The 20 Million Club

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The 20 Million Club

From the makers of Classic Rock magazine, The 20 Million Club looks at the biggest-selling albums of all time and asks: are they REALLY all that good? Hosted by British broadcasting legend Nicky Horne with guests from the Classic Rock team, prepare for the best-selling albums of all time to be re-evaluated, celebrated and occasionally eviscerated as we ask: What's so good about them? What are the greatest tracks and which could you live without? What would you change about the record? Who comes out of the album best? And of course: why did they sell so many? Plus: The 20 Minute Club - bonus episodes on classic singles.

  1. 03/21/2022

    Nirvana: Nevermind

    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?

    1 hr
  2. 20 Minute Club: Dave Lee Roth, Bruce Hornsby & It Bites

    03/01/2022

    20 Minute Club: Dave Lee Roth, Bruce Hornsby & It Bites

    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.

    24 min
  3. 20 Minute Club: Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer

    02/07/2022

    20 Minute Club: Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer

    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…

    19 min
  4. 20 Minute Club: Movie Music, August '86

    01/26/2022

    20 Minute Club: Movie Music, August '86

    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?

    24 min

  5. 01/21/2022

    Repost: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell

    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.)

    57 min

  6. 12/27/2021

    Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet

    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.

    56 min
  7. 20 Minute Club – Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK

    12/22/2021

    20 Minute Club – Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK

    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.

    22 min
  8. 20 Minute Club – Boston: More Than A Feeling

    12/15/2021

    20 Minute Club – Boston: More Than A Feeling

    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?

    23 min
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From the makers of Classic Rock magazine, The 20 Million Club looks at the biggest-selling albums of all time and asks: are they REALLY all that good? Hosted by British broadcasting legend Nicky Horne with guests from the Classic Rock team, prepare for the best-selling albums of all time to be re-evaluated, celebrated and occasionally eviscerated as we ask: What's so good about them? What are the greatest tracks and which could you live without? What would you change about the record? Who comes out of the album best? And of course: why did they sell so many? Plus: The 20 Minute Club - bonus episodes on classic singles.

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  • Creator
    Music @ Future
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Music @ Future
  • Show Website
    The 20 Million Club

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