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Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast

The podcast that takes one random episode of Top Of The Pops - the greatest TV Pop show ever - and breaks it down to its very last compound. Created by Sarah Bee, Neil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes, Simon Price and David Stubbs (who all wrote for Melody Maker) and hosted by Al Needham (who didn"t), it"s an unflinching gaze into the open wound of pop culture and a celebration of Thursday evenings past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:40:06

#60 (Part 3): 7.4.1983 – We Need To Talk About Kevin...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/07/13

Simon PriceandNeil KulkarnijoinAl Needhamas banger after banger after banger rains down from the skies. JoBoxers get blocked out by Zoo. Michael Jackson stops people from hitting each other. Tracie Young performs with Rod, Jane and Freddie. And JESUS CHRIST IT’S DEE SNYDER!Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:26:56

#60 (Part 2): 7.4.1983 – We Need To Talk About Kevin...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/07/12

Neil KulkarniandSimon Pricegleefully begin to rip into this episode of The Pops withAl Needham, pausing to gaze upon the wonder of Peter Powell’s hessian Bananarama Vest and gasp at how much money Dave Lee Travis used to earn for spending an hour in a club, before bowing to the majesty of Dexys…Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:43:51

#60 (Part 1): 7.4.1983 – We Need To Talk About Kevin...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/07/11

Jesus and Buzz –Simon PriceandNeil Kulkarni, respectively – helpAl Needhamlay the table for an absolute slap-up feast of Pop as we get ready to watch a glorious episode of The Pops from 1983, stopping along the way to leaf through that week’s NME and talk about wrong haircuts, juvenile delinquency in Barry, and the Action Man Massacre of 1983…Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:07:40

#59: 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave On War...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/05/30

The latest episode of the podcast which asks; The Monkees as the cast of Monkey - who's going to be Pigsy?Jabbed up and preparing to throw itself back into the world (to the extent that they might go to that gig in Cheryl Baker's back garden, depending on what the toilet facilities are like), Team ATVland reunite for a massive trawl through an episode of The Pops from the long, mediocre, pointy-headstocked, porn-frizzed, success-coated Summer of '86. The World Cup hangover is still in full effect -

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1:11:53

#59 (Part 4): 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/05/29

Team ATVLandreach the denouement of this episode of Top Of The Pops, cheer to the rafters when an actual brilliant single from this year pops up, feels let down at the final hurrah of Wham!, and then conclude that Max Headroom was a bit of a let-down, apart from when he gets spanked with a fly swatter.Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:28:35

#59 (Part 3): 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/05/28

Neil KulkarniandTaylor ParkesjoinAl Needhamfor a proper evisceration of a mid-’86 TOTP, only to talk about what a ball-ache making covermounted videos for British grot mags was in the Nineties, how horribly grim girls comics of the Seventies were, and examine the aftermath of the Bucks Fizz coach crash…Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:09:55

#59 (Part 2): 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/05/27

Team ATVLandfinally get stuck into the meat of this episode, and shake their heads at the wrongness of cocktail sticks in headstocks, argue over the Housemartins, talk about being recognised in Finland, and conclude that 1986 was the least sexy non-plague year in history.Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:46:38

#59 (Part 1): 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave...

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/05/26

Taylor Parkes, Neil KulkarniandAl Needhamlay the table for an episode of Top Of The Pops that is practically a tombstone for the Proper Eighties: Boy George is on the cover of the tabloids for falling victim to the Ready Salted of Junkiedom, Wham! have ripped down the goalposts of their career at Wembley Stadium, and the grim march out of the Eighties starts here – but not before we have a flick through that week’s Melody Maker, and talk about air fryers.Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The

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1:32:43

#58: 23.10.1980 – Top Of The Gear

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/04/16

#58: 23.10.1980 – Top Of The GearThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: has anyone ever donethatto someone else’s nostrils?Really?Neither willing to go out and pissed off with staying in, your favourite podcast about old episodes of Top Of The Pops elects to bury its head once more into the comforting bosom of the Eighventies, so come and join us, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – it’s a many-teated beast.This particular episode of The Pops sees our Thursday-evening treat still enclagged with the

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1:25:57

#58 (Part 4): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The Gear

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/04/15

Taylor Parkes, David StubbsandAl Needhambring an appalling episode of Top Of The Pops to a close, as Travis has a final lunge at the Motor Show models, Barbra Streisand shows us her slides of all the Hollywood crumpet she’s dipped her bread in on, and Legs & Co invent dogging.Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:25:50

#58 (Part 3): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The Gear

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/04/14

David Stubbs, Taylor ParkesandAl Needhamlook on in horror as DLT goes full-on PLP (as in Pepe Le Pew) on Elkie Brooks, while Kelly Marie feels safe with her two chaperones. More car nonsense. And Christopher Lilliput.Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:09:09

#58 (Part 2): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The Gear

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/04/13

Taylor Parkes, David StubbsandAl Needhamcommence an intensive evisceration of this episode of Top Of The Pops, but oh dear – Dave Lee Travis has decided to fill the studio with boxy cars and bored women in Talbot t-shirts...Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:18:44

#58 (Part 1): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The Gear

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/04/12

David Stubbs,Taylor ParkesandAl Needhamprepare the ground for an intensive dissection of an episode of Top Of The Pops from 1980, a year which has very much established itself as the Ken of the Eighventies.There’s a flick through the NME from that week, fond reminiscences about the Good Old Days of the first lockdown, Robin Askwith’s overuse of sticky tape in the 1970s, and Mr Benn: timewasting get. TUCK IN, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS!Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon

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1:55:48

#57: 11.10.73 – A Balloon Full Of Gravy

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/02/27

The latest episode of the podcast which asks: would you letyourdaughter marry this episode of Top Of The Pops?It’s the first episode of the year, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, so the ever-forward-looking Chart Music throws itself all the way back to the glorious year of ’73, where the hair grows wild and free, Bacofoil androgyny is at its peak, Look-In can operate as a dating service and no-one bats an eyelid, and – to quote Karen, aged 12 from Formby, The Colour Brown Is All Around.And yet! All is not

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1:04:46

#57 (Part 4): 11.10.1973 – A Balloon Full Of Gravy

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/02/26

Simon Price,Neil KulkarniandAl Needhambring this Golden Age episode of the Pops home, as Slade finally – and fatally – learn to spell single titles correctly, Limmie and Family Cookin’ do something that isn’tYou Can Do Magic,the Top Of The Pops Orchestra earn some beer money on the side, and we get treated to one of the greatest singles of the year – for 29 seconds or so, because they’ve overrun.Sigh.Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See

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1:10:15

#57 (Part 3): 11.10.1973 – A Balloon Full Of Gravy

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/02/25

Simon Price,Neil KulkarniandAl Needhamwatch Kenny Everett patronise a choirboy, thrill to the sight of Status Quo in their natural environment, watch Pans People caper about like five sexy Steve Austins – the half-robot, not the wrestler – and stare aghast at the voluminous head of Engelbert Humperdinck…Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:29:15

#57 (Part 2): 11.10.1973 – A Balloon Full Of Gravy

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/02/24

Simon Price,Neil KulkarniandAl Needhamexamine the case of Kenny Everett – the Problem Child of Radio One – as he embarks upon his final stint on The Pops, while David Cassidy arses around with a dog, Jeff Lynne carries a hundredweight of hair on his head, and Elton John is stalked through the streets of Hollywood as he nips out to buy some cowboy gear…Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:38:05

#57 (Part 1): 11.10.1973 – A Balloon Full Of Gravy

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/02/23

Simon Price,Neil KulkarniandAl Needhamreunite for a new year of picking at the open wound of random episodes of TOTP, discuss being a news item on Twitter for saying Oasis were lumbering and ponderous, and prepare the ground for a vintage episode by perusing that week’s issue of Melody Maker, paying particular attention to Welsh Glam tours and the rancid t-shirt adverts in the back pages…Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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1:16:32

#56: 25.12.1983 – Oh Dear!! A Bat Bit You

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/01/10

The latest episode of the podcast which asks: why do we always leave the end-of-year episodes to the actual end of the year?Warning:if you listen to this episode, your ears will be breaking the Rule Of Six, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, because Al has decided to throw a New Years party with all manner of special guests who will be dropping in, sitting by the fire, contemplating the meaning of the season, and – most importantly –picking at a Christmas Day episode of Top Of The Pops like a

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1:44:35

#56 (Part 5): 25.12.1983 – Oh Dear!! A Bat Bit You

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast ·

2021/01/09

Into the final stretch of a whopping Xmas episode of TOTP, and some absolutebeastsof 1983 hove into view. David Bowie plays a pub gig in NSW, Jahwaddywaddy invent Breggae, Billy Joel demonstrates that posh girls all want it off a petite mechanic, really, the Christmas #1 of ’83 pops up to rile Smash Hits readers, and Inky Peebles lies that the ‘party’ is going to continue into Boxing Day…Video Playlist|Subscribe|Facebook|Twitter|The Chart Music Wiki|Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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