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That Awful Sound

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️" - MetallicaDad420 | The show about the music you liked before you knew better | Every week Alexander Edward and a guest revisit, dissect, and mock can embarrassing song and music video from their past
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Now displaying: May, 2017
May 29, 2017

This week it’s a super fun episode as Michael Munoz joins us to make fun of Disturbed and their tragic modern take on the story of Job, “Prayer.” We cover the religious and anti-religious lyrical themes, the 9/11 controversy surrounding the video, and the singer’s INSANELY dumb chin piercings. Seriously, these things are bad.

Also: an evangelical in the genius.com annotations, a snide MTV article about the video, eerie similarities between the band and Refused, and INTENSE religious controversy in the comments section.

Music We Like: Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger, Kendrick Lamar’s Damn, Land of Talk’s Life After Youth

May 23, 2017

It's fairly ironic (or is it appropriate?) that I was unable to release this episode yesterday, because Emma Maatman and I are revisiting “Blue Monday,” Orgy’s “aggro-fied-for-the-1990s” version of the New Order classic.

We cover the angst-filled tone-shift in this incarnation of the song, harsh puns in the lyrics, and have an in-depth discussion about the intense makeup situation going on in this pretty-good music video.

Plus: genius.com contributors argue bitterly over who the real victims are in these lyrics, Wikipedia credits Orgy for The Matrix, Buckcherry starts beef with the band, Rihanna releases a covert cover of the cover that we discovered, and of course, plenty of wild comments from youtube and songmeanings.

Music We Like: Kamasi Washington’s “The Epic” and a huge helping of Afghan Whigs, including their new album, “In Spades”

May 18, 2017

Distinguished burps, political merit badges, shilling for Apple products, egotistical local businessmen, the horrors of modern feminism, an argument about Bono, and plenty more deranged comments about the Spice Girls. Hear the full 28 minutes and every weekly bonus episode at www.patreon.com/thatawfulsound

May 15, 2017

This week it's a ridiculously fun episode on Spice Girls' Wannabe from 1996. Emma laments having to be the Baby Spice in her friend group; I discover the stigma against my childhood crush, Sporty Spice; we reveal the strange and wonderful etymology of "zigazig ha," as well as the sordid pasts the Girls want you to forget.

Also: charitable and WILDLY uncharitable interpretations of the song’s confusing message, the sociopathic behavior exhibited by the group in a music video with unsettling parallels to A Clockwork Orange, and an extra long, extra perverted comment section.

Music We Like: Gnarwhal's Crucial, Animal Collective's 2009 EP Fall Be Kind, and Ides of Gemini's new album Women

May 8, 2017

It's the 100th Episode Spectacular! We're returning to our roots by covering one of our favorite targets: Metallica and another Load-era, mid-tempo slogger, "The Memory Remains." Possibly more importantly, we're also covering the new Hetfield-narrated, moralizing documentary "Addicted to Porn: Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly." That's a real title, and we don't know what it means.

We find surprisingly competent lyrics (probably not written by James) as well as expectedly cliche lyrics (definitely written by James), all of which tell the story of an aging, washed-up celebrity desperately clinging to the vestiges of her fame, and played by singer Marianne Faithful in the video.

Was it an insult to offer her this gig? Does Metallica realize the irony in the subject matter? Is Faithful the reason that the Rolling Stones pop up so much in this episode? Is Lars' drumming even worse than usual?

Plus: we briefly go over the amazing aforementioned documentary that attempts to protect the "beautiful essence of women," as exhibited in the wife who wants to gouge out her husband's eyes for watching porn. We also discover some of James amazing late-in-life tattoos, and I get Szyslak'd by a listener email.

Thank you so much to everyone for helping me make it to 100 episodes! This is the funnest thing I've ever done, and I hope I can do at least 100 more.

May 4, 2017

A quick tease for this week's bonus Patreon episode: nearly an hour discussion of the mind-numbingly hilarious Fyre Fest Fiasco. Emma stops by to help me read from a  NYT article about the aftermath that left "upwardly mobile millennial influencers" looking for a "boutique live music experience" stranded on an island for days with no music and only cheese sandwiches to eat.

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May 1, 2017

This week it's a thoroughly disgusting episode of That Awful Sound: we’re revisiting the undiluted raunch in Methods of Mayhem’s “Get Naked.” Tommy Lee flops around naked in a bucket hat. Lil Kim rides a giant mechanical rooster. Fred Durst, George Clinton, and Mixmaster Mike chip away at their varying degrees of dignity by making cameos. 

Also: angry/horny youtube commenters, cgi nipples, plenty of racism, and Anthony Tomato responds to our Mest episode on instagram.

“This music video is bad for you”

“It’s bad. It’s not like junk food, it’s not like a Snickers bar, its like putting gasoline in your body”

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