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

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

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you, especially if you remember the heady days of October 1982. John Cougar/Mellencamp is getting chippy about”real” Rock n’ Roll and Lee Aaron is BEING SEXUALLY PROVOCATIVE which may or may not involve shadow puppets.
 
Neil Young might be patient zero of grunge, but in ‘82 he was all about modern technology - we examine whether this was influenced by his encounters with the indigenous population of Tatooine. In other news Aerosmith are well and truly in their Wilderness Years, and the comeback is several years off, but Steven Tyler is still full of piss and vinegar. Mostly piss.
 
Elsewhere there's a report on the Genesis Reunion concert and that means once again I'm trying to educate Mrs PWM on the idiosyncrasies of progressive rock. Peter Gabriel may be once again donning the flower, but Phil Collins is overworking himself to the point that we question whether he has a problem saying no to stuff. 
 
We also get into Klassifieds and endless mentions of Denim, and there's Kommunication asking whether leather is essential to rockin’. 
 
Be warned, the full unexpurgated splurge of this conversation is available over on the Patreon so if you want to hear some more recommendations, reviews and listener mail, plus Bowie, Big Brother and our Queen of Hearts, Kinga, get over there and sign up!
Kerrang 27 Oct 21st - Nov 3rd 1982 - PWM75 recorded 17th July 2026
 
 

Because we’re a 90s bitch, we’re checking out Kerrang from October ‘91. Extreme - are NOT on the cover but Nuno Bettencourt is. Don’t relax, girls, he looks pretty much the same now. Guns N’ Roses are going through some right shenanigans at the moment, Izzy’s about to leave and they’ve just put out Get in the Ring so if *that* doesn’t silence their critics I don’t know what will! We follow up our investigation into Poison’s I Want Action lawsuit from about a million podcasts ago - and the outcome is pretty much what you’d expect.
 
We note a SHOCKING connection between Mötley Crüe and Jethro Tull, dig up a Bad News cover version and read some very angry Kommunikations
A Bee Gees deep dive, reappraisals of Sex and The City and Cry Baby, and we’re going on about Rock of Love yet again. Homina Homina!
Also! Talkin’ Pointz on MCR’s Common People, Skywalkers, Mary Magdalene’s skull and postal feces. And some HOT recommendations from our recent viewing. And we give our final verdict on racism (it sucks).
 
Kerrang 361 Oct 1991 - PWM74 recorded 4th July 2026

Rock ‘n’ Roll Slut!
It’s a Maiden Month at Kerrang, in which Steve Harris gets low key insulted on the cover, but the mag is talking up Seventh Son of a Seventh Son like nobody’s business, so that’s all right. Prog metal puffery, and some ludicrous statements by Bruce Dickinson aside, we’ve got a Kommunicae from Nikki Sixx, Rush on tour, Judas Priest’s brush with Hollywood, and an introduction to the most panties-removingest bands from LA this month. And what’s Tiny Tim up to these days?
 
In addition there’s stuff about pigs, scary theatre, sexy drummers, yuppie rock and giant dandelions. Also (on the extended Patreon edition) we’ve got another AMAZING Can I Pod With Madness Quiz which, if you play along, you’re sure to do better than we did.
Kerrang 183 April 1988 - PWM73 recorded 13th June 2026