The Fairly KickAss Podcast

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Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for...

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2026/10/02

Hi there! September here. (It's our podcast description, months can talk, get over it.)I had a LOT going on this... me... musically. Wow! So many great albums! So many great charting singles! So many not-great charting singles! But the important thing is everyone tried, and I love that for me.I had all kinds of music too. Pop, rock, R&B, country, and lots of other smaller kinds that fit into those kinds. It's like musical Jenga! I've never played Jenga, because I'm a month and all, but I bet

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49:56

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Vibes: Signature Sounds

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2026/09/25

We... uhhh... yeah. I don't know how to describe this one, so I'm gonna try.It's one of our patented Vibes episodes, in which we take a topic and we... vibe. We just chat. We talk, and we discuss, and we meander and mosey along a very loose agenda. And this episode's agenda was perhaps one of the loosest that we've done.The topic, at the root, is signature sounds. That can mean a lot of things, and we go in several of those directions. Signature sounds of certain artists, of certain time periods,

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74:11

Fairly KickAss Podcast REWIND - Top 5 Jazz Songs

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2026/09/18

Was this the classiest episode of the Fairly KickAss Podcast ever? Indubitably. Which is why there were no jokes, no gags, no puns. We kept the culture high, for a topic that deserves it: jazz. Smooth, unless it's chaotic. No lyrics, unless there are some. A small outfit in some cases; in others, an enormous orchestra. And everything in between.All that was in past-tense, because this is one of our Rewind episodes! We dug into our Vault to find a fun episode that was already published during the

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38:26

Fairly KickAss Podcast - SomeOnes: 1986, 2007, 2022

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2026/08/21

Can you think of three more different years than 1986, 2007, and 2022?I mean, of course there are. Name any year in BC, and then like something in the middle ages I guess, and this year. Whichever year you're listening to this. Whatever. I don't even care about the analogy anymore.Instead, let's refocus on the topic at hand: SomeOnes. Same drill as always: each of us three yahoos gets a random year, then we have to pick a song that topped a chart, and talk about it for a few minutes.Is it the best

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65:07

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Greatest Sh**s: Will Smith

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2026/08/14

So as I was typing out the title of this here episode, instead of "Greatest Sh**s: Will Smith", my fingers accidentally typed "Greatest Sh**s: Will ASS" - including the caps.Actually, come to think of it, I'm not so sure that was accidental.Because... woof. This was one of the toughest episodes we've done, because this catalog is a cataSLOG. (that one was deliberate)Lemme set the scene for you: we look at every one of Will Smith's discography - both the DJ Jazzy Jeff years, and the solo years, which

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73:18

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for July 2026

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2026/08/07

OH GOD WE FORGOT TO DO THE MAY 5/12THS BITNow, logically, we could just, like, not do it. Ezpz. But, it’s like, a thing! And things are meant to be done!And, as fate would have it, this episode is for July reviews. The usual: top three albums for J, top three albums for Zack, and any number of newly-charting Billboard 100 singles for Dan. I can’t tell the Future, but I think there have been better months.BUT! July is the 7th month. And this is the 7th year that we’ve been doing this bit oh god it

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34:12

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 Albums That Make You...

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2026/07/31

[DEEP INHALE]The title of the episode is unwieldy, but you get the gist. What album makes you want to jump out of your chair, grab a guitar or a microphone, call up your agent, and get tf after it? We talk about our top 5 of that exact thing.Perhaps this time, more than any other time, we all went off the rails. Three hosts, three distinctly different approaches. It was all over the map, and it was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that we ran long!This is Part 2 of the thing. Part 1 of the thing was

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52:11

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 Albums That Make You...

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2026/07/24

[DEEP INHALE]The title of the episode is unwieldy, but you get the gist. What album makes you want to jump out of your chair, grab a guitar or a microphone, call up your agent, and get tf after it? We talk about our top 5 of that exact thing.Perhaps this time, more than any other time, we all went off the rails. Three hosts, three distinctly different approaches. It was all over the map, and it was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that we ran long!This is Part 1 of the thing. Part 2 of the thing will

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70:58

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Rush: Artists That Define...

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2026/07/17

So, yeah, maybe we're doing a thing where the very top answer of said thing is a thing that we're not gonna talk about. That's cool, right?This episode of the Fairly KickAss Podcast is a Rush episode, short for "Mt. Rushmore". Top four, in any order. Got it? Good.The topic? Artists that defined the 1960s. Now you see why we had to disqualify one out of hand. Because, truthfully, there is one single answer to this question. One band that, if ommitted, would be disingenuous at best.And that band, of

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56:35

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Vibes: Greatness vs. Popularity

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2026/07/10

This is the part where we talk about what the episode is about. But what if we... can't? What if we have no earthly idea what to even say about it?Not because it's bad (which it isn't), or because it goes in a hundred different directions (which it... okay yeah it totally does that). But moreso that it's so meta in nature that to describe the thing would be to transcribe the whole episode.And who has time for that? What with all the 11 PM ravioli and Italian sausage that there is to consume? I'm not

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70:07

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for June 2026

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2026/07/03

Sometimes, it just goes like that. We have a very short period between monthly releases. I mean, what actually IS the "calendar", anyway? This grid of squares gets to just control our lives and what we do and when we do it?? NO!! DOWN WITH CALENDARS!! DOWN WITH CALENDARS!!Down with calendars.All that is to say, monthly reviews for June are here. Newly-charting singles, new album releases. There's one in particular that if you were anywhere near popular music in June, you'll know where a decent

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70:15

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 Blockbuster Jams

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2026/06/26

You don't wanna close your eyes for this episode! (Or your ears, I guess, since podcasting isn't a visual medium LOOK I'M TRYING TO WRITE AN INTRO OKAY DEAL WITH IT)In this episode, we talk about our top 5 blockbuster movie jams! What constitutes a "blockbuster"? I dunno, you'll have to ask Dan, J or me (Zack, yo0O). And I ain't tellin'. But we break it all down in the episode, as well as picking five jams that fit each of our bills.Come join us as we rediscover movies from years past! Is your

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84:01

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for May 2026

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2026/06/19

Ayyyyyyyyyyyy!Wait, no that's not it... what I meant to say wasMayyyyyyyyyyyy!!We're cashing in those floral chips from the deluge of April, and planting the seeds of May's musical bouquet. That made no sense, and that's fine! Because it ALSO makes no sense for two (but actually four, but really only two) albums to enter the Toppest 40 charts in May.Safe to say it was an interesting month on that side of the house, as well as the new release album side. Fun all around the block, here at the KickAss

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89:07

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Billboard End-of-Year...

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2026/06/05

Holy crap, Ass-Kickers - 2002 was a very formative year for the four of us, which makes it even worse that it was such an AWFUL year for popular music. But, because the RNG Gods dictate so much of what we do on this here podcast, we must relent.From Ja Rule to Jewel, from Creed to Eve, from Ludacris to Elliott, Miss...y. (Did I mention Ja Rule? He's here a LOT.)We do what we always do: we take the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End list, we correct it, and we present all of you our very correct

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33:29

Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Kendrick Lamar

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2026/05/29

It's Ones all the way down. SomeOnes last week, One Song this week. The topic: one of the most transcendent, prolific artists of our generation. Some would add the qualifier of "hip-hop" or "rap", and while that would be accurate, it's far from necessary.To wit: compile the list of all seven humans with 27+ Grammy awards. Take out conductors and producers (John Williams, Quincy Jones, and Sir Georg Solti - legends in their own rights, of course).That leaves you with four performers: Beyoncé, known

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67:20

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for April 2026

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2026/05/08

Since we're talking about April, here's a very quick shout-out to a very little-known pop outfit called Fooled by April. They're what Maroon 5 would be if Maroon 5 were good... so basically Kara's Flowers with more polish. They had one full-length in 2005, and... that's actually about it. But it was rad! Go check it out AFTER you check out this episode... of the Fairly KickAss Podcast..........yes I just did the bad intro for the write-up. That's where we are.Where we were, Dear Listeners, was

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37:40

Fairly KickAss Podcast REWIND - Deep Dive: Divinyls

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2026/05/01

[ZACK'S NOTE]Yo! Zack here. This is a little... punch in, I guess? What's it called if I punch in a podcast description? No matter. It's that thing.What you're about to read is the very first description of the very first Deep Dive episode we ever did, from back in February 2021. We mentioned it, we promised it, and we delivered it: it's the Divinyls! It's a bit rough around the edges, both in terms of audio quality and host quality. We were just baby podcasters! We've gotten better!What wasn't

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46:49

Fairly KickAss Podcast - 2026 Rock n' Roll Hall of...

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2026/03/27

It's the Hall, y'all!The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in beautiful Cleveland, Ohio, is open to the public, but that doesn't mean you can just waltz in and be enshrined. No, you must be voted in by a group of industry experts with over a thousand members, and one of those members are representative of everyone who is NOT a member of that group of industry experts.Got all that? Good.The 2026 Hall of Fame class has been narrowed down to 17 maybes, which will be further narrowed down to some number of

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88:09

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Billboard End-of-Year...

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2026/03/20

What has 100 songs, and two different Justin Biebers at the top of it?If you guessed "the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 2016 chart?", then, um, that's oddly-specific (which could be an FKA spin-off one day). But yeah, that is this.We correct the rankings of the oft-misguided year-end charts, because, I'm sorry, it's just wrong. We've done a bunch of these, and they're never right. They're never even close to being right.And we did something about it.Is it better now? There are two answers to

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70:57

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 B-Sides

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2026/02/27

Short write-up for this one to get it out the door, because we are in episode arrears like a mug. (SIDE NOTE: can we bring back "like a mug"? It was the best. I digress, in what was supposed to be a "short write-up".)Life happened, and work happened, and A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF HAPPENED THAT WE DON'T HAVE NEARLY ENOUGH TIME TO SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF. If you exist in the world at large, then you have a good idea already.It's been scary, it's been exhausting, it's been a million other emotions

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