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EPISODE · Jun 20, 2021 · 1H 7M

Don't Be Shite

from In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast · host Weldon Hunter & Erik Komarnicki

It's almost summer, so let's get it started with a reality check: no AC, mosquitos, too many people at the beach, and the world's worst "summer song" ever: "Don't Be Shy" by Shwayze and some other guy (1:15). Man, this song sucks. A terrible, awful raw machine drum sound that drills into your brain, stoner vocal fry from a 'singer' who sounds like Beck with a cold, incomprehensible song structure,  a beastly bouquet of 1999's most bogus sounds (Bran Van 3000/Sublime) but from 2008! - and the longest, most amateurish fade-out we've ever found. As a wise man says in this episode, "Even raccoons wouldn't touch this garbage." But we had to publish this: it's a dirty job talking about the Worst Song Ever, but we have to do it every 6 months or so to get our chakras realigned, or something ...

It's almost summer, so let's get it started with a reality check: no AC, mosquitos, too many people at the beach, and the world's worst "summer song" ever: "Don't Be Shy" by Shwayze and some other guy (1:15). Man, this song sucks. A terrible, awful raw machine drum sound that drills into your brain, stoner vocal fry from a 'singer' who sounds like Beck with a cold, incomprehensible song structure, a beastly bouquet of 1999's most bogus sounds (Bran Van 3000/Sublime) but from 2008! ...

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It's almost summer, so let's get it started with a reality check: no AC, mosquitos, too many people at the beach, and the world's worst "summer song" ever: "Don't Be Shy" by Shwayze and some other guy (1:15). Man, this song sucks. A terrible, awful...

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