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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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00:44:05

Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Oasis

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/10/31

Over 75 million record sales worldwide.32 total awards spread out across the biggest of 'em all in the UK - the Brit awards - as well as yearlies handed out on behalf of UK music magazines NME and Q.10 successful tours, spanning the world over several times - including tour dates every year between 1994 and 2009 (with the execptions of 2004 and 2007).Responsible for the first billion-stream song on Spotify from the 1990s - a song that still remains in the list of 100 most streamed songs of all time

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01:06:15

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 Tailgating Jams

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2025/09/26

Oh heck, the game is on! I better make this quick.Which game, you ask? Any of them! Take your pick. With so many beloved sports, that have been around for so long, fandom is a time-honored tradition. And a time-honored sort of sub-tradition is that of the tailgate. The literal meaning evokes imagery of the open tailgate of a pickup truck, playing the part of buffet table much better than anything else you might find at a random parking lot.Nowadays, it's a whole production - actual tables, along

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01:05:43

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Greatest Sh**s - Nickelback

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/09/12

Is three too many new episode types for one year? Because that's what we're bringing to the table.Two words: Greatest Sh**s. (You can fill in the blanks. I believe in you.) The premise is this: we take an artist that is seen by a wide group of people - including some or all of us jerk hosts - as not being great. Critically panned. Goofed on.You can certainly think of some immediately, as could we... but there was always going to be one artist that we dissected as the subject of the first episode

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01:15:29

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for August 2025

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2025/09/05

I apparently love August, at least inasmuch as what the "food months" are for August, according to Wikipedia. I haven't looked at other months, so I may love them all - food do be like that, after all. But here's what we were working with in August:National Catfish Month, National Dippin' Dots Month, Family Meals Month, National Goat Cheese Month, National Panini Month, Peach Month, Sandwich Month.All of the above, please. Maybe not the dippin' dots... let's just double up on the goat cheese

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00:56:21

Fairly KickAss Podcast REWIND - Top 5 Happy-Sounding...

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/08/29

When we write up these descriptions, we love to give you some funny insight, some witty repartee, some... something. However, when the thing does exactly what it says on the tin, it's tough.Enter: this week's REWIND episode, straight out of our vault, originally posted on September 27, 2023. The episode title is "Top 5 Happy-Sounding Sad Songs". And... yeah. That's pretty much it right there. The songs are sad lyrically, but if you don't listen closely enough they sound happy to the ear. That's the

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00:30:34

Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Led Zeppelin

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2025/08/22

John, Paul, George, and Ringo?Not today.Instead, let's go with John Paul (that's one guy), John, Jimmy, and Robert.We One Song'd the HELL out of one of the most legendary bands of all time. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? First ballot, of course. An entry on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, from 2003? Try five... along with six songs on the Greatest Songs list from 2004. GQ Men of the Year from 2008, for what that's worth. Oddly, only one Grammy - for live album

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00:43:35

Fairly KickAss Podcast - SomeOnes: 1988, 2004, 2023

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2025/08/15

Ah, SomeOnes. That time-honored tradition that we have tradished only once before, but traditions gotta start somewhere, right? ...right?The premise is simple in its complexity: each of us (Dan, J, and Zack, your KickAss Krew) get a randomly-generated year before the show. We then have to find a song that hit #1 on a chart (thus the name!), and write about it. That's it. That's the sum total of the guardrails that we have.Which chart? All of 'em. Which country even? All of 'em. What do we have to

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01:11:08

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

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2025/07/25

2001: a year where a LOT of stuff changed. A year that we could talk about, for hours on end, and never once scratch the surface of music. But, despite how important the other historical things were, we absolutely have to scratch. Because our random number generator fell here, and we can't say no to a good ol' RNG.Specifically, that RNG gave us the year to take the year-end Billboard chart, and to fix it, because it's oh so wrong. Your three hosts always agree that the original list is

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01:12:46

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for June 2025

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/07/11

Yikes. Big yikes.Let it be known that we tried to make something out of June for these here monthly reviews, but it was tough. For once, all three of us had a super-mid month, with very few great newly-charting singles or albums to speak of. Not much more to say about it... at least not for us. But perhaps YOU have something to say! Maybe? Possibly?Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickassTikTok:

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01:13:53

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

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2025/07/02

OMG! Over here, over here! It's another FKA Rewind, where we take an episode that we already posted and repost it for all of you non-Spotify folk! It's a chance for you to experience new (to you) content without having to move away from your pod provider of choice. And let's just call it what it is: we basically get a week off.So without further ado's or adon't's, here is what we wrote when this episode initially posted, in March of 2024:Ah, the Billboard rerank. See, there's a chart at the end of

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00:36:09

Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Elton John

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/06/25

Ass-Kickers, meet Sir Elton Hercules John. Sir Elton, Ass-Kickers.Now that we're properly introduced, let's get to the music! And there is a TON of it.You see, this is one of our One Song episodes, where we pick the best song of an artist's entire catalog. Thing is, this particular catalog is 31 FREAKING ALBUMS long. That's [counts on fingers] A LOT OF ALBUMS. But, faithful listeners, we don't shy away from a challenge here at Interrobang Media HQ. In fact, we run head-first into challenges, because

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01:13:51

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Rush/Vibes: Song of the Summer

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/06/11

Ass-Kickers! Welcome to the Rush episode for the Song of the Summer.Ass-Kickers! Welcome to the Vibes episode for the Song of the Summer.[cue that one gif from Road to El Dorado where Miguel and Tulio are all "Both! Both-both... both."]Yep, we smashed the two episode types together. It's basically a Rush with more discussion... or is it a Vibes with more rankings? I mean, what even IS a "podcast" anyway? This is getting weird, as per usual. I'll just say that this episode

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00:26:06

Fairly KickAss Podcast REWIND - One Song: Drake

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/05/28

Ass-Kickers! There was a bit of news on the music front today. (Wednesday 5/28/2025, a date that was absolutely not backdated to account for an episode that was posted late, couldn't be us, nope.) Specifically, the record for the most RIAA Diamond Certifications by one artist was set. For reference, here's the qualification, according to Wikipedia:500,000 units: Gold album1,000,000 units: Platinum album2,000,000+ (in increments of 1,000,000 thereafter) units: Multi-Platinum album10,000,000 units:

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01:18:18

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

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/05/07

Kickers of Ass! I'd like to reintroduce all of you to the year 2009. The biggest news in the music industry was the passing of one Michael Jackson, and sitting here nearly 16 years later, it doesn't feel like it's been that long. On the other side of the spectrum, sometimes-singer and mostly-actor Patrick Swayze also passed away in 2009, which feels like it was way longer ago.I don't at all mean to minimize how impactful both of these legends were... in fact, just the opposite! With the passing of

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01:05:14

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Coverlutions: Ain't No Sunshine

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2025/04/23

Ass-Kickers! It's time for another Coverlutions episode, and this time we're going a bit... melancholy. We talk about a bit of a downer jam, but one that is truly beautiful - that being the song Ain't No Sunshine, by the legendary Bill Withers.For those of y'all who have no idea what a "Coverlutions" is, lemme back up a bit for ya: we take an oft-covered song, and the three hosts work to find great covers of the song. Traditional, interesting, weird... no stone gets overturned. We each present a

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01:09:22

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for March 2025

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/04/09

Ass-Kickers! Happy April! Well, Happy March as it were, because yes, this is April, from where we sit right now, but the reviews are from March. Truthfully I'm just practicing the use of the HTML bold text tag. But I digress.You know the drill by now: new albums, newly-charting top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Good and bad in both areas this time around. But if you know this drill (had to give the homie italics some love) then you know the other drill, which is to let us know what you think in

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00:56:31

Fairly KickAss Podcast - 2025 Grammy Awards Preview...

The Fairly KickAss Podcast ·

2025/01/29

Ass-Kickers! It's Grammy Awards time - for the 67th time, in fact - and we wanted to give you a little preview of the same. But the three of us are not well equipped enough to speak on this (or any, let's be real) topic, so we had to go and call in a favor.Thus: the Grammy closer herself, the Senior Music Award Correspondent of FKA: it's none other than Lisa! We talk about who we think will be taking home the Big Four categories (Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year,

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01:00:26

Fairly Kick-Ass Podcast - Top 5 Obscure Songs

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2025/01/15

Welcome to 2025! Us here at Fairly KickAss hope the best of your todays end up as the worst of your tomorrows, and those tomorrow's start now. The profundity of this episode is apparently contagious, as you will soon see. Hear! That's what you do with your ears. Senses.We had a conundrum right off the bat: start off with something more recognizable, something to ease you into the Year of the Pod 2025? Maybe a Billboard Rerank, with songs that you're familiar with? Or perhaps the exact opposite of

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01:00:53

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for November...

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2024/12/11

Remember, remember, reviews of NovemberThe reason, the se-[EDITORS NOTE: Hi. So, I try not to be involved too much, but when I see the beginnings of a bit that only means to take up valuable minutes of your day, I have to step in.This episode consists of reviews of new album releases, as well as newly-charting singles, for the month of November 2024. That's it! Nothing fancy. You can instead channel that fancy focus into reaching out to us on all of our socials: Twitter:

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01:14:49

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Coverlutions: Hallelujah

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2024/12/04

Ass-Kickers!We're back with our second Coverlutions episode, where we take an oft-covered song - this episode was the epic, sweeping, beautiful masterpiece of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. We go back and forth, throwing out covers to one another until we run out. Or we throw out ten of the covers. You'll get both of those, because - and y'all should take a seat now for what I'm about to say - we were not on the same page with the episode format. Yes, this was our own format. Yes, we literally created

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