Turn It Down

Turn It Down

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Turn It Down episodes

  • Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire

    OK, Billy, so who did start the fire? Did we ask you if you started the fire? Who do you mean by "WE", William Martin Joel? Come join us in the bucket brigade and try not to get burned as we examine Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire."


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    1 hr 18 min
  • Roundball Rock: The Music of Basketball ft. Dave Sachs (Sportstacular Vol. 2)

    To celebrate the recent release of the new Space Jam, we're releasing the basketball episode of our multi-part Sportstacular. In this one, Steve and his brother Dave, an enthusiast for the cultural ephemera of sports, cure Joe of his general apathy towards the game with a selection of hits from the likes of John Tesh, Kurtis Blow, Aaron Carter, Alan Parsons, and even Big Shaq himself. 

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    1 hr 8 min
  • The Return of Crazy Frog
    Crazy Frog is still crazy after all these years. Join us as we piece together the history of this annoying mascot for shameless musical capitalism based on an mp3 made by a Swedish teenager in 1997 and prepare ourselves for Crazy Frog's new quarantine album which, by our calculations, is certain to be at least a Pitchfork 6. 
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    1 hr 7 min
  • Scott Stapp - Marlins Will Soar (Sportstacular Vol. 1)
    Scott Stapp, former singer of Creed and your bubbie's neighbor in Boca Raton, jumped at the opportunity to create a motivational anthem for his hometown's struggling baseball team, the Florida Marlins. What he came up with was an adaptation of one of his solo songs with some randomly selected words about baseball thrown in. Take Me Out to the Ballgame it's not. Grab your peanuts and crackerjacks and join us as we begin the first part of our series about music in sports with a look at Stapp's 2010 power ballad 'Marlins Will Soar', along with a few other selections from baseball's musical history.
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    1 hr 21 min
  • Michael McDonald and the Yacht Rock Canon ft. Eastman Presser
    In this episode, Eastman Presser joins us to defend the legacy of the brilliant singer, songwriter, and session musician Michael McDonald and his so-called Yacht Rock compatriots in bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and late-stage Yes. Who cares if he wears satin vests in casual situations and sounds like Eddie Vedder's soulful uncle? Apparently he's a great hang. Sail away with us to a world where virtuosity is king, the listening is easy, and musical "guilty pleasures" are just regular pleasures.
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    1 hr 51 min
  • 15. Rebecca Black - Friday
    Here's a nice light and soothing ep we recorded in 2019 and never released - we're too busy watching the news. By the way, a newly blue-haired and pleather-adorned Rebecca Black very recently claimed to "turn your favorite f*ckboy into a simp" on an incredible Dorian Electra hyperpop track called "Edgelord". Screw you, bullies! Who doesn't love a redemption arc? Stay safe out there, folks. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1T91Sq0YNQaQK3Aup0ojna?si=3n9HyPfRSZGXSKSGAPfujg
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    1 hr 25 min
  • 14. The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron/Snoopy Vs. Osama

    I never thought I'd be putting a trigger warning for combat violence and Islamophobia on a song about the cartoon beagle Snoopy but, you know, here we are. In this episode, we discuss an epic song cycle about the bloodthirsty Snoopy's years as a fighter pilot in WWI, his bid for US President during the civil unrest of 1968, the Christmas truce of 1914, and - you read that right - his expert sniping of Osama Bin Laden in 2006 with a wounded Charlie Brown at his side. Happy f*cking New Year.

    1 hr 37 min
  • 13. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR 2020!)
    Surprise! We listened to the white savior anthem "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and we have a few questions of our own. Who are "they," anyways, and who are we? Can you eat money? What does Drake smell like? Grab some cocoa and join us by the fireside as we relate the tale of former punk and capitalist crusader Bob Geldof's quest to feed the world by writing a horrible song.
    1 hr 24 min
  • Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit ft. Avery Mandeville (Little Hag)
    Q: What do you get when you cross Sketches of Spain, Ravel's Bolero, Alice in Wonderland, wealthy parents, and way too much acid? A: A whole bunch of hippie nonsense. Join us as we follow the incredibly talented and pissed off Avery Mandeville down the rabbit hole that leads to, well, nothing important. 
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    1 hr 11 min

About Turn It Down

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Turn It Down is a good podcast about bad music. Every episode, hosts Joe Oakes and Steve Sachs take a terrible song, pull it apart, and try to figure out what went wrong.