Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for May 2026

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for May 2026

Ayyyyyyyyyyyy! Wait, no that's not it... what I meant to say was Mayyyyyyyyyyyy!! We're cashing in those floral chips from the deluge of April, and planting the seeds of May's musical bouquet. That made no sense, and that's fine! Because it ALSO makes no sense for two (but actually four, but really only two) albums to enter the Toppest 40 charts in May. Safe to say it was an interesting month on that side of the house, as well as the new release album side. Fun all around the block, here at the KickAss! Did you have fun in said month? Did you find anything that you particularly enjoyed? Let us know in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: do you like blockbuster flicks? Do you like the music from blockbuster flicks? It's Top 5 Blockbuster Jams. That's what we're doing. No way we could really make that one a guessing game, so you get a freebie. You also get to Keep. Kicking. Ass.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Billboard End-of-Year Reorder: 2002 Edition

Holy crap, Ass-Kickers - 2002 was a very formative year for the four of us, which makes it even worse that it was such an AWFUL year for popular music. But, because the RNG Gods dictate so much of what we do on this here podcast, we must relent. From Ja Rule to Jewel, from Creed to Eve, from Ludacris to Elliott, Miss...y. (Did I mention Ja Rule? He's here a LOT.) We do what we always do: we take the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End list, we correct it, and we present all of you our very correct interpretations. We were all over the map here, and that's fun! We love that for us, and for all of you. But what say you? What were you bumping in 2002? Did it even make this list in the first place - and if so, did we slot it where it properly belongs? Let us know in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: the floral episode, the output of the April showers. It's a good one. They're all good ones. And so are you. Especially when you Keep. Kicking. Ass. Which is always, obvbiously.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Kendrick Lamar

It's Ones all the way down. SomeOnes last week, One Song this week. The topic: one of the most transcendent, prolific artists of our generation. Some would add the qualifier of "hip-hop" or "rap", and while that would be accurate, it's far from necessary. To wit: compile the list of all seven humans with 27+ Grammy awards. Take out conductors and producers (John Williams, Quincy Jones, and Sir Georg Solti - legends in their own rights, of course). That leaves you with four performers: Beyoncé, known for being Beyoncé; jazz standard Chick Corea; expert bluegrass fiddler and EXTREMELY underrated and amazing vocalist, Alison Krauss; and our artist du jour, none other than Kendrick Lamar. IDGAF who you are, what style of music you release, whether you are part of a band or solo or whatever. It takes a truly stratospheric artist to reach K.Dot's heights. And we talk about all of those heights on this episode. We all picked one song from his six-album discography (plus a few mixtapes) as the best, with the knowledge that there were no wrong answers to this question at all. Okay, there were a small handful of wrong answers. But very, very few. This discography was a true joy to listen to, and I implore all of you to do the same. Which song hits as your top from Kendrick's full catalog? Let us know in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: ranking! But, like ranking what has already been ranked! It's an awful year too. You'll enjoy it. We enjoyed it. That's it. Keep. Kicking. Ass.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - SomeOnes: 1983, 1999, 2002

Hey! So, yeah, it's SomeOnes time. A recap of the rules: each of us are given a random year from 1975-2025. Each of us then has to pick a song that was #1 on the chart. On a chart. On any chart. On several charts? We'll allow it! As long as it's one chart. It can be the Billboard Hot 100, of course. Or it can be a different Billboard chart. Or a different chart in another country. Who knows what weird stuff we'll find? We're very good at that, as you know by now. We then talk about it for as long as we would like, because, well, vamping about a subject for several minutes is also something we're very good at. Did we hit the mark this time with our years and our songs? Let us know in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: we fix another Billboard Year-End list. A third thing that we are, in fact, very good at. But we gotta point out something that all of you are good at before we go - and that, of course, is Kicking. Ass. Especially when you Keep doing it.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for April 2026

Since we're talking about April, here's a very quick shout-out to a very little-known pop outfit called Fooled by April. They're what Maroon 5 would be if Maroon 5 were good... so basically Kara's Flowers with more polish. They had one full-length in 2005, and... that's actually about it. But it was rad! Go check it out AFTER you check out this episode... of the Fairly KickAss Podcast. ... ... ...yes I just did the bad intro for the write-up. That's where we are. Where we were, Dear Listeners, was April. It was a month with a great deal of music. And how great was it? How were the albums? How were the newly-charting singles? I guess you're gonna have to listen to find out. Report back to us in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: we talk about some #1 chart hits from various years! Which chart, you ask? Beats us. It'll definitely be fun though! I will say that it won't be as fun as you Kicking. Ass. however, as much as we would like to try to make that so.