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The Smell of Music
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A Worthy Endeavor.
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TSOM28: Sidespin's Worst Songs Since 1990 w/ rhythm method
1w ago00:46:35Tap to summarizeFor tonight's episode, we are joined by the fantastically-talented Erik Randall, who writes under the name Rhythm Method for Sidespin, little brother to Deadspin. Erik and his partner Not Something Structural (@nss_ds), have made it a mission to find the very worst song since 1990 and, to decide this, they've opened up the voting to the readers of Sidespin with a 68-song bracket. So, tonight, you won't want to miss a thing as we journey to the end of the road with our informer, Erik Randall, uncovering the songs that Sidespin listeners truly, madly, deeply hated. How bizarre these songs are. How bizarre. How bizarre.
Transcribe →TSOM27: Songs Our Dads Think Suck
4w ago00:56:27Tap to summarizeTonight, we turn over the show to our dads with the upcoming Fathers' Day weekend. Sam's dad gets something off his chest, Clint's dad doesn't know what a podcast is, Dirty Deacon's dad viciously hates soft rock, and we pull our socks up to our knees, yell at neighborhood kids from our porch, tell bad jokes to our kids and then go to bed by 9:00. We don't think we're going to find the worst stuff ever recorded tonight because, really, our dad's have far too good of musical taste, but it's worth asking your dad sometime...what's the worst song you ever heard?
Transcribe →TSOM26: Despite All My Rave
May 3000:43:19Tap to summarizePlaying tracks by Hardfloor.
Transcribe →TSOM25: So...About Cowboy Troy
May 1600:36:12Tap to summarizeTonight we take a trip into the weird musical universe where Cowboy Troy exists. If you're not familiar with the act that is Cowboy Troy, he helped pioneer the bizarre and unnecessary genre "hick hop" or country rap. Bravely breaking down evident racial lines, Cowboy Troy was destined to be remembered alongside other legendary musicians to leap over prejudice and racial divide like Charley Pride, Kid Rock, Vanilla Ice, Prince, and Elvis. However, the second he hit the studio, that dream was crushed. We discuss his career work and his standing legacy amongst the world's worst music.
Transcribe →TSOM24: Difficult Michael Bolton Recordings with Blake Collier
May 200:58:21Tap to summarizeLadies love him, men fear him. For tonight's episode, our own Dirty Deacon takes us on a quick ride through five of the more insufferable missteps in Michael Bolton's career. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, Blake Collier has amassed a frightening file of Bolton knowledge (and not in the ironic hipster way). Join us, as we hop on the Blake bus for a bumpy ride through Bolton's entire 40 year career. We may just find us the worst song ever recorded.
Transcribe →TSOM Episode 23: Getting Put on Hold With Eli
Apr 1900:44:38Tap to summarizeTonight, we venture where few dare as we wade in the shallow end of a vast and endless ocean of musical compositions. For #TSOM23, we discuss on-hold music. We are joined on this episode by the talents of Eli Sanchez from the YellowCity Podcast of Amarillo, TX, which aims to tell the stories of Amarillo, uncenscored and unfiltered. So, get ready to be here a while as the TSOM panel put your life on hold.
Transcribe →TSOM Episode 22: Werewolves and Watermelons...the TSOMposium
Apr 500:50:26Tap to summarizeFor tonight's episode, a special treat to wet your whistle. We present our first official TSOMposium. If you're not familiar with a symposium, in Ancient Greece, Plato and his boys would spend all night drinking and listening to poetry. While that'd be cool, we set the bar much lower tonight. As always, we're pursuing the worst music ever, but tonight, we're pairing it with the very poorest sampling of beer we could find which, frankly, led to some pretty miserable findings. So, belly up to the bar, pour a cold one, and immerse yourself in some of the worst sounds and suds on earth.
Transcribe →TSOM Episode 21: Churched in Bad Kids' Gospel Music
Mar 2100:53:31Tap to summarizeIn celebration of Holy Week here at TSOM, we found it fitting to celebrate our Bible Belt roots, get drunk on the Holy Spirit, and find the worst children's gospel records ever recorded. The history of gospel music targeting children goes back long before "Jesus Loves Me," but the modern spectrum of these recordings has taken on some disastrously turns for the worst. This small assortment gives us a brief, but varied survey of children's gospel music of the modern age. As much as we tried to find it in our broken selves the ability to forgive them, we simply couldn't.
Transcribe →TSOM Episode 19: If Ja Rule'd the World
Feb 2300:37:29Tap to summarizeHappy Leap Year Birthday to the great Ja Rule, who turns 40 this year on February 29th. Rare is the occasion we can sit down and celebrate a leaping musician's birthday so, naturally, we had to do it. Before Ja became a big movie star or reality TV celebrity, he was a top-selling, no-good, foul-mouthed rapper. Tonight we explore his four worst recordings from his rapper career. Despite attempts to contact Ja to celebrate this birthday with him, we are unfortunately left to celebrate it on our own. Happy Birthday, Ja. We're praying for you.
Transcribe →TSOM Episode 18: Sticky Situations...Six Terrible Hip Hop Ballads
Feb 900:57:17Tap to summarizeValentine's Day is right around the corner and, for this episode, the TSOM panel readies their playlist in pursuit of the worst hip hop slow jams of all time. The slow jam, "ballad," or "hip hop love song" has been a mainstay in hip hop ever since raucous and rowdy LL Cool J shed his rough veneer to record "I Need Love" in 1987. It showed a vulnerable LL getting in touch with his sensitive side and resonated wildly with a new audience and proved hip hop's ability to jump into new audiences and markets. From there, labels leaned into this new opportunity to seize marketshare. The results varied and, here, we dive toenail polish first into six especially painful examples of the ballads gone wrong.
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