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Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThe Worst of QueenHowdy folks, we're back back back again with another WRETCH-rospective of a classic and beloved act, documenting and dissecting the 10 worst Queen tracks ever recorded. We're not gonna lie Stoppies, this was a tough one - not because their catalogue is overripe with audio atrocities but because with Freddie Mercury on vocals, Brian May on guitar, and Roger Taylor on drums (sorry to the oft-forgotten John Deacon on bass) it was hard to find TRULY awful tracks. However Mike did manage to dredge up some musical muck including misguided biblical retellings, reluctant talk box synth guitars and scat rap...2025-06-031h 58
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThe Defiant - If I'm Really Being Honest with Dicky Stock and Tom SaundersHow are you feeling, Stoppies? A little aggrieved? A tad perturbed? Are you ready to get REAL about your DEFIANT opinions on the woke mind virus, how doctors are evil pill pushers, and why Jon Stewart doesn't send you cute little videos on your birthday anymore? This week we cover the precipitous fall of once beloved Cookie Monster-voiced ska dad Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who threw away the cushiest career in showbiz to become an RFK Jr. sycophant and conspiracy huckster. His new band, The Defiant, is the saddest supergroup of MAGA-pilled castaways whose only requirement...2025-04-292h 59
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBad Music is Back!Get ready for the hilarious return of the Make It Stop podcast! Hosts Heather and Mike Dunn are back starting April 15th, delivering funny music commentary and scathing critiques of the worst music out there. If you love podcasts that break down bad music with sharp opinions and hot takes, especially focusing on recent releases, Make It Stop is your destination. Expect new episodes packed with bad music analysis every other Tuesday. Follow Make It Stop wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss a single terrible track. Learn more about your ad choices...2025-04-0905 min
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastVan Morrison - Latest Record Project Disc 2 (w/ Mark Gallagher)Have 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-hatred and more life-hatred, specifically towards mask-wearers, public health officials, and...2021-11-102h 37Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastVan Morrison - Latest Record Project Vol. 1 Part 1 (w/ Brandon Vallee)Welcome 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 and continues to suffer at the callous hands of his ex-wife as well as the deep state. For Van the only...2021-10-192h 21Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason 4 Finale - Ska vs. Nu Metal Thunderdome (w/ Ethan Marsh)Alright 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 Bizkit who know their way around a sick riff, heavy bassline and...2021-06-182h 41Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastCrash Test Dummies - Give Yourself a Hand (w/ Mistress Carrie)MMM 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 provide the only bright spots in an otherwise chaotically...2021-05-252h 13Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBilly Idol- Cyberpunk (w/ Manny Raposo)We'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, sitars and self indulgent interludes abound on this 20 track digital disaster, though we...2021-05-142h 22Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastJack White - Boarding House ReachWe'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, furtive garage rock of Mr. White's heyday. It's sure to disappoint you...2021-04-301h 56
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness PART DEUX Finale: Chainsmokers vs. Twenty One Pilots (w/ Garvey Salomon)All 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 rippity-rapping, all the worst aspects of millennial music is...2021-03-302h 26
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness PART DEUX Semifinals Round 2: Will.i.am vs. Twenty One Pilots (w/ Brian and Julez)It'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-rap of 21 Pilots? It's a race to the bottom once...2021-03-242h 05
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness PART DEUX Semifinals Round 1: 311 vs. Chainsmokers (w/ Maggie and Ashleigh of Rock Candy Podcast)Things 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, the passion, the joy of victory, the agony of defeat, the grinding misery of having to listen to all these...2021-03-162h 16
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness PART DEUX Round 1, Episode 2: Train vs. 21 Pilots (w/ Nick Ortolani)On 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 that there are several points in which the tracks blend seamlessly into one another, one...2021-03-102h 13
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness PART DEUX Round 1, Episode 1: Staind vs. 311 (w/ Messiah Carey)It'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 Carey, who brings fantastic insight, making the Staind-to-Honkyball connection we never knew we needed. Who will...2021-03-022h 25Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThe Clash - Cut the Crap (w/ Brandon, Jack and Meagan from Time and Place)They 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 machines, and 40 layers of identical sounding buzzsaw Les Pauls, the album is truly a...2021-02-232h 05Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastGreen Day - Father of all... (w/ Ben Stein)In 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. Green Day’s Father of All Motherfuckers was an easy pick for our worst of 2020 list, and as lifelong Gr...2021-02-171h 35Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastVanilla Ice - Mind Blowin' (w/ VQ of BLOWW and Izzy Da Rosa)It'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, references to smoking bales of 'hootie mac', and painfully corny sex tomes that dry up our collective vaginas quicker than old roller...2021-02-022h 07Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThe Stooges - The Weirdness (w/ Kira Roessler of Black Flag and Sophia Belle)Things 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 task, vehemently defending the band and making us all ask important questions such as: Does our criticism has any value? Why do we have...2021-01-192h 36Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastWorst Music of 20202020 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 board by algorithms. It's a hellscape all around, and now we bring you...2020-12-292h 21
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastDuck Dynasty - Duck The Halls with Alex and LivStoppies, 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 partner Liv join in so we can flex our strong family values. It's just what you always wanted to find under the tree - a...2020-12-221h 45
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastFlorida Georgia Line - Can't Say I Ain't Country (w/ Susie Jeanne of BLOWW)We'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 sounds pretty daggum fun while being swept away by the extremely goofy country concoctions of Florida and Georgia...2020-12-092h 14
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThanksgiving KornuKopia with Alex Dunn and Brian MelansonDue 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 on end. This episode starts off the rails and plummets off a cliff as we all rapidly become too...2020-11-241h 39Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastTrain - Save Me, San Francisco (w/ Emily Ruskowski and Jane Doe)This 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 performer Jane Doe join Heather and Mike to discuss the album that birthed "Hey Soul Sister", 2009...2020-11-102h 13
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBobby 'Boris' Pickett - The Original Monster Mash (w/ Andrew Wiley)I was working in the lab late one nightWhen my ears beheld a dreadful blightFor Bobby "Boris" Pickett began to writeAn album which, to no surpriseWas really wack -- he made the monsters wackThe "Monster Mash", it was the only good trackThe rest is wack -- the rest is really wackHe made it wack -- just stick to "Monster Mash"From our laboratory in Everett MassWe reviewed...2020-10-281h 57
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastKid Rock - Rock N Roll Jesus (w/ Alli Thresher and Squallie Greenthumb)Do 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 and nearly forgotten genre of rock. What it is is a bunch...2020-10-162h 22
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastNeil Young - Landing on Water (ft. Mike Hsu and Luke Condon of the Long May You Young Podcast)After 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 3.2 million dollars. On the Season 4 premiere of Make It Stop, we discuss the album that came...2020-09-292h 16
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason 4 TrailerWe'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/adchoices2020-09-2410 min
Writer's Bagel BasketEp. 135: "ConAir" (Guest Co-Hosts Make It Stop Heather Mack & Mike Dunn)After two years of planning, and plans falling through Make It Stop is finally on the podcast talking about CONAIR!!! They dive deep Mike touches on how ridiculous the Jerry Bruckheimer justice system is. Heather is shocked at how woke a movie from 1997 is, and Scott is baffled why Leeanne Rimes' How Do I Live is the movies theme song. Check it out for yourself.
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Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason 3 Finale Part 2: Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core (w/ Tooky Kavanagh and Dicky Stock)(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 illness, and of course ludicrously terrible musical forays. However nothing could prepare the public...2020-07-011h 38
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason 3 Finale Part 1: Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core (w/ Tooky Kavanagh and Dicky Stock)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 illness, and of course ludicrously terrible musical forays. However nothing could prepare the public consciousness for 2016...2020-06-241h 23
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSoulja Boy - Souljaboytellem.com (w/ Sean Rosa)In 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 both human intellect and music as an art form. Even as oldheads and crotchety critics...2020-06-101h 48
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastLiz Phair - Self Titled (w/ VQ)Oh, 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 pop ingenues Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears, to write aggressively bland midtempo cougar pablum? No one...2020-05-261h 53
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastAerosmith - Music From Another Dimension (w/ Martin Popoff)Aerosmith 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 most recent and least successful album, 2012's Music From Another Dimension. This 70 minute slog garnered extremely poor reviews and sold a...2020-05-121h 58
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastTrapt - Self Titled (w/ Stefan Perrier)There 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 galaxy brain dumbshit high school dropout takes for weeks straight. Heather...2020-05-051h 47
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastU2- Songs of Innocence (w/ Ashleigh and Maggie of Rock Candy)On 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 the many, many songs that sound like U2 from the 80s fed through an Imagine Dragons filter, which predictably blow...2020-04-292h 09
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastQuarantine Stream: TonettaIt'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 Tonetta stan Matthew wrote in with the tip on ol' Tone, offering this tantalizing...2020-04-211h 47
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastQuarantine Stream: Joe ExoticOn 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, and six minutes straight of uncut ape death. It was a scarring experience and we're happy to share it...2020-04-071h 57
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness FINALEIt'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 ever made? As we stand here, dangling on the precipice of total destruction, our precious time...2020-03-311h 49
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness Semi Finals Episode 2: Imagine Dragons vs. Hollywood Undead (w/ Ben Stein)Just 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 Badness Semifinal round heats up with a head to head battle...2020-03-241h 54
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness Semi Finals Episode 1: Pitbull vs. NickelbackAs 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 albums is worse. It's the closest match of the tournament thus far. Who will reign supreme!? Tune in to find...2020-03-172h 24
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness Round 1 Episode 2: Nickelback vs. Maroon 5 (w/ Katie McCarthy)Round 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, Pitbull. What style of trash will win the day? The sleazy blowjob anthems of Nickelback or the tepid white boy dance pop of...2020-03-102h 11
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarch Badness Round 1, Episode 1: Imagine Dragons vs. Eminem (w/ Lilz and Patrick of Jukebox Zeroes)Welcome 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 the fact that every song featured on it has probably washed over you in a dentist's waiting room at...2020-03-031h 50
Jukebox Zeroes042 - AllMusic.com Bottom Of The Barrel Roundup (with Heather Mack & Mike Dunn)On the latest episode of Jukebox Zeroes, Lilz and Patrick get into their critical submarine and embark, James Cameron-like on an aural deep dive. Not a deep dive like one would dive into the discography of a favored artist or band, but a deep dive into the dregs of musical badness. Instead of scouring the bottom of the Marianas Trench like Jacques Cousteau would, they'll be scouring the depths of the internet music database and review site AllMusic.com (A constant critical source for many episodes) for critical disappointment.For this roundup, Lilz and Patrick have gathered up 12...2020-02-121h 29
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastPat Boone - In A Metal Mood (w/ Ginny Nightshade and Mike D'Angelo)In 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 avowedly Christian Conservative audience. In 1997, at age 63, Boone decided to try his hand at an entirely new form of cultural appropriation by shedding his...2020-02-111h 52
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastDave Matthews Band - Everyday (w/ Brian Melanson)Despite 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 songwriting stalwart Glen Ballard ("Hand In My Pocket", "Man In The Mirror") after scrapping a set...2020-02-041h 51
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastWorst of MadonnaMadonna 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 ten tracks, your hosts find Madonna trying on a bevy of ill-fitting musical costumes. Wokescold babbling with Latin...2020-01-281h 44
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Movie Soundtrack (w/ Joe Streeter)The 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 of cartoon voiced actors, Sgt. Pepper was a cultural and...2020-01-141h 54
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastJohn Cena - You Can't See Me (w/ Tony Fernandez)Ladies, 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 collectively roll deep into their skulls at the audacity and caucasity. Local filmmaker and wrestling afficionado Tony Fernandez joins Heather...2020-01-071h 51
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastWorst Music of 2019The 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 Make It Stop history and it's not...2019-12-311h 45
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastAfroman - A Colt 45 Christmas (w/ Dahlia Hill & Liv)Twas The Night Before Christmas, and all through the podFour creatures were cringing, at a hacky rap clodAfroman was hung over, and recorded some dreckIn hopes that dumb stoners would send him a checkYour hosts were both rustled, all smug in their dreadWhile idiot songs got stuck in their headsAnd Dahlia on Mic 1, and Liv on Mic 2Joined both of yon hosts to discuss how this blewA Colt 45 Christmas arose such a clatterWe're...2019-12-241h 26
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastLil B - Green Flame (w/ Zach Armentrout)Imma 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 all memes. The BasedGod. Brandon McCartney...2019-12-101h 49
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastAshlee Simpson - Autobiography (w/ Janet McNamara)Raised 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) doesn't think so. This episode finds Heather and Mike butting heads...2019-12-031h 40
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Discography (w/ Sean Sullivan)We're the ones listening to bad albums out there. Not you, not you, and not you. This week it's all about a true patriot and visionary, Boston's favorite son, revisionist 9/11 savior and vicious hate crime non-apologist Mark Wahlberg. Specifically, his stint as a New Kids-affiliated shirtless (and sometimes pantsless) white rapper named Marky Mark. Sean Sullivan of the Wahlberg enthusiast podcast Two Boys in a Balcony joins the fray as we listen to not one but two albums by The Funky Bunch. Selecting the most choice cuts, we get into his storytelling skills, his family values, and most importantly...2019-11-261h 43
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThe Rolling Stones - Dirty Work (w/ Jere Pilapil)Even though they'd go on to extend their careers another three decades, The Rolling Stones were already Old Bags of Bones when they released Dirty Work in 1986. Mick Jagger was content to sod off and work on his questionable solo project, Charlie Watts was so zonked on heroin the band needed to hire session drummers to finish the record, and the rest of the band was so sick of each other that they all retreated into the world of oversized neon pink blazer afficionada. Comedian and Stones Superfan Jere Pilapil joins us to discuss this opiate hangover set to...2019-11-131h 28
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastWeezer- Raditude (w/ Chris and Chris of We'z Talkin' Weez' 2 Thee)This week we're joined by Chris the Elder and Chris the Younger from the We'z Talkin' Weez 2 Thee podcast. We tap into their boundless Weezer knowledge to try to make sense of 2009's Raditude. Rife with cringe lyrics, questionable genre bending and incompatible collaborations, Raditude oozes unbearable corniness. We discuss the once mighty rock giants' fall from grace and gradual transformation into a childrens' novelty rock act. We discuss Rivers Cuomo's questionable proclivities. Mike in particular is wildly excited to finally be able to nerd out about Weezer. Our love is a heartbreaker, say it ain't so, Stoppies. Part...2019-11-052h 02
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMarilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me (w/ Brittni)Blow out the candles on all your Frankensteins, because it's Halloween. Time to get spooky you cowards. This time around we've got friend of the pod and recovering goth Brittni in the house to talk Marilyn Manson. We tackle his maligned 2007 release EAT ME, DRINK ME, an album which delves into his ephebophilic on-again-off-again abusive relationship with a barely legal Evan Rachel Wood in disgustingly lurid detail. When he's not caterwauling about their yucky sex stuff he's either doing baby bat madlibs, weirdly flexing about being responsible for a woman driving off of a cliff, or firing off shots...2019-10-291h 32
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMillionaires - Discography (ft. Sham Payne)Ignored during their prime and largely forgotten today, mid-aughts scene starlets Millionaires pioneered a brazenly sexual and depraved style of pop music which smashed the glass ceiling of doing songs about snorting coke off hard dicks. Local drag superstar and 'trash pop' superfan Sham Payne joins Mike and Heather to drink a shameful amount of Four Loko while discussing two of Millionaires' EPs and analyzing their impact on music and culture. We also talk a lot (and I mean a LOT) about cum. Were Millionaires vapid and talentless hucksters who skated by on their good looks and perfectly teased...2019-10-221h 40
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThe Doors - Full Circle (w/ Ethan Marsh)Dionysus. The Backdoor Man. Mr. Mojo Risin'. The Lizard King. The Mythical American Poet, Jim Morrison. That's one person you won't be hearing on today's episode of Make It Stop. Comedian Ethan Marsh from Old School Game Show joins the fray this week to discuss The Doors' Full Circle. The album was released less than a year after Jim Morrison's entry into the 27 club, with keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robbie Krieger assuming the roles of the dual frontmen, and they wasted no time transforming the band from the dark and moody psych blues outfit everyone knew them as...2019-10-082h 16
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastTool - 10,000 Days (w/ Jenner Barrington-Ward)DISCLAIMER: Tool fans beware. We will be saying very mean things about the band Tool on this episode of Make It Stop! If you do not want to hear people say mean things about Tool, do not click play.To everyone else: It's Tool Time. Time to talk about Tool, one of the most divisive bands in rock music. Known for their odd time signatures, snaking arpeggios and minor key dirges, Tool's unique approach to metal has amassed them equal shares of devoted fanatics and vehement detractors. Mike and Heather's guest for this week, Jenner Barrington-Ward, falls...2019-10-011h 30
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSimple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls (ft. Ellen and Larz of Palehound)On this week's Make It Stop, Ellen Kempner and Larz Brogan of Palehound join us to talk about Québécois Pop Punk Pariahs Simple Plan and their contentious debut album No Pads, No Helmets, Just Balls. We get to talking about the Pop Punk generation gap and the questionable validity of adult men marketing music to pre-teen girls, and we ultimately learn the shocking truth that Palehound may not even exist if not for Avril Lavigne. Through it all we navigate the snotty, whiny posturing of Simple Plan's Pierre Bouvier and get into an intense debate between curmudgeonly pu...2019-09-241h 50
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastChance the Rapper - The Big DayIGH! It's The Big Day today, Stoppies, the Season 3 Premiere of Make It Stop! And to celebrate our Big Day, we're reviewing... The Big Day! Chance The Rapper's "first album" and massive fall from grace. After dropping his all time classic mixtape Acid Rap and following it up with the massively successful gospel rap fusion of Coloring Book, Chance finally released an official album -- a concept album about loving his wife, loving god, and really really REALLY loving his wife. Devoid of replay value or any remotely appealing elements and clocking in at over 70 minutes, The...2019-09-101h 48
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason 3 TeaserWe're back, Stoppies! It's time for round 3 of the most vile, self-indulgent, moronic, insipid, and downright delusional musical monstrosities the world has to offer. Summer break's over, and it's time for Heather and Mike to strap back in to eviscerate another batch of bad albums--slaughtering sacred cows like The Doors and Tool and even their own favorites like Chance the Rapper and Radiohead. As always they'll bring you an incredible roster of hilarious guests--from drag queens to stand up comedians to wrestlers and musicians of all stripes. Find out more about what's in store in this brief teaser episode, a...2019-08-2212 minMake it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason Finale Part 2- 0 to BrokencydeThis week on Make It Stop we close out season 2 with a bang, bringing back four beloved guests to take on the newest album by the worst of the worst -- Brokencyde. Brandon Vallee, Angela Sawyer, Emily Ruskowki and Nick Ortolani join Heather and Mike to talk about the scenesters turnt hipsters as they transition from crunkcore, discover weed and Juuls, and continue pretending they know how sex works. All of this in front of a live audience at Somerville's VOX POP studio in Assembly Row. It gets weird and gross as we search for meaning in the wasteland...2019-08-191h 18
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSeason 2 Finale Part 1- 0 to BrokencydeThis week on Make It Stop we close out season 2 with a bang, bringing back four beloved guests to take on the newest album by the worst of the worst -- Brokencyde. Brandon Vallee, Angela Sawyer, Emily Ruskowki and Nick Ortolani join Heather and Mike to talk about the scenesters turnt hipsters as they transition from crunkcore, discover weed and Juuls, and continue pretending they know how sex works. All of this in front of a live audience at Somerville's VOX POP studio in Assembly Row. It gets weird and gross as we search for meaning in the wasteland...2019-06-251h 05
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastCreed- Human Clay (w/ Sherman and Lucifer Christmas)Creed's Human Clay. An album of contradictions. It's the best-selling album we've ever covered yet it's universally reviled. It's chock full of praise songs yet the band claims to not be Christian rock. It's packed with lyrical moralizing yet Scott Stapp is a mess of a human being, the human embodiment of Florida Man. 20 years after Human Clay's release, lapsed Christians Shay "Sherman" and Lucifer Christmas join Heather and Mike to try to make sense of it all. You'll hear all the stories, from T.I.'s lifesaving blunt to Scott Stapp's manic angel-driven road trip. Let us take...2019-06-041h 44
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- Coming out of our Shells (w/ Scott Kurland)
Cowabunga! Today we're taking a trip down memory lane to 1990, when the US was deep in the grip of Turtlemania. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were everywhere, an inescapable vortex of inexplicable SoCal vernacular, mountains of action figures, and cartoon pizzas with really delicious looking drippy cheese. So strong was their hold on pop culture that not even the music world was safe. Coming Out of Their Shells was not just an album but an entire tour with an accompanying concert VHS. The Turtles' rockin' tunes tell the tale of four gnarly dudes who just wanna tube, and The...2019-05-211h 40
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastChris Gaines (Garth Brooks) - Chris Gaines Greatest Hits (w/ Lisa McColgan)
What happens when one of the biggest country stars of all time decides to slap on a wispy wig and a soul patch and reinvent himself as a hard partying sex addict rock star with extensive reconstructive surgery? And this new persona has been meticulously crafted to serve as a background character in a movie that never even went into pre-production? And this hard partying rock star's music is all tepid acoustic soft rock? The project is buried, obscured, and forgotten for all eternity, that's what happens... until now! On this week's Make It Stop, Lisa McColgan of Bikini...2019-05-071h 29
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastWorst of David BowieZiggy Stardust. The Thin White Duke. Jareth The Goblin King. David Bowie went by many names and adopted many personas during his 50+ year career, and in that time he quickly became a rock legend, selling over 100 million records and taking his place at the top of the pop culture pantheon. All accolades aside, we here at Make It Stop take great pleasure in tearing down the infallible, and David Bowie is no exception. On this episode we dig through his catalogue of over 25 studio albums to bring you the bottom 10 worst David Bowie songs of all time. From schmaltzy...2019-04-231h 23
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastShaq - Can't Stop the Reign (w/ Garvey Salomon)This week on Make It Stop we're talking about The Big Baryshnikov himself, Shaquille O'Neal. The world belonged to Shaq in 1996. He had just jumped from the Orlando Magic to Kobe Bryant's LA Lakers, with whom he would go on to win three of his four NBA Championships. He had shocked the world with his ostentatious Reebok Shaqnosis sneakers, which featured a psychedelic black and white vortex design, and which remain coveted by hardcore sneaker heads today. And he was in the midst of a flourishing rap career, as the only NBA player ever signed to a multi-million dollar...2019-04-091h 49
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastJustin Timberlake - Man of the Woods (w/ Tooky Kavanagh)Strap on a decorative banjo and get out yer picklin' jars, cuz we're prepping for a musical apocalypse on this episode of Make it Stop! The target of our most recent ire is platinum selling, Superbowl ruining, troll-serenading superstar Justin Timberlake's latest gasp at relevancy, his 2018 mountaineering misfire, Man of the Woods. Featuring a cacaphony of ill-placed musical references and clumsy metaphors, this bloated 16 track mistake finds the uncooked ramen-headed heartthrob of yesteryear reinventing himself as a modern day Grizzly Adams. Burning down this forest of bad ideas with us is none other than local comedian Tooky Kavanagh, who...2019-03-261h 48
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBlack Eyed Peas Blackout Power Hour (w/ Dave Klotz, Julia Sherratt, and Brian Melanson)
Oh Danny Boy, the Peas the Peas are calling. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we've decided to bless our dear #Stoppies and curse ourselves with a shitshow of epic proportions. Heather and Mike are joined by stalwart friend of the pod Brian Melanson (The Cobcast) as well as our dear friends Jewelz Sherratt (Solo Sexx) and Dave Klotz (cool and nice guy) to dive into the back catalog of the Black Eyed Peas one drink at a time. That's right, we listen to not one, not two, not three, but FOUR BEP and BEP-adjacent albums for the first...2019-03-151h 44
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastEarth Crisis - Slither (w/ Ryan Shea)Open up the fucking pit and pick up some fucking quarters, it's hardcore week on Make It Stop. Or rather, it's rap metal by way of hardcore, as we sit down with local comedian and hardcore lifer Ryan Shea to talk about straight edge vegan stalwarts Earth Crisis and their painful 2000 crossover attempt Slither. Ryan walks us through the finer points of the hardcore lifestyle, Mike tries to pretend he was anything more than a cowardly poser during the genre's peak, and we all get deep into the lore of the early 00s Boston Beatdown scene. Probably too deep...2019-03-051h 44
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMacho Man Randy Savage - Be A Man (w/ Jenelle Valencia of BLOWW)We're justifiably in a position that we'd rather not be in listening to this album. But the cream will rise to the top, ooh yeeeah. Macho Madness, yeeah, has got more to offer than Mike and Heather think that Macho Man's got, yeeeeah, and let him tell you somethin' right now, cards stacked against Macho Man Randy Savage's album Be A Man, let him say it yeeeah, let him say it out loud and let him point to this week's guest Jenelle Valencia of the Boston League of Wicked Wrestlers, The Macho Man Randy Savage is not happy with...2019-02-201h 27
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastLil Dicky - Professional Rapper (w/ Brandie Blaze)Strap on in #stoppies, because it's time for another hefty dose of White Nonsense(TM) and for this one we're bringing in the big guns. Local rapper and professional fuck abandoner Brandie Blaze joins us this week to take aim at Lil Dicky, perhaps one of the most overhyped and underhanded rapper we've ever discussed on this show. Lil Dicky's brand of aw-shucks faux-self-deprecation is the hallmark of this bloated 19-song flaccid handie of an album, whose culminating message seems to be white people can try on hip hop as a costume and make millions as a shortcut to a...2019-02-051h 44
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastLuke Bryan - Crash My Party (w/ Brandon Vallee)Fire up the engine of your old pickup, grab a cold beer and head on down to the cornfields. Throw the radio on and watch as an endless parade of blue jean clad farmhand girls dance modestly in the headlights. Stay away from those downtown boys because they are the devil incarnate and we'd like nothing more than to steal their women, take them out to the cornfields in our old pickup, grab a cold beer, throw the headlights on and watch them dance the night away in their blue jeans to our favorite song, playing on that old...2019-01-221h 34
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastWorst of 2018
As we ring in the new year, we can't forget to pay the proper (dis)respect to the worst music that 2018 had to offer. From the requisite washed up 90s rockers, to the alt-right anthems, to the shallowest of rappers, we've got ourselves a smorgasbord of shit on this episode of Make It Stop. We didn't think it could get worse than 2017, but we should know by now that we're in a never ending race to the bottom, and just when we think we've reached it, the bottom drops out. So pour yourself a celebratory glass of bubbly and...2019-01-081h 24
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastSmash Mouth - The Gift of Rock (w/ the Dunn Family and Brian)Ho ho ho #stoppies, we're hoooome for the holidays! We've all been very bad boys this year and have been rightfully cursed with another lump of musical coal in our collective stockings, Smash Mouth's desperate 2005 Christma$ ca$h grab, 'The Gift of Rock'. Joining us to unwrap this precious 'gift' is our very own family, including the youngest Dunn brother Alex, "Dad for the People" Paul Dunn, and in lieu of Heather's actual blood relative we bribed our friend Brian to perform the role of her dad, because that makes about as much sense as this album does! Anyway...2018-12-281h 28
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBoy Band Thunderdome pt. 2 (w/ Emily Ruskowski, Sake Toomey, and Jenny Chalikian)Part 2 of 2. Check out part 1 here!
Alright #stoppies, I know we say this a lot, but it's true--this episode is our funniest one yet. Seriously, when else have we been able to snag 2 professional comedians (Emily Ruskowski & Jenny Chalikian) and one hysterical burlesque producer/professional babe/future youtube star (Sake Toomey) together in the same room, talking about boy bands? Since TODAY, that's when! We brought our grown ass friends that are also unashamed teenyboppers together for a very special 2 PART THUNDERDOME where they battle it out over whether O'Town's shamelessly sexual liquid nightmare of a debut album can bea...2018-12-181h 20
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBoy Band Thunderdome pt. 1 (w/ Emily Ruskowski, Sake Toomey, and Jenny Chalikian)Alright #stoppies, I know we say this a lot, but it's true--this episode is our funniest one yet. Seriously, when else have we been able to snag 2 professional comedians (Emily Ruskowski & Jenny Chalikian) and one hysterical burlesque producer/professional babe/future youtube star (Sake Toomey) together in the same room, talking about boy bands? Since TODAY, that's when! We brought our grown ass friends that are also unashamed teenyboppers together for a very special 2 PART THUNDERDOME where they battle it out over whether O'Town's shamelessly sexual liquid nightmare of a debut album can beat out proto-Bieber boyband lil' bro...2018-12-1155 min
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastLil Wayne - Rebirth (w/ Russell Chisholm)
It's a trip down memory lane this week as Mike and Heather are joined by their old friend Russell Chisholm. They reminisce about their shared love of The Best Rapper Alive Weezy Baby before diving into the worst thing he ever did -- the massively maligned 2008 rap-rock turd known as Rebirth. Lil Wayne runs the gamut on this album, churning out a wide variety of garbage -- bad punk, bad butt rock, bad ballads, and even bad ska (aka ska). It's all tremendously difficult to listen to and we're sorry you have to share this miserable experience with us...2018-12-041h 39
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastFive Iron Frenzy - Cheeses of Nazareth (w/ Andrew Lowery)Pick it up pick it up pick it up... no, please put it down. Today our guest is Andrew Lowery from DIWHY The Show and we're talking ska. Not just ska, but a 33 track novelty opus from CHRISTIAN ska stalwarts Five Iron Frenzy. It's called Cheeses of Nazareth, and it's bad in so many ways. It's irritating, it's racist, it's sanctimonious, and perhaps most eggregiously, it has the weakest "hardcore" screams ever cut to wax. It just might be bad enough for Heather to disown ska for good. Give it a listen to find out!
Check out DIWHY the s...2018-11-201h 43
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMetallica - St. Anger (w/ Ashleigh and Maggie of Rock Candy Podcast)Our lifestyle determines our deathstyle, Stoppies, so we're destined to be killed by trash music. For the first time ever on Make It Stop we return to a previously reviewed artist, in this case a now Lou Reed-less Metallica, and their infamous 2003 disasterpiece St. Anger. Maggie and Ashleigh from Rock Candy Podcast join us as we discuss Lars Ulrich's shit sandwiches, Bob Rock's flowing mane, and James Hetfield's fruitless search for self-actualization. We also talk at length about how St. Anger is an abominable blight on the band's career, sounds like it was recorded in an oil drum, and...2018-11-061h 34
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastDanzig - Black Laden Crown (w/ Rich Karski)
It's Halloween, and that can only mean one thing: It's time for a Danzig review! Comedian Rich Karski joins us to discuss the latest effort from the diminutive, geriatric king of ghoulish tunage, 2017's Black Laden Crown. We go in depth on Danzig's bad politics, his Napoleon syndrome, and his latent homoeroticism. We discuss Danzig's drag name and why the hell he's so goshdarn looooooonely. And we try to get to the bottom of how exactly a crown can be laden with black. It's a spooktacularly shitty album, so beware!
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Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMiley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz (w/ Dahlia)
This week on Make It Stop we’re smoking pot, loving peace, and doing sex stuff. We’re licking your teeth. We’re shoving your head into our armpits. And they weirdly smell good. In 2015, the recently liberated pop superstar Miley Cyrus collaborated with The Flaming Lips and Mike Will Made It to produce Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz, a 23 track, 92 minute slog through her drug addled psyche. Released independently and free from the confines of her record contract, Dead Petz was meant to be Miley’s grand artistic statement. What it ended up being, though, was a cautiona...2018-10-231h 58Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastChuggo - Act Like You Might Know (w/ Katie McCarthy)
On this week's episode of Make It Stop, comedian and dear friend of the pod Katie McCarthy joins us to discuss Montreal's favorite crackhead Chuggo! Arguably the most obscure album we've covered, Chuggo's Act Like You Might Know is a hidden gem rife with gross sex talk, tampon-related punchlines, and constant yelling. Katie, Heather and Mike try to figure out why Chuggo feels it is such a necessity to lie about his sex life, and ponder his criminal record, his current whereabouts, and his propensity toward consuming strawberry flavored lube. Honestly this is one of the funniest albums we've...2018-10-091h 43Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMethods of Mayhem (w/ Marcus Ohanesian)
Make It Stop is back and worse than ever, Stoppies! The inaugural episode of Season 2 finds Heather and Mike enduring the musical stylings of Tommy Lee for the first time since Mötley Crüe’s Theatre Of Pain. This time around it’s his nearly forgotten early 00s experimental rap rock side project Methods Of Mayhem. It’s got all the hallmarks of the genre, from gross sex lyrics about jizzy jism, to sound bytes of hitting meth pipes, to obligatory Kid Rock and Fred Durst features. Joining our hosts on this odyssey is Worcester’s favorite son Marcus Oha...2018-09-251h 30
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMake it Stop Thunderdome - Good Charlotte vs. Limp Bizkit (Part 2)Part 2 of 2.
This week Heather and Mike go head to head in the Make It Stop Thunderdome to defend their favorite bad album. Heather's weapon of choice is the eponymous debut of Waldorf, Maryland's favorite sons Good Charlotte. Mike meanwhile goes hard in the paint for another debut, this one from the infamous rap rock goofs of Limp Bizkit -- the terribly titled 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$. Whose trash will reign supreme? Will Mike be swayed by the wholesome rap-tinged pop "punk" of the Madden Brothers? Will Heather be able to resist the allure of Fred Durst's full diaper bounce da...2018-07-0353 min
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastMake it Stop Thunderdome - Good Charlotte vs. Limp Bizkit (Part 1)
This week Heather and Mike go head to head in the Make It Stop Thunderdome to defend their favorite bad album. Heather's weapon of choice is the eponymous debut of Waldorf, Maryland's favorite sons Good Charlotte. Mike meanwhile goes hard in the paint for another debut, this one from the infamous rap rock goofs of Limp Bizkit -- the terribly titled 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$. Whose trash will reign supreme? Will Mike be swayed by the wholesome rap-tinged pop "punk" of the Madden Brothers? Will Heather be able to resist the allure of Fred Durst's full diaper bounce dancing? Whatever...2018-06-2953 minMake it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastPhish - The White Tape (w/ Mitchy Dee)Ready to get faaaaar out, #stoppies? This week's adventure has us whoodly-doodling away with some reheated jams courtesy of everyone's* favorite psychedelic Dads, Phish! Originally recorded in 1986 and inexplicably re-released twice in 1998 and 2006, "The White Tape" is a dizzying and deeply misdirected spectacle of unnecessary fuzz pedals, non-sequiters about hamburgers, synthetic keyboards and songs about stepping in literal dog shit. Unsurprisingly, the 16 song collection of disconnected wank-offs is a big misstep even for the most devoted of fans. We brought our old friend from UMass Mitchy Dee, a local musician and proud Phish enthusiast to help us figure out wheth...2018-06-121h 38
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastDee Dee King - Standing in the Spotlight (w/ Hayley Valencia)Our latest exploration of mid-life crisis inspired genre experimentation leads us to Dee Dee Ramone aka Dee Dee King's 1989 punk-rap flop Standing In The Spotlight. Replete with climaxless tales of surfing and wrestling, as well as cringeworthy chronicles of his failing marriage, all delivered in a cartoonish tenor recalling hip-hop classics like "The Monster Mash", Standing In The Spotlight is undoubtedly one of the most head-scratching entries into the Make It Stop ouvre. Joining Mike and Heather to try to make sense of it all is Hayley Valencia, bassist of all-trans queercore punk powerhouses WIMP and resident Dee Dee...2018-05-221h 28
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastWorst of Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as Prince, is one of the most prolific artists and songwriters of all time, having released 39 studio albums and penned literally thousands of songs before his untimely death in April 2016. With nearly 20 tracks hitting the top 10 of the Billboard 100 chart, including "When Doves Cry", which peaked at #1 for five straight weeks, Prince is renowned for his vision and hitmaking prowess. However, as with any artist with such a prolific output, a handful of songs will inevitably miss the mark. On this week's episode of Make It Stop, Mike and Heather fly solo to go...2018-05-081h 41
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastKid Cudi - Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven (w/ Alex Dunn)Mike's brother Alex Dunn joins Make It Stop to discuss Kid Cudi's Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven. Where to start with Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven? How can we possibly distill this recondite opus into a mere blurb? Seems impossible, but let's give it a shot:
It's a bad rapper ham-handedly strumming three chords on an out of tune guitar while waxing suicidal and making farm animal noises for 90 minutes straight. Whew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-04-241h 36
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastKISS - Music From "The Elder" (w/ Hugh Beckett)
Will you take The Oath? Will You Sacrifice? This week on Make It Stop we're just barely putting up with Music From "The Elder", the biggest blunder of KISS's career. Powerslut bassist and vehement KISS hater Hugh Beckett joins us to ponder the themes and lessons explored within the "immersive" sci-fi fantasy world of "The Elder". Based on a thin story outline by Gene Simmons, this ambitious concept album tells the gripping tale of a boy named "The Boy", who becomes a man, then reverts to being a boy, then becomes a man again, and pretty much nothing else...2018-04-101h 21
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastInsane Clown Posse - Bang! Pow! Boom! (w/ Squallie Greenthumb)
WHOOP WHOOP. This week on Make It Stop it's All in the Family, as we invite local Tinder Famous musician Squallie Greenthumb to discuss his favorite group Insane Clown Posse. The album we've chosen to discuss is Bang! Pow! Boom!, which includes the group's most infamous song and the #1 meme of 2009, "Miracles". We talk in depth about the Juggalo subculture, the Joker Cards, and how exactly magnets work. After 17 tracks of murder, mayhem, zombie dances, corpses with mouths filled with pizza rolls, and Juggalo islands, what is Mike and Heather's consensus on ICP? The answer may surprise you.
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Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastEminem - Revival (w/ Tawanda Gona)The conversation runs long this week on Make It Stop as comedian and music critic Tawanda Gona joins Heather and Mike to feast on a stale cracker. In 2017, after a lengthy string of disappointing releases, Eminem released Revival, arguably his most despicable album yet. With a bloated 80+ minute runtime, and a smorgasbord of tryhard slant rhymes, outdated edgelord humor, and convoluted double entendres, Revival may just be the least enjoyable album any of us have ever heard. To soothe the pain, we try to make sense of Eminem's place in today's world. Is he more like The Simpsons or...2018-03-201h 55
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastThe Simpsons Sing the Blues (w/ Ben Stein)
Alright #Stoppies, it's time for yet ANOTHER round of soulless white boy blues pap, this time courtesy of your beloved childhood heroes, the Simpsons! How much sax does one album need? Is it #ImTooSaxy or #IWantToSaxYouUp? Will anyone write a 5 paragraph essay about Hinder? Why are we threatening our audience with death? Why does Mike Dunn find joy in torturing his friends on his birthday? Find out all of the answers by listening to our latest episode!
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...2018-02-271h 40Jukebox ZeroesEpisode 007 - Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band "Hulk Rules" (1995) (with Heather Mack & Mike Dunn)Goodboix and Stoppies come together this month on Jukebox Zeroes! In which Lee and Patrick, joined by Heather Mack & Mike Dunn of fellow bad music podcast Make It Stop, dig deep into the psychological thriller that is The WWE's Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band's singular release: 1995's Hulk Rules. Join them as they uncover the dark secrets the album holds, including a slow descent into Hulkamania, a conspiracy to sell buffalo meat, the restless ghost of "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and Jimmy "Mouth Of The South" Hart's silky croon.Recorded live in the studios of Boston Free Radio...2018-02-191h 36Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastEddie Murphy - How Could it Be (w/ Nonye Brown-West)
Mike and Heather go in RAW this week as they explore How Could It Be, the musical debut of comedy legend Eddie Murphy. Released at the apex of his Hollywood ascent, How Could It Be finds Murphy trading his well-honed comedic chops for thin, unassured falsetto vocal runs and confounding lyrics about the apocalypse. Are writing assists from juggernauts like Rick James and Stevie Wonder enough to carry the album? Will it make you want to "Party All The Time" or just leave you "C-O-N Confused"? Local comedian Nonye Brown-West joins us to help answer these burning questions. Go...2018-02-131h 25
Make it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBruce Willis - The Return of Bruno
Episode 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.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2017-12-1142 minMake it Stop: A Bad Music PodcastBrokencyde- I'm Not A Fan, but the Kids Like it!For 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 crunkcore "hit" I'm not a Fan, but the Kids like it. Kids, I can guarantee, you won't. But have a gander anyway...2017-12-0545 min