That Awful Sound

Subscribe at patreon.com/thatawfulsound for a ton of bonus content including a dozen youtube comments cut for time and other cringeworthy ephemera from the Hoobastank era. 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. Musi

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 we cover the Dandy Warhols' "Bohemian Like You" from 2001 and like 5 car commercials. What exactly is bohemian about this song? How many times could the Rolling Stones successful sue over one song? Music We Like: Booji Boys - Weekend Rocker, Against Me - Shapeshift With Me, Portugal the Man - Waiter: You Vultures!

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.

I had good show notes but the internet deleted them. the song Is about mental illness and Rob Thomas thinks “impaired” is a cool word the video is completely terrible, features early-CGI, and his evil, big-nosed bandmates. music we like: Courtney Barnett - Nameless Faceless, Cave In - Jupiter, EARTHGANG - Royalty

This week we take on "Cupid's Chokehold" by Cobra Starship / Fallout Boy / Supertramp supergroup: Gym Class Heroes. Tony tells us about his connection to the track, which consists entirely of white girls wanting to be the Katy Perry to his Travie McCoy. Lead singer Travis McCoy falls in love with girls, makes them prepare pancakes, and leans into the sloppy manchild role. Bonus content available every week, and a full bonus episode every month once we hit our goal of $250 at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound 

Why Can't Music Be Like When I heard It In The Car? We're only $9 away from our monthly goal of $250! As soon as we hit it, Patreon subscribers will start getting an exclusive, full-format episode every month www.patreon.com/thatawfulsound

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 

Help us reach our goal of $250 at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound, and I'll start releasing an extra full-length episode for subscribers every month. We're only $55 away! 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 murdered mee-maws, child prostitutes, 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 patreon.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.

Here's the bonus Patreon Cahntent for the last two episodes. Today, everyone's an All-Star. Aaliyah: Mike Sees The Offspring, Puddle of Mudd, Cold, and Adema / Shaina Gets Whatever Happened to be in Her Car Signed By Andrew WK / A Commenter Has A Theory About The Baby Noise  BPC: Matt Lip-Syncs to Backstreet Boys in 3rd Grade Despite His Mormon Upbringing // The Logical Fallacies found in All In The Family by Korn and Fred Durst // Billy Corgan Gets His Ego Stroked on Alex Jones // Billy Corgan DEFINITELY Saw A Shape-Shifter // Billy Corgan’s Blog Page Is Going To Change the World // The Secret Root Of Cahn’s Antagonism Towards Me, Finally Revealed

To get deleted scenes from this episode, including extra Live Journal entries from Billy Corgan, subscribe at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound for as little as $1/month and also get weekly bonus episodes delivered straight to you podcast app, plus free and discounted merch. 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 live journal and in the Chicago tribune. All this could be forgiven if he weren't trying so hard to look happy in this music video. Music we like: Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (remastered), 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. Get deleted scenes from this and every episode delivered straight to your podcast app by subscribing at Patreon.com/ThatAwfulSound for as little as $1/month. Music We Like: Basement - Promise Everything, Dan Auerbach - Waiting on a Song, Hey Colossus - The Guillotine 

This week our resident Limp Bizkit expert Aaron Brock returns to help us dissect the good-except-for-Fred-Durst N 2 Gether Now featuring Method Man and a beat from DJ Premier. We're talking embarrassingly weak bars, poser Limp Bizkit hats from our childhoods, signed Fred Durst photos, and, once again, youtube commenters who don't normally like rap but like this song "for some reason" Music we like: Marika Hackman - I'm Not Your Man, Turnstile - Real Thing, and The Most Unwanted Song Subscribe for free merch and bonus weekly episodes at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound

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’ battle with the media 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 Bonus Weekly Episodes and Seriously Chill Merch available at  patreon.com/thatawfulsound starting at only $1/mo

Happy 3rd Anniversary to 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!  

Weekly bonus episodes available at Patreon.com/thatawfulsound 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: Oxbow - Thin Black Duke, Bugg - S/T, and BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION III  

Sorry Folks! I worked 6 days, 70hrs last week, while sick, so no new episode. We'll be back next week with a very special Christmas episode! In the meantime, here's one of my favorites.  This week we “Meet Virginia,” a monster brought to life by mom rock juggernauts Train in their 1998 single. She’s not like other girls. Also: rhyming words with themselves… twice, remorseful memories of bullying girls in high school with Nickelback lyrics and flying burritos, and, again, a song that strikes an unlikely chord with am internet commentator. Music We Like: Watsky - X Infinity, Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition, and Afghan Whigs - Do To The Beast

This week we're covering the semi-woke, semi-forgotten single from Papa Roach's 3x platinum Infest: "Between Angels & Insects." Inspired by a wild assortment of works (Fight Club, Buddhism, and a 1994 British period drama with the same name), the song tackles the age old conundrum: money sucks, but bedazzled Affliction t-shirts rule. In this episode: Michael learned these tabs, Tony relates to Papa Roach fans through a friend from a broken home, and I think this song is better than Last Resort Music We Like: Glassjaw - Material Control, For Against - Echelons, Quicksand - Interiors (again) Movies I Like: Home