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Cliff 'Em All...And Justice For Jason (Part 2)

After a quick comfort break, the boys are back!! Part 2 of the inaugural pitted! podcast Christmas/New Years Special, ringing in your ears 1 January 2021. Formed in LA in 1981 but later finding a home in San Francisco and then the world, Metallica went onto unleash one of the most enduring aural assaults in contemporary music. Cliff ‘Em All...And Justice For Jason examines Metallica at the peak of their powers across its two most dominant eras: the pioneering ‘Cliff Era’ featuring the genre-defi...

Cliff 'Em All...And Justice For Jason (Part 1)

Part 1 of the inaugural pitted! podcast Christmas/New Year Special, ringing in your ears 25 December 2020. Formed in LA in 1981 but later finding a home in San Francisco and then the world, Metallica went onto unleash one of the most enduring aural assaults in contemporary music. Cliff ‘Em All...And Justice For Jason examines Metallica at the peak of their powers across its two most dominant eras: the pioneering ‘Cliff Era’ featuring the genre-defining Ride The Lightning and genre-refining Maste...

NeverDirtSuperTen

Grunge. The soundtrack of our generation. The songs that define the 90s. The movement that changed popular music forever. Within this small sub-genre that began in the bellows of rain-soaked Seattle USA, no bands had a bigger impact or left a more lasting impression than the Big 4: Pearl Jam. Soundgarden. Alice In Chains...and, of course, Nirvana who started it all. Episode 3: NeverDirtSuperTen takes a look at the biggest and best albums from these musical titans and pits them against one anothe...

Jim No More

Faith No More were as important as any other band in the changing musical landscape of the 1990s. If Nirvana proved that hair metal was dead then Faith No More proved that 'genre' was a very fluid concept. Episode 2: Jim No More pits the last two Faith No More albums to feature the iconic Jim Martin (The Real Thing, Angel Dust) against the first two albums released after his departure (King For A Day...Fool For A Lifetime, Album Of The Year). It's Faith No More vs Faith No More in a battle for r...

Fighters of Foo

It has come to this: Foo Fighters vs Foo Fighters vs Foo Fighters in a battle for rock culture supremacy. Episode 1: Fighters of Foo, pits the first three Foo Fighters albums (Foo Fighters, Colour and the Shape, and There Is Nothing Left To Lose) against each other by examining the singles and album tracks, the intros and outros, shift in style, and overall impact culminating in each host creating their Ultimate Foo Album by selecting their 12 favourite tracks across each album. Hosted by Dave ‘...

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