History WebVideo / TheRockCritic

* PantyShot: Comes across one of these during "Bad Album Covers" on a particularly-campy cover for a recording of ''[[{{Music/GustavHolst}} The Planets]]''

* WaxingLyrical: During his massive, ''massive'' tirade against 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/GreenDay}} WELCOME TO PARADISE!]]''

* ProudToBeAGeek: Cited as a large part of why Crash loves early, ''Blue Album''-era Weezer so much, specifically the track In The Garage.

* TheCameo

** Tends to occasionally pronounce the word "Dick" as [[{{WebVideo/ProJared}} "D'yuck"]], such as in his review of ''[[{{Music/Radiohead}} A Moon-Shaped Pool]]''

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 [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/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.

* 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 first band to be publicly thrown into the bin was Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch. The next was Music/MarilynManson. Then Music/{{Emmure}}.
** He had also informally put [[Music/AttilaMetalcore Atilla]], Backwordz, Music/BrandNew, Music/{{Trapt}}, Music/AllThatRemains, King 810, Music/AsILayDying, and Music/{{Lostprophets}} in "the bin".

** 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 for the coronavirus with the music video.

* 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.

** He had also informally put [[Music/AttilaMetalcore Atilla]], Backwordz, Music/BrandNew, Music/{{Trapt}}, All That Remains, King 810, Music/AsILayDying, and Music/{{Lostprophets}} in "the bin".

* 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 first band to be publicly thrown into the bin was Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch. The next was Music/MarilynManson.

** '''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 [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic's]] Music/TheWall'']].

** '''Hitting the limit:''' While he never stated that his scale ''didn't'' include a 0, it wasn't until his ''Worst Of 2019'' list that he ranked an album so lowly: ''[[spoiler: [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic's]] Music/TheWall'']].

* BrokeTheRatingScale: Just about every available category, up to and including Refusal To Rate.

** 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)
** ''"[[Music/LinkinPark One More Light]]'' gets COMPLETE FUCKING DARKNESS...out of 5!"

** Played terrifyingly straight when on his ''WORST OF 2019'' list, he gave his first 0/5: ''[[spoiler: [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic's]] Music/TheWall'']].
** In his 2020 Quarter 1 FIMI, he rated ''Mixing Colors'' by Roger Eno and Music/BrianEno as "[[CatchingSomeZs Zzz/5]]"
** 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.
** In his 2020 Quarter 3 FIMI, he reacted to Will Woods' ''The Normal Album'' with "Huh?/5

* 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 first band to be publicly thrown into the bin was Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch.

* BrokeTheRatingScale: 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)

* 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 copyright strikes.

* 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.

* {{Adorkable}}: Let's all be honest: Beneath the metal and rock exterior, Crash tends to be this.

** 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 [[Main/DoubleEntendre many dick innuendos]] in twenty seconds for an album cover with the title [[Main/AccidentalInnuendo 'My Lips Are For Blowing']].

*** 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 [[Main/ManChild a giant note written in crayon that says 'SAIYANS RULE! WEIRD SKULLFACE GUYS DROOL']], with a [[Main/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 [[Main/DoubleEntendre the Great Snatch]].
*** Finally, Count Jackula himself appears to avenge Satanic Jackula by using [[Main/BlackMagic Satanic]] [[Main/InstantRunes magic]] to drop multiple anvils on top of Crash's head, even more so after Crash goes Super Saiyan.

*** Apparently in the same review, Guru sent another missile to [[WebVideo/RockedReviews Luke Spencer]] for the exact same reason. [[Main/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 Some Jerk With A Camera]], 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 [[Main/ResetButton temporarily]] destroying Disneyland.
*** Jerk returns to call Crash to ask him what he did to the missile, not mentioning Disneyland temporarily ([[Main/WhatTheHellHero though seemingly permanently]]) turning into a [[Main/CrapsackWorld fiery post-apocalyptic version of itself]] because of it.

*** [[WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera Some Jerk With A Camera]] then appears, confused and infuriated that Green Day would turn down a free trip to Disneyland by a record label. Jerk [[Main/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 [[Main/FakeBrit bad fake British accent]].

** 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. Crash then expressed his annoyance 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.

** In his 2020 Quarter 1 FIMI, he rated ''Mixing Colors'' by Roger Eno and Brian Eno as "[[CatchingSomeZs Zzz/5]]"