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That Awful Sound

174 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 157 ratings

The show about the music you liked before you knew any better. Every week Alexander Edward and guests revisit an embarrassing song and music video, mining it for cringeworthy moments and savoring the painful memories they generate. Also, good music if there's time.
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Update On The Status of That Awful Sound

October 08, 2018 07:43 - 4 minutes - 6.36 MB

Sadly, the show must not go on. I may be back in the future, and you can continue to hear me once a week on Minion Death Cult at miniondeathcult.com, but as of now the show is on hiatus. Thank you to everyone for listening and for supporting. If you're a Patreon supporter, I will honor whatever rewards you've donated towards, and I'm going to get a small batch of new shirts made. Thanks again. Hope to see you soon. Alexander

Soul Is Wet (Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me)

August 27, 2018 08:47 - 1 hour - 119 MB

Welp, it's finally here. The episode where I let Cahn and Aimee yell at me about how good Dave Matthews Band is, while I yell at them about how insane these lyrics are. Seriously, folks, this episode is rotten with Dave Matthews' sexual scat and spore: Boys, Cum, Bondage, Upskirts, Cunnilingus, and a Bare Bone all make up the song your parents made love to in 1996. Music We Like: Kali Uchis - Isolation, Jeff Buckley - Grace, and Mass Arrest - The Savage Season Continues

Arkansasdomy (Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication)

August 20, 2018 07:14 - 1 hour - 139 MB

This week Shaina and Michael join me to revisit Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication," a mournfully chill song about how Californian culture is copulating with the rest of the world--to mixed results. How did Anthony Kiedis's "cleansing trip to Thailand" factor into the creation of this song? Do we have the strength of will to analyze all five verses? Can anyone but Californians enjoy this band responsibly?  Plus: a music video featuring an RHCP-themed video game that doesn't exist an...

Lie Back & Think of Nebraska (Uncle Kracker - Follow Me)

August 15, 2018 10:29 - 1 hour - 86.8 MB

Following in Kid Rock’s carpetbagging cowboy boot steps, Uncle Kracker released his debut album featuring this banal, confusingly confident single about: Heroin (duh you stupid idiot) Adultery Being Secretly Gay Being Openly Very Cool Also: a music video featuring characters fantasizing about better music, a Cracker with a stage performance like a tired sock, and an older woman in the comments section who tries to teach young boys the art of seduction.

160 - Sad 9/11 Superman (Five For Fighting - Superman / It's Not Easy)

August 06, 2018 09:52 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

This week I take on the sad superman song from 9/11. What more could you possibly need to know. Watch this video right now because it's incredibly dumb. Music I Like: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Sparkle Hard

159 - Noice Noice (Offspring - Original Prankster)

July 30, 2018 10:25 - 1 hour - 140 MB

This week Michael Munoz brings his gringo expertise, and Leigh harnesses her SaNdLeR background to discuss a godawful song and video from The Offspring. It's a wretched reboot of Pretty Fly For A White Guy featuring a cringeworthy pastiche of latino culture (mostly women) and a prominent, nauseating Rob Schneider soundbite. Oh, the video also features high school Lolitas being molested by their principle... as a prank? Get bonus content including music we still like and tons of youtube...

John Popper is Poly (Blues Traveler, JC Chasez, and 3OH!3 - Blow Up The Moon)

July 23, 2018 10:19 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MB

3, 2, 1, Kaboom. This week I blow up the moon, and this podcast, by doing my first ever official solo episode. (I think I had a solo Grammys show like 3 years back, but we all know the Grammys don't actually matter) I'm here to dissect one of the more bizarre entries into That Awful Sound cannon: a collaboration between Blues Traveler, JC Chasez, and 3OH!3. Blow Up The Moon is the titular track from an album full of unwanted collaborations including Jewel, Rome without Sublime, and a guy...

157 - PS3 Owner (Eighteen Visions - Victim)

July 16, 2018 07:06 - 1 hour - 116 MB

This week we revisit early 2000's metalcore, and then flash-forward 6 years to when it got extremely bad, with Eighteen Visions' "Victim." We discuss the band's transformation over their career, from interesting and good to opening for Hinder. Music We Like: Touche Amore's Green, Daughters' Satan in the Wait, R'n'R, Doomriders, and Suicide File.  

156 - Western Waxing (Paula Cole - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?)

July 09, 2018 01:02 - 1 hour - 113 MB

This week Leigh joins me to talk about not being allowed to listen to Alanis, not wanting to shave her armpits, and a song we both still kind of like: Paula Cole's "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? We go over the amazingly misinterpreted lyrics of this song, including anti-feminists misreadings by Spin Magazine, Rush Limbaugh, and former congressman Allen West. Music we still like: Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons and Lisa Loeb's Silly ...

155 - FILM (Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated)

July 02, 2018 09:16 - 1 hour - 135 MB

Welcome back to the show! This week we're returning to mid-00's radio demo with Dashboard Confessional and Spider-Man 2. We cover the history of this song, including the fact that it was written in 10 minutes by an inspired Chris Carraba after a screening of Spider-Man 2. We also suss out the creepiness of these lyrics, one listener's overtly creepy interpretation of these lyrics, and Cohost Tony reminisces about carrying around a watercolor portrait of Chris Carraba in his three-ring bi...

(Preview) Poopiate of the Masses (Lick It Up / I Wanna Be Bad)

June 20, 2018 07:24 - 2 minutes - 3.61 MB

We're still on vacation! In the meantime, get bonus content from Patreon.com/thatawfulsound This week it's bonus clips from our conversation with Joshua Toomey of Primer 55, including: Primer 55 opening for Limp Bizkit, weird lyrics from folks artists, and lots of stage banter from Paul Stanley. AND Bonus clips from our Willa Ford episode, including: Poo jokes, and a conversation about their place in society, Amanda Bynes' connection with this song, excerpts from a truly amazing Br...

Cypher Soul Patch (Willa Ford - I Wanna Be Bad - With rap and with vocorder ALSO ALBUM VERSION)

June 11, 2018 08:05 - 1 hour - 125 MB

This week we talk about Willa Ford, an aspiring bad girl whose career was cut short by a tragic event in 2001. Returning guest Laura Mee recalls this song helping hone her edge during the transition from  Utah to California, and from pop to pop punk. We talk about the precedent set by the song with likely paved the way for the “dirty” eras of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera; A weird, Eminem-based rap verse by someone who is not Eminem; And an outfit featuring what we all agree to be ...

153 - Brad's Memorial (Sublime - Date Rape)

June 04, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 133 MB

This week on a very special episode of That Awful Sound, we take a self-guided Sublime tour around Long Beach, visiting important historical markers such as the Sublime mural, ONS liquor store, Cal State Long Beach (where 40 oz to Freedom was recorded), Bradley Nowell’s gravesite, and a random head shop in order to bring you a jam-packed episode on the band’s breakout single, Date Rape. How did this song exist? Why? Do Sublime fans invalidate whatever good intentions this song might’ve ori...

152 - Be Good To Yourself (KISS - Lick It Up)

May 28, 2018 08:13 - 1 hour - 130 MB

This week we talk to Joshua Toomey of the Talk Toomey Podcast about playing in Primer 55, almost playing in Pressure 4-5, and interviewing Wes Borland on his podcast Talk Toomey Also, we revisit KISS and their 1983 single Lick It Up, their first appearance without makeup and what counterintuitively helped reignite their career. Music We Like: KISS - Destroyer, Artimus Pyle - Fucked From Birth, Bad Wolves - Disobey, A$AP Rocky - Testing

151 - Sustained (Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos)

May 21, 2018 08:53 - 1 hour - 131 MB

This week Michael "Matchbox" Muñoz joins me to talk Enrique and his massive hit "Bailamos" and it's weird relationship with Wild Wild West, including a music video tie-in and a gushing review from Will Smith himself. Plus: old online news copy and all the cringe-y wordplay that entails, lyrics about defiant, life-threatening dancing, and some of the most bizarre youtube comments we've ever had go to Patreon.com/thatawfulsound for hours of bonus content 

150 - Follow The Leader (Unwritten Law - Seein Red)

May 14, 2018 08:52 - 1 hour - 146 MB

This week I talk “Seein Red’” with Nick Guenzler (@TerminalRadness) by Unwritten Law and not Chevelle   We remember how the vast majority of us were tricked into thinking this band was punk, the various physical altercations between the lead singer and his bandmates, and the lazy-yet-bizarre music video featuring 5 clones of the singer making out with 5 clones of his girlfriend.   Music We Like: BAMBARA - Shadow on Everything, and Iceage - Beyondless

149 - Dust In Piece (Megadeth - Train of Consequences)

May 07, 2018 06:23 - 1 hour - 137 MB

This week Cahn rejoins me to FINALLY cover another member of the Big Four: Megadeth, and their ultra-literal "Train of Consequences." How much of this song is about horse racing? Did their drummer ever figure out how the rotating room effect works? Did Paul Schaffer ever get to shred on harmonica with another metal band? I'm afraid this episode raises more questions than it answers. Music We Like: Sleep - The Sciences, J Cole - KOD, Goastsnake - Flower of Disease, DJ Dione - Pain Till I ...

148 - The Gammy Leg (Hole - Malibu)

April 30, 2018 07:58 - 1 hour - 125 MB

Subscribe at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound for weekly bonus content and a monthly bonus episode, including our first-ever Britney Spears episode, Oops I Did It Again! No Show Notes! It's Late! This Episode is good!

147 - Sh*tsten Beybor (Busta Rhymes & Janet Jackson - What's It Gonna Be)

April 25, 2018 06:12 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Sorry for the late release, folks! Had family in from out of town at the last minute, and this episode was a LONG one to edit. We cover the amazing, $2.4 million video featuring oceans of goo, Janet Jackson in a dominatrix outfit, and Busta Rhymes as a shape-shifting lion dragon sperm. Music We Like: Coltrane - A Few of My Favorite Things, Ghastly Sound, - The Bottom, Tweak Bird, Lightning Bolt, Torche - Restarter, and Sammus - Pieces in Space

146 - Booty Chatter (Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly)

April 16, 2018 07:04 - 1 hour - 122 MB

This week we cover southern white trash anthem "Ugly" by Bubba Sparxx featuring: more mouth sounds from Timbaland, wild VEVO edits and even wilder intact lyrics, breakdancing in pig sh*t, and Missy Elliot on a goddamn tractor. Music We Like: Todd Terje - It's Album Time, Invisible Inc. - Fine Print, Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark (Feat. Ray Harkins of Taken)

April 09, 2018 09:43 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Subscribe at patreon.com/thatawfulsound for a ton of bonus content including a dozen youtube comments cut for time and other cringeworthy ephemera from the Hoobastank era. This week Ray Harkens of Taken joins the show to talk about his affinity for early 2000’s post grunge and butt rock, through the lens of Hoobastank’s “Crawling in the Dark” Taken also has a new EP, their first recordings in over a decade, and you can hear the title track now on Spotify or other streaming services. “I...

144 - Chill Ass Girl (Dido - Thank You)

April 02, 2018 07:35 - 1 hour - 119 MB

This week we cover my love/hate relationship with Dido's "Thank You," a seemingly melancholy song that is actually just about a cool boyfriend. You better believe we cover the song's intersection with Eminem's "Stan," how the movie "Up" ripped off Dido's spite house in this music video, and plenty of bizarre youtube comments. Music We Like: Thundercat - Drank (Chopped & Skewed), Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue, and Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens

143 - Denim Daddy (Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You)

March 26, 2018 06:49 - 1 hour - 131 MB

This week we cover the Dandy Warhols' "Bohemian Like You" from 2001 and like 5 car commercials. What exactly is bohemian about this song? How many times could the Rolling Stones successful sue over one song? Music We Like: Booji Boys - Weekend Rocker, Against Me - Shapeshift With Me, Portugal the Man - Waiter: You Vultures!

142 - Luke Bryan - That's My Kind of Night

March 19, 2018 06:45 - 1 hour - 131 MB

This week Aimee-Beth wants to talk about ironic (?) country (?) club anthem (?) "That's My Kind of Night" by Luke Bryan Is this song making fun of hip hop or desperately trying to crib from it? Both? Are the static shots of cowboy boots a joke? Is this music video a rejected Monday Night Football promo? Who knows? Music We Like: Greater Pyrenees - Self-Titled, Frodus - And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea, Depeche Mode - Violator 

Ashlee Simpson - Pieces of Me

March 12, 2018 07:26 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Unique episode title and show notes cancelled due to me being too chill for 3/11 day. This is episode is good though.

Livers & Shakes (Matchbox Twenty - Unwell)

March 05, 2018 08:58 - 1 hour - 145 MB

I had good show notes but the internet deleted them. the song Is about mental illness and Rob Thomas thinks “impaired” is a cool word the video is completely terrible, features early-CGI, and his evil, big-nosed bandmates. music we like: Courtney Barnett - Nameless Faceless, Cave In - Jupiter, EARTHGANG - Royalty

139 - Trevi Fountain (Gym Class Heroes - Cupid's Chokehold)

February 26, 2018 08:16 - 1 hour - 152 MB

This week we take on "Cupid's Chokehold" by Cobra Starship / Fallout Boy / Supertramp supergroup: Gym Class Heroes. Tony tells us about his connection to the track, which consists entirely of white girls wanting to be the Katy Perry to his Travie McCoy. Lead singer Travis McCoy falls in love with girls, makes them prepare pancakes, and leans into the sloppy manchild role. Bonus content available every week, and a full bonus episode every month once we hit our goal of $250 at Patreon.co...

I Love Your Smile - Deleted Scenes Clip

February 22, 2018 16:26 - 2 minutes - 968 KB

Why Can't Music Be Like When I heard It In The Car? We're only $9 away from our monthly goal of $250! As soon as we hit it, Patreon subscribers will start getting an exclusive, full-format episode every month www.patreon.com/thatawfulsound

A Necessary Lesson in Humility (Shanice - I Love Your Smile)

February 19, 2018 07:27 - 1 hour - 143 MB

This week Michael and I are joined by Josh Hallmark of the Our Americana Podcast Network (our-americana.com) to talk about Shanice’s “I Love Your Smile” and the 6th grade musical performance that resulted in him changing schools. I'd never heard this song before, but it rules. It's got 250 doo's, expensive Janet Jackson laughter, a video about turning the tables on a stalker-y photographer, and a bout of depression nested in an otherwise feel-good, catchy-as-hell pop jam. Help us reach o...

137 - Uke Dad (Hinder - Lips of an Angel)

February 12, 2018 08:04 - 1 hour - 141 MB

Help us reach our goal of $250 at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound, and I'll start releasing an extra full-length episode for subscribers every month. We're only $55 away! This episode is a listener request from Jack, who thought he could fake his way into “cool” music with this album. Boy was he wrong. We cover the way-too-late-but-somehow-successful “Lips of an Angel” by DIY butt-rockers Hinder. With some of the worst vocals and the absolute worst stage presence, the singer spins a tale of t...

136 - BOOM to the Heart! (Soul Asylum - Runaway Train)

February 05, 2018 06:49 - 1 hour - 152 MB

This week we cover, without a doubt, our worst video yet: Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train," which features murdered mee-maws, child prostitutes, and the lead singer sitting on ACTUAL missing children. Also: what this video has in common with Toto's Africa, what it's like to hear a 25 year-old megahit for the first time, and a comment section featuring some of the most deranged and most sensible comments we've had on the show. Hear over an hour of deleted material from this wild episode at p...

Honorary All-Star (Aaliyah / Billy Corgan Bonus Content)

February 01, 2018 16:26 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MB

Here's the bonus Patreon Cahntent for the last two episodes. Today, everyone's an All-Star. Aaliyah: Mike Sees The Offspring, Puddle of Mudd, Cold, and Adema / Shaina Gets Whatever Happened to be in Her Car Signed By Andrew WK / A Commenter Has A Theory About The Baby Noise  BPC: Matt Lip-Syncs to Backstreet Boys in 3rd Grade Despite His Mormon Upbringing // The Logical Fallacies found in All In The Family by Korn and Fred Durst // Billy Corgan Gets His Ego Stroked on Alex Jones // Billy...

135 - Billy Corgan Spotlight (Zwan - Honestly)

January 29, 2018 08:26 - 1 hour - 145 MB

To get deleted scenes from this episode, including extra Live Journal entries from Billy Corgan, subscribe at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound for as little as $1/month and also get weekly bonus episodes delivered straight to you podcast app, plus free and discounted merch. This week we take on Billy Corgan, Zwan, and the brutal, public breakup of the early 2000's supergroup. We find BC/WPC at his most petty and vindictive, raging at the "vile creatures" from Slint, Chavez, and A Perfect Circl...

134 - Cocaine Cavern (Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody)

January 22, 2018 05:21 - 1 hour - 131 MB

This week Shaina and Michael return to help dissect an amazing, bizarre, and just-plain-great song from 1998: Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody." Timbaland's mouth sounds. Baby sounds. Music Video Falconry. A four-hour push to write, record, and release this track as the lead single to Eddie Murphy's Dr. Doolittle, who also appears in the video. Get deleted scenes from this and every episode delivered straight to your podcast app by subscribing at Patreon.com/ThatAwfulSound for as little ...

133 - Mic Check It Out (Limp Bizkit & Method Man - N 2 Gether Now)

January 15, 2018 07:38 - 1 hour - 140 MB

This week our resident Limp Bizkit expert Aaron Brock returns to help us dissect the good-except-for-Fred-Durst N 2 Gether Now featuring Method Man and a beat from DJ Premier. We're talking embarrassingly weak bars, poser Limp Bizkit hats from our childhoods, signed Fred Durst photos, and, once again, youtube commenters who don't normally like rap but like this song "for some reason" Music we like: Marika Hackman - I'm Not Your Man, Turnstile - Real Thing, and The Most Unwanted Song S...

132 - Are We Human Or Are We Danzig (The Killers - Human)

January 10, 2018 05:05 - 1 hour - 129 MB

A song I hate from 2008, The Killers’ “Human,” dares to ask the question no one understood: are we human or are we dancer? Not “denser.” Not “dancers.” Dancer. We cover Brandon Flowers’ battle with the media on behalf of the world’s dumbest lyric, what it means to be “dancer,” and why, in Flowers’ own words, listeners are “idiots” if they don’t get it. Music We Like: Noname - Telephone, The Jesus Lizard - Liar, Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Bonus Weekly Episodes and ...

131 - Ego Goo (Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle)

January 01, 2018 06:38 - 1 hour - 123 MB

Happy 3rd Anniversary to that Awful Sound! I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than by finally talkin' Genie in a Bottle with longtime friends and cohosts: Michael "Mikey Goo" Muñoz and Shaina "One Time" Turian. I had to cut a ton of great stuff for time, including probably a dozen amazing YouTube comments, and the only way to hear them is at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound. $1/month gets you a private feed of every bonus episode in your podcast player This was a super fun, super fr...

130 - Eggnog Pedicure (The Christmas Shoes)

December 25, 2017 07:08 - 1 hour - 135 MB

Weekly bonus episodes available at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound The Regular Dog is Back! This week we cover The Christmas Shoes, a song so reprehensible it spawned one of our most cynical, most blasphemous episodes yet. We tackle the subject of Christmas Mom-death the only way we know how: an exploration of Christian foot fetishes, a grown man's obsession with THAT LITTLE BOY, and the purpose this song serves in the American psyche. Music We Like: Oxbow - Thin Black Duke, Bugg - S/T, and...

Awful Re-Release: 88 - Now That's What I Call Weird (Train - Meet Virginia)

December 18, 2017 07:58 - 1 hour - 107 MB

Sorry Folks! I worked 6 days, 70hrs last week, while sick, so no new episode. We'll be back next week with a very special Christmas episode! In the meantime, here's one of my favorites.  This week we “Meet Virginia,” a monster brought to life by mom rock juggernauts Train in their 1998 single. She’s not like other girls. Also: rhyming words with themselves… twice, remorseful memories of bullying girls in high school with Nickelback lyrics and flying burritos, and, again, a song that stri...

129 - Coby Beef (Papa Roach - Between Angels & Insects)

December 11, 2017 04:07 - 1 hour - 140 MB

This week we're covering the semi-woke, semi-forgotten single from Papa Roach's 3x platinum Infest: "Between Angels & Insects." Inspired by a wild assortment of works (Fight Club, Buddhism, and a 1994 British period drama with the same name), the song tackles the age old conundrum: money sucks, but bedazzled Affliction t-shirts rule. In this episode: Michael learned these tabs, Tony relates to Papa Roach fans through a friend from a broken home, and I think this song is better than Last ...

128 - Alimony Pavements (Nickelback - Hero)

December 04, 2017 07:47 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Welcome to our first Nickelback-related video! Spoler alert: it sucks. This is the song from the Spider-Man soundtrack performed by a butt rock supergroup made up of Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, Saliva Frontman Josey “Joe C” Scott, and the douchebag from Theory of a Deadman Sure, Nickelback himself is on this track, but the meat of the episode lies with Joe C and his weird antagonistic relationship with The Hives, The Strokes, and Chad Kroeger himself. Make sure to check out our b...

127 - Allegedly Uneducated (Kid Rock - Cowboy)

November 27, 2017 01:51 - 1 hour - 141 MB

Subscribe to the brand new Minion Death Cult on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts This week we “watch lots of crotch” and paint this episode white as we take on Kid Rock’s eerily prescient, “Cowboy,” which foreshadows Kid Rock’s turn toward bro country and hick hop, and unfortunately inspired many others to do the same. Also: A video probably directed by McG, the best side-effect of Kid Rock’s career, and of course his “prank” senate run.

126 - For Your President (Hosier & Adam Calhoun - Salute The Brave)

November 20, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 137 MB

This week the podcast gets  p o l i t i c a l  as we take on a truly awful, literally genocidal, stand-for-the-anthem anthem, "Salute the Brave" by hick-hop artist Hosier and Facebook vlogger Adam Calhoun. Make sure to subscribe to our brand new podcast, MINION DEATH CULT, a show about the deranged politics of the internet, and partly inspired by this episode. A video with 2.5 million views, "Salute the Brave" has lyrics about killing liberals, carpet-bombing Afghanistan, and "screaming ...

125 - Age of Aroma (MuDvAyNe - Death Blooms)

November 13, 2017 06:26 - 1 hour - 130 MB

We have a dispatch from Travis’s stint at Ozzfest, a pitch for a new #Beardvape-adjacent product, JP’s mom reveals her funeral playlist, MuDvAyNe gets poetic, and a truly wild music video including a CGI iron lung on a beach Music We Like: Flying Lotus - Post Requisite, Suffocation - ...Of the Dark Light, and Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire / Post Self “This song reminds me of a long prog song put inside a car crusher.”

124 Bonus Teaser - What's Goin On? (Danzig - Sacrifice)

November 09, 2017 22:54 - 1 minute - 1.92 MB

On this jam-packed, 48 minute bonus episode we have a live musical performance to commemorate Cahn’s first visit to the show, Alex Jones’ fascination with Danzig, a Danzig-themed county fair, women as ouiji boards, Music We Like, and the climactic ending to our Hot Topic Trek

124 - Loudiamondphillips (Danzig - Sacrifice)

November 06, 2017 04:53 - 1 hour - 128 MB

Cahn Curtis is back and exhausted in his disappointment in Danzig’s masochistic, Disney-released 5th album, Blackacidevil, and its lead single, “Sacrifice.” We’ve got sub-NIN industrial metal, lyrics possibly written by JB Smoove, Danzig helps with puberty, angry fans sacrifice each other to ensure a better harvest, an update on Tom Delonge's current headspace, and a dispatch from our sPoOkY trip to Hot Topic. Subscribe for only $1/month at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound to get weekly bonus ...

123 - The Mark, Tom, and Truman Show (Blink 182 - I Miss You) (Tom Delonge)

October 30, 2017 02:29 - 1 hour - 111 MB

New T-Shirt, Posters, and Stickers available at thatawfulsound.com/merch & patreon.com/thatawfulsound  Happy Halloween! This week we cover the apparently spooky "I Miss You," from Boxcar Racer + Mark Hoppus supergroup: Blink 182. We try to figure out whether Blink 182 or My Chemical Romance started this emo/goth/pop punk trend; wade through the deepest, darkest realms of genius annotations; and guest Nick Guenzler struggles between his personal relationship with the band and the overwhel...

122 - Crystal Blue (Starting Line - Three's A Charm)

October 23, 2017 08:10 - 1 hour - 124 MB

This week we're joined by Luca Cimarusti to talk about Starting Line's gross video for Three's A Charm featuring a gut-busting joke where an old man has a threesome with highschool students. We struggle with these turned (the other way) phrases, singer Kenny's budding sexuality, what feels like 30 tongue-takes, and "pathetic" youtube commenters. Listen to Luca's band Luggage on your preferred streaming platform  and buy their new tape at http://www.luggagechicago.bandcamp.com 

121 - Zing-A-Dong Bone (Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze)

October 16, 2017 05:13 - 1 hour - 102 MB

This week we discuss our love/mock relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers and their 1993 Coneheads tie-in, "Soul to Squeeze." This song is totally about d r u g s , we get some of the best scatting we’ve had on the podcast, Emma finds a sentient bass guitar in the comments section, Dana Carvey’s Turtleman character mourns 9/11, and we determine the Suicide Squad equivalents of each band member Music We Like: John Frusciante - “Niandra LaDes…”, Dot Hacker, The Coneheads, “Conehead Love,”...

120 - The Hollywood Hills Have Eyes (Shawn Mullins - Rockabye/Lullaby)

October 09, 2017 00:26 - 1 hour - 87.1 MB

If you want to support the show, tell a friend about us! If you want to support the show and get an extra episode every week, subscribe at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound for as little as a $1/mo to get a private feed of weekly bonus episode in your podcast player. (00:00) Rockabye is on 32 album releases, including “World’s Best Dad: Super Tracks for Super Dads” and “American Anthems II”   (11:00) Shawn Mullins creepily whispers a Jack Nicholson impression in the verse of this song that no ...