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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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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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57:10

Fairly KickAss Podcast - 2026 Grammy Awards Recap

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2026/02/13

The 68th Grammys (almost nice). They happened! They sure did happen. Lots of them - 95, to be exact. We should talk about them, being a music podcast and all. And we do! All 95 of them, minus 85.(To be faiiiiiiiiir, the actual broadcast only showed 9 awards, and we talk about 10. Yes, we have already referenced this. Yes, we will probably reference this again. Eat it, Recording Academy.)We hit the big four (Recod of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist), along with six

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71:37

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for January...

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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