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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 in the spring of 2000 - something to enjoy on that fancy new DVD player of yours. Hosted on Acast. See...

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.

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.

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 categories are: Rhymes Technique Performance Acclaim Popularity Complaints can be voiced to blastfromcastfrom@gm...

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 were more than happy to fill that up. You've heard the saying 'do more with less' but in this instance...

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 Elsewhere' by Blood Incantation https://www.metacritic.com/news/best-albums-of-2024/ Hosted on Acast....

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 journey with us, you can find that here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2lul9o7l30ghV2wRgbsu9O?si=OwBam...

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 time, we take a snapshot of each rapper at a particular point in their career. Will Smith from 1997-1998 R...

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 go - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XVHxwqJI4ZqHyxacTnQUu?si=00a74f92a17145d4   Hosted on Acast. S...

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 period that were included in singles and the OK Not OK rerelease from a few years ago. We're not making a...

"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 Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 the playlist below, which also includes the winners of Part 1. Listen to the episode first though or it'...

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 Olivia Rodrigo 'Everything Harmony' by The Lemon Twigs If you'd like to follow along, we have included...

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 of the Blastfrom Castfrom, we try to un-pick the reasons why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

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 the highs, the lows, the breakups and the reunions of this version of one of the most successful rock ban...

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 Castfrom. email: mail@blastfrom.com   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

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 - one of which is music. Top bloke! Get at us at mail@blastfrom.com   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

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… and we look at how this could effect creativity in the future of popular music.   Communications render...

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. Acknowledge us at mail@blastfrom.com Hosted...

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.   Suggestions and protestations to mail@blastfrom.com Hosted on Acast. See ac...

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 t...

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...

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.   Comments and questions to mail@blastfrom.com Host...