Make it Stop: A Bad Music Podcast
Make it Stop is a podcast dedicated to dissecting terrible albums. Hosted by musicians Heather Mack and Mike Dunn and featuring a variety of quirky guests from the Boston arts and music scene, Make it Stop braves the putrid depths of the worst albums ever made. By the end, you'll be begging them for more...while screaming "make it stop!" Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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Chris Gaines (Garth Brooks) - Chris Gaines Grea...
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 meticulous...
86 min
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Worst of David Bowie
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 t...
80 min
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Shaq - 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 C...
106 min
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Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods (w/ Tooky ...
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...
105 min
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Black Eyed Peas Blackout Power Hour (w/ Dave Kl...
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 (Th...
101 min
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Earth 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...
101 min
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Macho Man Randy Savage - Be A Man (w/ Jenelle V...
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 yo...
84 min
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Lil 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 ...
101 min
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Luke 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 th...
91 min
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Worst 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 o...
81 min
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Smash Mouth - The Gift of Rock (w/ the Dunn Fam...
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'...
85 min
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Boy Band Thunderdome pt. 2 (w/ Emily Ruskowski,...
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 hys...
77 min
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Boy Band Thunderdome pt. 1 (w/ Emily Ruskowski,...
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/profession...
52 min
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Lil 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 mali...
96 min
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Five Iron Frenzy - Cheeses of Nazareth (w/ Andr...
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 Nazare...
100 min
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Metallica - St. Anger (w/ Ashleigh and Maggie o...
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 disas...
91 min
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Danzig - 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 ba...
99 min
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Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz (w/...
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 wit...
115 min
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Chuggo - Act Like You Might Know (w/ Katie McCa...
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 w...
100 min
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Methods 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 forgott...
87 min
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Make it Stop Thunderdome - Good Charlotte vs. L...
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...
50 min
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Make it Stop Thunderdome - Good Charlotte vs. L...
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...
50 min
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Dee Dee King - Standing in the Spotlight (w/ Ha...
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 chronicle...
85 min
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Worst 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 hitti...
98 min
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Kid 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 ...
93 min