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All seriousness, I think you can make a basis for this since Drinker already touched on the old DCEU up to Black Adam since he hadn’t reviewed The Flash and Aquaman 2 yet And Marvel phases 4 and 5 contain a ton of complicated messes. For a fast recap for newcomers on some issues:

1. Scarlett Johansson sued Disney for a share of ticket sales upon learning of the limited theatrical release from the 2020 lockdowns
2. An Ali Blade film announced in 2019 that saw a rotating team of at least 5 writers, 2 directors including one Ali chose himself until finally pulling the plug in 2026. The higher ups thought they can pull off Blade sidelined For his daughter in one idea IN A BLADE FILM. Another one I can’t confirm is another one saw Blade lead around by a female group of ocs. In the rotating circle of scrapped ideas, costume design for a western period piece ended up repurposed for the Sinners film leading to Ryan Coogler nominated at the 2026 Oscars
3. Jessica Gao from her pickle Rick fame hired to run a She Hulk tv series never thought to consult any lawyers or lawyer tv writers for a comic courtroom series. Kevin Feige stepped in to oversee production himself at one point and Jessica threw a fit over the series finale over a metal hat Gag on the Kevin robot which he shot down for going too far. She threatened to quit over this visual gag, Feige fired her and she isn’t up to a new project since
4. On Doctor Strange 2, Director Scott Derrickson pushed for a more dark tone until he saw Marvel refused to budge on his vision. He decides to exit the project leaving Marvel to rush hire Sam Raimi to finish the movie. Sam himself can insert some of his directing style into an MCU film though of course under the limits of a Disney Marvel film.
5. Jonathan Majors in the role of Kang in Loki Season 1 and later the 3rd Ant Film is set up for the new major villain until the controversy over beating his girlfriend caused an over reactive Disney to fire him. In spite of his girlfriend later revealed in new at the time evidence to show herself psychotic too in fighting him, Majors can only briefly clear his reputation a little since he can’t return to the MCU And then a new villain needs to take his spot.
6. Robert Downey Jr returning now in the role of Doctor Doom. Although
7. Doomsday might need an entire video covering its side. On a cliff notes version of itself: There’s Robert Downey returning for 100 million dollars that includes his own private jet travel and security, Alan Cumming in an interview stating he shot his scenes in isolation not knowing his interactions, script rewrites on set and Sebastian Stan recently confirming there’s no finished script as they shot.

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Theres probably more on the tv side not here but from memory, this is a sample of mess post 2019 Endgame the MCU created for itself. Comment below anything I surely missed!

Remember that Todd mentioned The Bangles covered Kimberly’s song Going Down To Liverpool in the Before The Hit section and I think it’d feel nice to cover the Susanna hit My Side Of The Bed since it turned into a small hit for her solo career in 1991.

Although unlikely to release this year for its 35th anniversary, it does make for a nice future episode from the following:

1. Her bangles history including the time Prince gifted them Manic Monday to sing, label pressure to focus more marketing in her and the breakup after the tours for Everything

2. Launching her solo album only for the label to discover Hoffs didn’t have the starpower on her own.

3. Played in a covers band featuring Mike Myers

4. Married Director Jay Roach that ended up directing Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me and is the guy that phoned up Vicky, Debbie and Michael of The Bangles to record a new song. Once Susanna reunited in a room with them, the four discovered they hated more the label pressure and got back together. Eventually released a new album called Doll Revolution on their own terms

5. Michael Steele left the band and retired in 2005. Surprisingly their original bassist Annette Zilinskas rejoined them in 2018 after previously leaving them early in the 80’s for Blood In The Sadle. A harder rock group. Michael Steele is actually their 2nd bassist and formerly of The Runaways prior to The Bangles

Are we out of this circus of random nobodies asking celebrities to support their non film related political causes?

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Can us as a species stop this? Mark Ruffalo is not your choice either for this

Added the vocals tags as it’s for discussion on them but is there much in the different tones Steve Howe and Chris Squire combined additional vocals versus Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks? Additionally can the Trevor Rabin and Chris Squire vocal harmonies of the 80’s not sound that far off too?

Its very neat for comparison since Steve and Chris harmonizing together is a huge part of the 70’s Yes sound for a track such as Roundabout and Close To The Edge but then I hear some of the Genesis vocal combinations of Mike and Tony on a song like ABACAB and not sure if there’s not much difference.

Of course maybe the Mike and Tony vocal harmonies sound more similar to the 80’s Yes sound of Rabin and Squire? Not too sure but love for fans to tell me their thoughts on the vocal differences and if any of the combinations sound similar?

Now until the Calling All Stations review goes up on TW, the 2 one hit wonders idea of Phil Collins producing is neat to cover something related to Genesis:

1. Frida-I Know There’s Something Going On: A song and video centred around a woman suspecting her lover is cheating on her. Phil of course supplied drums and some faint backing vocals you need to listen carefully for while Daryl Stuermer his guitarist joins in and adds a neat solo. There’s even a behind the scenes video of Phil producing for Frida
2. Phillip Bailey-Easy Lover: A hit that turned into Phillip’s only top 40 us hit and now sees Phil now getting on the microphone too to share vocal duties. Again Daryl returns for guitar, Phil provides his drums and backing vocals but also plays some keyboards on top of his producing.

Feel neat to cover two solo acts produced by Phil?

For us Beatles fans, we all know Paul managed 2 successful post Beatles career: A band called Wings that used his 1st wife Linda McCartney and his solo career.

Ringo might not have seen the same sales numbers for his solo efforts yet he eventually formed Ringo Starr’s Allstar Band and added Paul for one of his many rotating lineups

On the slim chance there’s ever a documentary on them together, I think it should focus on their ventures into tv, film and acting.

Paul tried his hands at writing his own film on Give My Regards To Broadstreet But it’s a jumbled mess and still sold well in terms of the soundtrack. Film did screen a 13 minute Rupert the bear short he composed a song for and sang on. He hasn’t done any film roles to date meaning 42 years passed since that 1984 disaster cratered at the box office. Paul’s guest spot on The Simpsons and included his wife Linda did change a huge status quo on the show In Lisa’s conversion to vegetarianism for another neat animation connection!

Ironically in 1984, Paul made a non speaking cameo in a Tracy Ullman music video of her cover of They Dont Know originally sung by Kristy MacColl. Since they starred in Give My Regards To Broadstreet, Paul was willing to do a small favour here it seems.

Ringo did some acting including this weird film called Candy and seeing him use some accent that confuses me but I think most of us younger fans from the 80’s and 90’s know as the magic conductor that narrates the stories of The Island Of Sodor. Britt Allcroft asking him for the role of narrator no doubt cemented his legacy further now as the Beatles drummer that narrated Seasons 1 and 2 of Thomas the tank engine and friends. Meaning he is now an all time great drummer and added new fans to his celebrity status of children’s entertainer.

Perhaps the documentary on their acting ventures only runs 15 minutes long and Ringos time on Thomas the tank engine is the juiciest one but I think if even a fan created one, it’d make for a nice retrospective. The bassist created a treasure hunt style film for stolen music that only succeeded on selling its soundtrack and the drummer took on a narrator role for a show around talking trains. Strangely the 2 projects each released in 1984 but only one stood the test of time.

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A lot of respect for Phils drumming and singing from Genesis to his solo career made me respect his commitments to any types of singing. He can pull off love songs, dark songs and triumphant songs especially for film soundtracks!

However since the Turn It On Again tour in 2007 used most of his performance strength and all the health issues from alcohol, drug use and age took their tolls on him, he is hardly half fit once that final Genesis tour came on. From seeing footage of the shows, the songs saw so much tuning down to the point of not recognizing them that Phil’s tired “singing“ disappointed to say the least.

Yet for this thread, my mind can imagine a few examples of wonderful covers of a Phil in his prime. At least say the 90’s Collins post We Can’t Dance:

1. Angry style dark: We know Mama explored his range to yell about dark topics such as addiction to a prostitute and the bitter breakup songs of his solo career like I Don’t Care Anymore. I still feel there’s a missed opportunity for Phil Collins to cover some of the 90’s grunge catalogue. For sure, a song on the level of Evenflow that uses a very specific style only Eddie Vedder can pull off isnt for Phil yet imagine a cover of Jeremy from him? Heck an Alice In Chains song such as Rooster and especially Would is perfect for Collins since the Layne Stanley screaming MY WAY isn’t far off Phil’s maniacal character laughter on Mama
2. Other love songs: Phil of course is known for many ballads but you think he’d do some neat covers of other love songs from other artists? He’s covered the Supremes. I think it’d feel neat if he covered some of the 80’s Yes love songs like Love Will Find A Way and maybe some of the Beatles love songs

If you can sit back and think of the 4 ninja turtles cartoons discounting Tales Of The TMNT because it never saw enough support to survive more than Rise, than you can see there is a repeating history of the ninja turtles to cartoon:

1. TMNT 1987: The original cartoon that set the standard for many iconic elements of the franchise: Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, the classic theme song and April’s classic yellow jumpsuit. First liveaction film in 1990 set a high bar for their film potential in spite of the trilogy embarrassing themselves on that last adventure. Unfortunately the cartoon tended to rely too much on goofy gimmicks for the sake of toys and by the time Batman The Animated Series rolled around, pivoting to more mature action felt desperate resulting in the 90’s final seasons of the turtles dubbed the Red Sky Seasons coming off too try hard
2. TMNT 2003: A fan favourite and rightfully chosen for best version of a cartoon series on our green heroes to date. Taking sort of a similar approach to Thomas the tank engine and friends of adapting source material faithfully while making slight tweaks that sometimes improved them, Peter Laird and his team needed to set this 2nd version of our turtles that actually took place in The 2000’s apart from the 80’s cartoon. No large pizza obsession, no reliance on extra gimmicks to sell toys so blatantly each week and even moments such as Mikey yelling cowabunga are kept on a leash early On. Seasons 1, 2, 3 and 4 hit the ground running fine bringing us new fan favourite characters from Hun to Angel, Karai and Agent Bishop plus the best version of Usagi. Outside of Insane In The Membrane banned from tv, nothing too bad occurred although this decade saw the release of only 1 film in 2007 and also their only fully animated CGI One at that. Sadly there existed behind the scenes drama that muddled up the last few seasons. Season 5 nicknamed The Ninja Tribunal Arc originally didnt air on tv only relegated to the 4kids website as lost episodes. Instead Season 6 chose a slight change in artstyle Before it aired first for the Fast Forward plot line of a freak accident sending Splinter and his sons into a high tech New York City future and although showing some promise since Playmates funded it for more toys, it saw rushing and more denied storylines of Triceraton Shredder, Space Usagi and no closure on the Dark Turtles. Season 7 Called Back To The Sewers saw our turtles and Splinter return to the 2000’s New York but it seemed the damage was done as the strange choice to combine the 2007 and 2003 designs for some turned off more people, they rushed it again depriving us of more potential though at least Casey and April’s relationship paid off and 2009 gave us a 25th anniversary of the franchise special in Turtkes Forever but it came off more like Peter’s ego of laughing at the 1987 cartoon feeling too corny before he sold the franchise to Nickelodeon.
3. TMNT 2012: Now for our 3rd adaption, the turtles now transition to CGI for tv and it’s pretty neat. Splinter in this case takes on the role of human turned to rat idea from the 1987 cartoon, there’s a lot more humour and many callbacks in shots that pay homage to the original mirage comics. Sadly the ridiculous love triangle plot of Donnie, April and Casey gets old fast, Mikey is a little too dumb and the twist involving the Karai in this universe makes her interactions with this Leo feel rather awkward. There’s a non canon final season of a future apocalypse though and 2 2010’s liveaction films produced by Michael Bay. Overall a rather decent return to form for our heroes in the early to mid 2010’s.
4. Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 2018 saw a very divisive version of these guys. From making April into a very young brown skinned girl to the very increase in gags and the inclusion of magic for the turtles. To put it lightly, this iteration seemed it aimed a lot at the crowd who enjoyed the gags of Teen Titans Go and the turtles using magic might make or break your immersion if you’re not huge on the season 5 ninja tribunal arc from the 2003 cartoon. Now I hear good things about the tv movie but how much of the fat do you need to trim to reach there and it didn’t help that Nickelodeon themselves hardly supported the show towards the end.

so I’m interested in anyone’s thoughts below on this strange repeating history on cartoons for tmnt as it seems history repeats itself in a lot of ways.

So I should have titled the first time I’ve done these but okay, this is officially my 2nd post on album choices I’ve seen in the comments on Todd’s career wrecking album series.

For a quick recap, my choices for the 1st set are Union from Yes, Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The Movie soundtrack, Chris Gaines Greatest Hits and No Talking Just Head from The Heads aka Jerry, Chris and Tina. Debate in the comments section the awful qualities of those ones again!

Anyways, I’m randomly choosing these 7 albums unless you want to consider the trilogy as one and slim this down to 5? Going on, let’s see:

1. Forever-Spice Girls: According to a Spice Girls YouTube history video, this is only their 3rd album, down to 4 members and the ladies aim for a large update. Geri Halliwell aka Ginger Spice previously left the group from exhaustion meaning this is a lineup change and sound change. They’re leaving behind the catchy pop anthems, hire an American producer named Rodney Jerkins as well as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and try to sound like Destiny’s Child. Their album releases in 2000 and completely tanks. Only a mere 2 million copies sold worldwide compared to their debut album in 1996 and Spiceworld in 1997. Singles from Let Love Lead The Way and Holler fail to make an impact. A new album to kick off the 21st century that barely moves units, their only album using a 4 woman lineup and the last one ever. Post 2000’s spice girls history is interesting because the remaining 4 try solo careers that sort of run until the mid 2000’s, Victoria aka Posh Spice marries David Beckham they reunite twice as a 5 piece again in 2007 and 2012, Victoria ends up leaving afterwards permanently to focus on her clothing brand and thus the group is down to another 4 piece though this time not having Posh Spice and they finally end their lineup career in 2019
2. The Beginning-Black Eyed Peas: So this is the album I’m most familiar with off the music videos for 3 of the singles or 4 if you count the Imma Be Rocking That Body. Most of us know the butchering of the Dirty dancing sample in Dirty Bit, the braindead loop of Imma Be and then the sudden toneshift of Just Can’t Get Enough. I’m also familiar that I read a Canadian music review of the album that described it as something you cant really care about if you’re drunk and dancing to it, yet is there any other horrible qualities to it? Any non singles that sound crap? Fergies run in the band ended on this album and the remaining 3 reunited in 2015 and later 2020. You know the stuff post 2020 is kind of crap
3. Bionic-Christina Aguilera: I have next to no familiarity on this from 2010 outside of the Not Myself Tonight music video trying so hard to bandwagon off the success of Lady Gaga. Has
4. Uno Dos Tres-Green Day: Only choice I never listened to BUT I did check out 2 reviews for 2 of the tracks off one of the albums for Oh Love and Kill The DJ from a Green Day fan that felt their sound is changing in a way he’s not a fan of. Fans debate between this and their contractual obligation album Father Of All. Can you structure a review on a trilogy of albums and cover most of it in a decent manner that gets the point across? Any of these albums more salvageable than the rest?

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Rewind to 2018 and there’s a warbling synth song on radio. Is it Pumped Up Kicks from Foster The People? Nah it’s a different key until you reach that strange synth breakdown.

okay maybe it’s some strange remix of Kids from MGMT? Nope it’s not that either and then the lyrics play out of two people meeting at some rich kid’s party and finding comfort that they’re broken.

yeah it’s a song called Broken from a group called Lovelytheband and you just feel tricked. This “aw ain’t it sweet two socially awkward people hooked up at a party“ song fooled you into thinking it’s a mashup using a beat copying Pumped Up Kicks and a synth breakdown reminiscent of Kids. Unlike say Funky Cold Medina combining Christine Sixteen from Kiss for the best, a guitar riff from Hot Blooded from Foreigner and a cowbell off a Rolling Stones song for something cool, this pity song feels lazy and boring.

8 years since its peak, can’t recall Lovelytheband charting anything as successful and its possibly the last of that indie style sounding music from acts such as Gotye and more. Although it’s too early compared to the time Todd reviewed Asher Roth, you guys think Broken is a good choice to mock for OHW?

A pretty wild time for TW. In 2025, Todd delivered the 2 long awaited reviews of Man Of The Woods and Results May Vary.

Now in June 2026, a much request review for Lulu is now complete and now checks off 3 of the most requested awful albums out there. Us fans saw Timberlake awkwardly try to fail fusing several different genre songs on one album, Limp Bizkit cobbling together an album so difficult it saw its own MTV album creation show episode on the process and the mismatch confusion of Lou Reed babbling whatever on his mind over Metallica riffs.

So now is there much hype for the next set of albums fans feel hungry for now? The Beginning? Twisted Angel? I’m In? Thank You? Squeeze? The Big Day?

Personally I’m itching for a Black Eyed Peas one since it killed the Fergie lineup and put the band into hiatus after 2011 until a small comeback in 2015, another break and then they collaborate with J Balvin on a Bad Boys 3 soundtrack song in 2020 until they started throwing away that goodwill on that shrieking Shakira team up in 2021.

Id also love a glance at No Talking Just Head since after Crown Royal, it’s the 2nd album that fails on the “overstuffed guest stars album that can’t save it” and uses that concept years before Run DMC tried it. Hilariously is No Talking Just Head at least has a Wikipedia page from the one minor single released including chart history while Crown Royal has no separate pages For any songs outside a link to the Steve Miller song they covered.

For a challenge, I think the Sergeant Peppers film sound track and the Union album is 2 challenges I’m interested for Todd to tackle. First one is a Beatles tribute film soundtrack for a film that’s too Americanized full of covers and the second is a progrock album that tried mashing together 8 members of Yes but replaced some of the actual musicians for session musicians yet spawned a successful cash flow of a tour. Since a covers album and a progrock album seem very unlikely areas Todd is too familiar in, the excitement is imagining him up to the tasks

A lot of famous musicians need inductions for their solo careers outside bands and Robert Plant is no exception.

Yes you might know him more for his band status for led zeppelin lead singer and other solo careers of former band members of other acts from Paul McCartney to John Lennon are more known yet no one can deny that Robert Plant made his own early 80’s solo venture. He’s created albums, he’s toured on his own and there’s archived concert footage for the receipts. Can’t he see his own chance next?

On a related note, Phil Collins recently is finally inducted for his solo career and should it seem fitting if Robert thanked Phil for drums on his own albums or do it at Phils induction? Just curious since they still seemed friends and Collins had toured in the past for Plant.