Rhythm games are a very important piece of every growing child's development. If it weren't for DDR, would any of us even know how to dance at the club? If it weren't for Guitar Hero, would anyone on the entire planet know how to play guitar? No. Because guitars didn't even exist until a time traveler brought Guitar Hero back to the neolithic period. Oops, uh, please disregard that previously classified information.

Look there's nothing wrong with popular music. There's nothing wrong with things that have a wide appeal. It just so happens that the more you obsess about an art form, the further down the rabbit hole you go. This means that the 3 of us have a really hard time knowing what the average person listens to, even if we listen to it as well. We're broken. This is our attempt at healing. Please be kind to us.

Have we already been doing this for 7 thousand months? Seems like just yesterday our clones were activated to start this research. Though I guess from our point of view maybe it was yesterday? Who can keep track really. Anyway, with 35 challenges already in the bag it was just a matter of time before we'd start revisiting some of them, and that's what this challenge is all about. Taking a mashup we made in the past, and inverting the parts used. Featuring clips from: Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood The Protomen - Light Up the Night Radiohead - Creep Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

We've been making music too good for too long. If we're going to accomplish our goal of destroying music forever we need to start exploring the dark corners that we try to ignore. Ian has to make an electro-swing song and Ryan has to make a Country song. Do they succ seed? There's only one way to find out.

Let's face it. All ideas have existed before. All knowledge exists in the void and every once in a while a person will rediscover it. I think Plato said that or some shit. I'm not sure how true it is because I'm pretty sure that Plato didn't have an iPhone but I wasn't there so I don't really know. All music has already been made. That's why we took the easy way out by making music with stuff that already exists. But we aren't the only ones.

Happy Birthday USA, you big failed experiment.

Well it's the middle of summer for the north side of the earth. A lot of people think north is the top hemisphere but what people don't know is the earth is actually rotating on its X-axis, not its Z-axis. Meaning the actual top of the earth is the east pole. But you didn't hear that from me. Anyway since it's the summer let's go ahead and listen to our favorite rainy day music.

Do you listen to albums all the way through as the artist intended? Or are you a shufflegoblin? Let's make a quick alignment chart.

Another movie-based challenge? Yeah. We love movies. Everyone on the planet loves movies. This time we have to use a song that was made specifically for a movie. Like Prince's Bat Dance, or whatever Aerosmith made for Armageddon. (Is that right? I'm not gonna fact check it, there's no time.) Pop some popcorn and listen to some cinematic music masterpieces.

Hey there. Have you ever had a job? Have you ever worked a job where you listen to the same playlist of songs every day with absolutely no control over when it starts, ends, or how loud it is? Does your place of work use sonic warfare against the workers? Rise up. Kill your kings. And listen to this podcast comrade.