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Chart Music #73: March 4th 1993 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 07, 2024 02:59 - 6 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; do we really have to hug? And rub-a-dub? The Chart Music time sofa descends upon March of 1993, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – the Forgotten Nineties, if you will. A time where the only options available to The Kids were having their heads filled with rubb...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 4): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 06, 2024 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Sarah Bee and Al Needham hit the final stretch of this episode of TOTP with the chance to hear 20 seconds of a Xmas Number One, Bryan Ferry going through the motions, some Americans who want to weld you into a chair and Dead Madonna, then Diana Ross gets all excited at the sight of ...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 3): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 05, 2024 00:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSarah Bee, Simon Price and Al Needham end up having a massively deep dive on Suede, before being whipped over to Hawaii to watch the Lower-Case Canadian sit on a box for a bit. Oh, and Runrig! Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Get your tickets for...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 2): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 04, 2024 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Sarah Bee and Al Needham begin their slog through an early-Nineties episode of The Pops with an examination of the changes Stanley Appell wrought upon our fave Thursday Evening Pop Treat. Then we’re immediately assailed by the sight of someone grabbing one of Right Said Fred’s arse ...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 1): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 03, 2024 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings#73 (Pt 1): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald Sarah Bee, Simon Price and Al Needham gird their loins for a plunge into a TOTP from the early Nineties, but before all that there’s a comprehensive leaf through that week’s NME. a heartrending discussion about the misery of gym knickers and hair loss, and a mass...
Chart Music #72: October 3rd 1985 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 25, 2023 23:01 - 6 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; so how do you set fire to a trophy? Like a man in a cage, we find ourselves trapped in the mid-Eighties, imprisoned in a lurid enclosure of neon and rolled sleeves and appalling Number Ones, with Gary Davies – fresh from a birthday party in a garage...
#72 (Pt 4): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 24, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham hit the final stretch of this episode of TOTP, and pick through the ‘delights’ of the Top Ten. It’s a meaty fist in the air for Billy Idol, King of the Quincy Punks, before being subjected to a cult indoctrination video. We savour Midge Ure’s ...
#72 (Pt 3): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 23, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham plunge ever-onwards into a post-Live Aid episode of The Pops, and it turns out that 1985 is SKILL – well, it is when Cameo are slinking about on TOTP stage. Then we’re reminded of the dark times when John Parr pitches up to do a film advert. B...
#72 (Pt 2): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 22, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham set about this episode of TOTP with the usual gleeful abandon, asking themselves; what did Paul Jordan actually do to get nobbed off from Radio 1 in less than a year? And why does Gary Davies look like he’s been thrown into a tub of Bisto? Col...
#72 (Pt 1): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 21, 2023 23:01 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham prepare for a punishing slog through a post-Live Aid episode of The Pops – but first, a good hard shill of their new books, which are out NOW/SOON. We leaf through that week’s NME, discuss a Norwegian newspaper article from the year 2000, and,...
#71: March 19th 1981 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 25, 2023 23:01 - 7 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; Whoops Scotties, Tasty Tarts Foster Grants or Allied For Carpets For You? Oh yes – it’s back to the Eighventies we go, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, to a year where everyone was loaded into a cannon and fired into the dress-up box, or so we’re led to belie...
#71 (Pt 4): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 24, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham finally stumble upon the real 1981 – Strange The Clock, and the New Street Station Dolls – while Al deals with an industrial dispute over Toyah by locking Neil and Taylor out and getting some robots in. And we finally get to grips with the most malign ...
#71 (Pt 3): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 23, 2023 23:01 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham plough on through this episode from the tail-end of the Eighventies, stopping for a deep, deep, deep dive on the post-Moon Who. Legs & Co say farewell to Pauline by sitting about under a giant Scotch egg, the Paint Pot comes back for an encore, and Buc...
#71 (Pt 2): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 22, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham commence their odyssey into the March 19th 1981 episode, and are horrified to discover that the Top Of The Pops Orchestra are still knocking about, and The Kids – who are supposed to be dressed up as nouveaux dandies – are wearing visors and doing the ...
#71 (Pt 1): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 21, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham prepare the stage for a late-Eighventies episode of The Pops – but first, it’s a flick through that week’s NME, Rod Hull and Emu pay tribute to Rolls-Royce, Neil speaks of his brush with the local Masonic Lodge (and fails to win the Tombola), Al shares...
#70: April 17th 1986 – The Rishi Sunak Of Top Of The Pops
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - April 18, 2023 23:01 - 6 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; has Rock Expert David Stubbs come from The Sky? After all the lovely Pop trifle we’ve had in recent episodes, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, it’s time for some necessary roughage, as we take a tentative walk down Nineteen Eighty Six Street once more. And ye...
#70 (Pt 4): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - April 17, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Sarah Bee and Al Needham finally claw their way up the final furlong on an episode of TOTP that’s been better than any episode set in 1986 has a right to be. Neil issues a come-and-get-me statement to Janet Jackson, It’s Immaterial look knackered and bemused on the big new set, Ge...
#70 (Pt 3): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - April 16, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSarah Bee, Neil Kulkarni and Al Needham plunge deeper into the 17.4.86 episode as we hit the Breakers section. Suzanne Vega slaps it about with assorted extras from Bonfire Of The Vanities, and then we get hit with REAL KIDS ISSUES as Grange Hill become child conscripts in the War On Drugs… Vid...
#70 (Pt 2): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - April 15, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Sarah Bee and Al Needham get stuck into the hellscape of 1986, and discover that it’s not that rammel, actually. We gaze upon the even-toed ungulate splendour of Gary Davies – a man who divides his time between going out on the pull with Brian Tilsley, bringing peace upon the hous...
#70 (Pt 1): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - April 14, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSarah Bee and Neil Kulkarni join Al Needham and prepare for some serious loin-girding as they prepare to tackle an episode of The Pops from the unappealing middle bit of the Aydeez – a neon wasteland where the Dinosaurs of Pop are running rampant in their Success Coats with sleeves a-rolled. But...
#69: December 27th 1974 – The Ramadan #1 Of 1974
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 28, 2023 00:01 - 6 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; have any of Team Chart Music done a streak? It’s late January, but the inflatable Jimmy Savile-as-Santa is still hanging off the roof of the Chart Music house and the wreath that looks like DLT still hangs on the door as we prepare to tuck into anot...
#69 (Pt 4): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 27, 2023 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDavid Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham conclude their excavation of the last TOTP of 1974. After Ray Stevens lets us all down by refusing to lob it out, Suzy Quatro drops the last ever Glam Bomb and then – YESSSS! Carl Douglas gives another demonstration of Chinese-lettered-pyjama funk with ...
#69 (Pt 3): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 26, 2023 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsTaylor Parkes and David Stubbs go deeper on the last TOTP of 1974 with Al Needham, and recoil at Dave Lee Travis looking none more Gnasher-like as he salivates over Stephanie De Sykes and then we’re hit with Another Chance To See the debut performance of Sparks, the Great Lost Gary Glitter Numbe...
#69 (Pt 2): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 25, 2023 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDavid Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham begin their odyssey into the second part of TOTP’s review of ’74, but not before another few rounds of Pantomime Horse and having to deal with the rampaging egos of Noel Edmonds and The Living Gnasher Badge. The first #1 single that ever enraged Al is u...
#69 (Pt 1): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 24, 2023 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsTaylor Parkes and Rock Expert David Stubbs join Al Needham to prepare the ground for an in-depth trawl through one of those end-of-year TOTPs – and this one is a rare Friday teatime excursion through the bangers of 1974, and possibly the last episode from the Golden Age of Top Of The Pops. Natura...
#68: May 1st 1980 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - December 11, 2022 00:01 - 6 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; have any of Chart Music ever had to deal with a Hard Lovin’ Woman? As listeners to the World’s Greatest Podcast About Middle-Aged Hacks Banging On About Old Episodes Of Top Of The Pops, you’ll be fully aware of the general consensus on Nineteen Eigh...
#68 (Pt 4): 1.5.80 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - December 10, 2022 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Simon Price and Al Needham hit the final straight on this very decent episode of The Pops. After getting our obligatory serving of the Nolans, it’s the double-Harringtoned attack of The Beat, Kate Bush prepares to go Zorbing in a nudist camp, there’s a GLORIOUS Number One, and the...
#68 (Pt 3): 1.5.80 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - December 09, 2022 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Neil Kulkarni and Al Needham continue their voyage into this episode of TOTP, and the thick musk of denim and leather is beginning to permeate the air. Whitesnake! Saxon! Motörhead! Three youths up the front giving themselves a headache! Rude t-shirts! Jimmy Ruffin in a Hawaiian shi...
#68 (Pt 2): 1.5.80 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - December 08, 2022 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni and Simon Price commence their gleeful rip into this episode of TOTP, egged on by Al Needham. Tommy Vance gets his debut cap, and lords it above everyone else from the confines of his gun tower. Funky Belts! New Musik’s keyboard player making a tit of himself! American Pipou! The C...
#68 (Pt 1): 1.5.80 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - December 07, 2022 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price and Neil Kulkarni join Al Needham to set the scene for an episode of Top Of The Pops from 1980 which comprehensively demolishes the theory that that year was a bit rammel, breaking off to riffle through that week’s issue of Sounds, discuss the pros and cons of organising a skinhead d...
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