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
The Skipped Song Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:31
We've all been there. You're listening to an album, absolutely vibing, and then a skit track comes on. Or an instrumental interlude. And it doesn't even really fit thematically with the rest of the album. Feels like padd…
The All-Star Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:21
For the first time in history, Ryan and Ian have been mandated to use the same backing track for their mashup. I know some of you idiots out there are saying "backing track mandates are unconstitutional" but you're wrong…
The Waveform Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:25
One of the core truths about making music is that typically you wanna hear what you're doing. But we didn't get to do that this week. Both tracks were made on mute. The results might surprise you though. Just like Beetho…
The Awful Chorus Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:57
Every once in a while you find yourself grooving along to a song. Tapping your toe, snapping your fingers, and then it happens. You get to the chorus, and it just blows. Like It's REAL bad and you aren't sure what happen…
The Celebrity Crossover Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:47
Since the dawn of time humankind has operated on the assumption that if you're good at one thing, you must be good at all things. It's the reason nerds online listen to some of the absolute worst takes of all time, the r…
Kind of Blue [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:24
Blue. The default favorite color for people too afraid to embrace the raw sociopathic energy of red. This week the boys had to make mashups based around the color blue, with explicit rules to NOT use Blue by Eiffel 65. W…
The Christmas Funtacular [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:59
Snow on the ground, lights on the trees, presents wrapped and stockings on the chimney. Oh what's that? We're off by like 3 weeks? Well Ian set his house on fire so... you're just gonna have to forgive us this time.
The Video Game Challenge [REDACTED] [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:26
This feels familiar but none of us can really put our fingers on why. We're all pretty sure that we've done videogame mashups in the past but we can't seem to find any proof. Anyway, this week the boys have to make some…
The Pandering Challenge / Our Birthday! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:48
Can you believe we've already been doing this show for a full year? It's almost unbelievable. When we went back to count up the episodes though we noticed there's kind of an empty space that we are kind of fuzzy on. We'r…
The Voice Over Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:56
I want you to take a minute and think of a voice over that you really liked. Maybe it was a movie trailer, maybe an audiobook, maybe it's that guy who used to do the voice overs for How It's Made. Remember those? God I l…