Trivia / Crash Thompson

• Approval of God: A handful of the artists Crash has reviewed have positively received his reviews, such as Donots, The Regrettes, Doll Skin, McCafferty, Moron Police, Dubioza Kolektiv, Backxwash, and interestingly, Frankie Palmeri.
• Colbert Bump: Crash gave one of these to Moron Police and their album A Boat on the Sea. Many fans in the comments section of the band's music make note of this.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • More the result of a "first impressions" viewpoint than anything else, but Crash decides to describe melodic death metal band Amon Amarth as "Viking Metal", a pre-existing label that applies more accurately to Norwegian folk or black metal than what Amon Amarth does (and indeed is a label that they themselves dislike).
  • On his top 10 list of Nu-metal bands, Crash lists Mudvayne as an example, even though they've dabbled in other genres such as Progressive Metal and Alternative Metal, which looks really odd considering the genre distinctions brought up when Incubus was restricted to an honorable mention for not counting as Nu-metal.
  • In Crash's I Love This Song for "The Bad Touch", Crash places emphasis on how "The Ballad of Chasey Lain" was made without the consent of Chasey Lain, but as pointed out in the comments section, the track to come after the song is a brief skit of Chasey Lain herself acting disgusted and listing off some horrible things she'd rather do than indulge the song's narrator, indicating that she was in on the joke at some point.
  • In Crash's I Love This Song for "Poker Face", Crash says that The Fame is one of the greatest debut albums of all time in any genre, up there alongside albums like The Chronic, Licensed to Ill, Nevermind, and Gordon (an album he endearingly talked about on his Top 10 Two Hit Wonders list, but received fan backlash for it). Nevermind was actually Nirvana's second album; their actual debut album was Bleach.
  • Lampshaded on Twitter following the release of his Worst of 2021 list, when he apologized for his inclusion of Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys, as he was completely unaware of how Viagra Boys' guitarist, Benjamin Vallé, passed away a few months prior to the release of the video, admitting it was simply an honest mistake and his negative reaction was "not meant to gloat" about Vallé's death.
• Creator Backlash:
  • He declared on Twitter than the final parts of the Green Day Retrospective would be his last hour long videos, as he stated they're a handful to take care of. (The handful of opus-length videos he's made since then haven't been spared Crash's remarks about the length either)
  • In the rebranding video, he discusses he absolutely couldn't stand wearing the denims vest anymore due to how hot it became wearing it in his lighting for his reviews. He also would criticize the goofy backstories of the channel such as the Super Saiyan gag, admitting they were running their course.
  • In one of the "Rock Coliseum" videos Crash later admitted that he regretted going off as hard as he did on his #1 picks for the "Worst lists" of 2019 and 2020 (Doug Walker and Rob Scallon's parody of "The Wall" and Five Finger Death Punch "F8" respectively) saying that while they were both bad albums, they weren't really worth getting that angry about and maybe weren't really deserving of the #1 spot on the lists.
  • He's come to regret his Weezer series, mainly due to it becoming an immense Harsher in Hindsight due to the band surprising him with Everything Will Be Alright In the End only to again go back to their old ways with their later albums, even going as far as to say he's tempted to just delete the series from Youtube. Time will tell if he does.
  • Following the release of the Worst of 2021 list, he ended up apologizing for his inclusion and negative reaction of Welfare Jazz by Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys on the list, as he was completely unaware of the fact that Viagra Boys' former guitarist, Benjamin Vallé, passed away two months prior; admitting it was simply a mistake on his end.
  • Crash himself has this attitude towards his style of reviewing pre-rebrand. In particular, he admits in his How To Get Into video on Bad Religion that his 2016 review of Into The Unknown hasn't aged well.
    Past!Crash: I speak of none other...than the vile...the contemptuous...the BANE of INSANITY...
    Present!Crash: Oh, stop that. Stop that, you cringey little fuck. Channel Awesome is never going to hire you, and believe me, homie, you dodged a bullet with that one!
• Development Hell: The Rise and Fall of Weezer became infamous for this, hence why people were worried about the Green Day Retrospective taking a long time: Part One (focusing on The Blue Album, Pinkerton, The Green Album and Maladroit came out in September of 2012, Part Two (On Make Believe) came out the year after that (March) , same with the review of The Red Album (December), which seemed (Somewhat) consistent. Part Four (On Raditude) came out on April of 2014, and finally Part Five on Hurly of August of the same year, and finally the final part on Everything Will Be Alright in the End at the end of 2014. Even Crash noted the excessive length of the series, considering the three years it took.
• Real Song Theme Tune: "Lexicon Devil" by The Germs. Both the slow and fast versions of the song were used until the channel was rebranded as "Crash Thompson".
• Reality Subtext:
  • His speeches about his time as a fundamentalist Christian tend to become this whenever he comes across a song about religion.
  • His upbringing in Indiana and going to a right-wing/conservative school is often one of the reasons Crash brings up political discourses in his channel, especially from 2016-2020 following Donald Trump's presidency and especially when he came out as bisexual.
• What Could Have Been: A real life example: Crash actually stated in his "TOP 10 FAVORITE BANDS" video that he at one point was originally going to be a priest.

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