Make it Stop: A Bad Music Podcast

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We're serving a double dose of white nonsense this week, as we dive into not one but TWO albums by pasty, melanin-deficient emcees. VQ of the Boston League of Wicked Wrestlers joins us as we discuss Playing With Fire, the first and last release from former Britney Spears beau, WWE superstar, and Celebrity Fit Club alum Kevin Federline.

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The Shaggs had a philosophy, all right. We do too. Our philosophy is that it's a really funny idea to invite Wiley Meow (of High Energy Vintage, Bit Fest, and beyond) on Make it Stop this week to talk about his New Hampshire roots and explore the cocktail of regional novelties that could birth a band--and an album--like this. You'll cringe, you'll cry, and you'll probably be haunted forever by the band birthed from a prophecy that ended up more like a curse.

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Top of the morning to y' Stoppies, we're right chuffed to bring you our latest episode, and this one's a British Invasion! This week's episode finds us disco dancing with the devil, as we review Elton John's much maligned Victim of Love, a several-years-too-late collection of half-assed disco tunes so soulless that Sir Elton himself doesn't bother to write any of the music or even play the friggin' piano on it. Wading through this glitter-encrusted turd of an album with us is local funny guy Dicky Stock, famous for his legion of colorful Facebook characters including the legendary Kimmy Strubell. We even have a call-in from a veritable English lad himself, which you won't want to miss. Pip pip, cheerio, and whatever the hell else you Brits say--it's time for another episode of Make it Stop!

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Happy new year, Stoppies! Just kidding. 2017 was already pretty brutal, but we're here to put some crap-icing on the trash-cake with a roundup of all the anti-anthems of this past year. Take a deep dive down with us to the bottom of the bad music barrel where we dissect the treacley corporate cut-and-paste drivel that characterized the worst of this year. Be prepared to abandon your heroes as we bemoan the tepid trainwrecks put out by artists that last hit their prime over a decade ago, who should have taken our podcast's advice to "make it stop" far before we ended up in this mess. Plus help us decide our next terrible album! Let's hope 2018 is on the up and up, because it's all downhill from here on this episode of Make it Stop. 

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This week's episode is the opposite of a Christmas miracle: a veritable log of reindeer shit left for us to scrape off our shoes till the end of eternity, the album Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica began as an improbable but intriguing pairing that soon became one of the most widely panned artistic outputs by all of the musicians involved in its production. Over an hour and a half long, Lulu boggles the mind with its breadth of hatred for its audience, plodding through strained, off-key warblings from a spiteful and potentially senile Reed juxtaposed with 2 chord metal riffs from a bafflingly neutered Metallica. We invited local comedian Nick Ortolani to get down in the trenches, and boy do we bet he regrets that decision. Dive on in, cuz it's gonna get wild...on this week's Make it Stop: Lulu. 

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Today's episode finds our heroes waxing philosophic about the nature of art, music, and ultimately life--while analyzing the shrieking, dispassionate autotuned wailing and aggressive GarageBand synth lines of Farrah Abraham's 2012 atrocity/masterpiece My Teenage Dream Ended. Joined by #Cobbcast host and producer Brian Melanson, the team digs deep into the autobiographical, arguably anti-musical screechy glitch-pop album and puzzles over whether this is a hauntingly and effective Crystal Castles-esque magnum opus, or an inane and infuriating audio catastrophe the likes of which have been described by Jezebel as "the worst collection of sounds ever put to a recording". Where will you fall on this dizzying spectrum? Listen in and find out. 

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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, and see if you can make it through...before you have to yell "Make it Stop".

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