Can I Pod With Madness - Kerrang, Metal Hammer and Rock in the 80s

Spooky Blowout! It's the Can I Pod With Madness Halloween Spesh!
It's genuinely spooky season, not just us banging on about Disney, although to be fair there's a bit of that. So here's our annual Spookalicious Special although there's no scary stories in this one, but we do rank all the creepiest horror villains once and for all. We also examine the most popular Halloween songs (according to who? No one knows).
As is traditional for these rambling free form reveries, we bring you another amazing game, so be sure to play along at home*.
Finally, there's a special report on Bret Michaels’ seasonal Merch. Er... Spooky!
 
*to be honest this is a bit of an assault on the senses so I edited it down quite a lot- if you want the full, unexpurgated cacophony, head on over to our Patreon for the X-tended Edish.
 
PWM81 recorded 11 October 2026

We're keeping the Grunge Dream alive - Pearl Jam are on the cover, because it's 1992, and we give them a listen, along with Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog. Iron Maiden are still plugging away with their particular peculiar brand of Heavy Metal, while their former lead singer professes his love of Queen. 
Meanwhile there's a ghost hunting update, much respect to Dolly Parton, an examination of the semiotics of the video vamp, and whether it's too early to celebrate Halloween *and* Christmas. 
 
PWM80 Kerrang 398, June 1992, Recorded 17 September 2026

Can I Psych With Madness Revisited!
It's the Return of the Psychedelic Warlords: Taking another detour back into the Age of Psychedelia, I’m once again joined by my pal of many years to talk some shit about the sixties (and the nineties, which is when we were mostly obsessed with the sixties). Carping about the sound quality of early Small Faces CD reissues, seeking out Donovan rarities and yet another link between Jefferson Airplane and Star Wars.
The phrase "British Sex Comedy" rightly fills most people with a sense of grim foreboding, but in this episode, we're finally getting around to talking about the finest movie of 1968, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, featuring Mind Your Language’s Barry Evans, All Creatures Great and Small’s Christopher Timothy and a gaggle of squeaky voiced groovy sixties babes. Even though we were 25 years removed from that milieu, we somehow related hard to this slice of Psych-adjacent Brit Cheese.
We uncover a T. Rex connection, and also manage to crowbar Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, and a definitive rating of the Grunge superhunks into the conversation.
 
PWM79 recorded August 23, 2026

It's April 1989, it's Kerrang 247, so we're sifting through the dying embers of the 1980s. In this episode!
 
The Moscow Music Peace Festival!
Top Gun vs Iron Eagle!
Cycle Sluts from Hell!
Chainmail stockings!
Boyzone torture!
Suicidal Tendencies vs Rick Astley!
Hard n Heavy volume 2!
Batman vs Iron Man!
A punk anecdote that one of us finds extremely distressing!
Decorating Desires!
Halloween plans gone awry!
 
Kerrang 247, April 16 1989 - PWM78 recorded August 23, 2026

Are you sure these aren’t Terry Scott’s winners?
 
No Kerrang (again), but check this out, we played D&D in a castle!* After inexplicably winning in a Comic Relief prize draw, we were off for a weekend of nerdy fun, and have prepared a full report for you.
 
Massive thanks to @ComicRelief @Walworth_Castle @Kynren, @DnDWizards and most of all our fantastic Dungeon Master David Knight of @NoSmallRolls and @SupportingMythicMinds for running a fantastic game, bringing the whole thing to life, and, crucially, not making our non nerdy friends run for the hills. Along the way we finally do the Dulco Ease retrospective, talk ghost hunting, and cover some gaming news about an old favourite! And a whopping big recommendation for @TheHouseFrom
 
*Not, I hasten to add “D&D in a Castle” - an actual thing where you go on a 4 day retreat and pay a phenomenal amount of money to nerd out surrounded by halberds and butteresses and such-  although we *were* in the castle they do D&D in a Castle in! 
Incidentally if @DnDinaCastle want to give us some complimentary tickets in return for a completely impartial review HIT US UP!
 
PWM 77 Recorded 4th September 2026

Nickeltwats and Saxy Motherfuckers
We’re back with another amazing Patreon exclusive episode - basically the kind of shambolic free form reverie that’s for the real PWM sickos. The main part of this one is a mind shattering new quiz, Saxy Motherfuckers, which I’m sure you can guess the premise of in about 3 milliseconds. In addition lots of Spider-Man talk*, and the usual stuff where we attempt to remember what movies we’ve been watching. As a preview here’s the bit where we “review” the new Nickelback number, god help us.
 
*While we did *not* hear Nickelback in the new Spider-Man movie, we can confirm the presence of St. Elmo's Fire by Brian Eno, from Another Green World, for about 3 seconds.
PWM76 - recorded August 15, 2026