Following in Kid Rock’s carpetbagging cowboy boot steps, Uncle Kracker released his debut album featuring this banal, confusingly confident single about:

1. Heroin (duh you stupid idiot)

2. Adultery

3. Being Secretly Gay

4. Being Openly Very Cool

Also: a music video featuring characters fantasizing about better music, a Cracker with a stage performance like a tired sock, and an older woman in the comments section who tries to teach young boys the art of seduction.

3, 2, 1, Kaboom. This week I blow up the moon, and this podcast, by doing my first ever official solo episode. (I think I had a solo Grammys show like 3 years back, but we all know the Grammys don't actually matter)

I'm here to dissect one of the more bizarre entries into That Awful Sound cannon: a collaboration between Blues Traveler, JC Chasez, and 3OH!3.

Blow Up The Moon is the titular track from an album full of unwanted collaborations including Jewel, Rome without Sublime, and a guy from American Pie.

Not bizarre enough, you claim? Well, the music video was generated using Grand Theft Auto V rendering software.

Music I Actually Like: Talking Heads - '77, and Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast

This week we revisit early 2000's metalcore, and then flash-forward 6 years to when it got extremely bad, with Eighteen Visions' "Victim."

We discuss the band's transformation over their career, from interesting and good to opening for Hinder.

Music We Like: Touche Amore's Green, Daughters' Satan in the Wait, R'n'R, Doomriders, and Suicide File.

This week Leigh joins me to talk about not being allowed to listen to Alanis, not wanting to shave her armpits, and a song we both still kind of like: Paula Cole's "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

We go over the song's amazingly misinterpreted, including anti-feminists misreadings by Spin Magazine, Rush Limbaugh, and former congressman Allen West.

Music we still like: Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons and Lisa Loeb's Silly Sing-along

Welcome back to the show! This week we're returning to mid-00's radio demo with Dashboard Confessional.

We cover the history of this song, including the fact that it was written in 10 minutes by an inspired Chris Carraba after a screening of Spider-Man 2.

We also suss out the creepiness of these lyrics, one listener's overtly creepy interpretation of these lyrics, and Cohost Tony reminisces about carrying around a watercolor portrait of Chris Carraba in his three-ring binder.

Music We Like: Thrice - The Grey, Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth, Zeta - L'antiteoria Del Todo

This week we talk about Willa Ford, an aspiring bad girl whose career was cut short by a tragic event in 2001. Returning guest Laura Mee recalls this song helping hone her edge during the transition from  Utah to California, and from pop to pop punk.

We talk about the precedent set by the song with likely paved the way for the “dirty” eras of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera; A weird, Eminem-based rap verse by someone who is not Eminem; And an outfit featuring what we all agree to be a diaper.

Music We Like: Zaytoven - Get Back Right, Gatecreeper - Sonoran Deprivation, and Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick

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This week on a very special episode of That Awful Sound, we take a self-guided Sublime tour around Long Beach, visiting important historical markers such as the Sublime mural, ONS liquor store, Cal State Long Beach (where 40 oz to Freedom was recorded), Bradley Nowell’s gravesite, and a random head shop in order to bring you a jam-packed episode on the band’s breakout single, Date Rape.

How did this song exist? Why? Do Sublime fans invalidate whatever good intentions this song might’ve originally had?

Also: Dr. Drew whole-heartedly supports the song, Lou Dog gives the actor in this video 30 stitches, and Ron Jeremy produces and gives a dual-role performance.

Music We Actually Like: Karl Blau - Zebra, Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel, Death of a Nation - Self-Titled

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This week we talk to Joshua Toomey about playing in Primer 55, almost playing in Pressure 4-5, and making news with Wes Borland on the Talk Toomey Podcast

Also, we revisit KISS and their 1983 single Lick It Up, their first appearance without makeup and what counterintuitively helped reignite their career.

This week I talk “Seein Red’” with Nick Guenzler (@TerminalRadness) by Unwritten Law and not Chevelle

We remember how the vast majority of us were tricked into thinking this band was punk, the various physical altercations between the lead singer and his bandmates, and the lazy-yet-bizarre music video featuring 5 clones of the singer making out with 5 clones of his girlfriend.

Music We Like: BAMBARA - Shadow on Everything, and Iceage - Beyondless

We cover the amazing, $2.4 million video featuring oceans of goo, Janet Jackson in a dominatrix outfit, and Busta Rhymes as a shape-shifting lion dragon sperm.

Music We Like: Coltrane - A Few of My Favorite Things, Ghastly Sound, - The Bottom, Tweak Bird, Lightning Bolt, Torche - Restarter, and Sammus - Pieces in Space

This week Ray Harkens of Taken joins the show to talk about his affinity for early 2000’s post grunge and butt rock, through the lens of Hoobastank’s “Crawling in the Dark”

Taken also has a new EP, their first recordings in over a decade, and you can hear the title track now on Spotify or other streaming services.

“If we weren’t a hardcore band, I think we would probably sound a little bit like Trust Company or Hoobastank”

In This Episode: FOUR different interpretations of the totally straightforward lyrics, one involving an animated mole prince, and another involving adolescent masturbation. Also we have Michael seeing the band on the “Sprite Liquid Mix” tour in 2002, a totally sick Mountain Dew commercial featuring Hoobastank and a pre-fame Channing Tatum, and a song meanings comment about one young man’s potential to save the world.

Music We Like: Hot Water Music - A Flight And A Crash, Slow Meadow - Costero, At The Gates - A Stare Bound In Stone, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Shiggy

This week we cover my love/hate relationship with Dido's "Thank You," a seemingly melancholy song that is actually just about a cool boyfriend.

You better believe we cover the song's intersection with Eminem's "Stan," how the movie "Up" ripped off Dido's spite house in this music video, and plenty of bizarre youtube comments.

Music We Like: Thundercat - Drank (Chopped & Skewed), Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue, and Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens

This week Aimee-Beth wants to talk about ironic (?) country (?) club anthem (?) "That's My Kind of Night" by Luke Bryan

Is this song making fun of hip hop or desperately trying to crib from it? Both? Are the static shots of cowboy boots a joke? Is this music video a rejected Monday Night Football promo? Who knows?

Music We Like: Greater Pyrenees - Self-Titled, Frodus - And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea, Depeche Mode - Violator 

Unique episode title and show notes cancelled due to me being too chill for 3/11 day. This is episode is good though.

This week we cover "Unwell" by Matchbox TWENTY. The song Is about mental illness and Rob Thomas thinks “impaired” is a cool word.

The video is completely terrible, features early CGI, a puppet version of Carlos Santana, and Rob's evil, big-nosed bandmates.

Music we like: Courtney Barnett - Nameless Faceless, Cave In - Jupiter, EARTHGANG - Royalty

This week Michael and I are joined by Josh Hallmark of the Our Americana Podcast Network (our-americana.com) to talk about Shanice’s “I Love Your Smile” and the 6th grade musical performance that resulted in him changing schools.

I'd never heard this song before, but it rules. It's got 250 doo's, expensive Janet Jackson laughter, a video about turning the tables on a stalker-y photographer, and a bout of depression nested in an otherwise feel-good, catchy-as-hell pop jam.

Help us reach our goal of $250/month at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound and we'll start releasing exclusive monthly episodes for Patreon subscribers of $1/month or more. We're so close!

Music We Like: Emily Haines' Choir of the Mind, Sparta's Wiretap Scars, and Snapcase's Progression Through Unlearning 

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This episode is a listener request from Jack, who thought he could fake his way into “cool” music with this album. Boy was he wrong.

We cover the way-too-late-but-somehow-successful “Lips of an Angel” by DIY butt-rockers Hinder. With some of the worst vocals and the absolute worst stage presence, the singer spins a tale of talking dirty to an ex while his current girlfriend applies lotion in the next room.

We discover this song’s weird, record-breaking ties to early internet music technology including Myspace autoplays and cellphone ringtones, hear from commenters who definitely shouldn't be using this song as a blueprint for their own relationships, and FINALLY reveal the origin of this show’s chill Cali vibes.

This week we cover, without a doubt, our worst video yet: Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train," which features a murdered mee-maw, a child prostitute, and the lead singer sitting on ACTUAL missing children.

Also: what this video has in common with Toto's Africa, what it's like to hear a 25 year-old megahit for the first time, and a comment section featuring some of the most deranged and most sensible comments we've had on the show.

Hear over an hour of deleted material from this wild episode at patron.com/thatawfulsound. Help support the show and get a bonus episode every week (including past weeks) directly in your podcast player for only $1/month.

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This week we take on Billy Corgan, Zwan, and the brutal, public breakup of the early 2000's supergroup.

We find BC/WPC at his most petty and vindictive, raging at the "vile creatures" from Slint, Chavez, and A Perfect Circle on his live journal and in the Chicago tribune. All this could be forgiven if he weren't trying to look happy in this music video.

Music we like: Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics, Yo La Tengo - Shades of Blue, Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma, Mastodon - Blood Mountain

This week Shaina and Michael return to help dissect an amazing, bizarre, and just-plain-great song from 1998: Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody."

Timbaland's mouth sounds. Baby sounds. Music Video Falconry. A four-hour push to write, record, and release this track as the lead single to Eddie Murphy's Dr. Doolittle, who also appears in the video.

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Music We Like: Basement - Promise Everything, Dan Auerbach - Waiting on a Song, Hey Colossus - The Guillotine 

A song I hate from 2008, The Killers’ “Human,” dares to ask the question no one understood: are we human or are we dancer?

Not “denser.” Not “dancers.” Dancer.

We cover Brandon Flowers’ public battle on behalf of the world’s dumbest lyric, what it means to be “dancer,” and why, in Flowers’ own words, listeners are “idiots” if they don’t get it.

Music We Like: Noname - Telephone, The Jesus Lizard - Liar, Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy

It's the 3rd anniversary of That Awful Sound! I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than by finally talkin' Genie in a Bottle with longtime friends and cohosts: Michael "Mikey Goo" Muñoz and Shaina "One Time" Turian.

I had to cut a ton of great stuff for time, including probably a dozen amazing YouTube comments, and the only way to hear them is at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound. $1/month gets you a private feed of every bonus episode in your podcast player

This was a super fun, super freaky, and super freewheeling episode, so put Baby New Year to bed, keep an eye on that come count, and enjoy!

The Regular Dog is Back! This week we cover The Christmas Shoes, a song so reprehensible it spawned one of our most cynical, most blasphemous episodes yet.

We tackle the subject of Christmas Mom-death the only way we know how: an exploration of Christian foot fetishes, a grown man's obsession with THAT LITTLE BOY, and the purpose this song serves in the American psyche.

Music We Like: Oxbox - Thin Black Duke, Bugg - S/T, and BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION III