the best and worst albums of the preceding year, other series like Bad Album Covers and I Love This Song / I Hate This Song, all three of which are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty self-explanatory]], and a smattering of livestreams, Q&A videos, and subscriber specials, the three of which often overlap.
He also previously had a second series called Game & Crash (formerly hosted on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCklPAK1twthe0HKPLoJSh6A its own second channel]] before being moved to the main channel for the remainder of its run) wherein he talks about video games.
He is one of the four online music critics making up the Rock Coliseum collective, alongside ringleader [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer of Rocked]], [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Mark Grondin of Spectrum Pulse]], and [[WebVideo/{{ARTV}} Jon Compton of ARTV]], who do a regular livestream game of voting bands and albums selected by the chat to “live” or “die” (the latter in some creative and thematically ironic way) in a coliseum setting, as well as doing podcasts and attending events such as music festival Sonic Temple together.
He's also one of the original four commentators behind [[https://www.podcasts.com/one-crazy-weekend-9e99771ab One Crazy Weekend]], a wrestling podcast chronicling the many, many wrestling shows that occurred over Wrestlemania weekend of 2019, but had to leave the podcast due to scheduling conflicts.
His channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHqXktye0jdxyQf1egAWKw/ here]], and his Twitter [[http://twitter.com/CrashThompsonXO here]].
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!!Tropes:
* AuthorAppeal: References to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Crash is ''arguably'' the nicest and friendliest reviewer to be seen on Youtube, so it takes something special to push his buttons. A particular case was his review of King 810's ''La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God,'' one of the few albums to genuinely disgust him, partly due to frontman David Gunn's obsession with shock value instead of musical content.
* BlastingTime: Has been shown to use this in his review of Music/BadReligion's ''Into the Unknown''.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Every available category, up to and including Refusal To Rate.
** '''Hitting the limit:''' A few albums have ranked 0.5/5, suggesting there was a possible 0, but no album was ranked so lowly--until his ''Worst Of 2019''. There, in a fearsome TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he gave his first 0/5 [[spoiler: to the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic's]] parody of ''Music/TheWall'']].
** '''Out of bounds:''' PlayedForLaughs in the ''[[{{Music/NinjaSexParty}} Attitude City]]'' review, where he gives it a billion out of five (the actual rating was a four out of five)
** '''Meaningless Comparison:''' Quite often in his reviews, including fire extinguishers for Music/InFlames, Lisa Frank folders for Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer'', and dead memes for {{Music/Tool}}.
** '''Meaningless Value''' ''"[[Music/LinkinPark One More Light]]'' gets COMPLETE FUCKING DARKNESS...out of 5!"
--> [[SubvertedTrope For real though, 0.5/5. Seriously, fuck this noise.]]
** Crash gives ''The Terror'' by the Music/FlamingLips a "[[MindScrew zibbledygorp out of zook]]".
** Also: in his 2020 Quarter 1 FIMI, he rated ''Mixing Colors'' by Roger Eno and Music/BrianEno as "[[CatchingSomeZs Zzz/5]]"
** '''Impossible To Rate:''' In his 2020 Quarter 3 FIMI, he reacted to Will Woods' ''The Normal Album'' with "Huh?/5"
** '''Refusal To Rate:''' In his 2020 Quarter 2 FIMI, he flat-out refused to review ''Goodness, Gracious'' by Back Up Kid on the grounds that Back Up Kid wasn't a professional musician and was too small an act to subject to scrutiny. Crash then expressed his annoyance and even anger at people who requested reviews for hobbyists and musicians who just wanted to have fun, and stated that acts had to at least have 400 monthly viewers on Spotify to be reviewed. Otherwise, he'd veto the request. He then stated he did enjoy the album and gave Back Up Kid some encouragement.
* BrokenPedestal: Like many online reviewers, he once cited Creator/DougWalker as an influence. Now, he never wants to turn out like him.
* TheCameo:
** In Bad Album Covers, Vol. 2, [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]], [[Creator/HorrorGuru the Horror Guru]], and Yomarz appear on a brief game show sketch to earn points by thinking up [[DoubleEntendre many dick innuendos]] in twenty seconds for an album cover with the title [[AccidentalInnuendo 'My Lips Are For Blowing']].
** Crash calls up [[Creator/CountJackula Satanic Jackula]] on Skype in Bad Album Covers, Vol. 3 to make fun of how his face paint matches the face paint of a band in a bad album cover.
*** Satanic Jackula interrupts Crash's Metal Gear Solid parody, calling him on the 'Codec', to complain to him about sending over a package of exploding gorilla shit. While Crash coyly denies he sent it, Satanic Jackula knows he did because the package has [[ManChild a giant note written in crayon that says 'SAIYANS RULE! WEIRD SKULLFACE GUYS DROOL']], with a [[TerribleArtist badly drawn crayon cartoon of Crash as a Super Saiyan and Satanic Jackula's face behind a circle-backslash symbol.]]
*** Satanic Jackula appears again briefly, frustrated that he missed [[DoubleEntendre the Great Snatch]].
*** Finally, Count Jackula himself appears to avenge Satanic Jackula by using [[BlackMagic Satanic]] [[InstantRunes magic]] to drop multiple anvils on top of Crash's head, even more so after Crash goes Super Saiyan.
** [[Creator/HorrorGuru The Horror Guru]] sent a missile after Crash in his video review of Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Hot Minute album, because he didn't give a good review to Five Finger Death Punch's album, Got Your Six.
*** Apparently in the same review, Guru sent another missile to [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]] for the exact same reason. [[HouseFire Unfortunately, Crash was too late when he called to warn him.]]
*** Then [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], ARTV, Mark of Spin It! Reviews, WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera, Calluna, and Lil' D.Va appear in the review to work out the meaning of the confusing 'I Am You Are Me' verse of Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Big Mob song along with Crash. Jerk's cameo ends when the missile Crash knocked back with a baseball bat ends up [[ResetButton temporarily]] destroying Disneyland.
*** Jerk returns to call Crash to ask him what he did to the missile, not mentioning Disneyland temporarily ([[WhatTheHellHero though seemingly permanently]]) turning into a [[CrapsackWorld fiery post-apocalyptic version of itself]] because of it.
** In the first episode of The Green Day Retrospective, ARTV appeared to throw rocks at Crash and make him build up Dookie because it's Crash's job and it has already taken Crash too long to get the retrospective started while it only took ARTV two months to review Green Day's entire discography.
*** WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera then appears, confused and infuriated that Green Day would turn down a free trip to Disneyland by a record label. Jerk [[RageBreakingPoint silently grew angrier]] as Crash admitted he would turn down free Disneyland as well and would rather go to Universal Studios.
** [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews The Dom]] appears in QUICKIES!: Catch-Up Quickie #8 - Gotta Ketch 'Em Up to stop Crash's [[FakeBrit bad fake British accent]].
** In the second episode of the Green Day Retrospective, Lil' D.Va called up [[WebVideo/DiamandaHagan Diamanda Hagan]] on Skype to ask her if she knows anyone who can kill a Saiyan and then explains to Hagan why she needs Crash to be dead.
** There's plenty on the third episode of the Green Day Retrospective. Because of a hysterical fit induced figuratively and literally by ''¡Uno!'', ''¡Dos!'', and ''¡Tré!'', Crash calls up [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews The Dom]] and Calluna to tell them they have more subscribers than ''¡Tré!'' sold on its opening week. They notice something is wrong with him and make a few phone calls. They got Crash's friend Nathaniel to give him some advice.
*** After recovering from his depressed state, he fights the eldritch abomination/amalgamation of the living albums (voiced by [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]]), alongside Lil' D.Va, Nathaniel, and Conner and Lucas from the Geekery Collective.
*** When they failed, Crash creates a [[Main/CombinedEnergyAttack Spite Bomb]] made from the negative energy of numerous submitted cameos of both fans and reviewers, including reviewers [=TheHappySpaceman=], [[WebVideo/TheRosenHacker Rosen Hacker]], and Magnetrex.
** Crash's Top Ten Worst Pitchfork Reviews has cameos from [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Mark of Spectrum Pulse]], [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke of Rocked Reviews]] and viralrak, respectively covering the fourth, third and second entries on the list.
* CasualTimeTravel: How Past Crash traveled to the 'future' to meet Present Crash.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The second episode of the Green Day Retrospective ends with Lil' D.Va shooting Crash. Resolved in the next episode, it didn't work.
* ClusterFBomb: Crash is known to be quite the colorful curser.
* ConstructiveCriticism
* CountryMatters: Delivers a [[PrecisionFStrike very blunt one]] towards King 810's ''La Petit Mort or A Conversation With God''.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: He does try to be fair and give a compliment if an album really does deserve one.
* DeadHorseGenre: Invoked by name at the start of Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands.
--> "And you know, there's no better way to get back to basics than to do... what pretty much every internet reviewer is known for doing."
--> *{{beat}}*
--> "BEATING A DEAD HORSE! HOLY ''FUCK'', DID NU-METAL SUCK ASS!"
* DespairEventHorizon: Crash crosses it ''big time'' towards the end of his Green Day Retrospective 3 video, to the point where he flat-out abandons Lil' D.Va when things look most bleak and goes to drown his sorrows at a coffee shop. Thankfully, through the encouragement of one of his friends, [[HesBack he gets better.]]
* DontShootTheMessage: A bizarre variant occurs in his 'Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews', discussing their original 2000 review of Kid A by {{Music/Radiohead}}. While Crash absolutely believes the album is a '10 out of 10' like the review claims, the bewildering, excessive and unsettling way the review discusses the album (one notable passage compares the experience to a ''stillborn child'') almost manages to make the album seem unappealing.
* {{Facepalm}}: Frequently. Never a good sign. For example, his 2020 Quarter 2 FIMI segment where he talks about Jeff Rosenstock's ''No Dream'', he starts out with a facepalm, does a ''double'' facepalm, then goes on a rant about how he simply does not care for nor about this fellow's music.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a lot of brief foreshadowing for his Games & Crash spinoff channel and the Green Day Retrospective in his ''One Hot Minute'' review.
* FreudianSlip: He would've danced around in nothing but a tube sock after talking about his love for Music/RedHotChiliPeppers, but he couldn't find a sock small- LARGE...enough.
** He namechecks two of the tracks on ''[[{{Music/Radiohead}} A Moon-Shaped Pool]]'' as "Desert Island [[{{WebVideo/ProJared}} D'yuck]]" and "D'yucks Dark".
* TheGadfly: To Satanic Jackula.
* HumanAliens: Crash is a Saiyan.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Lil' (or Gremlin) D.Va.
--> '''Lil' D.Va:''' You know, I'm the only one here who has experience in flying and operating high tech machinery, why the hell do you get to be the captain?!
* HypocriticalHumor: Crash does a voice-over rant about Starbucks and their over-priced water-downed soy milk chai lattes in his review of ''One Hot Minute'', then the video interrupts and [[Main/GilliganCut cuts]] to Crash enjoying a soy milk Starbucks drink right before he drops it as he realizes his viewers are seeing him drink it.
* IHatePastMe: First invoked in the Rise And Fall Of Weezer episode on ''Make Believe'', where he shudders at his past self's fandom of Music/{{Seether}} after flashing back to his college days. Said past incarnation of Crash and his quintessentially 2000's "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wangst angsty]]" taste in fashion and music would become a recurring theme on the channel, coming to a head when Past Crash would travel to the present and this trope would be a central plot point of Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands.
* ImOkay: Crash says this in the pilot (the ''St. Anger'' review).
* InTheStyleOf: Crash's 500 subscriber special, a review of "Back to the Shack" by Music/{{Weezer}}, is done in the style of WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows.
* ItsPersonal: When it comes to the end of ''[[Music/{{Weezer}} Hurley]]'' off ''The Rise and Fall of Weezer'', Crash makes it clear the reason he reviewed the albums up to this point was because of ''how disappointed'' he was at Weezer becoming a shell of it's former self and not even with [[SoOkayItsAverage Hurley's okay reception]] was redeeming a band he once loved dearly.
** In his review/breakdown of ''[[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers One Hot Minute]]'', one of the reasons that Crash feels obligated to defend the album is because he endured a miserable childhood in a fundamentalist Christian household, and the song "Shallow Be Thy Game" (which criticizes organized religion) brought him "a lot of comfort and reassurance in what I would call one of my darkest times".
* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: Invoked as a primary criticism of ''[[{{Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown}} 21st Century Breakdown]]'', having reviewed [[{{Music/AmericanIdiot}} the album's predecessor]] in great detail immediately beforehand.
* JawDrop: In his Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews video, a particularly insane passage from their ''Music/KidA'' review that involves a stillborn child leaves Crash in slack-jawed shock.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the Dishonorable Mentions section of "The Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews", Crash mentions their review of Jet's ''Shine On'', which features a link to a [=YouTube=] video of a monkey urinating in its own mouth. The only reason he gives it a dishonorable mention is because... "they're not wrong".
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by the Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four [=CDs=] that have to be played at the same time on four individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can negatively affect the album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four [=CDs=] at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase, particularly after reading a line stating that Flaming Lips fans spend their money on "inhalants and detox".
* LampshadeHanging: Crash is now aware he has a TV Tropes page and has recently lampshaded at least two of the tropes found on this page.
* LargeHam: The screaming he lets out at times should tell ya otherwise.
* LeftHanging: Who did Diamanda Hagan recommend to Lil' D.Va to kill Crash and where were they?
* LighterAndSofter: Like many other [=YouTube=] music critics not named WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, he has done his part to focus less on negative reviews, especially following the 2020 rebranding. However, in cases such as Glenn Danzig's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9M6_Q9h-3o Elvis Presley covers album]], he can't help it.
* {{Metalhead}}: Duh.
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: He ends up trying to describe {{Music/Igorrr}} as, "Death-Black-Metalcore-Throat Singing-Baroque-Industrial-EDM-Euro Folk-Harpsichord-Slamdance".
* TheNicknamer: Whenever an album has a ridiculously long or [[NoPronunciationGuide vague-to-pronounce]] title, Crash would just nickname it with a shorter regular name like Davy[[labelnote:*]]For [[{{Music/RobZombie}} Rob Zombie's]] ''The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser''[[/labelnote]], Chris[[labelnote:*]]For [[{{Music/GreenDay}} Green Day's]] ''1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours''[[/labelnote]], or Andy[[labelnote:*]]For A Lot Like Birds' ''Divisi''[[/labelnote]].
* NoPronunciationGuide: Sometimes struggles with the pronunciations of particularly foreign or oddly spelled names of bands and band members, more often than not leading him to apologize for any mispronunciations.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: During his I Love This Song episode on "The Bad Touch" by Music/BloodhoundGang, to show the audience how insipid the band's music is, he lists several of their song titles, including "The Evils of Placenta Hustling", "Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny", and "Diarrhea... It Runs in the Family". A caption appears on screen, stating: "These are all REAL Bloodhound Gang songs".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever he talks about growing up in a fundamentalist Christian church.
** He also did a recent video about being a suicide survivor.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Crash brings up whenever he tackles a genre outside of his jurisdiction. It ended up happening so often that it became one of the primary reasons for his channel rebranding.
* PantyShot: Comes across one of these during "Bad Album Covers" on a particularly-campy cover for a recording of ''[[{{Music/GustavHolst}} The Planets]]''.
* ProudToBeAGeek: Cited as a large part of why Crash loves early, ''Blue Album''-era Weezer so much, specifically the track "In The Garage".
* RunningGag:
** "The Problem", whenever Crash considers the possibility that ItsTheSameSoItSucks will be invoked, when discussing bands that have one specific approach to songcrafting that they stuck to throughout their career.
** "The [[{{Music/ImagineDragons}} Imagine Dragon]]", whenever a band jumps on the trend of filing off their normal sound in favour of forgettable electronica.
** Referring to the year 2018 as "I lived, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]" during his Worst of 2018 list.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Pretty much what Lil' D.Va does when Crash reveals ''Warning'' is his absolute personal favorite Green Day album, which is supposed to be his most despised so they wouldn't receive massive amounts of hater comments.
** Crash's response to [[spoiler: the animate faces of the Green Day trilogy albums revealing themselves to be the cause of the impending apocalypse]]. At least at first.
* SelfDeprecation: Appears often, though normally feels to be from a place of genuine humbleness.
* SensoryAbuse: Both referenced and invoked in his review of ''[[{{Music/Vektor}} Terminal Redux]]''. Crash's biggest gripe with the album comes from David [=DiSanto's=] [[HarshVocals vocal style]], and he illustrates this with a high-pitched whine during the review.
* SharedUniverse: Because of Crash's various cameos, mainly for/with Channel Awesome reviewers, the show is part of the Reviewaverse.
* ShoutOut: Mainly to memes.
--> '''Satanic Jackula:''' Why does anyone watch you?!
--> '''Crash:''' Dank memes, [[Main/ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]]
--> ''Suddenly surrounded by flashing and noisy memes while his expression remains.''
** The entire first few minutes of "Green Day Retrospective: Part 2" has Li'l D.Va doing a beat-for-beat reinterpretation of ''[[{{WebVideo/FilthyFrank}} The Filthy Frank Show]]'' [[spoiler:as a cover for an attempt to assassinate Crash before he destroys the city.]]
** Tends to occasionally pronounce the word "Dick" as [[{{WebVideo/ProJared}} "D'yuck"]], such as in his review of ''[[{{Music/Radiohead}} A Moon-Shaped Pool]]''.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_9fGLtCUo&t=24m15s At the end of his Best And Worst Albums of 2015 video]], Crash retired his fedora he'd been wearing since the start of the channel, to be replaced by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ai3MHdTLyA a black beanie]], along with a denim vest with band buttons and patches. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEazuE4AP50&t=1h2m32s Crash hated the fedora for years and wishes he'd made the change a lot sooner.]]
** Following the "WE'E REBRANDING" video, Crash discusses how he was also dropping the denims vest as well, stating that with the current lighting he uses for videos makes using it rather difficult due to the heat.
* SigningOffCatchphrase: "I'm Crash Thompson, and remember: the only opinion that really matters is your own. Cheers." Although he's begun to drop the catchphrase due to wanting to drop the usage of "cliches" on his content.
* SpinOff:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW_tPidOE9IteLtGSBq0CQ2IKuAFTl49q Critical Condition]], his series on MetalSucks where he reviewed specifically metal albums. The series ended in 2016 due to Crash's packed schedule, although he did briefly come back in May 2017 for a one-off episode on Danzig's ''Black Laden Crown'', the follow-up to Crash's pick for Worst Album of 2015.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCklPAK1twthe0HKPLoJSh6A Game & Crash]], his second channel dedicated to video games.
* {{Squee}}: Whenever he finds a {{camp}} or a [[Main/CampGay 'gay']] album cover, which has always happened in his three Bad Album Covers videos.
* StoryArc: [[spoiler:Starts at the end of the first episode of the Green Day Retrospective, and ends with the third episode. Turns out Lil' D.Va was from the future, sent to the past by the South Korean armed forces to stop Indianapolis from blowing up later in 2017. According to Lil' D.Va, the aftermath of the explosion will destroy the country and then eventually the world. Lil' D.Va only estimated [[Main/PersonOfMassDestruction Crash]] will be the cause since his Super Saiyan mode in his review of Raditude actually destroyed an entire city block, and it's more than likely that a bigger reaction to Green Day's worst albums will cause [[Main/TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the End of the World as We Know It]]. But she was actually wrong, Crash wasn't exactly the cause. He wasn't powerful enough, even at his strongest, to destroy the world. The living albums, ''¡Uno!'', ''¡Dos!'', and ''¡Tré!'', were behind it all. They were using Crash as a conduit to drain power from him while he talks about them, in order to be capable of regeneration and destroy the world to rebuild it in their image. Crash didn't fight them straight away alongside Lil' Diva because he was in a depressed state and unable to care, instead he left. After he recovered, he fights an eldritch tentacled fusion of the living albums with his Saiyan powers, alongside Lil' D.Va in a mech, his friend Nathaniel with a baseball, and Conner and Lucas from The Geekery Collective (both have light sabers, additionally Conner has a sword and Lucas has an axe). When they failed, after an unseen fight with kung-fu, light saber battles, explosions, and fire breathing hookers, Lil' D.Va, Nathaniel, Conner, and Lucas stall the albums. Crash flies up and summons a Spite Bomb from the negative energy of people pissed off at the mediocrity of the albums. He drops it down on the albums, but he ran out of energy to ignite the bomb and destroy the albums. Until Lil' D.Va flies in and crashes into the albums. She ignited the bomb with her ultimate and destroyed the albums, thus preventing the apocalypse and completing her mission.]]
* SuddenlyShouting: From his review of Girl Band's ''Early Years'' EP:
--> "...if the album they release next month sounds anything like this EP...then...how can I put this...'''''[[KillItWithFire FUCKING BURN EVERYTHING!]] AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!'''''
* SuperMode: Transforming into his [[Manga/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]] form to destroy ''Raditude'' in his rage at the end of the Rise And Fall Of Weezer episode on said album.
** He tried to again when he faced Creator/CountJackula in the third volume of his Bad Album Covers videos...until he got [[CurbStompBattle smashed multiple times]] by Count Jackula's satanic [[AnvilOnHead anvil spell]].
* SuperStrength: Sent a missile flying back...with a [[HomeRunHitter baseball bat]]. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Done quite casually actually.]]
* SuperToughness: Lil' D.Va tried to kill him with a grenade, then with a cannon, and then tried to drown him. Nothing works.
--> "Even if you were here, I'm Saiyan, y'know. Bullets don't even really hurt me that much."
* TakeThat: To overrated albums and hater/troll commenters.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Most notably near the end of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbNGEawhuQ&t=51m28s Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands]] video, delivered directly to his "past self" and indirectly to the genre itself:
--> '''Present Crash:''' Dude, there is just... there is no way I could've been this stupid growing up. There just isn't! Like, I'm sorry, but you are a fucking dumbass. There is seriously something very wrong with you.
--> '''Past Crash:''' [[RunningGag We are literally the same- (person)]]
--> '''Present Crash:''' '''[[BigNo NO WE ARE NOT THE SAME!]]''' I grew up! I matured! I moved past all this bullshit!
--> Look, you've shown us some decent nu-metal bands here today - hell, some were actually really good, and probably do deserve more credit. But look at the damage this genre did as a whole. It blurred everything. By mixing all of these different genres together and doing it so half-assedly and lackluster, it just... resulted in this deluge of bland, boring, unbelievably insubstantial bands. Mediocre at everything, excelling in nothing. There may have been a few bands that went against that trend and got the recipe right, but for every nu-metal or alt-metal or whatever you wanna call it that did get it right, fifteen got it wrong. And these assholes completely clogged the market. The image of the angry, pissy, spoiled white boy became synonymous with the rock and metal image itself. That's what nu-metal did. Nu-metal made us look bad.
--> Nu-metal spoiled us rotten! And as a result... people fled.
--> People left rock and metal in droves. People got sick of listening to someone bitch about their bullshit problems, when they already had plenty of problems to deal with in their own lives. They got sick of the samey, ceaselessly repeating melodies and hooks, they got sick of the mealey-mouthed, soulless, personality-less drones creating generic product after generic product after generic, pandering, useless, empty product!
--> Nu-metal hurt us in ways that we're still trying to recover from, even today, rocker and metalhead alike, and... the fact that you would put [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine one of the best bands in the freaking world]] on this list... it just blows my freaking mind. What is your fucking malfunction!?
** This was immediately counteracted by his past self, which his present self took to heart and in turn delivered a more optimistic [[RousingSpeech Rousing Speech]] to close out the episode.
** He ends his review of ''[[{{Music/AllThatRemains}} The Order Of Things]]'' with one of these directed at frontman Philip Labonte, [[spoiler:which turns out to be lyrics from the next album he's about to review, ''[[{{Music/LambOfGod}} Sturm Und Drang]]''.]]
** His video on the Top 10 worst Pitchfork reviews has Crash unloading on the website's snobbish elitism after a bitter, nonsensical review of [[Music/{{Tool}} Lateralus]]:
-->'''Crash''': It’s what kills a lot of Pitchfork’s reviews, and even a lot of their non-review related content. Just…the ''contempt.'' Absolute, searing contempt…for the artist, for the audience, for their own fucking readers! This goddamn website has such a bad habit of telling people how small and insignificant and ''stupid'' they are to be a part of something, or to want to be a part of something. And this review in particular is just dripping with that kind of hostile, absolutely disgusting contempt. It’s gatekeeping of the absolute worst kind, and its only real purpose is to make you feel bad, feel lesser, feel out of the loop. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WE. ARE. BETTER. THAN. YOU.]]
** An opus-length speech comprises the entirety of the number 1 entry for Crash's worst album of 2019, directed at [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and his musical review of ''Music/TheWall'']]. It gets vitriolic enough to (at least narratively) spur on Crash dropping the "Rock Critic" branding at the end.
** Gives one to Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch for their music video of "Living the Dream" in his Top 10 Worst Albums of 2020 video, criticizing them for taking off their masks in the video and possibly causing the deaths of Americans from the coronavirus with the music video.
* ThemeNaming: Crash often spots a recurring theme with a few of his yearly "Worst Of..." lists:
** 2013: "You should know better."
** 2014: "Who gave these sociopaths instruments?"
** 2017: "What the fuck are YOU doing here?!"
** 2018/[[RunningGag I Lived, Bitch]]: The rampage of the [[{{Music/ImagineDragons}} Imagine Dragon]]
** 2019: "Who is this even ''for''?"
** 2020: Stated in November of that year to be, "Oh yeah, that came out this year."
* ThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STI6C3pVWHY "Lexicon Devil"]] by The Germs, though he has since dropped this song following the rebrand due to repeated Content ID matches.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The cold open of his ''One More Light'' review:
-->'''Crash''': Jesus ''fucking'' Christ!
* UnPerson: In April 2020, during his first FIMI of the year, he introduced The Bin, into which he consigns bands and artists he never wants to talk about again. The list of bands/artists in The Bin is in the Recap tab.
* WaxingLyrical: During his massive, ''massive'' tirade against [[Music/GreenDay the ''Uno-Dos-Tre'' trilogy]] in his GDR 3 video, Crash lets loose:
-->'''Crash''': [[Music/{{Rush}} FOR I HAVE DINED ON HONEYDEW, AND DRUNK THE MILK OF]] ''[[{{Music/Dookie}} WELCOME TO PARADISE!]]''
* WhamLine: An absolutely ''devastating'' one in his video about Chester Bennington's suicide:
-->'''Crash''': "...I put a loaded shotgun in my mouth and pulled the trigger. The only reason I'm still alive is ''because that gun misfired.''"
** More of a WhamShot but it still fits here: At the end of the ''WORST OF 2019'' list after the tirade on [[spoiler: Creator/DougWalker's album/review of ''Music/TheWall'']], the screen shows the "The Rock Critic" logo...only to then show [[spoiler: [[EndOfAnEra 2012-2019]]]]...and then to [[spoiler: reveal the re-branding as "Crash Thompson"]].
* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: Throughout the first episode of the Green Day Retrospective, Lil' D.Va as Scotty tries to ensure the 'spaceship' has enough power to repel the typical hater comments to his unexpected opinions of Green Day's early albums.
* WorldOfWeirdness: Since the show is set in the Reviewaverse, weirdness is a natural part of the setting. For example, Crash not only being an alien, but a fictional alien species from an anime.
* YuriFan: Part of his love for Music/TeganAndSara.
[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm Crash Thompson, and remember: the only opinion that really matters is your own. Cheers."]]
Crash Thompson (formerly known as '''''The Rock Critic''''') is a Website/YouTube music review and comedy channel, running since August 2012.
As the name implies, the channel mainly focuses on rock music, as well as adjacent genres such as metal, alternative, and the occasional foray into pop (provided the artist in question either [[Music/NeonTrees has]] or [[Music/TeganAndSara at some point in their career has had]] some sort of rock influence). The channel consists of full-length videos that delve into a specific album by a notable rock band - usually one that stands out sharply from the band's other output in some way, be it in sound or critical reception - in detail, lengthy retrospectives that cover the entire careers of bands across multiple full-length videos ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2W2vSITgpw&list=PLW_tPidOE9IsqeFs_fV2Yz19tTu4humlI The Rise And Fall Of]] Music/{{Weezer}} and the [[Music/GreenDay Green Day]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jYwebuYkZU&list=PLW_tPidOE9IumsL1JcBb0CS-tdrb4IZU9 Retrospective]]), "Quickies" which are shorter videos that cover recently released albums with Crash talking over footage of the band in question accompanied by brief visual gags, year-end lists of the best and worst albums of the preceding year, other series like Bad Album Covers and I Love This Song / I Hate This Song, all three of which are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty self-explanatory]], and a smattering of livestreams, Q&A videos, and subscriber specials, the three of which often overlap.
He also previously had a second series called Game & Crash (formerly hosted on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCklPAK1twthe0HKPLoJSh6A its own second channel]] before being moved to the main channel for the remainder of its run) wherein he talks about video games.
He is one of the four online music critics making up the Rock Coliseum collective, alongside ringleader [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer of Rocked]], [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Mark Grondin of Spectrum Pulse]], and [[WebVideo/{{ARTV}} Jon Compton of ARTV]], who do a regular livestream game of voting bands and albums selected by the chat to “live” or “die” (the latter in some creative and thematically ironic way) in a coliseum setting, as well as doing podcasts and attending events such as music festival Sonic Temple together.
He's also one of the original four commentators behind [[https://www.podcasts.com/one-crazy-weekend-9e99771ab One Crazy Weekend]], a wrestling podcast chronicling the many, many wrestling shows that occurred over Wrestlemania weekend of 2019, but had to leave the podcast due to scheduling conflicts.
His channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHqXktye0jdxyQf1egAWKw/ here]], and his Twitter [[http://twitter.com/CrashThompsonXO here]].
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!!Tropes:
* AuthorAppeal: References to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Crash is ''arguably'' the nicest and friendliest reviewer to be seen on Youtube, so it takes something special to push his buttons. A particular case was his review of King 810's ''La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God,'' one of the few albums to genuinely disgust him, partly due to frontman David Gunn's obsession with shock value instead of musical content.
* BlastingTime: Has been shown to use this in his review of Music/BadReligion's ''Into the Unknown''.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Every available category, up to and including Refusal To Rate.
** '''Hitting the limit:''' A few albums have ranked 0.5/5, suggesting there was a possible 0, but no album was ranked so lowly--until his ''Worst Of 2019''. There, in a fearsome TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he gave his first 0/5 [[spoiler: to the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic's]] parody of ''Music/TheWall'']].
** '''Out of bounds:''' PlayedForLaughs in the ''[[{{Music/NinjaSexParty}} Attitude City]]'' review, where he gives it a billion out of five (the actual rating was a four out of five)
** '''Meaningless Comparison:''' Quite often in his reviews, including fire extinguishers for Music/InFlames, Lisa Frank folders for Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer'', and dead memes for {{Music/Tool}}.
** '''Meaningless Value''' ''"[[Music/LinkinPark One More Light]]'' gets COMPLETE FUCKING DARKNESS...out of 5!"
--> [[SubvertedTrope For real though, 0.5/5. Seriously, fuck this noise.]]
** Crash gives ''The Terror'' by the Music/FlamingLips a "[[MindScrew zibbledygorp out of zook]]".
** Also: in his 2020 Quarter 1 FIMI, he rated ''Mixing Colors'' by Roger Eno and Music/BrianEno as "[[CatchingSomeZs Zzz/5]]"
** '''Impossible To Rate:''' In his 2020 Quarter 3 FIMI, he reacted to Will Woods' ''The Normal Album'' with "Huh?/5"
** '''Refusal To Rate:''' In his 2020 Quarter 2 FIMI, he flat-out refused to review ''Goodness, Gracious'' by Back Up Kid on the grounds that Back Up Kid wasn't a professional musician and was too small an act to subject to scrutiny. Crash then expressed his annoyance and even anger at people who requested reviews for hobbyists and musicians who just wanted to have fun, and stated that acts had to at least have 400 monthly viewers on Spotify to be reviewed. Otherwise, he'd veto the request. He then stated he did enjoy the album and gave Back Up Kid some encouragement.
* BrokenPedestal: Like many online reviewers, he once cited Creator/DougWalker as an influence. Now, he never wants to turn out like him.
* TheCameo:
** In Bad Album Covers, Vol. 2, [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]], [[Creator/HorrorGuru the Horror Guru]], and Yomarz appear on a brief game show sketch to earn points by thinking up [[DoubleEntendre many dick innuendos]] in twenty seconds for an album cover with the title [[AccidentalInnuendo 'My Lips Are For Blowing']].
** Crash calls up [[Creator/CountJackula Satanic Jackula]] on Skype in Bad Album Covers, Vol. 3 to make fun of how his face paint matches the face paint of a band in a bad album cover.
*** Satanic Jackula interrupts Crash's Metal Gear Solid parody, calling him on the 'Codec', to complain to him about sending over a package of exploding gorilla shit. While Crash coyly denies he sent it, Satanic Jackula knows he did because the package has [[ManChild a giant note written in crayon that says 'SAIYANS RULE! WEIRD SKULLFACE GUYS DROOL']], with a [[TerribleArtist badly drawn crayon cartoon of Crash as a Super Saiyan and Satanic Jackula's face behind a circle-backslash symbol.]]
*** Satanic Jackula appears again briefly, frustrated that he missed [[DoubleEntendre the Great Snatch]].
*** Finally, Count Jackula himself appears to avenge Satanic Jackula by using [[BlackMagic Satanic]] [[InstantRunes magic]] to drop multiple anvils on top of Crash's head, even more so after Crash goes Super Saiyan.
** [[Creator/HorrorGuru The Horror Guru]] sent a missile after Crash in his video review of Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Hot Minute album, because he didn't give a good review to Five Finger Death Punch's album, Got Your Six.
*** Apparently in the same review, Guru sent another missile to [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]] for the exact same reason. [[HouseFire Unfortunately, Crash was too late when he called to warn him.]]
*** Then [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], ARTV, Mark of Spin It! Reviews, WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera, Calluna, and Lil' D.Va appear in the review to work out the meaning of the confusing 'I Am You Are Me' verse of Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Big Mob song along with Crash. Jerk's cameo ends when the missile Crash knocked back with a baseball bat ends up [[ResetButton temporarily]] destroying Disneyland.
*** Jerk returns to call Crash to ask him what he did to the missile, not mentioning Disneyland temporarily ([[WhatTheHellHero though seemingly permanently]]) turning into a [[CrapsackWorld fiery post-apocalyptic version of itself]] because of it.
** In the first episode of The Green Day Retrospective, ARTV appeared to throw rocks at Crash and make him build up Dookie because it's Crash's job and it has already taken Crash too long to get the retrospective started while it only took ARTV two months to review Green Day's entire discography.
*** WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera then appears, confused and infuriated that Green Day would turn down a free trip to Disneyland by a record label. Jerk [[RageBreakingPoint silently grew angrier]] as Crash admitted he would turn down free Disneyland as well and would rather go to Universal Studios.
** [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews The Dom]] appears in QUICKIES!: Catch-Up Quickie #8 - Gotta Ketch 'Em Up to stop Crash's [[FakeBrit bad fake British accent]].
** In the second episode of the Green Day Retrospective, Lil' D.Va called up [[WebVideo/DiamandaHagan Diamanda Hagan]] on Skype to ask her if she knows anyone who can kill a Saiyan and then explains to Hagan why she needs Crash to be dead.
** There's plenty on the third episode of the Green Day Retrospective. Because of a hysterical fit induced figuratively and literally by ''¡Uno!'', ''¡Dos!'', and ''¡Tré!'', Crash calls up [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews The Dom]] and Calluna to tell them they have more subscribers than ''¡Tré!'' sold on its opening week. They notice something is wrong with him and make a few phone calls. They got Crash's friend Nathaniel to give him some advice.
*** After recovering from his depressed state, he fights the eldritch abomination/amalgamation of the living albums (voiced by [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]]), alongside Lil' D.Va, Nathaniel, and Conner and Lucas from the Geekery Collective.
*** When they failed, Crash creates a [[Main/CombinedEnergyAttack Spite Bomb]] made from the negative energy of numerous submitted cameos of both fans and reviewers, including reviewers [=TheHappySpaceman=], [[WebVideo/TheRosenHacker Rosen Hacker]], and Magnetrex.
** Crash's Top Ten Worst Pitchfork Reviews has cameos from [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Mark of Spectrum Pulse]], [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke of Rocked Reviews]] and viralrak, respectively covering the fourth, third and second entries on the list.
* CasualTimeTravel: How Past Crash traveled to the 'future' to meet Present Crash.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The second episode of the Green Day Retrospective ends with Lil' D.Va shooting Crash. Resolved in the next episode, it didn't work.
* ClusterFBomb: Crash is known to be quite the colorful curser.
* ConstructiveCriticism
* CountryMatters: Delivers a [[PrecisionFStrike very blunt one]] towards King 810's ''La Petit Mort or A Conversation With God''.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: He does try to be fair and give a compliment if an album really does deserve one.
* DeadHorseGenre: Invoked by name at the start of Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands.
--> "And you know, there's no better way to get back to basics than to do... what pretty much every internet reviewer is known for doing."
--> *{{beat}}*
--> "BEATING A DEAD HORSE! HOLY ''FUCK'', DID NU-METAL SUCK ASS!"
* DespairEventHorizon: Crash crosses it ''big time'' towards the end of his Green Day Retrospective 3 video, to the point where he flat-out abandons Lil' D.Va when things look most bleak and goes to drown his sorrows at a coffee shop. Thankfully, through the encouragement of one of his friends, [[HesBack he gets better.]]
* DontShootTheMessage: A bizarre variant occurs in his 'Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews', discussing their original 2000 review of Kid A by {{Music/Radiohead}}. While Crash absolutely believes the album is a '10 out of 10' like the review claims, the bewildering, excessive and unsettling way the review discusses the album (one notable passage compares the experience to a ''stillborn child'') almost manages to make the album seem unappealing.
* {{Facepalm}}: Frequently. Never a good sign. For example, his 2020 Quarter 2 FIMI segment where he talks about Jeff Rosenstock's ''No Dream'', he starts out with a facepalm, does a ''double'' facepalm, then goes on a rant about how he simply does not care for nor about this fellow's music.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a lot of brief foreshadowing for his Games & Crash spinoff channel and the Green Day Retrospective in his ''One Hot Minute'' review.
* FreudianSlip: He would've danced around in nothing but a tube sock after talking about his love for Music/RedHotChiliPeppers, but he couldn't find a sock small- LARGE...enough.
** He namechecks two of the tracks on ''[[{{Music/Radiohead}} A Moon-Shaped Pool]]'' as "Desert Island [[{{WebVideo/ProJared}} D'yuck]]" and "D'yucks Dark".
* TheGadfly: To Satanic Jackula.
* HumanAliens: Crash is a Saiyan.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Lil' (or Gremlin) D.Va.
--> '''Lil' D.Va:''' You know, I'm the only one here who has experience in flying and operating high tech machinery, why the hell do you get to be the captain?!
* HypocriticalHumor: Crash does a voice-over rant about Starbucks and their over-priced water-downed soy milk chai lattes in his review of ''One Hot Minute'', then the video interrupts and [[Main/GilliganCut cuts]] to Crash enjoying a soy milk Starbucks drink right before he drops it as he realizes his viewers are seeing him drink it.
* IHatePastMe: First invoked in the Rise And Fall Of Weezer episode on ''Make Believe'', where he shudders at his past self's fandom of Music/{{Seether}} after flashing back to his college days. Said past incarnation of Crash and his quintessentially 2000's "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wangst angsty]]" taste in fashion and music would become a recurring theme on the channel, coming to a head when Past Crash would travel to the present and this trope would be a central plot point of Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands.
* ImOkay: Crash says this in the pilot (the ''St. Anger'' review).
* InTheStyleOf: Crash's 500 subscriber special, a review of "Back to the Shack" by Music/{{Weezer}}, is done in the style of WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows.
* ItsPersonal: When it comes to the end of ''[[Music/{{Weezer}} Hurley]]'' off ''The Rise and Fall of Weezer'', Crash makes it clear the reason he reviewed the albums up to this point was because of ''how disappointed'' he was at Weezer becoming a shell of it's former self and not even with [[SoOkayItsAverage Hurley's okay reception]] was redeeming a band he once loved dearly.
** In his review/breakdown of ''[[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers One Hot Minute]]'', one of the reasons that Crash feels obligated to defend the album is because he endured a miserable childhood in a fundamentalist Christian household, and the song "Shallow Be Thy Game" (which criticizes organized religion) brought him "a lot of comfort and reassurance in what I would call one of my darkest times".
* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: Invoked as a primary criticism of ''[[{{Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown}} 21st Century Breakdown]]'', having reviewed [[{{Music/AmericanIdiot}} the album's predecessor]] in great detail immediately beforehand.
* JawDrop: In his Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews video, a particularly insane passage from their ''Music/KidA'' review that involves a stillborn child leaves Crash in slack-jawed shock.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the Dishonorable Mentions section of "The Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews", Crash mentions their review of Jet's ''Shine On'', which features a link to a [=YouTube=] video of a monkey urinating in its own mouth. The only reason he gives it a dishonorable mention is because... "they're not wrong".
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by the Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four [=CDs=] that have to be played at the same time on four individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can negatively affect the album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four [=CDs=] at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase, particularly after reading a line stating that Flaming Lips fans spend their money on "inhalants and detox".
* LampshadeHanging: Crash is now aware he has a TV Tropes page and has recently lampshaded at least two of the tropes found on this page.
* LargeHam: The screaming he lets out at times should tell ya otherwise.
* LeftHanging: Who did Diamanda Hagan recommend to Lil' D.Va to kill Crash and where were they?
* LighterAndSofter: Like many other [=YouTube=] music critics not named WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, he has done his part to focus less on negative reviews, especially following the 2020 rebranding. However, in cases such as Glenn Danzig's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9M6_Q9h-3o Elvis Presley covers album]], he can't help it.
* {{Metalhead}}: Duh.
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: He ends up trying to describe {{Music/Igorrr}} as, "Death-Black-Metalcore-Throat Singing-Baroque-Industrial-EDM-Euro Folk-Harpsichord-Slamdance".
* TheNicknamer: Whenever an album has a ridiculously long or [[NoPronunciationGuide vague-to-pronounce]] title, Crash would just nickname it with a shorter regular name like Davy[[labelnote:*]]For [[{{Music/RobZombie}} Rob Zombie's]] ''The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser''[[/labelnote]], Chris[[labelnote:*]]For [[{{Music/GreenDay}} Green Day's]] ''1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours''[[/labelnote]], or Andy[[labelnote:*]]For A Lot Like Birds' ''Divisi''[[/labelnote]].
* NoPronunciationGuide: Sometimes struggles with the pronunciations of particularly foreign or oddly spelled names of bands and band members, more often than not leading him to apologize for any mispronunciations.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: During his I Love This Song episode on "The Bad Touch" by Music/BloodhoundGang, to show the audience how insipid the band's music is, he lists several of their song titles, including "The Evils of Placenta Hustling", "Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny", and "Diarrhea... It Runs in the Family". A caption appears on screen, stating: "These are all REAL Bloodhound Gang songs".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever he talks about growing up in a fundamentalist Christian church.
** He also did a recent video about being a suicide survivor.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Crash brings up whenever he tackles a genre outside of his jurisdiction. It ended up happening so often that it became one of the primary reasons for his channel rebranding.
* PantyShot: Comes across one of these during "Bad Album Covers" on a particularly-campy cover for a recording of ''[[{{Music/GustavHolst}} The Planets]]''.
* ProudToBeAGeek: Cited as a large part of why Crash loves early, ''Blue Album''-era Weezer so much, specifically the track "In The Garage".
* RunningGag:
** "The Problem", whenever Crash considers the possibility that ItsTheSameSoItSucks will be invoked, when discussing bands that have one specific approach to songcrafting that they stuck to throughout their career.
** "The [[{{Music/ImagineDragons}} Imagine Dragon]]", whenever a band jumps on the trend of filing off their normal sound in favour of forgettable electronica.
** Referring to the year 2018 as "I lived, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]" during his Worst of 2018 list.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Pretty much what Lil' D.Va does when Crash reveals ''Warning'' is his absolute personal favorite Green Day album, which is supposed to be his most despised so they wouldn't receive massive amounts of hater comments.
** Crash's response to [[spoiler: the animate faces of the Green Day trilogy albums revealing themselves to be the cause of the impending apocalypse]]. At least at first.
* SelfDeprecation: Appears often, though normally feels to be from a place of genuine humbleness.
* SensoryAbuse: Both referenced and invoked in his review of ''[[{{Music/Vektor}} Terminal Redux]]''. Crash's biggest gripe with the album comes from David [=DiSanto's=] [[HarshVocals vocal style]], and he illustrates this with a high-pitched whine during the review.
* SharedUniverse: Because of Crash's various cameos, mainly for/with Channel Awesome reviewers, the show is part of the Reviewaverse.
* ShoutOut: Mainly to memes.
--> '''Satanic Jackula:''' Why does anyone watch you?!
--> '''Crash:''' Dank memes, [[Main/ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]]
--> ''Suddenly surrounded by flashing and noisy memes while his expression remains.''
** The entire first few minutes of "Green Day Retrospective: Part 2" has Li'l D.Va doing a beat-for-beat reinterpretation of ''[[{{WebVideo/FilthyFrank}} The Filthy Frank Show]]'' [[spoiler:as a cover for an attempt to assassinate Crash before he destroys the city.]]
** Tends to occasionally pronounce the word "Dick" as [[{{WebVideo/ProJared}} "D'yuck"]], such as in his review of ''[[{{Music/Radiohead}} A Moon-Shaped Pool]]''.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_9fGLtCUo&t=24m15s At the end of his Best And Worst Albums of 2015 video]], Crash retired his fedora he'd been wearing since the start of the channel, to be replaced by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ai3MHdTLyA a black beanie]], along with a denim vest with band buttons and patches. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEazuE4AP50&t=1h2m32s Crash hated the fedora for years and wishes he'd made the change a lot sooner.]]
** Following the "WE'E REBRANDING" video, Crash discusses how he was also dropping the denims vest as well, stating that with the current lighting he uses for videos makes using it rather difficult due to the heat.
* SigningOffCatchphrase: "I'm Crash Thompson, and remember: the only opinion that really matters is your own. Cheers." Although he's begun to drop the catchphrase due to wanting to drop the usage of "cliches" on his content.
* SpinOff:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW_tPidOE9IteLtGSBq0CQ2IKuAFTl49q Critical Condition]], his series on MetalSucks where he reviewed specifically metal albums. The series ended in 2016 due to Crash's packed schedule, although he did briefly come back in May 2017 for a one-off episode on Danzig's ''Black Laden Crown'', the follow-up to Crash's pick for Worst Album of 2015.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCklPAK1twthe0HKPLoJSh6A Game & Crash]], his second channel dedicated to video games.
* {{Squee}}: Whenever he finds a {{camp}} or a [[Main/CampGay 'gay']] album cover, which has always happened in his three Bad Album Covers videos.
* StoryArc: [[spoiler:Starts at the end of the first episode of the Green Day Retrospective, and ends with the third episode. Turns out Lil' D.Va was from the future, sent to the past by the South Korean armed forces to stop Indianapolis from blowing up later in 2017. According to Lil' D.Va, the aftermath of the explosion will destroy the country and then eventually the world. Lil' D.Va only estimated [[Main/PersonOfMassDestruction Crash]] will be the cause since his Super Saiyan mode in his review of Raditude actually destroyed an entire city block, and it's more than likely that a bigger reaction to Green Day's worst albums will cause [[Main/TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the End of the World as We Know It]]. But she was actually wrong, Crash wasn't exactly the cause. He wasn't powerful enough, even at his strongest, to destroy the world. The living albums, ''¡Uno!'', ''¡Dos!'', and ''¡Tré!'', were behind it all. They were using Crash as a conduit to drain power from him while he talks about them, in order to be capable of regeneration and destroy the world to rebuild it in their image. Crash didn't fight them straight away alongside Lil' Diva because he was in a depressed state and unable to care, instead he left. After he recovered, he fights an eldritch tentacled fusion of the living albums with his Saiyan powers, alongside Lil' D.Va in a mech, his friend Nathaniel with a baseball, and Conner and Lucas from The Geekery Collective (both have light sabers, additionally Conner has a sword and Lucas has an axe). When they failed, after an unseen fight with kung-fu, light saber battles, explosions, and fire breathing hookers, Lil' D.Va, Nathaniel, Conner, and Lucas stall the albums. Crash flies up and summons a Spite Bomb from the negative energy of people pissed off at the mediocrity of the albums. He drops it down on the albums, but he ran out of energy to ignite the bomb and destroy the albums. Until Lil' D.Va flies in and crashes into the albums. She ignited the bomb with her ultimate and destroyed the albums, thus preventing the apocalypse and completing her mission.]]
* SuddenlyShouting: From his review of Girl Band's ''Early Years'' EP:
--> "...if the album they release next month sounds anything like this EP...then...how can I put this...'''''[[KillItWithFire FUCKING BURN EVERYTHING!]] AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!'''''
* SuperMode: Transforming into his [[Manga/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]] form to destroy ''Raditude'' in his rage at the end of the Rise And Fall Of Weezer episode on said album.
** He tried to again when he faced Creator/CountJackula in the third volume of his Bad Album Covers videos...until he got [[CurbStompBattle smashed multiple times]] by Count Jackula's satanic [[AnvilOnHead anvil spell]].
* SuperStrength: Sent a missile flying back...with a [[HomeRunHitter baseball bat]]. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Done quite casually actually.]]
* SuperToughness: Lil' D.Va tried to kill him with a grenade, then with a cannon, and then tried to drown him. Nothing works.
--> "Even if you were here, I'm Saiyan, y'know. Bullets don't even really hurt me that much."
* TakeThat: To overrated albums and hater/troll commenters.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Most notably near the end of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbNGEawhuQ&t=51m28s Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands]] video, delivered directly to his "past self" and indirectly to the genre itself:
--> '''Present Crash:''' Dude, there is just... there is no way I could've been this stupid growing up. There just isn't! Like, I'm sorry, but you are a fucking dumbass. There is seriously something very wrong with you.
--> '''Past Crash:''' [[RunningGag We are literally the same- (person)]]
--> '''Present Crash:''' '''[[BigNo NO WE ARE NOT THE SAME!]]''' I grew up! I matured! I moved past all this bullshit!
--> Look, you've shown us some decent nu-metal bands here today - hell, some were actually really good, and probably do deserve more credit. But look at the damage this genre did as a whole. It blurred everything. By mixing all of these different genres together and doing it so half-assedly and lackluster, it just... resulted in this deluge of bland, boring, unbelievably insubstantial bands. Mediocre at everything, excelling in nothing. There may have been a few bands that went against that trend and got the recipe right, but for every nu-metal or alt-metal or whatever you wanna call it that did get it right, fifteen got it wrong. And these assholes completely clogged the market. The image of the angry, pissy, spoiled white boy became synonymous with the rock and metal image itself. That's what nu-metal did. Nu-metal made us look bad.
--> Nu-metal spoiled us rotten! And as a result... people fled.
--> People left rock and metal in droves. People got sick of listening to someone bitch about their bullshit problems, when they already had plenty of problems to deal with in their own lives. They got sick of the samey, ceaselessly repeating melodies and hooks, they got sick of the mealey-mouthed, soulless, personality-less drones creating generic product after generic product after generic, pandering, useless, empty product!
--> Nu-metal hurt us in ways that we're still trying to recover from, even today, rocker and metalhead alike, and... the fact that you would put [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine one of the best bands in the freaking world]] on this list... it just blows my freaking mind. What is your fucking malfunction!?
** This was immediately counteracted by his past self, which his present self took to heart and in turn delivered a more optimistic [[RousingSpeech Rousing Speech]] to close out the episode.
** He ends his review of ''[[{{Music/AllThatRemains}} The Order Of Things]]'' with one of these directed at frontman Philip Labonte, [[spoiler:which turns out to be lyrics from the next album he's about to review, ''[[{{Music/LambOfGod}} Sturm Und Drang]]''.]]
** His video on the Top 10 worst Pitchfork reviews has Crash unloading on the website's snobbish elitism after a bitter, nonsensical review of [[Music/{{Tool}} Lateralus]]:
-->'''Crash''': It’s what kills a lot of Pitchfork’s reviews, and even a lot of their non-review related content. Just…the ''contempt.'' Absolute, searing contempt…for the artist, for the audience, for their own fucking readers! This goddamn website has such a bad habit of telling people how small and insignificant and ''stupid'' they are to be a part of something, or to want to be a part of something. And this review in particular is just dripping with that kind of hostile, absolutely disgusting contempt. It’s gatekeeping of the absolute worst kind, and its only real purpose is to make you feel bad, feel lesser, feel out of the loop. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WE. ARE. BETTER. THAN. YOU.]]
** An opus-length speech comprises the entirety of the number 1 entry for Crash's worst album of 2019, directed at [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and his musical review of ''Music/TheWall'']]. It gets vitriolic enough to (at least narratively) spur on Crash dropping the "Rock Critic" branding at the end.
** Gives one to Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch for their music video of "Living the Dream" in his Top 10 Worst Albums of 2020 video, criticizing them for taking off their masks in the video and possibly causing the deaths of Americans from the coronavirus with the music video.
* ThemeNaming: Crash often spots a recurring theme with a few of his yearly "Worst Of..." lists:
** 2013: "You should know better."
** 2014: "Who gave these sociopaths instruments?"
** 2017: "What the fuck are YOU doing here?!"
** 2018/[[RunningGag I Lived, Bitch]]: The rampage of the [[{{Music/ImagineDragons}} Imagine Dragon]]
** 2019: "Who is this even ''for''?"
** 2020: Stated in November of that year to be, "Oh yeah, that came out this year."
* ThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STI6C3pVWHY "Lexicon Devil"]] by The Germs, though he has since dropped this song following the rebrand due to repeated Content ID matches.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The cold open of his ''One More Light'' review:
-->'''Crash''': Jesus ''fucking'' Christ!
* UnPerson: In April 2020, during his first FIMI of the year, he introduced The Bin, into which he consigns bands and artists he never wants to talk about again. The list of bands/artists in The Bin is in the Recap tab.
* WaxingLyrical: During his massive, ''massive'' tirade against [[Music/GreenDay the ''Uno-Dos-Tre'' trilogy]] in his GDR 3 video, Crash lets loose:
-->'''Crash''': [[Music/{{Rush}} FOR I HAVE DINED ON HONEYDEW, AND DRUNK THE MILK OF]] ''[[{{Music/Dookie}} WELCOME TO PARADISE!]]''
* WhamLine: An absolutely ''devastating'' one in his video about Chester Bennington's suicide:
-->'''Crash''': "...I put a loaded shotgun in my mouth and pulled the trigger. The only reason I'm still alive is ''because that gun misfired.''"
** More of a WhamShot but it still fits here: At the end of the ''WORST OF 2019'' list after the tirade on [[spoiler: Creator/DougWalker's album/review of ''Music/TheWall'']], the screen shows the "The Rock Critic" logo...only to then show [[spoiler: [[EndOfAnEra 2012-2019]]]]...and then to [[spoiler: reveal the re-branding as "Crash Thompson"]].
* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: Throughout the first episode of the Green Day Retrospective, Lil' D.Va as Scotty tries to ensure the 'spaceship' has enough power to repel the typical hater comments to his unexpected opinions of Green Day's early albums.
* WorldOfWeirdness: Since the show is set in the Reviewaverse, weirdness is a natural part of the setting. For example, Crash not only being an alien, but a fictional alien species from an anime.
* YuriFan: Part of his love for Music/TeganAndSara.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm Crash Thompson, and remember: the only opinion that really matters is your own. Cheers."]]
Crash Thompson (formerly known as '''''The Rock Critic''''') is a Website/YouTube music review and comedy channel, running since August 2012.
As the name implies, the channel mainly focuses on rock music, as well as adjacent genres such as metal, alternative, and the occasional foray into pop (provided the artist in question either [[Music/NeonTrees has]] or [[Music/TeganAndSara at some point in their career has had]] some sort of rock influence). The channel consists of full-length videos that delve into a specific album by a notable rock band - usually one that stands out sharply from the band's other output in some way, be it in sound or critical reception - in detail, lengthy retrospectives that cover the entire careers of bands across multiple full-length videos ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2W2vSITgpw&list=PLW_tPidOE9IsqeFs_fV2Yz19tTu4humlI The Rise And Fall Of]] Music/{{Weezer}} and the [[Music/GreenDay Green Day]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jYwebuYkZU&list=PLW_tPidOE9IumsL1JcBb0CS-tdrb4IZU9 Retrospective]]), "Quickies" which are shorter videos that cover recently released albums with Crash talking over footage of the band in question accompanied by brief visual gags, year-end lists of the best and worst albums of the preceding year, other series like Bad Album Covers and I Love This Song / I Hate This Song, all three of which are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty self-explanatory]], and a smattering of livestreams, Q&A videos, and subscriber specials, the three of which often overlap.
He also previously had a second series called Game & Crash (formerly hosted on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCklPAK1twthe0HKPLoJSh6A its own second channel]] before being moved to the main channel for the remainder of its run) wherein he talks about video games.
He is one of the four online music critics making up the Rock Coliseum collective, alongside ringleader [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer of Rocked]], [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Mark Grondin of Spectrum Pulse]], and [[WebVideo/{{ARTV}} Jon Compton of ARTV]], who do a regular livestream game of voting bands and albums selected by the chat to “live” or “die” (the latter in some creative and thematically ironic way) in a coliseum setting, as well as doing podcasts and attending events such as music festival Sonic Temple together.
He's also one of the original four commentators behind [[https://www.podcasts.com/one-crazy-weekend-9e99771ab One Crazy Weekend]], a wrestling podcast chronicling the many, many wrestling shows that occurred over Wrestlemania weekend of 2019, but had to leave the podcast due to scheduling conflicts.
His channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHqXktye0jdxyQf1egAWKw/ here]], and his Twitter [[http://twitter.com/CrashThompsonXO here]].
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!!Tropes:
* AuthorAppeal: References to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Crash is ''arguably'' the nicest and friendliest reviewer to be seen on Youtube, so it takes something special to push his buttons. A particular case was his review of King 810's ''La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God,'' one of the few albums to genuinely disgust him, partly due to frontman David Gunn's obsession with shock value instead of musical content.
* BlastingTime: Has been shown to use this in his review of Music/BadReligion's ''Into the Unknown''.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Every available category, up to and including Refusal To Rate.
** '''Hitting the limit:''' A few albums have ranked 0.5/5, suggesting there was a possible 0, but no album was ranked so lowly--until his ''Worst Of 2019''. There, in a fearsome TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he gave his first 0/5 [[spoiler: to the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic's]] parody of ''Music/TheWall'']].
** '''Out of bounds:''' PlayedForLaughs in the ''[[{{Music/NinjaSexParty}} Attitude City]]'' review, where he gives it a billion out of five (the actual rating was a four out of five)
** '''Meaningless Comparison:''' Quite often in his reviews, including fire extinguishers for Music/InFlames, Lisa Frank folders for Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer'', and dead memes for {{Music/Tool}}.
** '''Meaningless Value''' ''"[[Music/LinkinPark One More Light]]'' gets COMPLETE FUCKING DARKNESS...out of 5!"
--> [[SubvertedTrope For real though, 0.5/5. Seriously, fuck this noise.]]
** Crash gives ''The Terror'' by the Music/FlamingLips a "[[MindScrew zibbledygorp out of zook]]".
** Also: in his 2020 Quarter 1 FIMI, he rated ''Mixing Colors'' by Roger Eno and Music/BrianEno as "[[CatchingSomeZs Zzz/5]]"
** '''Impossible To Rate:''' In his 2020 Quarter 3 FIMI, he reacted to Will Woods' ''The Normal Album'' with "Huh?/5"
** '''Refusal To Rate:''' In his 2020 Quarter 2 FIMI, he flat-out refused to review ''Goodness, Gracious'' by Back Up Kid on the grounds that Back Up Kid wasn't a professional musician and was too small an act to subject to scrutiny. Crash then expressed his annoyance and even anger at people who requested reviews for hobbyists and musicians who just wanted to have fun, and stated that acts had to at least have 400 monthly viewers on Spotify to be reviewed. Otherwise, he'd veto the request. He then stated he did enjoy the album and gave Back Up Kid some encouragement.
* BrokenPedestal: Like many online reviewers, he once cited Creator/DougWalker as an influence. Now, he never wants to turn out like him.
* TheCameo:
** In Bad Album Covers, Vol. 2, [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]], [[Creator/HorrorGuru the Horror Guru]], and Yomarz appear on a brief game show sketch to earn points by thinking up [[DoubleEntendre many dick innuendos]] in twenty seconds for an album cover with the title [[AccidentalInnuendo 'My Lips Are For Blowing']].
** Crash calls up [[Creator/CountJackula Satanic Jackula]] on Skype in Bad Album Covers, Vol. 3 to make fun of how his face paint matches the face paint of a band in a bad album cover.
*** Satanic Jackula interrupts Crash's Metal Gear Solid parody, calling him on the 'Codec', to complain to him about sending over a package of exploding gorilla shit. While Crash coyly denies he sent it, Satanic Jackula knows he did because the package has [[ManChild a giant note written in crayon that says 'SAIYANS RULE! WEIRD SKULLFACE GUYS DROOL']], with a [[TerribleArtist badly drawn crayon cartoon of Crash as a Super Saiyan and Satanic Jackula's face behind a circle-backslash symbol.]]
*** Satanic Jackula appears again briefly, frustrated that he missed [[DoubleEntendre the Great Snatch]].
*** Finally, Count Jackula himself appears to avenge Satanic Jackula by using [[BlackMagic Satanic]] [[InstantRunes magic]] to drop multiple anvils on top of Crash's head, even more so after Crash goes Super Saiyan.
** [[Creator/HorrorGuru The Horror Guru]] sent a missile after Crash in his video review of Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Hot Minute album, because he didn't give a good review to Five Finger Death Punch's album, Got Your Six.
*** Apparently in the same review, Guru sent another missile to [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]] for the exact same reason. [[HouseFire Unfortunately, Crash was too late when he called to warn him.]]
*** Then [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], ARTV, Mark of Spin It! Reviews, WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera, Calluna, and Lil' D.Va appear in the review to work out the meaning of the confusing 'I Am You Are Me' verse of Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Big Mob song along with Crash. Jerk's cameo ends when the missile Crash knocked back with a baseball bat ends up [[ResetButton temporarily]] destroying Disneyland.
*** Jerk returns to call Crash to ask him what he did to the missile, not mentioning Disneyland temporarily ([[WhatTheHellHero though seemingly permanently]]) turning into a [[CrapsackWorld fiery post-apocalyptic version of itself]] because of it.
** In the first episode of The Green Day Retrospective, ARTV appeared to throw rocks at Crash and make him build up Dookie because it's Crash's job and it has already taken Crash too long to get the retrospective started while it only took ARTV two months to review Green Day's entire discography.
*** WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera then appears, confused and infuriated that Green Day would turn down a free trip to Disneyland by a record label. Jerk [[RageBreakingPoint silently grew angrier]] as Crash admitted he would turn down free Disneyland as well and would rather go to Universal Studios.
** [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews The Dom]] appears in QUICKIES!: Catch-Up Quickie #8 - Gotta Ketch 'Em Up to stop Crash's [[FakeBrit bad fake British accent]].
** In the second episode of the Green Day Retrospective, Lil' D.Va called up [[WebVideo/DiamandaHagan Diamanda Hagan]] on Skype to ask her if she knows anyone who can kill a Saiyan and then explains to Hagan why she needs Crash to be dead.
** There's plenty on the third episode of the Green Day Retrospective. Because of a hysterical fit induced figuratively and literally by ''¡Uno!'', ''¡Dos!'', and ''¡Tré!'', Crash calls up [[WebVideo/TheDomReviews The Dom]] and Calluna to tell them they have more subscribers than ''¡Tré!'' sold on its opening week. They notice something is wrong with him and make a few phone calls. They got Crash's friend Nathaniel to give him some advice.
*** After recovering from his depressed state, he fights the eldritch abomination/amalgamation of the living albums (voiced by [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]]), alongside Lil' D.Va, Nathaniel, and Conner and Lucas from the Geekery Collective.
*** When they failed, Crash creates a [[Main/CombinedEnergyAttack Spite Bomb]] made from the negative energy of numerous submitted cameos of both fans and reviewers, including reviewers [=TheHappySpaceman=], [[WebVideo/TheRosenHacker Rosen Hacker]], and Magnetrex.
** Crash's Top Ten Worst Pitchfork Reviews has cameos from [[WebVideo/SpectrumPulse Mark of Spectrum Pulse]], [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke of Rocked Reviews]] and viralrak, respectively covering the fourth, third and second entries on the list.
* CasualTimeTravel: How Past Crash traveled to the 'future' to meet Present Crash.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The second episode of the Green Day Retrospective ends with Lil' D.Va shooting Crash. Resolved in the next episode, it didn't work.
* ClusterFBomb: Crash is known to be quite the colorful curser.
* ConstructiveCriticism
* CountryMatters: Delivers a [[PrecisionFStrike very blunt one]] towards King 810's ''La Petit Mort or A Conversation With God''.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: He does try to be fair and give a compliment if an album really does deserve one.
* DeadHorseGenre: Invoked by name at the start of Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands.
--> "And you know, there's no better way to get back to basics than to do... what pretty much every internet reviewer is known for doing."
--> *{{beat}}*
--> "BEATING A DEAD HORSE! HOLY ''FUCK'', DID NU-METAL SUCK ASS!"
* DespairEventHorizon: Crash crosses it ''big time'' towards the end of his Green Day Retrospective 3 video, to the point where he flat-out abandons Lil' D.Va when things look most bleak and goes to drown his sorrows at a coffee shop. Thankfully, through the encouragement of one of his friends, [[HesBack he gets better.]]
* DontShootTheMessage: A bizarre variant occurs in his 'Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews', discussing their original 2000 review of Kid A by {{Music/Radiohead}}. While Crash absolutely believes the album is a '10 out of 10' like the review claims, the bewildering, excessive and unsettling way the review discusses the album (one notable passage compares the experience to a ''stillborn child'') almost manages to make the album seem unappealing.
* {{Facepalm}}: Frequently. Never a good sign. For example, his 2020 Quarter 2 FIMI segment where he talks about Jeff Rosenstock's ''No Dream'', he starts out with a facepalm, does a ''double'' facepalm, then goes on a rant about how he simply does not care for nor about this fellow's music.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a lot of brief foreshadowing for his Games & Crash spinoff channel and the Green Day Retrospective in his ''One Hot Minute'' review.
* FreudianSlip: He would've danced around in nothing but a tube sock after talking about his love for Music/RedHotChiliPeppers, but he couldn't find a sock small- LARGE...enough.
** He namechecks two of the tracks on ''[[{{Music/Radiohead}} A Moon-Shaped Pool]]'' as "Desert Island [[{{WebVideo/ProJared}} D'yuck]]" and "D'yucks Dark".
* TheGadfly: To Satanic Jackula.
* HumanAliens: Crash is a Saiyan.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Lil' (or Gremlin) D.Va.
--> '''Lil' D.Va:''' You know, I'm the only one here who has experience in flying and operating high tech machinery, why the hell do you get to be the captain?!
* HypocriticalHumor: Crash does a voice-over rant about Starbucks and their over-priced water-downed soy milk chai lattes in his review of ''One Hot Minute'', then the video interrupts and [[Main/GilliganCut cuts]] to Crash enjoying a soy milk Starbucks drink right before he drops it as he realizes his viewers are seeing him drink it.
* IHatePastMe: First invoked in the Rise And Fall Of Weezer episode on ''Make Believe'', where he shudders at his past self's fandom of Music/{{Seether}} after flashing back to his college days. Said past incarnation of Crash and his quintessentially 2000's "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wangst angsty]]" taste in fashion and music would become a recurring theme on the channel, coming to a head when Past Crash would travel to the present and this trope would be a central plot point of Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands.
* ImOkay: Crash says this in the pilot (the ''St. Anger'' review).
* InTheStyleOf: Crash's 500 subscriber special, a review of "Back to the Shack" by Music/{{Weezer}}, is done in the style of WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows.
* ItsPersonal: When it comes to the end of ''[[Music/{{Weezer}} Hurley]]'' off ''The Rise and Fall of Weezer'', Crash makes it clear the reason he reviewed the albums up to this point was because of ''how disappointed'' he was at Weezer becoming a shell of it's former self and not even with [[SoOkayItsAverage Hurley's okay reception]] was redeeming a band he once loved dearly.
** In his review/breakdown of ''[[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers One Hot Minute]]'', one of the reasons that Crash feels obligated to defend the album is because he endured a miserable childhood in a fundamentalist Christian household, and the song "Shallow Be Thy Game" (which criticizes organized religion) brought him "a lot of comfort and reassurance in what I would call one of my darkest times".
* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: Invoked as a primary criticism of ''[[{{Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown}} 21st Century Breakdown]]'', having reviewed [[{{Music/AmericanIdiot}} the album's predecessor]] in great detail immediately beforehand.
* JawDrop: In his Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews video, a particularly insane passage from their ''Music/KidA'' review that involves a stillborn child leaves Crash in slack-jawed shock.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the Dishonorable Mentions section of "The Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews", Crash mentions their review of Jet's ''Shine On'', which features a link to a [=YouTube=] video of a monkey urinating in its own mouth. The only reason he gives it a dishonorable mention is because... "they're not wrong".
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by the Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four [=CDs=] that have to be played at the same time on four individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can negatively affect the album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four [=CDs=] at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase, particularly after reading a line stating that Flaming Lips fans spend their money on "inhalants and detox".
* LampshadeHanging: Crash is now aware he has a TV Tropes page and has recently lampshaded at least two of the tropes found on this page.
* LargeHam: The screaming he lets out at times should tell ya otherwise.
* LeftHanging: Who did Diamanda Hagan recommend to Lil' D.Va to kill Crash and where were they?
* LighterAndSofter: Like many other [=YouTube=] music critics not named WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, he has done his part to focus less on negative reviews, especially following the 2020 rebranding. However, in cases such as Glenn Danzig's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9M6_Q9h-3o Elvis Presley covers album]], he can't help it.
* {{Metalhead}}: Duh.
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: He ends up trying to describe {{Music/Igorrr}} as, "Death-Black-Metalcore-Throat Singing-Baroque-Industrial-EDM-Euro Folk-Harpsichord-Slamdance".
* TheNicknamer: Whenever an album has a ridiculously long or [[NoPronunciationGuide vague-to-pronounce]] title, Crash would just nickname it with a shorter regular name like Davy[[labelnote:*]]For [[{{Music/RobZombie}} Rob Zombie's]] ''The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser''[[/labelnote]], Chris[[labelnote:*]]For [[{{Music/GreenDay}} Green Day's]] ''1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours''[[/labelnote]], or Andy[[labelnote:*]]For A Lot Like Birds' ''Divisi''[[/labelnote]].
* NoPronunciationGuide: Sometimes struggles with the pronunciations of particularly foreign or oddly spelled names of bands and band members, more often than not leading him to apologize for any mispronunciations.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: During his I Love This Song episode on "The Bad Touch" by Music/BloodhoundGang, to show the audience how insipid the band's music is, he lists several of their song titles, including "The Evils of Placenta Hustling", "Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny", and "Diarrhea... It Runs in the Family". A caption appears on screen, stating: "These are all REAL Bloodhound Gang songs".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever he talks about growing up in a fundamentalist Christian church.
** He also did a recent video about being a suicide survivor.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Crash brings up whenever he tackles a genre outside of his jurisdiction. It ended up happening so often that it became one of the primary reasons for his channel rebranding.
* PantyShot: Comes across one of these during "Bad Album Covers" on a particularly-campy cover for a recording of ''[[{{Music/GustavHolst}} The Planets]]''.
* ProudToBeAGeek: Cited as a large part of why Crash loves early, ''Blue Album''-era Weezer so much, specifically the track "In The Garage".
* RunningGag:
** "The Problem", whenever Crash considers the possibility that ItsTheSameSoItSucks will be invoked, when discussing bands that have one specific approach to songcrafting that they stuck to throughout their career.
** "The [[{{Music/ImagineDragons}} Imagine Dragon]]", whenever a band jumps on the trend of filing off their normal sound in favour of forgettable electronica.
** Referring to the year 2018 as "I lived, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]" during his Worst of 2018 list.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Pretty much what Lil' D.Va does when Crash reveals ''Warning'' is his absolute personal favorite Green Day album, which is supposed to be his most despised so they wouldn't receive massive amounts of hater comments.
** Crash's response to [[spoiler: the animate faces of the Green Day trilogy albums revealing themselves to be the cause of the impending apocalypse]]. At least at first.
* SelfDeprecation: Appears often, though normally feels to be from a place of genuine humbleness.
* SensoryAbuse: Both referenced and invoked in his review of ''[[{{Music/Vektor}} Terminal Redux]]''. Crash's biggest gripe with the album comes from David [=DiSanto's=] [[HarshVocals vocal style]], and he illustrates this with a high-pitched whine during the review.
* SharedUniverse: Because of Crash's various cameos, mainly for/with Channel Awesome reviewers, the show is part of the Reviewaverse.
* ShoutOut: Mainly to memes.
--> '''Satanic Jackula:''' Why does anyone watch you?!
--> '''Crash:''' Dank memes, [[Main/ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]]
--> ''Suddenly surrounded by flashing and noisy memes while his expression remains.''
** The entire first few minutes of "Green Day Retrospective: Part 2" has Li'l D.Va doing a beat-for-beat reinterpretation of ''[[{{WebVideo/FilthyFrank}} The Filthy Frank Show]]'' [[spoiler:as a cover for an attempt to assassinate Crash before he destroys the city.]]
** Tends to occasionally pronounce the word "Dick" as [[{{WebVideo/ProJared}} "D'yuck"]], such as in his review of ''[[{{Music/Radiohead}} A Moon-Shaped Pool]]''.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_9fGLtCUo&t=24m15s At the end of his Best And Worst Albums of 2015 video]], Crash retired his fedora he'd been wearing since the start of the channel, to be replaced by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ai3MHdTLyA a black beanie]], along with a denim vest with band buttons and patches. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEazuE4AP50&t=1h2m32s Crash hated the fedora for years and wishes he'd made the change a lot sooner.]]
** Following the "WE'E REBRANDING" video, Crash discusses how he was also dropping the denims vest as well, stating that with the current lighting he uses for videos makes using it rather difficult due to the heat.
* SigningOffCatchphrase: "I'm Crash Thompson, and remember: the only opinion that really matters is your own. Cheers." Although he's begun to drop the catchphrase due to wanting to drop the usage of "cliches" on his content.
* SpinOff:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW_tPidOE9IteLtGSBq0CQ2IKuAFTl49q Critical Condition]], his series on MetalSucks where he reviewed specifically metal albums. The series ended in 2016 due to Crash's packed schedule, although he did briefly come back in May 2017 for a one-off episode on Danzig's ''Black Laden Crown'', the follow-up to Crash's pick for Worst Album of 2015.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCklPAK1twthe0HKPLoJSh6A Game & Crash]], his second channel dedicated to video games.
* {{Squee}}: Whenever he finds a {{camp}} or a [[Main/CampGay 'gay']] album cover, which has always happened in his three Bad Album Covers videos.
* StoryArc: [[spoiler:Starts at the end of the first episode of the Green Day Retrospective, and ends with the third episode. Turns out Lil' D.Va was from the future, sent to the past by the South Korean armed forces to stop Indianapolis from blowing up later in 2017. According to Lil' D.Va, the aftermath of the explosion will destroy the country and then eventually the world. Lil' D.Va only estimated [[Main/PersonOfMassDestruction Crash]] will be the cause since his Super Saiyan mode in his review of Raditude actually destroyed an entire city block, and it's more than likely that a bigger reaction to Green Day's worst albums will cause [[Main/TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the End of the World as We Know It]]. But she was actually wrong, Crash wasn't exactly the cause. He wasn't powerful enough, even at his strongest, to destroy the world. The living albums, ''¡Uno!'', ''¡Dos!'', and ''¡Tré!'', were behind it all. They were using Crash as a conduit to drain power from him while he talks about them, in order to be capable of regeneration and destroy the world to rebuild it in their image. Crash didn't fight them straight away alongside Lil' Diva because he was in a depressed state and unable to care, instead he left. After he recovered, he fights an eldritch tentacled fusion of the living albums with his Saiyan powers, alongside Lil' D.Va in a mech, his friend Nathaniel with a baseball, and Conner and Lucas from The Geekery Collective (both have light sabers, additionally Conner has a sword and Lucas has an axe). When they failed, after an unseen fight with kung-fu, light saber battles, explosions, and fire breathing hookers, Lil' D.Va, Nathaniel, Conner, and Lucas stall the albums. Crash flies up and summons a Spite Bomb from the negative energy of people pissed off at the mediocrity of the albums. He drops it down on the albums, but he ran out of energy to ignite the bomb and destroy the albums. Until Lil' D.Va flies in and crashes into the albums. She ignited the bomb with her ultimate and destroyed the albums, thus preventing the apocalypse and completing her mission.]]
* SuddenlyShouting: From his review of Girl Band's ''Early Years'' EP:
--> "...if the album they release next month sounds anything like this EP...then...how can I put this...'''''[[KillItWithFire FUCKING BURN EVERYTHING!]] AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!'''''
* SuperMode: Transforming into his [[Manga/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]] form to destroy ''Raditude'' in his rage at the end of the Rise And Fall Of Weezer episode on said album.
** He tried to again when he faced Creator/CountJackula in the third volume of his Bad Album Covers videos...until he got [[CurbStompBattle smashed multiple times]] by Count Jackula's satanic [[AnvilOnHead anvil spell]].
* SuperStrength: Sent a missile flying back...with a [[HomeRunHitter baseball bat]]. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Done quite casually actually.]]
* SuperToughness: Lil' D.Va tried to kill him with a grenade, then with a cannon, and then tried to drown him. Nothing works.
--> "Even if you were here, I'm Saiyan, y'know. Bullets don't even really hurt me that much."
* TakeThat: To overrated albums and hater/troll commenters.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Most notably near the end of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbNGEawhuQ&t=51m28s Top 10 Best Nu-Metal Bands]] video, delivered directly to his "past self" and indirectly to the genre itself:
--> '''Present Crash:''' Dude, there is just... there is no way I could've been this stupid growing up. There just isn't! Like, I'm sorry, but you are a fucking dumbass. There is seriously something very wrong with you.
--> '''Past Crash:''' [[RunningGag We are literally the same- (person)]]
--> '''Present Crash:''' '''[[BigNo NO WE ARE NOT THE SAME!]]''' I grew up! I matured! I moved past all this bullshit!
--> Look, you've shown us some decent nu-metal bands here today - hell, some were actually really good, and probably do deserve more credit. But look at the damage this genre did as a whole. It blurred everything. By mixing all of these different genres together and doing it so half-assedly and lackluster, it just... resulted in this deluge of bland, boring, unbelievably insubstantial bands. Mediocre at everything, excelling in nothing. There may have been a few bands that went against that trend and got the recipe right, but for every nu-metal or alt-metal or whatever you wanna call it that did get it right, fifteen got it wrong. And these assholes completely clogged the market. The image of the angry, pissy, spoiled white boy became synonymous with the rock and metal image itself. That's what nu-metal did. Nu-metal made us look bad.
--> Nu-metal spoiled us rotten! And as a result... people fled.
--> People left rock and metal in droves. People got sick of listening to someone bitch about their bullshit problems, when they already had plenty of problems to deal with in their own lives. They got sick of the samey, ceaselessly repeating melodies and hooks, they got sick of the mealey-mouthed, soulless, personality-less drones creating generic product after generic product after generic, pandering, useless, empty product!
--> Nu-metal hurt us in ways that we're still trying to recover from, even today, rocker and metalhead alike, and... the fact that you would put [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine one of the best bands in the freaking world]] on this list... it just blows my freaking mind. What is your fucking malfunction!?
** This was immediately counteracted by his past self, which his present self took to heart and in turn delivered a more optimistic [[RousingSpeech Rousing Speech]] to close out the episode.
** He ends his review of ''[[{{Music/AllThatRemains}} The Order Of Things]]'' with one of these directed at frontman Philip Labonte, [[spoiler:which turns out to be lyrics from the next album he's about to review, ''[[{{Music/LambOfGod}} Sturm Und Drang]]''.]]
** His video on the Top 10 worst Pitchfork reviews has Crash unloading on the website's snobbish elitism after a bitter, nonsensical review of [[Music/{{Tool}} Lateralus]]:
-->'''Crash''': It’s what kills a lot of Pitchfork’s reviews, and even a lot of their non-review related content. Just…the ''contempt.'' Absolute, searing contempt…for the artist, for the audience, for their own fucking readers! This goddamn website has such a bad habit of telling people how small and insignificant and ''stupid'' they are to be a part of something, or to want to be a part of something. And this review in particular is just dripping with that kind of hostile, absolutely disgusting contempt. It’s gatekeeping of the absolute worst kind, and its only real purpose is to make you feel bad, feel lesser, feel out of the loop. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WE. ARE. BETTER. THAN. YOU.]]
** An opus-length speech comprises the entirety of the number 1 entry for Crash's worst album of 2019, directed at [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and his musical review of ''Music/TheWall'']]. It gets vitriolic enough to (at least narratively) spur on Crash dropping the "Rock Critic" branding at the end.
** Gives one to Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch for their music video of "Living the Dream" in his Top 10 Worst Albums of 2020 video, criticizing them for taking off their masks in the video and possibly causing the deaths of Americans from the coronavirus with the music video.
* ThemeNaming: Crash often spots a recurring theme with a few of his yearly "Worst Of..." lists:
** 2013: "You should know better."
** 2014: "Who gave these sociopaths instruments?"
** 2017: "What the fuck are YOU doing here?!"
** 2018/[[RunningGag I Lived, Bitch]]: The rampage of the [[{{Music/ImagineDragons}} Imagine Dragon]]
** 2019: "Who is this even ''for''?"
** 2020: Stated in November of that year to be, "Oh yeah, that came out this year."
* ThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STI6C3pVWHY "Lexicon Devil"]] by The Germs, though he has since dropped this song following the rebrand due to repeated Content ID matches.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The cold open of his ''One More Light'' review:
-->'''Crash''': Jesus ''fucking'' Christ!
* UnPerson: In April 2020, during his first FIMI of the year, he introduced The Bin, into which he consigns bands and artists he never wants to talk about again. The list of bands/artists in The Bin is in the Recap tab.
* WaxingLyrical: During his massive, ''massive'' tirade against [[Music/GreenDay the ''Uno-Dos-Tre'' trilogy]] in his GDR 3 video, Crash lets loose:
-->'''Crash''': [[Music/{{Rush}} FOR I HAVE DINED ON HONEYDEW, AND DRUNK THE MILK OF]] ''[[{{Music/Dookie}} WELCOME TO PARADISE!]]''
* WhamLine: An absolutely ''devastating'' one in his video about Chester Bennington's suicide:
-->'''Crash''': "...I put a loaded shotgun in my mouth and pulled the trigger. The only reason I'm still alive is ''because that gun misfired.''"
** More of a WhamShot but it still fits here: At the end of the ''WORST OF 2019'' list after the tirade on [[spoiler: Creator/DougWalker's album/review of ''Music/TheWall'']], the screen shows the "The Rock Critic" logo...only to then show [[spoiler: [[EndOfAnEra 2012-2019]]]]...and then to [[spoiler: reveal the re-branding as "Crash Thompson"]].
* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: Throughout the first episode of the Green Day Retrospective, Lil' D.Va as Scotty tries to ensure the 'spaceship' has enough power to repel the typical hater comments to his unexpected opinions of Green Day's early albums.
* WorldOfWeirdness: Since the show is set in the Reviewaverse, weirdness is a natural part of the setting. For example, Crash not only being an alien, but a fictional alien species from an anime.
* YuriFan: Part of his love for Music/TeganAndSara.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Crash is ''arguably'' the nicest and friendliest reviewer to be seen on Youtube, but do NOT push his buttons. A particularly ''big'' example was how completely infuriated and disgusted he was with King 810's album ''La petite mort or A Conversation with God'' and the fact front-man David Gunn wants to be known for infamy than actual content.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Crash is ''arguably'' the nicest and friendliest reviewer to be seen on Youtube, but do NOT so it takes something special to push his buttons. A particularly ''big'' example particular case was how completely infuriated and disgusted he was with his review of King 810's album ''La petite mort Petite Mort or A a Conversation with God'' and God,'' one of the fact front-man few albums to genuinely disgust him, partly due to frontman David Gunn wants to be known for infamy than actual Gunn's obsession with shock value instead of musical content.
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* UnPerson: In April 2020, during his first FIMI of the year, he introduced The Bin, into which he consigns bands and artists he never wants to talk about again. Currently, the list of bands/artists in The Bin are as follows:
** Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch (as of April 2020)
** [[Music/AttilaMetalcore Attila]], informally
** Backwordz, informally
** Music/BrandNew, informally
** Music/{{Trapt}}, informally
** Music/AllThatRemains, informally
** King 810, informally[[labelnote:*]]He actually does formally bin them in the Worst of 2016 list, but this is still considered informal because this was long before the concept was officially introduced in the Q1 2020 FIMI.[[/labelnote]]
** Music/AsILayDying, informally
** Music/{{Lostprophets}}, informally
** Music/BloodOnTheDanceFloor, informally
** Music/TedNugent, informally
** 6ix9ine, informally
** Music/ChrisBrown, informally
** Dr. Luke, informally
** Vektor, informally
** Creator/DougWalker and Website/ChannelAwesome (see "Worst of 2019")
** Psychosexual, informally
** Music/MarilynManson (as of October 2020)
** Music/AzealiaBanks, informally
** Music/{{Emmure}} (as of December 2020)
** Music/IcedEarth, informally
** In the Worst Albums of 2020 list, he threatens to put Music/AskingAlexandria in the bin too. However, he has since confirmed on Twitter that he would not be binning them for now since he believed it was not fair to bin a whole band over one bad album. Similar thing happened with Weezer when Rivers Cuomo announced he would be releasing four albums in the course of 2021; Crash went on an angry rant on Twitter following this announcement since he believed that the only way a band can manage to make four whole albums in one year is if they just do not care about making quality music. However, he confirmed that he would not be binning Weezer (for now), he just will not listen to any of the albums.
** Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch (as of April 2020)
** [[Music/AttilaMetalcore Attila]], informally
** Backwordz, informally
** Music/BrandNew, informally
** Music/{{Trapt}}, informally
** Music/AllThatRemains, informally
** King 810, informally[[labelnote:*]]He actually does formally bin them in the Worst of 2016 list, but this is still considered informal because this was long before the concept was officially introduced in the Q1 2020 FIMI.[[/labelnote]]
** Music/AsILayDying, informally
** Music/{{Lostprophets}}, informally
** Music/BloodOnTheDanceFloor, informally
** Music/TedNugent, informally
** 6ix9ine, informally
** Music/ChrisBrown, informally
** Dr. Luke, informally
** Vektor, informally
** Creator/DougWalker and Website/ChannelAwesome (see "Worst of 2019")
** Psychosexual, informally
** Music/MarilynManson (as of October 2020)
** Music/AzealiaBanks, informally
** Music/{{Emmure}} (as of December 2020)
** Music/IcedEarth, informally
** In the Worst Albums of 2020 list, he threatens to put Music/AskingAlexandria in the bin too. However, he has since confirmed on Twitter that he would not be binning them for now since he believed it was not fair to bin a whole band over one bad album. Similar thing happened with Weezer when Rivers Cuomo announced he would be releasing four albums in the course of 2021; Crash went on an angry rant on Twitter following this announcement since he believed that the only way a band can manage to make four whole albums in one year is if they just do not care about making quality music. However, he confirmed that he would not be binning Weezer (for now), he just will not listen to any of the albums.
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* UnPerson: In April 2020, during his first FIMI of the year, he introduced The Bin, into which he consigns bands and artists he never wants to talk about again. Currently, the The list of bands/artists in The Bin are as follows:
** Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch (as of April 2020)
** [[Music/AttilaMetalcore Attila]], informally
** Backwordz, informally
** Music/BrandNew, informally
** Music/{{Trapt}}, informally
** Music/AllThatRemains, informally
** King 810, informally[[labelnote:*]]He actually does formally bin themis in the Worst of 2016 list, but this is still considered informal because this was long before the concept was officially introduced in the Q1 2020 FIMI.[[/labelnote]]
** Music/AsILayDying, informally
** Music/{{Lostprophets}}, informally
** Music/BloodOnTheDanceFloor, informally
** Music/TedNugent, informally
** 6ix9ine, informally
** Music/ChrisBrown, informally
** Dr. Luke, informally
** Vektor, informally
** Creator/DougWalker and Website/ChannelAwesome (see "Worst of 2019")
** Psychosexual, informally
** Music/MarilynManson (as of October 2020)
** Music/AzealiaBanks, informally
** Music/{{Emmure}} (as of December 2020)
** Music/IcedEarth, informally
** In the Worst Albums of 2020 list, he threatens to put Music/AskingAlexandria in the bin too. However, he has since confirmed on Twitter that he would not be binning them for now since he believed it was not fair to bin a whole band over one bad album. Similar thing happened with Weezer when Rivers Cuomo announced he would be releasing four albums in the course of 2021; Crash went on an angry rant on Twitter following this announcement since he believed that the only way a band can manage to make four whole albums in one year is if they just do not care about making quality music. However, he confirmed that he would not be binning Weezer (for now), he just will not listen to any of the albums.Recap tab.
** Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch (as of April 2020)
** [[Music/AttilaMetalcore Attila]], informally
** Backwordz, informally
** Music/BrandNew, informally
** Music/{{Trapt}}, informally
** Music/AllThatRemains, informally
** King 810, informally[[labelnote:*]]He actually does formally bin them
** Music/AsILayDying, informally
** Music/{{Lostprophets}}, informally
** Music/BloodOnTheDanceFloor, informally
** Music/TedNugent, informally
** 6ix9ine, informally
** Music/ChrisBrown, informally
** Dr. Luke, informally
** Vektor, informally
** Creator/DougWalker and Website/ChannelAwesome (see "Worst of 2019")
** Psychosexual, informally
** Music/MarilynManson (as of October 2020)
** Music/AzealiaBanks, informally
** Music/{{Emmure}} (as of December 2020)
** Music/IcedEarth, informally
** In the Worst Albums of 2020 list, he threatens to put Music/AskingAlexandria in the bin too. However, he has since confirmed on Twitter that he would not be binning them for now since he believed it was not fair to bin a whole band over one bad album. Similar thing happened with Weezer when Rivers Cuomo announced he would be releasing four albums in the course of 2021; Crash went on an angry rant on Twitter following this announcement since he believed that the only way a band can manage to make four whole albums in one year is if they just do not care about making quality music. However, he confirmed that he would not be binning Weezer (for now), he just will not listen to any of the albums.
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** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by the Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four [=CDs=] that have to be played at the same time on four individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can affect the album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four [=CDs=] at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase.
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** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by the Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four [=CDs=] that have to be played at the same time on four individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can negatively affect the album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four [=CDs=] at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase.fanbase, particularly after reading a line stating that Flaming Lips fans spend their money on "inhalants and detox".
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* JerkassHasAPoint: In the Dishonorable Mentions section of "The Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews", Crash mentions their review of Music/{{Jet}}'s ''Shine On'', which features a link to a YouTube video of a monkey urinating in its own mouth. The only reason he gives it a dishonorable mention is because... "they're not wrong".
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by The Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four CDs that have to be played at the same time on individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can affect an album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four CDs at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase.
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by The Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four CDs that have to be played at the same time on individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can affect an album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four CDs at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: In the Dishonorable Mentions section of "The Top 10 Worst Pitchfork Reviews", Crash mentions their review of Music/{{Jet}}'s Jet's ''Shine On'', which features a link to a YouTube [=YouTube=] video of a monkey urinating in its own mouth. The only reason he gives it a dishonorable mention is because... "they're not wrong".
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' byThe the Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four CDs [=CDs=] that have to be played at the same time on four individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can affect an the album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four CDs [=CDs=] at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase.
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by
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** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by The Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four CDs that have to be played at the same time on individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can affect an album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four CDs at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase.
** Similarly, when discussing Jason Josephes' review of ''Zaireeka'' by The Music/FlamingLips, Crash does concede that the album's format (four CDs that have to be played at the same time on individual CD players) is a demanding ask for an album, and that it can affect an album's score. However, he then goes on to criticize Josephes for giving the album a 0.0 after Josephes stated in the review that he did not attempt to play all four CDs at once; Crash also criticizes Josephes for taking "unnecessary potshots" at the Flaming Lips fanbase.
