Episodes

  • Nirvana: Nevermind

    Nirvana: Nevermind
    Mar 21 2022
    The record company thought it might sell 50,000 copies if they were lucky. It went on to sell 30m. What was it about the darkness and anger of Nevermind that made it so successful?
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    1 hr
  • 20 Minute Club: Dave Lee Roth, Bruce Hornsby & It Bites

    20 Minute Club: Dave Lee Roth, Bruce Hornsby & It Bites
    Mar 1 2022
    The team look at some of the other songs in the charts the week of August 18, 1986: Dave Lee Roth's Yankee Rose, Bruce Hornsby & The Range smash The Way It Is and the neo-prog-pop of It Bites' Calling All The Heroes.
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    24 mins
  • 20 Minute Club: Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer

    20 Minute Club: Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer
    Feb 7 2022
    Peter Gabriel's chart-busting Sledgehammer was inescapable in August of 1986. But what was it about the ex-Genesis man's single that so caught the imagination on both sides of the Atlantic? Was it just its bonkers video? Or was there more to it? The team discuss…
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    19 mins
  • 20 Minute Club: Movie Music, August '86

    20 Minute Club: Movie Music, August '86
    Jan 26 2022
    In August 1996, the charts in the US and the UK were full of songs from the movies: Top Gun, The Breakfast Club, The Karate Kid, Pretty In Pink. But why?
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    24 mins
  • Repost: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell

    Repost: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell
    Jan 21 2022
    In memory of Meat Loaf, we've reposted this celebration of his classic game-changing album, Bat Out Of Hell. Big, daft and loveable, with gloriously huge songs about teenage love and going-all-the-way, Bat Out Of Hell was an album that was both preposterous and actually very relatable. RIP marvellous Marvin Lee Aday, the mighty Meat Loaf. (This episode was recorded in February 2021.)
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    57 mins
  • Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet

    Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet
    Dec 27 2021
    Nicky, Sian and Paul discuss Bon Jovi’s hit record ‘Slippery When Wet’, discussing how the band managed to straddle between hair metal and heavy rock, how they upset Metallica and also they managed to take a heavy style of music and successfully bring it in the radio rock mainstream - getting more audiences across the world to raise their hands.
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    56 mins
  • 20 Minute Club – Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK

    20 Minute Club – Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK
    Dec 22 2021
    In which Scott goes on an impassioned but barely comprehensible rant about why certain punk bands mean so much more than, say, More Than A Feeling can ever hope to mean.
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    22 mins
  • 20 Minute Club – Boston: More Than A Feeling

    20 Minute Club – Boston: More Than A Feeling
    Dec 15 2021
    In the charts, December '76, More Than A Feeling practically invented AOR and was an unlikely influence on grunge. But is it just a nice pop song?
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    23 mins