Make it Stop: A Bad Music Podcast

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 squarely into the latter camp, as do your two intrepid hosts. While the band's latest effort Fear Innoculum was surely tempting, we've decided instead to tackle 10,000 Days, an album which even avowed Tool fans have gone on record as despising. Ostensibly a concept album about singer Maynard James Keenan's mother's long, painful battle with paralysis, 10,000 Days slowly becomes a long, painful battle to stay awake, with its confounding 10 minute long alien acid freakouts, silly lyrics about smoking the pot, and a general sense of overwrought aimlessness. Mike, Heather and Jenner take no prisoners as they relentlessly tear down this bloated, pretentious slog of an album while all the while fearing the inevitable backlash from the Tool Army. RIP our star rating.

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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 punk gatekeepers and earnest lifelong fans, culminating in one of the most shocking album ratings in Make It Stop history. Life is a nightmare indeed.

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IGH! 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 Big Day is in the running for biggest disappointment in hip-hop history. And is there something dark and sinister beneath the glossy surface? Is there a great pain and resentment lurking between the lines?

Chance The Rapper Ex-Superfans Mike and Heather hit the studio by their lonesome to ponder these thoughts, searching for an answer to the grand question of WHY? WHY DID HE DO THIS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR CHANCE? It's "great" to be back Stoppies!

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We'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, and get ready--'cause it's all going down on Season 3 of Make it Stop, dropping September 10th!

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This 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 that is Brokencyde's lyrics. We laugh, we cry, and we're gonna miss you all this summer. Godspeed ye Stoppies. Good night and good luck.

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This 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 that is Brokencyde's lyrics. We laugh, we cry, and we're gonna miss you all this summer. Godspeed ye Stoppies. Good night and good luck. Part 1 of 2. 

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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 you higher, stoppies.

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Ziggy 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 covers to cheesy 80s synth jams to adult contemporary snoozers, this list runs the gamut of garbage, and is sure to be a dire warning to all Stoppies that cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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