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The Fairly KickAss Podcast

Three music fans work to bring you a ton of music-related content, with a new episode every Wednesday. We cover a wide range of topics, from monthly reviews to top 5 lists, from finding the best song in an artist"s entire discography to deep dives throughout an artist"s life and music. We hope you enjoy!

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71:37

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for January...

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2026/02/06

The ceremonial first Monthly Reviews ep of the year! It's like a first pitch in baseball, only there's no baseball... or home plate... or field you know what, I miscalculated, that was on me.But a Monthly Reviews ep by any other name would smell as sweet, as the great William Shakespeare said, or - if you're tight with him like I am - Willy Shakes. He likes that name. Give it a try next time you see him.It's the usual drill: J and Zack go over their top three albums of the month, Dan hits all the

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73:08

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Greatest Sh**s: Maroon 5

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2026/01/30

Ugh.We listened to a LOT of Maroon 5 for this episode.We listened to TOO MUCH Maroon 5 for this episode.We made it out the other end, but definitely worse for wear. And yet, these are the lengths that we will go to for all of you, dear listeners.It's our second-ever Greatest Sh**s episode, where we take an oft-panned band and put together a sort of "greatest hits" release, consisting of one song from each of their albums.In the process, we try to determine if they deserve the ire that they've

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86:01

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

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2025/12/12

Hi! KickAss here. This is our Billboard Rerank/Rerack/Reorder episode type... call it any/all of the above, or anything else that you'd like!The premise is simple: we take the Billboard Year-End chart for a given year - this episode was 2003, which was admittedly less than ideal - and we update the ranking to what is correct. And by "correct", we mean each of our three hosts' versions of correct. That's a lot of correctness, I tell you hwhat.TBut enough about us! It's time to talk about you. Namely,

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66:03

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for November...

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2025/12/05

We regret to inform you, KickAss Faithful, that there were gremlins afoot.The previous episode, as you may already know, was either posted, or maybe was unposted, or there was a glitch in the matrix... I don't know. It's weird. It's all weird.This episode - our November 2025 album and charting single reviews - was also probably impacted by gremlins, and definitely not by just being late to post it. That would be weird. Blame the gremlins, please.While you're at it, drop us a line and tell us how

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41:23

Fairly KickAss Podcast - SomeOnes: 1981, 1992, 1995

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/11/28

We regret to inform you, KickAss Faithful, that there are gremlins afoot.(No, unfortunately this isn't how we tell all of you that we somehow secured a partnership with Chris Columbus, Steven Spielberg, and Warner Bros., for the upcoming Gremlins movie, releasing November 19th, at a theater near you!) (Yes, we are actively trying to pursue this very partnership.) (No, it's not going well.)You might have seen this episode out in the wild already, because, as far as we know, it was already posted

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40:44

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Musical Confessions #2

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/11/21

We confessed again!Musically!!That's right, our critically-unacclaimed episode type, Musical Confessions, is getting another go-round. For those who didn't catch the first one from back in July of 2025, let me paint the scene for you: each of us poop-for-brains hosts went around and told a music-y thing. A statement, a story... anything. The rub: it may or may not have been true. It was up to the other two hosts to suss out the lies and hitch their wagons to the truths.Same deal again, but with

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17:59

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Unsung: Maestro David Kyle

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/11/14

BOO!!!!Did I sc-oh heck, it's November now. Plus we did that same thing last week. Going to the well too many times? Can't be us. I digress.This is the Unsung, where we talk about folks that don't typically get talked about. We discuss influential people in the music industry whose popularity and acknowledgement doesn't always match their accomplishments and contributions. And Maestro David Kyle is no exception.To be faiiiiiir, there's not necessarily a Maestro-ing board. There's no governing body,

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72:08

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for October...

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/11/07

BOO!!!!Did I scare ya? I don't need to ask, of course I didn't. I'm sorry for wasting your time trying to tie this review to a nearby holiday. It was a mistake, and I regret the error.You know what I DON'T regret? These October reviews. That's not to say that things was great though. It was a solid, if mostly unimpressive, month on the album front. And the newly-charting singles were nearly all from one album. You know the one.*We got one more month of reviews for the year, and then we shelve this

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62:41

Fairly KickAss Podcast - The Rush: Hair Metal Songs

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2025/10/24

I'm keeping this description short, because no matter how many words, or how big of language I use, I could never be as grandiose and over-the-top as hair metal is. It was a huge sound, made by huge personas, and delivered to huge audiences.We may be a few decades removed here in 2025, but the music still rings true - and we give it the ol' Mt. Rushmore treatment.It was one of the more interesting podcast results for one of these dealios, based on the songs we all picked.But jeez Jouise I'm getting

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89:24

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

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/10/17

So we did a Billboard Rerank episode, where we reranked the Billboard End-of-Year chart to be more accurate to what is objectively correct. Because we know these things.We did 1990. Holy moly, 1990 was a year. Bangers, ballads, unexpected tracks from all genres. It truly was the sort of crossroads for the end of the 1980s, and what would come years later in the 90s.You know a lot of these songs, and perhaps there are some new favorites on this list? Only one way to find out.Well, two ways, I

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12:51

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Unsung: Max Martin

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/10/10

Oh hey! It's a little something I like to call "The Fairly KickAss Podcast". Ever heard of it?And to that end, have you ever heard of Max Martin?You may not realize that you are already acutely familiar of him, at least through his songwriting and production work.Early 2000s darlings like The Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, and Bon Jovi? Check. Big artists of today, like Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Coldplay, The Weeknd, and Lisa of Blackpink? Double-check. Most recently worked

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74:01

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for...

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2025/10/03

It's the "30 Days" month! You know the rhyme. You've recited the rhyme to yourself, perhaps during the month of September. Does it have anything to do with music?Does it ever?As usual, I digress. It's best albums. It's newly-charting singles. It's a LOT of Sabrina Carpenter. It's the hand that was dealt, as most of her most recent album, Man's Best Friend, charted. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I guess you'll have to listen to find out! (it was a pretty good album, I'll give you that

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58:05

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Coverlutions: A Case of You

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/09/19

To say that Joni Mitchell is one of the most influential songwriters, singers, and guitarists in the history of modern music is not hyperbolic. In fact, it's among the most truthful and least BS-based things we've said on this show.I believe we've said this about others before, but it applies here as well: Joni Mitchell recorded standards, sure, but she herself IS a standard. Legend. 1 of 1. Folk music was not nearly the same prior to her first album, 1968's Song to a Seagull, and it was forever

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76:15

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for July 2025

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2025/08/08

I feel like, the more we do this podcast, the quicker things come back around. Like Monthly Reviews: we just did those a few days ago! Or so it seems. In reality, the reviews for June were posted on July 9th, which is about a month ago, which makes perfect sense. And yet... it feels so recent.Maybe this podcast is aging, right alongside us. Maybe this podcast is no longer "hip" with all the "lingo". Maybe this podcast longs for a better time, a simpler time, a time when Justin Bieber wasn't hogging

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58:18

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 Beats

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/08/01

Beats?Beats??BEATS???Beats.Beats is good.[nods]Yes, I ripped that dumb bit off of The Road to El Dorado... because it's a good bit! And it describes perfectly what we're talking about today, being beats.We listened to them... we istened to a LOT of them, in fact... and then we ranked them, in our usual way. It was one of the more fun listening journeys that we've been down, and the outcome was awesome too. We had some similar stuff of course, some overlapping picks, and some stuff that was only on

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34:00

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Musical Confessions #1

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/07/18

**NEW EPISODE TYPE ALERT****NEW EPISODE TYPE ALERT**Tell all your friends! The KickAss Krew is back with another pilot episode. We're calling this one Musical Confessions, and the concept is simple: each host comes to the show with an odd, interesting, or generally against-the-grain take in the world of music. It's something that they feel is true... unless it isn't, and it's a total lie.Who can say? Well, the othe hosts can. They ask questions to try and suss out any mistruths, or to verify that

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55:15

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 TV Show Themes......

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/06/18

Ass-Kickers! We're back with a brand-new-old episode.You see, back in December of last year, we did our first Top 5 Redraft. "What's that?", you all say on cue because I mailed each and every one of you cue cards before writing this, and let's not talk about the shipping costs, okay?Anydangway, we took our Top 5 Songs to Ring in the New Year ep, originally posted in 2021, and put a fresh coat of paint on it. We took all the songs - both top 5's and honorable mentions - on all three of our lists,

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74:44

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for May 2025

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/06/04

Ass-Kickers! Thanks to technical difficulties, you get a reprieve.Specifically, a reprieve from the same tired old May Reviews bit... you know the one, we're 5/12ths through the year so let's talk about 5/12ths of this, 5/12ths of that. Fun the first year? Sure! Fun the fifth year? Nah.I (Zack, clearly) had this year's iteration 90% written - I just needed to update a few more things, slap the socials on, and out the door it went. The problem with that plan is that I have no earthly idea where I put

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73:28

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for April 2025

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/05/21

More like "LATE-pril", amirite?I'm rite, of course.It's like May Something-or-Other-th. We get it. Sometimes things get weird! For example: the Eurovision Song Contest preview ep taking up residence before the reviews... as well as a couple other odds-and-ends. Thus: late reviews.But! Better late than never, as they say in "the biz". Industry term.Usual thing: new albums. Charting reviews. In and out in like an hour. Easy listen.As always, let us know if we got it right!Bluesky:

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52:32

Fairly KickAss Podcast - 2025 Eurovision Sound...

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/05/14

Ass-Kickers! We're taking a trip across the pond. It's time once again for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. For the uninitiated, the ESC is a yearly contest, by which many European countries (and Australia and part of Asia... it's a thing) bring their best musical acts (which may or may not be from that country... it's a thing) to compete for the title of the Eurovision Song Contest champion. For the already-initiated, douze points for you! (as you guessed already, it's yet another thing.)We give

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