Falling Into Place

Falling Into Place

Author: Shitty Mashups July 21, 2023 Duration: 42:16
You're walking in a grocery store. It's crowded. As you push your way through the heaving mass of human bodies you accidentally bump into a shelf. What transpires next amazes you. The first item to fall from the safety of its shelf is a martini glass. You brace for the glass to shatter. And yet it never comes. The glass sits comfortably on the ground via its sturdy base. "Those odds must be one in a million" you think to yourself. And yet it's not over. The shelf, still rocking back and forth from the impact knocks over a bottle of vermouth. The top cracks just slightly, and you see a lone drop fall directly into the glass. "Amazing" you think. And yet the event isn't yet over. Another victim to the movement, a bottle of gin. This one's top fully breaks open and gin starts flowing freely directly over... a pile of ice? Where did that even come from? Who stores a loose pile of ice on a shelf? Moreover, that newly ice cold gin drips squarely into the sitting glass. "This is impossible" you think, as a nearby crow drops a single olive pitted olive skewered on a toothpick into your fresh delicious martini.

Deep beneath our feet, in a geothermal lab where the rock is hot and the standards are low, three eternally confined scientists conduct their audacious auditory experiments. This is Shitty Mashups. Each episode is a gleeful report from their subterranean studio, where the mission is simple: to fuse songs that were never meant to meet, crafting what might generously be called the worst music ever conceived. The results are unpredictable, often hilarious, and strangely compelling. You'll hear legendary pop anthems violently welded to forgotten elevator jingles, aggressive metal riffs underpinning smooth jazz solos, and nursery rhymes subjected to unthinkable electronic beats. The hosts, operating as the podcast's cursed creators, provide a running commentary of scientific despair and manic pride as their creations unfold. It's a celebration of glorious failure and a bizarre love letter to music itself, asking the important question: how wrong can a song feel before it becomes a new kind of right? Tune in for a uniquely chaotic and comedic listen that defies all conventional taste.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 98

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Podcast Episodes
7. What's on the Radio? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:42
This weeks challenge involved going out to our respective cars (that's what we call our laser-drill vehicles), switching on the ol' radio and letting god decide our fate. Neither of the challengers had used their radios…
6. Your First Favorite Album [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:20
It's a brand new year! At least it is for you. But I don't need to keep going into how time is different for us down here. The challenge this week is that we have to use a song from our first favorite album. Which of the…
5. The Center of the Earth Christmas Spectacular [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:57
If there's anything decades of Christmas songs have taught us, it's that Christmas is a time of year. Is that really true? No one can say for sure. Least of all the three of us in the center of the earth, where we experi…
4. The Commercialization of Music [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:00
What's your favorite jingle? Wow that's mine too! Anyway let's see what those losers in the center of the earth came up with.
3. Billboard Birth Month [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:00
What was the Billboard #1 song in the month you were born? You don't know? Well Ian and Ryan know because they had to use that song in this week's challenge. This episode featuring the incredible career of an amazing pop…
2. The Discogs Shake [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:38
The smashers™ are back! Each contestant is forced against their will to use a song off of a random album that they physically own. Who gets to step through the airlock this week? Tune in to find out!
1. A Song from Your Favorite Album [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:05
Episode 1 of the music crimes podcast. The challenge, one of the songs used has to be from your favorite album. Who wins? Only the Challenge Master knows for certain.

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