Make it Stop: A Bad Music Podcast
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★ - 51 ratingsMake it Stop is a podcast dedicated to dissecting terrible albums. Hosted by musicians Heather Mack and Mike Dunn and featuring a variety of quirky guests from the Boston arts and music scene, Make it Stop braves the putrid depths of the worst albums ever made. By the end, you'll be begging them for more...while screaming "make it stop!" Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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The Metallica Report: Trailer
July 24, 2023 07:00 - 2 minutesThe Metallica Report is coming! Keep up with all things Metallica by going straight to the source for your news. This weekly report is hosted by Steffan Chirazi, long-time rock scribe and editor of the band’s online mag, So What!, and Renée Richardson, a well-known Bay Area radio personality who now oversees the band’s foundation, All Within My Hands. Steffan and Renée will keep you in the loop each week with updates, features, and interviews. They’ll also get YOUR questions answered by tho...
Van Morrison - Latest Record Project Disc 2 (w/ Mark Gallagher)
November 10, 2021 12:34 - 2 hoursHave you got our latest podcast project? It's time for even MORE of that Van you love to hate, because we're deep diving into round 2 of this miserable musical end of life crisis. Joining us this round is comedian and "famous coward" Mark Gallagher, known for his hilarious character work and his deep, deep appreciation of ornery out of touch white rock stars with God complexes and a chip on their shoulder the size of their ex-wife. Maybe not the second part. Either way, this disc is less wife...
Van Morrison - Latest Record Project Vol. 1 Part 1 (w/ Brandon Vallee)
October 19, 2021 21:16 - 2 hoursWelcome Back, Stoppies! We're officially rounding the corner on a whole 100 episodes and 5 seasons of musical masochism, so thank you for your patience in advance for what will likely be a much more relaxed release schedule this time around. As punishment for our tardiness we kick off the "fun" by attempting to tackle cantankerous Celtic crooner Van Morrison's Latest Record Project Volume 1. An album that finds the short statured human neck lamenting the endless persecution he has suffered an...
Season 4 Finale - Ska vs. Nu Metal Thunderdome (w/ Ethan Marsh)
June 18, 2021 19:59 - 2 hoursAlright stoppies, it's the moment you've all been waiting for - a knock down, drag out deathmatch between two deeply embarrassing teenage genres of the late 90s: Nu Metal vs. 3rd Wave Ska. Nu Metal Mike vs. Perpetual Ska Kid Heather battle it out with fan of both genres and very funny comedian Ethan Marsh reffing to make sure there's no wallet chain yanking or funny trombone stuff going on, keeping it a good clean fight. Representing Nu Metal is of course the legendary Florida miscreants Limp...
Crash Test Dummies - Give Yourself a Hand (w/ Mistress Carrie)
May 25, 2021 17:18 - 2 hoursMMM MMMM MMMM...nah. The world was briefly captivated in the early 90s by Brad Roberts' low, smoldering baritone and his band of eccentric Canadian rockers the Crash Test Dummies. The one hit hit hard, but after a string of sloppy follow ups, the Dummies were in the doldrums by the time 1999's Give Yourself A Hand rolled around. To switch things up they decided to have Roberts sing in a falsetto and let keyboardist Ellen Reid play lead on a few songs for some reason - though those tracks prov...
Billy Idol- Cyberpunk (w/ Manny Raposo)
May 11, 2021 14:42 - 2 hoursWe're killing our Idols this week as we surf the circuits of cyber hell with none other than Billy Idol, who in 1993 was an aging "punk" desperately clinging to relevance while soaked in a haze of club drugs and heroin. But the drug called The Internet became the most addictive of all as he lazily skimmed Neuromancer and decided he was the ultimate authority on the emergent cyberpunk culture, to the point of audaciously making it the title of his album. Orchestra hits, sexy spoken word, sitar...
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
April 30, 2021 10:50 - 1 hourWe're reaching, and retching this week as we take a deep dive into Jack White's version of a musical midlife crisis, 2018's Boarding House Reach. Vocoder, hot topic spoken word poetry and RAPPING all make an appearance on this bloated collection of song stems, incoherent rambles, and riffless meandering sonic slogs that sound like the last gasps of a former musical genius. Most damning of all is the fact that more than half the songs aren't even songs at all - a far cry from the tight, furtiv...
March Badness PART DEUX Finale: Chainsmokers vs. Twenty One Pilots (w/ Garvey Salomon)
March 30, 2021 15:50 - 2 hoursAll bad things must come to an end, and so we must say goodbye to this year's M-M-M-M-MARCH BADNESS. But before we can finally rid ourselves of this curse, a winner must be crowned. It's a true Cinderella Story this year, as the 6 seed Twenty One Pilots defied all odds, making it all the way to the finals to take on the 1 seed Chainsmokers. It's Blurryface vs Memories... Do Not Open, two albums considered by many to be the worst that the 2010s have to offer. Lethargic broDM, modern reggae rip...
March Badness PART DEUX Semifinals Round 2: Will.i.am vs. Twenty One Pilots (w/ Brian and Julez)
March 24, 2021 01:33 - 2 hoursIt's a bad, bad world Stoppies, and tonight's gonna be a long night as we go head to head with some of the most godawful garbage we've ever had to haul on this dumb, tragic show. Longtime besties and very funny friends Brian and Julez hold our hands as we wade through the muck of the legendarily insufferable Will.i.am whose dumb dumb drivel about girls' Donques nearly drives us off a cliff, but will it be enough to surmount the self-satisfied, homeschooled Christian theater kid sad sack jazz-...
March Badness PART DEUX Semifinals Round 1: 311 vs. Chainsmokers (w/ Maggie and Ashleigh of Rock Candy Podcast)
March 16, 2021 14:24 - 2 hoursThings are heating up as March Badness moves into the S-S-SEMI FINALS. Rippity rappity reggaety rockity 311 adds dubstep and Imagine Dragons-style indie to their bloated repertoir on 2019's Voyager, and that album goes head to head with the massively maligned one seed Chainsmokers' dashed off and cast aside nothing-album Sick Boy (2018). It is a HEATED battle this week, Stoppies, as we are joined by our dear friends Maggie and Ashleigh from the Rock Candy Podcast. Don't miss the spectacle, th...
March Badness PART DEUX Round 1, Episode 2: Train vs. 21 Pilots (w/ Nick Ortolani)
March 10, 2021 02:07 - 2 hoursOn Make it Stop we continue to hone in on a central thesis of bad music - that no matter the genre, no matter the age or era, all bad music begins to flow together into the same swirling cesspool of shit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in tonight's episode of March Badness pitting whiny wine mom fantasy husband Pat Monahan and his band Train against nu-indie-rap-emo-Christian-rock disasters Twenty One Pilots. There exists a synchronicity of sanctimonious and deeply inane drivel so intense...
March Badness Round 1, Episode 1: Staind vs. 311 (w/ Messiah Carey)
March 02, 2021 16:44 - 2 hoursIt's that time yet again, Stoppies. M-M-M-MARCH B-B-B-BADNESSSSSSSS. Our annual tournament to determine the worst of the worst is back, and it's time for six elite-level awful musical acts to duke it out for the trophy (we should have a trophy, huh). The first match of the Preliminary Round pits Western Mass's own constipated sad dads Staind against the funkiest white boys from Nebraska, 311. As they go blow for blow we are joined by dear friend and Worcester legend Shane Hall AKA Messiah Car...
March Badness PART DEUX Round 1, Episode 1: Staind vs. 311 (w/ Messiah Carey)
March 02, 2021 16:44 - 2 hoursIt's that time yet again, Stoppies. M-M-M-MARCH B-B-B-BADNESSSSSSSS. Our annual tournament to determine the worst of the worst is back, and it's time for six elite-level awful musical acts to duke it out for the trophy (we should have a trophy, huh). The first match of the Preliminary Round pits Western Mass's own constipated sad dads Staind against the funkiest white boys from Nebraska, 311. As they go blow for blow we are joined by dear friend and Worcester legend Shane Hall AKA Messiah Car...
The Clash - Cut the Crap (w/ Brandon, Jack and Meagan from Time and Place)
February 23, 2021 15:15 - 2 hoursThey were the only band that mattered, but by 1985 they were in tatters. The Clash's swan song Cut The Crap is infamous in the music world, regarded by some as the worst album ever made. Having split with co-frontman and primary songwriter Mick Jones, Joe Strummer soldiered on with a few savvy studio musicians and his egomaniacal manager Bernard Rhodes. Together they set out to prove that they didn't need no Mick Jones and they could do it all themselves. Laden with studio trickery, drum mach...
Green Day - Father of all... (w/ Ben Stein)
February 17, 2021 00:02 - 1 hourIn 1994 three meth addled young punks from Oakland released an album that changed the musical landscape for decades, building the bridge that shepherded California pop punk from the fringes to the mainstream. 26 years and 10 albums later as, presumably, meth addled old punks, they released an album that changed nothing but the minds of longtime fans holding out one last hope for a return to form, shepherding soulless hockey anthems from the pro tools interface to the rink to the graveyard. Gr...
Vanilla Ice - Mind Blowin' (w/ VQ of BLOWW and Izzy Da Rosa)
February 02, 2021 20:00 - 2 hoursIt's Black History Month, which means it's the perfect time for another round of Eviscerating White Nonsense with returning white rapper roundup participant VQ of BLOWW and Boston comedian Izzy Da Rosa. The object of our ire this time is of course the ultimate Great White Embarassment Vanilla Ice and his 1992 follow up to his megahit debut album, the incredibly misinformed and extremely poorly executed "Mind Blowin". Featuring profoundly sad attempts to flex his 'gangsta rap' chops, reference...
The Stooges - The Weirdness (w/ Kira Roessler of Black Flag and Sophia Belle)
January 19, 2021 19:55 - 2 hoursThings get spicy on this week's Make It Stop as Heather and Mike are joined by veritable hardcore legend Kira Roessler (Black Flag, Dos, Awkward) and local up-and-coming musician Sophia Belle (Home Despot) to discuss The Stooges' 35-years-in-the-making fourth album The Weirdness (2007). As Heather, Mike and Sophia do their best to malign Iggy Pop and his history-making and genre-defining band for their iffy production choices, cringe lyrics and uninspiring arrangements, Kira takes them all to...
Worst Music of 2020
December 29, 2020 21:08 - 2 hours2020 is coming to an end, may it rot and burn in hell, and as expected an unimaginably awful year brought us a slew of unimaginably awful albums. Mike and Heather can barely keep it together as they lament the slow death of culture and the creeping Post Malone-ification of all music. Everything sucks and it's going to suck forever. Genres become meaningless as all music melts into one big endless lo fi hip hop beat to study to Youtube stream. Personal taste becomes homogenized across the boar...
Duck Dynasty - Duck The Halls with Alex and Liv
December 22, 2020 16:32 - 1 hourStoppies, we know you know what Christmas is all about - materialist accumulation, wealth hoarding, Judeo-Christian values, heteronormative baking rituals, duck sex, beards. Thank the Christian God that we found an album that perfectly embodies that spirit. This Holiday Season we're talking about Duck Dynasty's 2013 Christmas Cash-in album Duck The Halls, and we're diving right in while our little webbed feet waddle in the air. Heather's music deprived husband Alex and Mike's heathen life par...
Florida Georgia Line - Can't Say I Ain't Country (w/ Susie Jeanne of BLOWW)
December 08, 2020 23:45 - 2 hoursWe're riding the honky tonk high speed rail all the way to the bank this week with the be-flannelled, bud' chuggin' y'all boys of Florida Georgia Line and their 2019 bro-country daggum opus "Can't Say I Ain't Country". Actual Country Gal Jeanne "Susie Newsie" Mansfield of BLOWW regales us with badass backwoods tales of burning couches and shooting flaming arrows in rural Missouri while jammin' to the sweet sounds of country music on the terrestrial radio. We learn that country livin' actually...
Thanksgiving KornuKopia with Alex Dunn and Brian Melanson
November 24, 2020 20:03 - 1 hourDue to KOVID-19, Heather and Mike won't be getting uncomfortably drunk around their families this Thanksgiving, so instead they've decided to get uncomfortably drunk together over Zoom. To make it a family affair they're joined by Alex Dunn (Mike's Brother), and Brian Melanson (Heather's Pretend Dad). It's time for a tWiSteD Turkey Day 'cause we're feasting on a veritable KORNUKOPIA. The Blackout Power Hour is back. Over 60 songs, over 60 sips, it's enough KoRn to bind up your system for days...
Train - Save Me, San Francisco (w/ Emily Ruskowski and Jane Doe)
November 10, 2020 20:55 - 2 hoursThis week our hearts are beating right out of our untrimmed chests as we take a ride on the monorail of monotony. Train drizzled onto the scene in 1998 with their humble hit "Meet Virginia" and followed that up with milquetoast smash "Drops of Jupiter" in 2001, but it wasn't until "Hey Soul Sister" that they truly wormed their way into every human being's hearts and minds as the corniest soft rockers on the planet. Comedian and returning guest Emily Ruskowski and Boston area burlesque perform...
Bobby 'Boris' Pickett - The Original Monster Mash (w/ Andrew Wiley)
October 28, 2020 12:24 - 1 hourI was working in the lab late one night When my ears beheld a dreadful blight For Bobby "Boris" Pickett began to write An album which, to no surprise Was really wack -- he made the monsters wack The "Monster Mash", it was the only good track The rest is wack -- the rest is really wack He made it wack -- just stick to "Monster Mash" From our laboratory in Everett Mass We reviewed The Original Monster Mash Andrew Wiley came from his humble abode To join us in tearing down this load Of monste...
Kid Rock - Rock N Roll Jesus (w/ Alli Thresher and Squallie Greenthumb)
October 16, 2020 17:52 - 2 hoursDo you like trying different things? Or do you prefer smoking funny things? This week we're talking about Robbie Ritchie, Bobby Shazam, his name is Kid Rock, that is his name, and if you ask him again, he'll probably call you a slur. He's a conservative flip flopper, a confederate flag loving yankee, a Detroit-repping white rapper who grew up on a princely estate in the 'burbs. In 2007 he recorded an album called Rock N Roll Jesus, with which he purported to be resurrecting the long dormant a...
Neil Young - Landing on Water (ft. Mike Hsu and Luke Condon of the Long May You Young Podcast)
September 29, 2020 19:21 - 2 hoursAfter helping mold and define the counter-culture of the late sixties and early 70s, Neil Young pulled an about face in the 80s, throwing his support behind Ronald Reagan, the war on drugs, and welfare reform. Tired of being pigeonholed, he shifted away from the socially conscious folk rock he was known for, releasing a series of headscratching albums that saw him experimenting with rockabilly, banjos and vocoders. Geffen Records became so fed up with his new direction that they sued him for ...
Season 4 Trailer
September 24, 2020 16:40 - 10 minutesWe're back, back back again for another season of ruthlessly skewering the most miserable musical monstrosities imaginable, as we take on Kid Rock, Train, LMFAO, Billy Idol, and more. Here's a sneak peek of what sinister stuff we have in store for you for our 4th season, dropping September 29th on the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 3 Finale Part 2: Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core (w/ Tooky Kavanagh and Dicky Stock)
July 01, 2020 00:39 - 1 hour(Part 2 of 2).. Alright Stoppies, you sick fucks. You know what time it is, because you assholes voted for it - and we couldn't be prouder/more disgusted. That's right baby, it's time for a Core-tastrophe of epic proportions - a nightmarish plunge into the twisted mind of the "Skrillex you bought on Wish" aka Corey Feldman, best known for starring in classic 80s movies like Stand By Me and the Lost Boys, but almost equally notorious for his serious drug addiction, history of severe mental ill...
Season 3 Finale Part 1: Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core (w/ Tooky Kavanagh and Dicky Stock)
June 23, 2020 22:11 - 1 hourAlright Stoppies, you sick fucks. You know what time it is, because you assholes voted for it - and we couldn't be prouder/more disgusted. That's right baby, it's time for a Core-tastrophe of epic proportions - a nightmarish plunge into the twisted mind of the "Skrillex you bought on Wish" aka Corey Feldman, best known for starring in classic 80s movies like Stand By Me and the Lost Boys, but almost equally notorious for his serious drug addiction, history of severe mental illness, and of cou...
Soulja Boy - Souljaboytellem.com (w/ Sean Rosa)
June 10, 2020 17:31 - 1 hourIn 2007 there was perhaps no one on earth more notorious than DeAndre Way, better known as Soulja Boy. His signature style of simplified, self-produced snap music swept the world as lead single "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)" quickly rocketed to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and he made himself a multimillionaire at age 17, no small feat for a young black teenager from Georgia making beats in his bedroom. As his star rose, snarky critics pounced, decrying his success as the final nail in the coffin of...
Liz Phair - Self Titled (w/ VQ)
May 26, 2020 18:55 - 1 hourOh, Liz Phair. An indie darling and feminist rock icon who DIY-ed herself into underground superstardom with her classic 1993 album "Exile in Guyville", Phair had gone through some ups and downs musically and personally after her breakout album, putting out a few quietly mediocre albums in the late 90s and getting married, having a child, and divorcing. So why did, at the age of 36, Liz "Fuck and Run" Phair team up with bubblegum pop wizards The Matrix, known for their songcrafting for teen p...
Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension (w/ Martin Popoff)
May 12, 2020 18:29 - 1 hourAerosmith are regarded as true legends in the classic rock pantheon. As famous for their backstage escapades and interpersonal drama as for their meticulously layered production, bar rock bangers, and multi-platinum power ballads, the band managed to stay in the spotlight for at least four decades, no small feat indeed. Does that mean they've earned the respect of this podcast's intrepid hosts? Dream on. Seasoned rock author and interviewer Martin Popoff joins the fray to take on Aeroesmith's...
Trapt - Self Titled (w/ Stefan Perrier)
May 05, 2020 17:10 - 1 hourThere can be no denying that we here at Make It Stop are headstrong, and that we will, of course, take on anyone. This week we've set our sights on early aughts nu-emo bruisers Trapt. A flash in the pan that came and went from the public consciousness about as quickly as a band possibly can with their debut 2002 self titled album, nonetheless singer Chris Taylor Brown persisted, reemerging as a cultural force over the past several months as he used the band's Twitter account to tweet non-stop...
U2- Songs of Innocence (w/ Ashleigh and Maggie of Rock Candy)
April 29, 2020 21:42 - 2 hoursOn this week's episode of Make it Stop we continue to rail against insufferable, self-important celebrities who take themselves way too seriously, this time taking aim at U2 and their 2014 album Songs of Innocence, which was famously auto-downloaded to every iPod in America without consent. That being said, it's not too terrible of an album, with some really standout songs along the way, lots of Bono falsetto, some cool storytelling, and the Edge's trademark echoey guitar sounds. There's also...
Quarantine Stream: Tonetta
April 21, 2020 21:47 - 1 hourIt's been a weird couple of week/month/years, hasn't it #stoppies? While time is beginning to turn in on itself like a surreal nightmarish fractal this podcast is seemingly one of the last things tethering your hosts to any sort of regular schedule or sense of 'normalcy'. Unfortunately, this week's deep dive into the absolutely fucking insane world of Tonetta just took the nightmare fractal and shat on it, ate it up, and spit it back in our faces. Truly devoted uber-stoppie and ultimate Tonet...
Quarantine Stream: Mike and Heather review the Joe Exotic Videography
April 07, 2020 18:35 - 1 hourOn today's Make It Stop Heather and Mike take aim at the uniting cultural event that has brought a quarantined America together: Tiger King. Specifically, the music of the King himself, Joe Exotic. Or rather, the music he commissioned someone with a much better (and clearly wildly different) voice to make. Your intrepid hosts react live to no less than 16 of the deposed exotic animal monarch's bizarre music videos, and they have it all -- outrageous outfits, unsubstantiated murder accusations...
Quarantine Stream: Joe Exotic
April 07, 2020 18:35 - 1 hourOn today's Make It Stop Heather and Mike take aim at the uniting cultural event that has brought a quarantined America together: Tiger King. Specifically, the music of the King himself, Joe Exotic. Or rather, the music he commissioned someone with a much better (and clearly wildly different) voice to make. Your intrepid hosts react live to no less than 16 of the deposed exotic animal monarch's bizarre music videos, and they have it all -- outrageous outfits, unsubstantiated murder accusations...
March Badness FINALE
March 31, 2020 16:00 - 1 hourIt's the Worst, Least-Wonderfulest time of the year. March was always a brutal month, but this one is definitely the Baddest on record - with a global pandemic forcing entire cities on lockdown, hospitals desperate for gowns, masks and ventilators, and scary spiky death graphs getting ever more urgently plotted. This is a Bad Time, #stoppies, but what are we to do in a crisis besides doubling down on this, our deepest dive so far into the most despicable, soulless, self-indulgent rock music e...
March Badness Semi Finals Episode 2: Imagine Dragons vs. Hollywood Undead (w/ Ben Stein)
March 24, 2020 18:52 - 1 hourJust when you thought March couldn't get any badder, it goes ahead and gets way, way worse. Seriously, what the fuck? With a nation in turmoil, a pandemic growing exponentially more serious by the hour, and all of us confined to our houses in order to attempt to stave off an even more nightmarish dystopian timeline that seems more inevitable each day, what the fuck is a #stoppie to do? What we always do: eviscerate the most miserable audio excrement the industry has to offer. The second March...
March Badness Semi Finals Episode 1: Pitbull vs. Nickelback
March 17, 2020 21:46 - 2 hoursAs podcasters we are the first line of defense against boredom in these unbearably trying times. As such we here at Make It Stop are *pleased* to bring you Part One of the March Badness Semi-Finals. This round pits Nickelback's 2014 post-butt experiment No Fixed Address against #1 seed Pitbull's 2014 album, which is literally called Globalization. Make It Stop mainstay Brandon Vallee jumps into the fray with Heather and Mike to tackle the nearly impossible task of determining which of these a...
March Badness Round 1, Episode 2: Nickelback vs. Maroon 5 (w/ Katie McCarthy)
March 10, 2020 18:30 - 2 hoursRound 1 of the 2020 MARCH BADNESS TOURNAMENT continues, this time pitting butt rock legends Nickelback and their 2005 "classic" All the Right Reasons against radio pop stalwarts Maroon 5 and their 2015 album V. Heather and Mike are joined by Make It Stop returnee and extraordinarily funny comedian Katie McCarthy. Together they endure 22 terrible tracks and must make the dreaded decision of which artist has earned a ticket to the semi-finals to take on the first seed, Mr. Worldwide himself, Pi...
March Badness Round 1, Episode 1: Imagine Dragons vs. Eminem (w/ Lilz and Patrick of Jukebox Zeroes)
March 03, 2020 17:00 - 1 hourWelcome to our nightmare, Stoppies! It's our first episode of the 2020 MARCH BADNESS TOURNAMENT, where the lowest rated artists from the past decade duke it out to be crowned the worst of the worst. Today's showdown begins with a familiar foe, bane of the pod Eminem and the 2009 edition of his perpetual tired ass comeback routine, Relapse. Facing off against Marshall is the milquetoast mason jar wedding band Imagine Dragons and their 2014 record Smoke + Mirrors, an album distinguished only by...
Pat Boone - In A Metal Mood (w/ Ginny Nightshade and Mike D'Angelo)
February 11, 2020 19:14 - 1 hourIn the 1950s, wholesome whitebread protestants were terrified by the so-called "Race Records" of the likes of Little Richard, Charles Singleton and Nat King Cole. Enter Pat Boone, a palatable alternative to both black musicians and the gyrating hips of Elvis Presley. With his milquetoast covers of black artists' original compositions, Pat Boone quickly surged to superstardom, amassing millions of dollars, jumpstarting a career in film and television, and spreading the good word to his avowedl...
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday (w/ Brian Melanson)
February 04, 2020 19:53 - 1 hourDespite institutional disdain and lukewarm critical reception, the Dave Matthews Band has maintained a ravenous and vocal fanbase for nearly three decades. Their patented blend of soft rock, smooth jazz and jam band wankery has wowed trust fund hippies and white hat frat bros for as long as most of us can remember. But even Dave's hordes of loyalists couldn't help but cast a weary side eye at the band's tepid crossover album, 2001's Everyday. Written and produced with the assistance of pop so...
Worst of Madonna
January 28, 2020 16:00 - 1 hourMadonna Louise Ciccone has reinvented herself countless times. She's a diva, a gay icon, and a culture vulture of the highest magnitude. She redefined womens' place in popular music. Truly, she's nothing short of a legend. She's also a new age whackjob, neolib ghoul, and has literally stolen children from impoverished Africans. There is a whole lot to unpack with Madonna, and Heather and Mike tackle that undertaking on today's Make It Stop -- The Worst of Madonna. Through a career-spanning te...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Movie Soundtrack (w/ Joe Streeter)
January 14, 2020 17:48 - 1 hourThe Beatles need no introduction. We all know them and their legacy. We all know how they shaped popular music for decades to come. But did you know that eleven years after the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the forces of money and cocaine collided, causing a terrible supernova known as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- THE MOVIE?! Helmed by a doe eyed Peter Frampton and the drug addled husks of The Bee Gees, masterminded by their manager, and rounded out with a cadre...
John Cena - You Can't See Me (w/ Tony Fernandez)
January 07, 2020 17:00 - 1 hourLadies, gentlemen, esteemed guests, THE CHAMP. IS HERE. The Massachusetts-grown 10 time world champion, human meme, and all around beefcake John Cena is the subject of today's episode -- specifically, his 2005 rap album WWE: You Can't See Me. A time capsule of mid-aughts hubris, You Can't See Me is equal parts ghastly vanity project and ill-conceived showcase for Cena's dipshit cousin Tha Trademarc. The two MCs trade verses about shooting guns and flipping bricks as the eyes of every listener...
Worst Music of 2019
December 31, 2019 22:21 - 1 hourThe 20-teens (20-tens?) have come and gone, and as we ring in the New Year we'd like to pay tribute to the worst that 2019 had to offer. Along with the requisite collection of washed up has-beens and plastic bubble gum that you've come to expect from our yearly wrap up, the end of the decade also provided us with a bounty of white rap dorks, cheesy novelty acts, and some monumental missteps from some of our faves. It didn't seem possible, but 2019 was easily the worst of all the worst ofs in ...
Afroman - A Colt 45 Christmas (w/ Dahlia Hill & Liv)
December 24, 2019 16:11 - 1 hourTwas The Night Before Christmas, and all through the pod Four creatures were cringing, at a hacky rap clod Afroman was hung over, and recorded some dreck In hopes that dumb stoners would send him a check Your hosts were both rustled, all smug in their dread While idiot songs got stuck in their heads And Dahlia on Mic 1, and Liv on Mic 2 Joined both of yon hosts to discuss how this blew A Colt 45 Christmas arose such a clatter We're certain ye Stoppies that nothing is badder And we heard him e...
Lil B - Green Flame (w/ Zach Armentrout)
December 10, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourImma tell you like this whodie, if you're really about that pretty bitch shit, that gutta shit, that fifty, if you're still selling jerry and you know you're doin' numbers, 28 wit' a ladder, still on that FIGARO. If you're wet like wonton soup, if you look like Jesus, if you've got 50,000 bitches on your dick, if you're bitch mob task force all day, real pink bandana shit, KRIS HUMPHRIES. If you know the BasedGod, you already know what it is. It's time for an episode on Lil B. The king of al...
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography (w/ Janet McNamara)
December 03, 2019 16:06 - 1 hourRaised in her sister's shadow and shunned and ridiculed by the public, Ashlee Simpson was put through a lot for a 19 year old. Her public image took a massive hit following a disastrous SNL lip synching gaffe, leading to a number of hit pieces, a high level of media scrutiny, and the merciless booing of her performance at the Orange Bowl. Was she really that bad? Did she deserve to be dragged through the mud? Local comedian and infamous American Idol alum Janet McNamara (seriously, look it up...