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Please vote in the next Song vs. Song poll!

This one is a big one, we are doing "Mr. Brightside" vs. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-mr-vs-i-73858939

An...

RAMBLE ON: "I Feel the Earth Move" by Carole King

One of the major changes in music writing that fascinates me is how, as rock music plummeted in relevance in the 2010s, people stopped using “rock” as a catch-all term for popular music; we call that “pop” now. It isn’t just a name chang...

POP SONG REVIEW: "Unholy" by Sam Smith & Kim Petras

/edit a couple serious errors caught already, the video might be down for a little bit, check back in 30 minutes if it's not working

Well let's see how this goes down! I'm nervous! 

As always, if you see an obvious (or even a non-...

RAMBLE ON: "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert

It’s September 28, 2022, and I’m at a Miranda Lambert concert in Las Vegas. If you asked me why, I’m not sure I’d have an answer; I know and like plenty of her songs but not strongly, and I wouldn’t say I really ever cared much about see...

TRAINWRECKORDS: Motley Crue's "Generation Swine"

EDIT EDIT EDIT: The embed doesn't seem to be working (WOW PATREON, THIS VIMEO PARTNERSHIP IS GOING SO WELL), so here's the direct link. Does this work?: https://vimeo.com/...

RAMBLE ON: "Dicked Down in Dallas" by Trey Lewis

The drum fill before the second chorus of “Dicked Down in Dallas” is the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever heard. It knocked me on the floor the first time I heard it and I’ve listened to the song over and over again just for that one momen...

Please vote in the Song vs. Song poll!

Argh, these Trainwreckords videos always take longer than I would like. (I promise you'll like it!) So in any case, please vote in this next poll! We are doing Coldplay's "Fix You" vs. Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" 

2022-08-21 15:43:06 +0000 UTC View Post

UGH.

WELL GUESS WHO BUSTED HIS ASS TO FINISH THE EPISODE BY DEADLINE LAST NIGHT AND THEN FORGOT TO CHARGE FOR IT

ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Macarena" by Los Del Rio

It's time.

Please check my work, because I sure did a lot of it. 

Please vote in the Song vs. Song poll. We're doing "We Found Love" vs. "Super Bass." 2022-08-01 06:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post

RAMBLE ON: "This Note's for You" by Neil Young

That Michelob looks so goddamn refreshing. Filled up right to the top of the glass, condensation dripping down the side. The venue is a bar that looks like a dive but is upscale enough to attract classy clientele; there’s a lot of neon signs on ...

POP SONG REVIEW: "Break My Soul" vs. "Falling Back"

/edit Reuploading a bunch of things people caught, if it's not working at the moment just give it 15 minutes and it'll be back up

God, finally managed to finish a video. I have been suffering from the most crippling writer's block. I wanted ...

RAMBLE ON: "Vegas" by Doja Cat

The first disappointment of Doja Cat’s “Vegas” is that it has nothing to do with Las Vegas; in this song literally titled “Vegas” Doja only manages a stray mention of it. What a waste. Hip-hop in general could stand to be friendlier to V...

TRAINWRECKORDS: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "American Dream"

CSNY's return was one of the most hotly awaited reunions in rock, only for the band to be utterly wrecked by the '80s.

As always, check for my errors! 

ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "This Is Why I'm Hot" by Mims

As always catch my errors.

Oh oh and don't forget to vote in the Song vs. Song poll, we're doing "Fly" by Sugar Ray vs. "What I Got" by Sublime. https...

RAMBLE ON: "I Hate Everything" by George Strait

One of the odder things about “Trolls: World Tour” (where we learn the titular Trolls live in separate societies defined by different musical genres) was its depiction of the country music Trolls as an society of heartbroken cowboys and cowgir...

ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin

Well, first off, we've got another Song vs. Song poll. It's a little obscure (one of the bands literally has "Obscura" in the name) It's "Another Sunny Day" by Belle and Sebastian vs. "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" by Camera Obscura.  <...

Please vote in the Song vs. Song poll!

We're doing "Low" vs. "Get Low"! So vote now between "get low get low get low" and "shawty got low low low low low." https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-...

TRAINWRECKORDS: Will Smith's "Lost and Found"

And here we go.

Anyway, let me know if there's any slip-ups you notice.

And of course please vote in my considerably less controversial Song vs. Song, we're doing "Easy Lover" vs. "Maneater." 2022-04-23 17:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post

POP SONG REVIEW: "Sweetest Pie" by Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa

End of the month, man, exhausting. Let me know if you saw anything wrong with this video! Or if it sucks!

And as always, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll where we are doing "1985" vs" Stacy's Mom": 2022-04-01 06:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post

RAMBLE ON: "Waking Up in Vegas" by Katy Perry

Fuck it, I went and saw Katy Perry in Vegas. I’ve earned it. I deserve this.

In the late ‘80s, years of increased competition sent Vegas into a sharp downturn, and so began a new chapter for the city in the ‘90s: Family Vegas, the Vega...

ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" by Edison Lighthouse

Going a little small-scale after the last few exhausting videos (but of course this was still exhausting to make anyway). Let me know if you see any screw-ups.

And also, please vote in the next Song vs. Song poll! "Gimme Shelter" vs. "Helter...

Please vote in the Song vs. Song poll!

We're discussing Katy Perry again, this time we're doing Katy Perry's "Roar" vs. Sara Bareilles's "Brave" https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-roar-vs-62...

RAMBLE ON: "Saints of Los Angeles" by Mötley Crüe

“Mötley Crüe: the band that would not fucking die,” I remember one frustrated hater saying about the band. That line from an early ‘00s Flash cartoon, a perfectly sarcastic parody of Behind the Music: “Before Kid Rock, ...

TRAINWRECKORDS: "Witness" by Katy Perry

Boom.

As always, please catch my mistakes. And also, if you haven't voted in the Song vs. Song poll this week, please do! We're doing "Get Lucky" vs. "Uptown Funk": 2022-02-20 01:05:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Please vote in the Song vs. Song poll!

As a tribute to the late departed Meat Loaf we're doing his masterpiece "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" vs. the other early '90s megavideo extravaganza, Guns n' Roses' "November Rain." Vote now! 2022-02-05 17:20:58 +0000 UTC View Post

RAMBLE ON: "Steam" by Peter Gabriel

“Please stop playing my video,” Peter Gabriel once begged MTV, allegedly. I cannot confirm this apocryphal anecdote, but it’s a story that’s kept circulating because it’s just so plausible. This next fact is also unconfirmed, since MTV n...

The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2021

It's done.

Vote in the Song vs. Song poll, we're doing "Everywhere" by Michelle Branch vs. "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton https://www.patreon.com/p...

Update + please vote in the Song vs. Song poll

I'm only posting this because we need more votes in the Song vs. Song poll! This week we're doing "One Week" vs. "Semi-Charmed Life": https://www.patreon.co...

RAMBLE ON: "The Monster" by Eminem ft. Rihanna

A fact I read that blew my mind is that Eminem is the top selling rapper of the 2010s. Not the 2000s (though he was the top selling rapper of th...

The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2021

...ignore that other post, apparently Adobe decided to fuck me and fill the first render with glitches. This one should be better, but if you see any problem still, let me know