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 hitting the top 10 of the Billboard 100 chart, including "When Doves Cry", which peaked at #1 for five straight weeks, Prince is renowned for his vision and hitmaking prowess. However, as with any artist with such a prolific output, a handful of songs w...
May 08, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 18
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 a bad rapper ham-handedly strumming three chords on an out of tune guitar while waxing suicidal and making farm animal noises for 90 minutes straight. Whew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 24, 2018•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 17
Will you take The Oath? Will You Sacrifice? This week on Make It Stop we're just barely putting up with Music From "The Elder", the biggest blunder of KISS's career. Powerslut bassist and vehement KISS hater Hugh Beckett joins us to ponder the themes and lessons explored within the "immersive" sci-fi fantasy world of "The Elder". Based on a thin story outline by Gene Simmons, this ambitious concept album tells the gripping tale of a boy named "The Boy", who becomes a man, then reverts to being a...
Apr 10, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 16
WHOOP WHOOP. This week on Make It Stop it's All in the Family, as we invite local Tinder Famous musician Squallie Greenthumb to discuss his favorite group Insane Clown Posse. The album we've chosen to discuss is Bang! Pow! Boom!, which includes the group's most infamous song and the #1 meme of 2009, "Miracles". We talk in depth about the Juggalo subculture, the Joker Cards, and how exactly magnets work. After 17 tracks of murder, mayhem, zombie dances, corpses with mouths filled with pizza rolls...
Apr 03, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 15
The conversation runs long this week on Make It Stop as comedian and music critic Tawanda Gona joins Heather and Mike to feast on a stale cracker. In 2017, after a lengthy string of disappointing releases, Eminem released Revival, arguably his most despicable album yet. With a bloated 80+ minute runtime, and a smorgasbord of tryhard slant rhymes, outdated edgelord humor, and convoluted double entendres, Revival may just be the least enjoyable album any of us have ever heard. To soothe the pain, ...
Mar 20, 2018•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 13
This week's episode finds us sliding knee deep into glam metal, braving the murky waters of post-vehicular manslaughter Motley Crue. Our guest, local renaissance woman (comedian/musician/record store owner) Angela Sawyer tells us tales about her 15 year old self hiding passionate Motley Crue love poems behind her suburban waterbed and why she thought they "smoked pee". Why does Vince Neil sound like a cartoon rat? What were they thinking name checking protestant reformation activist "Martin Luth...
Mar 13, 2018•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 12
Alright #Stoppies, it's time for yet ANOTHER round of soulless white boy blues pap, this time courtesy of your beloved childhood heroes, the Simpsons! How much sax does one album need? Is it #ImTooSaxy or #IWantToSaxYouUp? Will anyone write a 5 paragraph essay about Hinder? Why are we threatening our audience with death? Why does Mike Dunn find joy in torturing his friends on his birthday? Find out all of the answers by listening to our latest episode! Check us out on www.makeitstoppodcast.com, ...
Feb 27, 2018•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 11
Stoppies, we like you so much we're even willing to try Butt Stuff. Rather than easing our way in for our first foray into the putrid realm of Butt Rock, we're taking a full plunge, discussing Hinder's downright detestable debut Extreme Behavior. Joining us are fellow tastemakers of trash Lee Martin and Patrick SB from the Jukebox Zeroes podcast. Along the way we moan and groan and generally try to steer the conversation as far from the subject at hand as possible, but just when we think we're o...
Feb 22, 2018•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 10
Mike and Heather go in RAW this week as they explore How Could It Be, the musical debut of comedy legend Eddie Murphy. Released at the apex of his Hollywood ascent, How Could It Be finds Murphy trading his well-honed comedic chops for thin, unassured falsetto vocal runs and confounding lyrics about the apocalypse. Are writing assists from juggernauts like Rick James and Stevie Wonder enough to carry the album? Will it make you want to "Party All The Time" or just leave you "C-O-N Confused"? Loca...
Feb 13, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 9
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. Later on, our good friend Brittni joins the fray as we shift gears from white trash to cursed white liberals and subject ourselves to Long Island trio Northern St...
Feb 06, 2018•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 8
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. Our philosophy is you're going to enj...
Jan 23, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 7
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 Dic...
Jan 16, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 6
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 shou...
Jan 09, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 5
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 ...
Dec 26, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 4
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-...
Dec 12, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 3
Episode 2 finds our heroes Mike and Heather wading knee deep in the schlockiest, most useless vanity project ever--Bruce Willis' "Return of Bruno", a 2 part mockumentary/concert and tepid, schmaltzy album of the same name. Rewrite history with us as we discover Bruno invented the Beatles, psychedelia, and basically everything else that ever happened in music, period--with his very own bland and flavorless take on white dad Motown. It's a blast...that should have stayed long in the past. Learn mo...
Dec 11, 2017•42 min•Ep. 2
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 "...
Dec 05, 2017•45 min•Ep. 14
