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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Episodes
Elton John - Victim of Love (w/ Dicky Stock)
January 16, 2018 17:43 - 1 hourTop of the morning to y' Stoppies, we're right chuffed to bring you our latest episode, and this one's a British Invasion! This week's episode finds us disco dancing with the devil, as we review Elton John's much maligned Victim of Love, a several-years-too-late collection of half-assed disco tunes so soulless that Sir Elton himself doesn't bother to write any of the music or even play the friggin' piano on it. Wading through this glitter-encrusted turd of an album with us is local funny guy ...
Worst Songs of 2017
January 09, 2018 17:16 - 1 hourHappy new year, Stoppies! Just kidding. 2017 was already pretty brutal, but we're here to put some crap-icing on the trash-cake with a roundup of all the anti-anthems of this past year. Take a deep dive down with us to the bottom of the bad music barrel where we dissect the treacley corporate cut-and-paste drivel that characterized the worst of this year. Be prepared to abandon your heroes as we bemoan the tepid trainwrecks put out by artists that last hit their prime over a decade ago, who s...
Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu (w/ Nick Ortolani)
December 26, 2017 16:41 - 1 hourThis week's episode is the opposite of a Christmas miracle: a veritable log of reindeer shit left for us to scrape off our shoes till the end of eternity, the album Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica began as an improbable but intriguing pairing that soon became one of the most widely panned artistic outputs by all of the musicians involved in its production. Over an hour and a half long, Lulu boggles the mind with its breadth of hatred for its audience, plodding through strained, off-key warblin...
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended (w/ Brian Melanson)
December 12, 2017 16:04 - 1 hourToday's episode finds our heroes waxing philosophic about the nature of art, music, and ultimately life--while analyzing the shrieking, dispassionate autotuned wailing and aggressive GarageBand synth lines of Farrah Abraham's 2012 atrocity/masterpiece My Teenage Dream Ended. Joined by #Cobbcast host and producer Brian Melanson, the team digs deep into the autobiographical, arguably anti-musical screechy glitch-pop album and puzzles over whether this is a hauntingly and effective Crystal Castl...
Bruce Willis - The Return of Bruno
December 11, 2017 20:57 - 42 minutesEpisode 2 finds our heroes Mike and Heather wading knee deep in the schlockiest, most useless vanity project ever--Bruce Willis' "Return of Bruno", a 2 part mockumentary/concert and tepid, schmaltzy album of the same name. Rewrite history with us as we discover Bruno invented the Beatles, psychedelia, and basically everything else that ever happened in music, period--with his very own bland and flavorless take on white dad Motown. It's a blast...that should have stayed long in the past. Lear...
Brokencyde- I'm Not A Fan, but the Kids Like it!
December 05, 2017 16:31 - 45 minutesFor Episode 1 of Make it Stop, our podcast dedicated to dredging up and dissecting the worst albums of all time, Mike and Heather blow their load early with one of the most catastrophic collections of sounds ever made. Characterized by screeching cookie monster vocals, mysoginistic toddler lyrics, and shallow, brittle casio keyboard beats, brokenCYDE, a band whose name describes our general attitudes after listening to this trash, made it inexplicably big in the late 2000s with their crunkcor...