Not Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera, but the video review that Doug Walker, aka The Nostalgia Critic, put out about the 1982 cinematic adaptation, Pink Floyd—The Wall. In both the video (starring Slipknot's Corey Taylor and his son, Griffin) and the companion album, Walker skewered the Wall, calling it an "arthouse ego trip" with parody song titles like "Comfortably Dumb" and "Waiting for the Point."
So, it's fitting that Fantano spoke with the musical mind behind Nostalgia Critic's The Wall: Rob Scallion.
"I love The Wall. I love it," said Scallion in the interview that Fantano uploaded to his personal YouTube channel last week.
Scallon said that his role in Nostalgia Critic's "The Wall" doesn't mean he's a massive Pink Floyd hater—quite the opposite.
"I grew up with The Wall," he said. "I was one of those kids who, when I was 12, would watch The Wall with my friends and be like, what does it all mean? And it was just like this mythical album."
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So, Rob was game when Doug approached him about doing a project on The Wall.
"I didn't—and this is probably ignorance on my side—but I was like, 'Oh, this is just like a silly thing,'" he said on making the parody album. "I'm not actually going out and doing, 'I'm anti The Wall. I'm anti Pink Floyd.' Like, 'I want to get in a fight with Roger Waters!' or something. I never interpreted it that way, which is maybe an ignorance on my side."
Why were so many people mad at the Nostalgia Critic? As Fantano brought up in the interview, Walker's take on The Wall seemed to ignore the album's context. Roger Waters wrote the rock opera about former member Syd Barrett's deteriorating mental condition and his own childhood, along with his growing feelings of isolation and alienation. And for many, Pink Floyd is held in religious reverence for bringing high art to classic rock, so Walker's seemingly thoughtless mockery (his parody of "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2" is called "We Need More Victimization") rubbed people the wrong way.
Pink Floyd performing on stage - The Wall stage show.Photo by Rob Verhorst on Getty Images
"I remember seeing Doug at a wedding, like, a month after," he said. "And he was like, 'Hey man. I'm sorry. Can I get you a drink?' He and the Nostalgia Critic crew are just so used to that type of thing. It was just new to me to have such intense criticism on something I've done."
Fantano remains "the Internet's busiest music nerd" through The Needle Drop and his Twitch streams.
And there are still content creators who make video responses to Nostalgia Critic's " The Wall, discovering it the same way that Doug Walker rediscovers a piece of '80s and '90s pop culture.
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