Disinfect Matt Diehl, Maurice Bernstein
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“Disinfect” finds acclaimed music journalist Matt Diehl and career crate digger Maurice Bernstein joining forces to air out music’s worst songs – disinfecting stinking sacred cows to the most godawful guilty pleasures.
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Van Halen III – Misunderstood Masterpiece, Monolithic Misfire, Or Both? (Special Guest: Brad Tolinski, author of Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen )
“Van Halen III” remains the most derided – and endlessly debated – album from its namesake band and late, great guitar god. Reeling from a series of tragedies – including the exit of Van Halen’s hitmaking singer, Sammy Hagar – Eddie Van Halen joined with new vocalist Gary Cherone of Extreme to redefine the band in his own image. The results proved to be one of the most notorious commercial and critical disasters in pop-music history. But is “Van Halen III” as bad as its reputation? To find out, “Disinfect” went to the edge with special guest Brad Tolinski – leading Van Halen expert and author of the acclaimed “Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen.”
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Not Feeling the Noise: Mining the Worst Heavy Metal Covers (Special Guests: Tom Beaujour and Katherine Turman)
Best-selling authors Tom Beaujour (“Nothin’ But a Good Time”) and Katherine Turman (“Louder Than Hell”) guest on "Disinfect" to bring hellfire to the worst heavy metal covers of all time – from Quiet Riot’s annoying noise to Danzig’s desecrations, and beyond...
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And the Award for Worst Eurovision Winner Goes To... (Special Guests: International comedy sensations Rob AndristPlourde and Greg Shapiro)
How does the pop-music Olympics turn out the worst pop music? As such, Eurovision’s dramatic return in 2021 got us thinking… What are the worst winning songs in Eurovision history? For help, we turned to our special guests, international comedy sensations Rob AndristPlourde and Greg Shapiro, for the Euro insider take on music’s biggest (and cheesiest) annual ritual.
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Cheesesploitation: Sammy Davis Jr. Destroys Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" (Special Guest: Carl Hancock Rux)
Award-winning recording artist/poet/writer/performer Carl Hancock Rux joins the "Disinfect" hosts to roast Sammy Davis Jr.'s disastrous, unintentionally hilarious cover of Isaac Hayes' blaxploitation classic, "Theme From Shaft"...
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Why In Hell Did Barbara Streisand Massacre the David Bowie Classic “Life On Mars”?
Did you ever dream of hearing Barbara Streisand perform a multi-octave diva massacre of David Bowie’s classic “Life On Mars”? Nope – not us, either. But she went there – making for one of the worst cover songs we’ve aired out yet...
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Why? Meet The Atrocious Rap-Rock Cover of Eazy-E’s “Boyz-N-The-Hood” (Special Guests: Murs And Slug of Felt)
Warning: you can’t unhear Dynamite Hack’s atrocious alt-rock cover of Eazy-E’s gangsta-rap classic “Boyz-n-the-Hood.” Special guests Murs and Slug of acclaimed hip-hop duo Felt share their outspoken thoughts on the subject...
Customer Reviews
Genius!
This podcast is brilliant and hilarious. A takedown of music’s most shameful moments from the perspective of two insiders. Maurice Bernstein is a music industry legend so it’s amazing (and funny AF) just to hear him opine.
Great podcast
Maurice is a legend
So informative and entertaining!
I just finished listening to the Is This Love podcast and I loved it. It’s super informative and puts a real historical perspective on the song before digging into what is a repugnant cover. And it sounds amazing. I love the way they pan their voices on the right and left, and incorporate the songs in their entirety. Plus snippets of other pertinent songs. Can’t wait to hear where else they go. There’s no shortage of awful covers...