Bastard Tapes

The Internet’s “Found Footage Festival” (VCR Party, Shaturday Morning Cartoons) digs up the unlikely, unfortunate, and just plain unlistenable mistakes littering music history - If it shouldn’t have been recorded, it should be here.

When Comedians Sing 03/05/2024

When Comedians Sing Being funny doesn’t mean you can do it all- here are some sharp wits aiming for chart hits with a hard miss! Admission is free, but there is a two-strong-drink minimum. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/30238723

TV Cash-Ins III 01/16/2024

TV Cash-Ins III We had no idea how many fictional TV characters have made records! Here’s the newest batch of cathode-ray croonings by yesterday’s stars. Just keep your hand on that remote - some of these get really dumb. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/29512678

Disco Disasters 12/05/2023

Disco Disasters Grab your boogie shoes and slam them over your ears - we’re digging up the worst from a genre whose GOOD stuff drove some people berserk! Give a listen and get nostalgic for when the 70s finally ended! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/28943768

RELIGIOUS RECORDS II 09/26/2023

RELIGIOUS RECORDS II The first one rivaled the tribulations of Job, but we’re back with an All-New Testament of God songs gone wrong. You might prefer 40 years in the desert to this! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/28150997

When Actors Sing 06/13/2023

When Actors Sing Some of the biggest names in Hollywood listened to Top 40 radio and thought “I can do that”. We’ll sort out how wrong they were as we spin some tracks by treasured tragedians! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/27138462

Star Wars Stupidity! 05/16/2023

Star Wars Stupidity! You are unwise to lower your defenses- we’re playing some of the worst-ever Star Wars audio, by trend-chasing cretins and sometimes from the franchise itself. Exegol appears on more charts than this crap! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/26859063

Crazy Covers II 04/10/2023

Crazy Covers II What is the sound of lightning not striking twice? Some of the biggest hits in history manage to still be bad when they’re dropped into the wrong throats, and we’ve got the tapes to prove it. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/26496621

Fast Food Follies 03/07/2023

Fast Food Follies Get in the car, we’re going out listening to tracks that came with Macs! Flexidiscs, Happy Meal cassettes, anything and everything to distract you from the nutritional information. Ba da ba da ba, you’re listenin’ it! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/26153733

VCR Party's Greatest Hits 02/07/2023

VCR Party's Greatest Hits VCR Party Live is now over 250 episodes old, and it’s time to hear the classics you won’t hear anywhere else somewhere else! We’ve got ten of Joe & Nick’s best, worst, and wackiest tracks cued up! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/25850517

Music By The Insane 01/09/2023

Music By The Insane Now headlining the rubber room: rockers who were off their rockers! Tighten those straps for 10 musical flavors of crazy. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/25549068

More Christmas Ear Aches 12/12/2022

More Christmas Ear Aches We’re going home for Christmas, revisiting the topic where we got started- holiday carols from bottoms of barrels. Make the eggnog grown-up style for this one! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/25300212

Worst Rap Of All Time, VOL. II: 11/15/2022

Worst Rap Of All Time, VOL. II: One episode was too much, so of course we’re back with some vintage raps that might be even godawfuler this time. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/25021419

The Monstrous Career of Bobby "Boris" Pickett 10/04/2022

The Monstrous Career of Bobby "Boris" Pickett Bobby Pickett followed up his colossal hit “Monster Mash” by living 45 more years. Did he spend them chasing the ghost of that fame? /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/24582900

The Rappin' Trucker 09/06/2022

The Rappin' Trucker Our special guests, The Found Footage Festival’s Nick & Joe, take Tim on a musical trip down the American highway, with a few unexpected stops along the way. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/24293715

Beatles Covers 07/12/2022

Beatles Covers We finally confront the walrus in the room- the Himalayan mountain of Beatles covers littering the earth, many of which still go unpunished. Having been some days in preparation, a cringey time is guaranteed for all. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/23720855

Fictional Musicians 06/14/2022

Fictional Musicians This time, we’re listening to songs that barely stuck to the tape, because the artists barely exist. Pretend-sizzling-hot, fictional-chart-topping bands and solo acts hold a mirror up to how some TV writer thinks music works. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/23426093

Toys & Games! 05/24/2022

Toys & Games! This time, we suffer through some tunes about classic toys & games- ones you played with, and maybe even sang along to. Grab a play date… this might get rough. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/23216027

TV Cash-Ins VOL. II 05/04/2022

TV Cash-Ins VOL. II You asked for it, and 50 years ago came through for you, except you didn’t ask for it! It’s another show jammed with fictional TV characters caterwauling toward the goal of your amusement. Hope you like catch phrases! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/23004755

Bad-apted for the Musical Stage 04/13/2022

Bad-apted for the Musical Stage Just because people like something doesn’t give you a license to add singing and dancing to it. This episode squirms through a few of the worst known musical adaptations of pre-existing works. We’re going out there a podcast, but we’ve got to come back a star! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/22783940

Crazy Cover Songs 03/22/2022

Crazy Cover Songs Today, we crack into Crazy Cover Songs. The talentless and clueless biting off more than they can chew… plus a few legends who made very bad choices. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/22524362

Religious Records 02/23/2022

Religious Records Today, we dig up some of the worst religious recordings on God’s green Earth. Whether you’re luring people to a small congregation or global cult, here’s what NOT to do. And yeah, there’s puppets. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/22222439

Worst Raps of All Time: Volume 1 02/09/2022

Worst Raps of All Time: Volume 1 Bastard Tapes is keepin’ it real bad with the Worst Rap Music of All Time: Volume I- our oh-hell-no-est episode yet. If you like white people, you’ll love this! /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/22071260

Television Cash-Ins 01/11/2022

Television Cash-Ins A surprising number of real records have been recorded by fictional characters from popular TV shows. From the 60s to the 90s, a quickie novelty disc was a viable way to keep your show on the viewing public’s mind, and we’ve curated a dozen of the strangest and silliest. /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/21742844

Christmas Ear Aches 12/21/2021

Christmas Ear Aches No bad music is bad like bad Christmas music is bad, and for the inaugural episode of "Bastard Tapes," we've dug up ten musical lumps of coal that time should have forgotten. If you think you hate the holidays now, listen to how they've sounded in years past. ERRATUM: Donnie Wahlberg actually had several songwriting credits prior to "Funky, Funky Xmas". /episode/index/show/bastardtapes/id/21561209

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