Podcasts by 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.
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Nirvana: Nevermind from 2022-03-21T17:00:02
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?
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20 Minute Club: Dave Lee Roth, Bruce Hornsby&It Bites from 2022-03-01T12:37:31
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' Call...
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20 Minute Club: Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer from 2022-02-07T18:11:34
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 ...
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20 Minute Club: Movie Music, August '86 from 2022-01-26T19:40:49
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?
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Repost: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell from 2022-01-21T11:12:50
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-...
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Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet from 2021-12-27T06:00:02
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...
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20 Minute Club – Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK from 2021-12-22T08:00:02
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.
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20 Minute Club – Boston: More Than A Feeling from 2021-12-15T09:10:43
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?
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20 Minute Club – Rod Stewart: Tonight's The Night from 2021-12-08T08:31:43
Tonight's The Night was a US no.1 the week of Hotel California's release. Unbelievably, it's also the 19th biggest US single. We talk dodgy videos, the punk rock wars, comfy slacks and the source o...
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Eagles: Hotel California from 2021-11-29T19:00:01
How do you follow the best-selling album of the 20th century? By releasing the 5th best-selling original album, that's how. But the success of Hotel California brought a dark side: fist fights, sca...
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20 Million Club - Scorpions: Wind Of Change from 2021-11-25T19:16:54
Was the mighty Scorps' Wind of Change part of a CIA plot to bring down communism? And more importantly, can you whistle it?
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20 Minute Club – Guns N' Roses: You Could Be Mine (redux) from 2021-11-19T09:18:23
Was You Could Be Mine the moment GN'R sold out? (With apologies for the shonky audio on earlier version.)
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20 Minute Club – Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You from 2021-11-10T17:57:23
Does Bryan Adams' six-minute syrupfest have any redeeming features?
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Metallica: Metallica (aka The Black Album) from 2021-11-01T07:00:18
Nicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Paul Elliot take a deep dive into Metallica's 'Metallica' - or the Black Album as it's commonly known. They look at the influence of the controversial appointment of...
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20 Million Club: The Hits of February 1977 from 2021-10-27T08:30:11
We couldn't choose just one more song from Feb 1977, so instead we delve into hits by Bob Seger, Manfred Mann, Status Quo, the Steve Miller Band and Kansas.
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20 Minute Club – Thin Lizzy: Don't Believe A Word from 2021-10-20T08:56:09
How a falling out between Phil Lynott and guitarist Brian Robertson led to 2.18 mins of killer riffs, blazing solos and clever lyrics.
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20 Minute Club – Aerosmith: Walk This Way from 2021-10-13T05:10:10
Should revelations about Steven Tyler's private life change how we feel about Walk This Way?
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Fleetwood Mac: Rumours from 2021-10-04T03:00:13
Nicky Horne and guests tackle the 6th best-selling original album of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Includes debates about Peter Green's Mac Vs the LA Years, the rise of 'grown-up rock', and th...
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20 Minute Club - Heart: Alone from 2021-09-29T15:18:47
The 20 Minute Club looks at another single that was in the charts the same week as Appetite For Destruction was released: Heart's piano-bursting, lung-stretching, power ballad to end all ballad-pow...
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20 Minute Club - Heart: Alone from 2021-09-29T15:18:47
The 20 Minute Club looks at another single that was in the charts the same week as Appetite For Destruction was released: Heart's piano-bursting, lung-stretching, power ballad to end all ballad-pow...
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20 Minute Club – Whitesnake: Here I Go Again from 2021-09-22T14:39:18
The 20 Minute Club – our new companion mini-pod to The 20 Million Club – continues to cover singles from July 1987, the same month as the release of Appetite For Destruction, with a look at Whitesn...
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20 Minute Club – Whitesnake: Here I Go Again from 2021-09-22T14:39:18
The 20 Minute Club – our new companion mini-pod to The 20 Million Club – continues to cover singles from July 1987, the same month as the release of Appetite For Destruction, with a look at Whitesn...
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20 Minute Club – Genesis: In Too Deep from 2021-09-15T11:24:06
Introducing The 20 Minute Club, a companion minipod to The 20 Million Club, covering singles that were in the charts at the same time as our featured album. First up: American Psycho, Mona Lisa and...
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20 Minute Club – Genesis: In Too Deep from 2021-09-15T11:24:06
Introducing The 20 Minute Club, a companion minipod to The 20 Million Club, covering singles that were in the charts at the same time as our featured album. First up: American Psycho, Mona Lisa and...
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Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction from 2021-09-07T04:00:11
The 20 Million Club returns with Nicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Scott Rowley joined for the first episode by Paul Elliott, the first UK journalist to interview Guns N' Roses, as they chew over the...
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Coming Soon - The 20 Million Club Season Two from 2021-08-23T22:00:13
Coming soon - The 20 Million Club Season 2. New albums and new guests but the same topic. Why are these albums regarded as some of the greatest of all time? Make sure you like and subscribe to neve...
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Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell from 2021-02-18T14:38:32
Season 1 of The 20 Million Club ends with a look at the world's 3rd best-selling album – and possibly the most ridiculous. "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the r...
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Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell from 2021-02-18T14:38:32
Season 1 of The 20 Million Club ends with a look at the world's 3rd best-selling album – and possibly the most ridiculous. "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the r...
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Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon from 2021-02-02T21:33:40
It's lyrically bleak, musically bonkers and It only has five real songs on it. So how did TDSOTM become the 4th best-selling album of all time? This month, The 20 Million Club swap personal tales o...
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Prince: Purple Rain from 2020-12-20T21:21:03
Prince: Purple Rain
Is Prince's Purple Rain an all-time classic or an over-hyped and over-produced slice of 80s bunk? The team debate purple bananas, MTV, androgyny and the apocalypse, produce...
Prince: Purple Rain from 2020-12-20T21:21:03
Prince: Purple Rain
Is Prince's Purple Rain an all-time classic or an over-hyped and over-produced slice of 80s bunk? The team debate purple bananas, MTV, androgyny and the apocalypse, produce...
Queen: Queen's Greatest Hits from 2020-11-20T08:00
Queen's Greatest Hits is the UK’s all-time best-selling album. But are greatest hits albums even proper albums, or is it a massive cheat? The team discuss the idea of The Album in the age of the pl...
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Queen: Queen's Greatest Hits from 2020-11-20T08:00
Queen's Greatest Hits is the UK’s all-time best-selling album. But are greatest hits albums even proper albums, or is it a massive cheat? The team discuss the idea of The Album in the age of the pl...
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Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill from 2020-10-20T17:44:56
Alanis Morissette's 3rd album earned her 7 Grammy nominations, 4 wins, and went on to become the 13th best-selling album of all-time, selling more copies than any album by the Beatles or The Stones...
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Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill from 2020-10-20T17:44:56
Alanis Morissette's 3rd album earned her 7 Grammy nominations, 4 wins, and went on to become the 13th best-selling album of all-time, selling more copies than any album by the Beatles or The Stones...
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Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV from 2020-09-16T08:55:52
Led Zeppelin's 4th album was released in November 1971. Housed in an anonymous sleeve, with no band name and no album title, the record company feared that it was commercial suicide. The idiots. It...
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Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV from 2020-09-16T08:55:52
Led Zeppelin's 4th album was released in November 1971. Housed in an anonymous sleeve, with no band name and no album title, the record company feared that it was commercial suicide. The idiots. It...
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AC/DC: Back In Black from 2020-07-17T14:53:32
AC/DC’s 7th album was released on 25 July 1980. Their first with singer Brian Johnson, it came out just months after the death of Bon Scott, AC/DC’s previous frontman. Housed in a plain black sleev...
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AC/DC: Back In Black from 2020-07-17T14:53:32
AC/DC’s 7th album was released on 25 July 1980. Their first with singer Brian Johnson, it came out just months after the death of Bon Scott, AC/DC’s previous frontman. Housed in a plain black sleev...
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