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The Blastfrom staff discuss the rich history of popular music. At least that is the honest intention of this podcast which usually descends into madness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Deep Blue Sea
Blastfrom goes to the movies for another musical tie in. Deep Blue Sea stars Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows and, of course, LL Cool J. Though it was released into the world in theaters in the year 1999, its natural habitat is in a video rental shop. In the UK, this would have been available to rent...
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The Year 2024
The Blastfrom Castfrom meets The Gerry Show as Gerry Macavoi joins us for a look back at a most significant year. https://www.youtube.com/@blastfrom for The Gerry Show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Year 1958
A long swim back to the atomic age where no animal is safe from being launched into space and the era of Rock & Roll music is coming to an end. It's the year 1958. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rap Ratings - Dr. Dre, Kool G. Rap, Future
Another ill advised rating of 3 rappers from across the decades. These ratings are based on a snapshot of each rappers career and has very little scientific basis. We discuss the following 'seasons' of each rappers career - Dr. Dre in 1992-93 Kool G. Rap in 1995-96 Future in 2015-16 The…
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The Blastfrom Edits - Hard to Earn by Gang Starr
In 1994, Gang Starr released one of their most celebrated albums. It's still regarded as one of the very best albums of what was arguably the greatest year in the history of rap music. At the time the cassette was the format of choice and that would allow around an hour of audio and most artists...
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Charli XCX vs The Cure vs Blood Incantation
We review the reviewers in the latest Critical Lug, this time with a different format yet again. This time it's a three way dance of death pitting the top 3 best reviewed albums of the year 2024 against one another. The albums are 'brat' by Charli XCX 'Songs of a Lost World' by The Cure 'Absolute...
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The Year 1974
We're swimming back in rare chronological order with the year that directly followed 1973. Another Ted Heath update as well as a muddled retelling of the Watergate scandal. Plus the movies, television and music of 1974. If you'd like a Spotify playlist of songs from the year to soundtrack your...
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Rap Ratings - Will Smith, Redman, KRS-One
In this episode we rate three rappers in five categories to arrive at a rating. This is not to be taken entirely seriously but is a fun discussion about Hip Hop's obsession with knowing who is the best in the world. Rather than focussing on the tired conversation of who is the greatest of all…
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The Year 1973
Aloha from the Blastfrom Castfrom. We're swimming back to the year 1973. David Bowie, Bruce Lee, Edward Heath, the mobile phone and the supposed birth date of Hip Hop are all topics of discussion. If you'd like a Spotify playlist of songs from the year to soundtrack your journey with us, here you...
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The Blastfrom Edits - OK Computer by Radiohead
Another attempt to fit a square peg into a round hole. In this episode we talk about how OK Computer, the highly regarded album by Radiohead, could be reconstructed to fit onto a single sided LP. At our disposal is the entire OK Computer album in addition to the songs recorded in the same time...
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Early Kanye West
"I like early Kanye West..." we heard 'em say. On this episode we scrutinise the work of college dropout Kanye West, charting his transition from jobbing producer in the mid to late 90s to Rapper/Producer to Producer/Rapper and finally to supposed saviour of rap music in the mid 2000s. Hosted on...
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The Year 2023
The return of Perfect Breath also known as the Blastfrom Castfrom. As is now custom, we take a very short journey back to the year we have just endured - this time the year 2023. Can't remember what happened that year - well listen up and you'll discover we're all in the same boat. Hosted on…
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Twelve Deathmatches of Christmas Part II
It's Christmas time - a time to bring together your favourite festive songs and pit them against each other. Combatants this year include Elton John, the Andrews Sisters, Perry Como, Aqua, Destiny's Child, Tom Waits and many more. Once you've listened to this episode you can hear the winners in…
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Olivia Rodrigo vs The Lemon Twigs
We review the reviewers in the latest Critical Lug, this time with a slightly different format. This time we take two critically beloved albums from the year 2023 and pit them against each other. The music critics have to convince us which album is the most compelling. There albums are 'Guts' by...
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Blastfrom goes to the movies once again and this time we are meeting Jables and KG for the feature film debut of Tenacious D. Despite arriving in the middle of a red hot streak of hit movies for star Jack Black, the Pick of Destiny was a complete miss and deemed a box office bomb. In this episode...
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Deep Purple Mark II
The music of Deep Purple has spanned 7 decades and there have been 8 different line-ups during that time. But no line up has captured the record buying public quite like the 2nd version of the band, commonly referred to as Deep Purple Mark II. In this episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom we desks…
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The Year 1976
Come with us for a time swim to the year 1976. There were half as many people on earth as there are now and the doomsday clock had nearly 8 more minutes. Find out what else was going on and whether the music of the day eye wateringly better than it is today on the latest episode of the Blastfrom...
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Baba Gadji Once Again
The wise Reginald Standholt aka Baba Gadji joins the Blastfrom Castfrom one more time. We talk about what he has been up to since 2020 as well as his new show coming soon to Blastfrom Music + Talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Music of Jamie Oliver
The subject of this pukka podcast is Jamie Oliver. The overriding question is 'why?' or perhaps 'how?' If you're from the United Kingdom, the man needs no introduction. For everyone else, Jamie Oliver is a very rich and famous English chef, who likes to turn his hand at a number of activities…
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The Year 2022
This is our review of the year 2022. Because in this diabolical decade each year is better than the next, we can look back on each preceding year with both something closely resembling fondness. The big topic of the year are the end of human civilisation with the birth of Skynet… I mean ChatGPT…...
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Wrestlemania 39
The revolutionary force in music history podcasting is back with an episode that has nothing to do with music history. However, ancient historic musician Snoop [Doggy] Dogg has a big part to play in one of the most noteworthy moments of this years events. Let us guide you though our review of the...
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Blastfrom Edits - I’ve Been Expecting You by Robbie Williams
Local celebrity Robbie Williams gets the edit from the Blastfrom team. We take his critically derided, but highly successful 1998 album I've Been Expecting You and edit it down to tow sides of a single LP. Released in the heyday of the compact disc, this was a prime example of the technology....
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Bad Boys
Warning: This episode contains every possible SPOILER for the movie Bad Boys (1995). To celebrate the recent announcement of the next Bad Boys sequel and also feed our newfound obsession with notorious Oscar slapper Will Smith - we present the review of the original Bad Boys movie. In hindsight,...
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Critical Lug - Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny was the most streamed artist on Spotify in the year 2022. Having no idea what a Bad Bunny sounds like, we turn to the music critics. Critical Lug is where we rely exclusively on the writing music critics to guide us on whether or not an album is worth listening to. How many overwrought...
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The BRIT Awards 2023
The Blastfrom Castfrom is back for another year and so are the BRIT Awards, the British Phonographic Industry's annual awards show. Like a regular health check-up, this is where we try to find out health of contemporary pop music. And as we get older these health check-ups get more arduous and...
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The Year 2021
In this year we discuss the year 2021, also known as 2020 Part 2. This is the Blastfrom annual review of the year that just passed, except a lot later in the year than usual. Perhaps that additional time will have generated a greater fondness for what was a very uneven year. Hosted on Acast. See...
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The Big 4 of Thrash Metal
Anthrax - Megadeth - Metallica - Slayer The Big 4 of Thrash Metal are to this day the most famous and influential America heavy metal bands of all time. And for a brief period of time, they made metal music very popular. In this episode we listen to all of the full length studio albums released…
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Critical Lug - Harry’s House by Harry Styles
Writing about music is like arching about dancitecture. In this episode we turn to the music critics among us - those tasked with trying to measure the worth of an art form and subsequently conveying that worth to their own audience. We have zoned in on the collected professional reviews of Harry...
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The Discography of Will Smith
Notorious Academy Award assailant Will Smith was once a very popular and successful musician. Not only is he a pioneering figure in the now burgeoning genre of assaulting comedians on stage, Smith was also once a trailblazer in the genre of Rap music - winning the first ever Grammy award for Best...
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Blastfrom Edits - Wu-Tang Forever
For heavens sake, the Blastfrom Castfrom have reunited for some severe punishment. In this episode we have the the impossible task of editing Wu-Tang Forever (the Wu-Tang Clan's 1997 quadruple album) to a single disc LP. Will it be a great triumph, or a pile of dog zhit? Hosted on Acast. See...
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Wrestlemania 38
For the second year in a row, the Blastfrom Castfrom abandons the premise of being a music podcast to review the Grandaddy of them all - Wrestlemania. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The BRIT Awards 2022
The Blastfrom Castfrom is known to it's several dozen listeners as a time travelling podcast - where we look into the historical context and interesting stories in popular music history. Every now and then we check back in with more contemporary music... just to see what's going on. Kind of like…
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Wayne‘s World
Hurling at you now is the latest episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom.The world of Wayne's World (or maybe that should just be Wayne's world, small 'w') has been quoted enough times on this podcast that it seemed worthy of further discussion.The original Wayne's World movie was an early 90's...
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Actors in the Music
In this sequel to the Musicians in the Movies episode we discuss thespian invasion of pop music. People who imagine themselves so talented that one branch of the entertainment industry cannot hold them.Some people hate it - they're taking up space after all that could be allocated to professional...
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Village People Self Improvement Program
Tim Michaelson returns to the Blastfrom Castfrom in a life changing episode.You might know the Village People as a novelty Disco act from the late 1970s. You might not know they are a source of inspiration for self improvement - where faith meets unwieldy muscularity.Tim lets us in on the secret…
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David Bowie (1982-86)
In this episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom we take a look and listen to David Bowie in his most financially successful incarnation - a bleach blonde superstar playing to the MTV generation. It was time to cash in on a decade of good will and critical acclaim. He reimagined himself once again,...
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Beef Rap
For the unfamiliar – Beef Rap is not a bovine offshoot of the popular music genre. To have ‘beef’ with another person is to take umbrage with something they have done or said. In Rap music, these issues are best addressed through the medium of song.Fury is not always the motivation for starting a...
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The Year 2020
Imagine all the people enjoying the year 2020. In this episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom we terrible year and try to wring out what little pop culture related discussion points existed.We hope someday you will join us and listen to this episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Gerry‘s Show: WrestleMania 37
Gerrymania is running wild on the latest episode of Gerry’s Show on the Blastrom Castfrom.Rustlemania, more commonly referred to as WrestleMania, is presented every year by WWE. At Gerry’s suggestion, we abandon the entire premise of the Blastfrom Castfrom and talk about something current and…
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Drive
The western world has never been able to let go of the 1980s. For the last 3 decades we’ve been revisiting that time in our history, trying to recapture the magic.If you combined Michael Mann, Walter Hill and a Paul Schrader script with entirely too many ellipses you might get something like...
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Blastfrom‘s Excellent Adventure
In the absence of a live music experience over the last year, Blastfrom constructs the ultimate fantasy gig.In order to pass history class, we must collect historical figures from pop music history and force them to play before a packed San Dimas High School auditorium – this time without the...
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Cover me!
Cover songs – the tracing paper of pop music. Or perhaps its more like flat pack furniture. Or ‘Paint by Numbers’ might be more accurate.Overwrought analogies run even more wild than usual in the latest episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom (which is really saying something) as we cover the covers.We...
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Blastfrom Edits - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
The endlessly fascinating Lauryn Hill is a cherished icon of 90s Hip Hop and R&B. Her debut solo album was a smash hit, critically lauded and received an embarrassment of riches during awards season.In the years since, the reputation of this piece of work has grown. Retrospective reviews have...
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Belly
Belly was a film released in 1998, starring rappers Nasir “Nas” Jones and Earl “DMX” Simmons. It was very poorly received in it’s initial run but quickly earned something of an odd cult status. It was also the bare beginnings of a burgeoning film career for DMX. He was a big deal at the time.…
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The Twelve Deathmatches of Christmas
A Christmas Gift for You from Blastfrom.24 festive songs are pulled from Santa’s sack are pitted against each other.We apply what is called Seasonal Reasoning among other things to decide which of these songs are etched into the Blastfrom Festive Playlist and which are banished forever into...
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Gerry‘s Show
The first and possibly last Gerry Mak takeover on the Blastfrom Castfrom. As promised, topics of the day are addressed briefly before delving into the most interesting voices in pop music history.An additional strong disclaimer - do not follow the advice given by Gerry regarding social…
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The Year 1969
The heady days of the 1960s. So in love with ourselves and each other that space travel seemed of utmost importance. If extraterrestrial life exists, they'd be so pleased to see us right? We come in peace - and love.Fast forward to 2020 and we can't even stand to be around each other -why in the...
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The Song Remains the Same
Blastfrom goes to the movies. In the latest episode of the podcast we review the fascinating concerts film ‘The Song remains the Same’ starring Led Zeppelin.Released in 1976, The Song Remains the Same is an odd kind of concert film. The live performances at Madison Square Garden are interspersed...
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The Donald Trump Playlist
Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Adele, Linkin Park, Neil Young, Prince, Smash Mouth, Queen, Guns N’ Roses, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Rihanna and the Village People…These are some of the artists who would not appear on the Donald Trump playlist by…
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The Pro Wrestling Episode
Questionable popular culture is the lifeblood of Blastfrom. Nothing is more questionable than the popularity and cultural relevance of Wrestling in recent years. So we look back at some of the moments when music and Wrestling squared off.Music has been an integral part of the identity of Pro...
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The Blastfrom staff discuss the rich history of popular music. At least that is the honest intention of this podcast which usually descends into madness.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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