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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 annual festival of professional wrestling - Wrestlemania.

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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. Square peg, meet round hole.

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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, the huge success of this film leaves little for you to wonder about. But when it was released in 1995 there was no guarantee this would work at all. A generic Miami Vice rip off action movie, directed by a nobody and starring two sitcom actors.

So we blast back to 1995 and see what all the fuss was about.

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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 analogies can they draw upon; how many platitudes can they produce to effectively describe the sound of Bad Bunny’s 2022 album ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’?

And is it possible for a person to become furious about music they’ve never heard?

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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 increasingly terrifying.

Next time we’ll send Carlos.

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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 by these four behemoths of metal - more than  half a days with of music. For the one member of the squad familiar with thrash metal it was a delight. For the others it was interesting. And what is the best way to consume that much heavy metal.

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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 Styles' recent album Harry's House. We try to glean, from the florid descriptions of this piece of popular music, what it actually sounds like. Then compare the reality.

Yes, it is kind of reviewing the reviewers. Now we just need someone to review this podcast episode for civilisation to fold in on itself.

Show notes:

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Co-host Mat Tabletop mentions a Spotify playlist, which is available to listen to here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1sqhZSpsMShkYZZR29wTUf?si=2c69678734f24513 

You can also access the reviews mentioned in this episode at https://www.metacritic.com/music/harrys-house/harry-styles 

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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 Rap Performance.

Now that the 'Ali' actor's film career appears to be on the ropes, perhaps he'll turn his attention to his long neglected musical talent. With that in mind we take a listen to the multi-decade spanning album discography of the Fresh Prince.

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