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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1
The Metallica Report: Trailer
Weekly News, Features, and Interviews from Metallica HQ and Beyond
1 min
2
Van Morrison - Latest Record Project Disc 2 (w/...
Have you got our latest podcast project? It's even MORE of that Van ya love to hate, because we're deep diving into round 2 of this miserable musical end of life crisis with comedian Mark Gallagher...
149 min
3
Van Morrison - Latest Record Project Vol. 1 Par...
Welcome Back, Stoppies! We're officially rounding the corner on a whole 100 episodes of musical masochism, so thank you for your patience in advance for what will likely be a much more relaxed release schedule this season. Kicking off Season 5 we attempt to tackle Disc 1 of well-established asshole/Celtic crooner Van Morrison's Latest Record Project Volume 1.
138 min
4
Season 4 Finale - Ska vs. Nu Metal Thunderdome ...
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.
158 min
5
Crash Test Dummies - Give Yourself a Hand (w/ M...
130 min
6
Billy 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...
139 min
7
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
113 min
8
March Badness PART DEUX Finale: Chainsmokers vs...
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.
143 min
9
March Badness PART DEUX Semifinals Round 2: Wil...
It's a bad, bad world Stoppies, and tonight's gonna be a long 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.
122 min
10
March Badness PART DEUX Semifinals Round 1: 311...
133 min
11
March Badness PART DEUX Round 1, Episode 2: Tra...
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.
130 min
12
March Badness PART DEUX Round 1, Episode 1: Sta...
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).
142 min
13
The Clash - Cut the Crap (w/ Brandon, Jack and ...
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.
122 min
14
Green 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
92 min
15
Vanilla Ice - Mind Blowin' (w/ VQ of BLOWW and ...
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.
124 min
16
The Stooges - The Weirdness (w/ Kira Roessler o...
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).
153 min
17
Worst Music of 2020
2020 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.
138 min
18
Duck Dynasty - Duck The Halls with Alex and Liv
Stoppies, we know you know what Christmas is all about - materialist accumulation, wealth hoarding, Judeo-Christian values, heteronormative baking rituals, duck sex, beards.
102 min
19
Florida Georgia Line - Can't Say I Ain't Countr...
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".
131 min
20
Thanksgiving KornuKopia with Alex Dunn and Bria...
Due 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.
96 min
21
Train - Save Me, San Francisco (w/ Emily Ruskow...
This week our hearts are beating right out of our untrimmed chests as we take a ride on the choo choo. Train drizzled onto the scene in 1998 with their humble hit "Sweet 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....
130 min
22
Bobby 'Boris' Pickett - The Original Monster Ma...
114 min
23
Kid Rock - Rock N Roll Jesus (w/ Alli Thresher ...
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....
139 min
24
Neil Young - Landing on Water (ft. Mike Hsu and...
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...
133 min
25
Season 4 Trailer
We're back, back back again for another season of ruthlessly skewering the most miserable musical monstrosities imaginable...
7 min