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EPISODE · Apr 11, 2026 · 1H 25M

Awesome artists made these awful songs!

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Even the best of us have bad days - including your favorite musicians. That explains how top-shelf artists can produce a clunker of a song. We try to forget these songs, explain them away as somebody else's fault, justify them as an important learning moment, and maybe even claim that they aren't so bad when we know they are simply terrible. In this week's episode of "How We Heard It," the hosts drill down to the worst of the worst by the best of the best - including terrible songs by the likes of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, The Kinks, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Madonna, R.E.M. and many more. No one is spared as these sonic disasters are dissected. And a special shoutout is given to all the promising collaborations that were abject failures (including tantalizing pairings credited to the likes of David Bowie/Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder). But don't worry. It's all done with love.

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