Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast
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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 a...
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Chart Music #76: August 12th 1982 – Humpty Dumpty Is Big Eggy
The latest episode of the podcast which asks; do we really need a Chart Music Heritage Chart?
Never have we needed Simon Bates at the top of the...
#76 (Pt 4): 12.8.82 – Humpty Dumpty Is Big Eggy
David Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham – still far too young, still far too clever – finish off this outstanding episode of The Pops, and are deli...
#76 (Pt 3): 12.8.82 – Humpty Dumpty Is Big Eggy
Taylor Parkes, David Stubbs and Al Needham continue their odyssey through this massively enjoyable TOTP, and we finally get to see the Chocolate Guita...
#76 (Pt 2): 12.8.82 – Humpty Dumpty Is Big Eggy
David Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham gleefully ram their fists into a TOTP from the late summer of ‘82. John Peel oversees the well-supervised f...
#76 (Pt 1): 12.8.82 – Humpty Dumpty Is Big Eggy
Taylor Parkes, David Stubbs and Al Needham prepare to tuck into a gloriously succulent episode of Top Of The Pops from the Silver Age - but first, the...
Chart Music #75: August 15th 1974 – Could YOU Be Donny’s Bride?
The latest episode of the podcast which asks; The Osmonds – who’s the Sex King?
We’re BACK, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and to commemorate this we’ve...
Chart Music #75 (Pt 4): 15.8.74 – Could YOU Be Donny’s Bride?
Sarah Bee, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham conclude their investigation into this episode of Top Of The Pops, and are left shaking their heads at the suc...
Chart Music #75 (Pt 3): 15.8.74 – Could YOU Be Donny’s Bride?
Sarah Bee, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham continue their odyssey through one of the strangest TOTP episodes ever, with a right bunch of Egg n’ Chippers,...
Chart Music #75 (Pt 2): 15.8.74 – Could YOU Be Donny’s Bride?
Sarah Bee, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham begin their quest through the dungeons of Castle Osmond. It’s August, it’s 1974, and the BBC have given an ent...
Chart Music #75 (Pt 1): 15.8.74 – Could YOU Be Donny’s Bride?
We’re BACK, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and we’ve foolishly decided to tuck into one of the strangest episodes of Top Of The Pops ever. But first, Sarah Be...
Bonus: Chart Music Live 2022
We’re doing the London Podcast festival on September the 7th at Kings Place, Kings Cross! But Al never got round to mentioning it on Chart Music!
Chart Music #74 - Neil
Our mate Neil Kulkarni died in January. This episode is dedicated to him.
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Chart Music #73: March 4th 1993 – Frank Bald
The 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, Po...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 4): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Simon 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 Fer...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 3): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Sarah 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 Canadi...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 2): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Simon 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...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 1): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
#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 bef...
Chart Music #72: October 3rd 1985 – Rod Vicious
The 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-Eig...
#72 (Pt 4): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Simon 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...
#72 (Pt 3): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Simon 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...
#72 (Pt 2): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Simon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham set about this episode of TOTP with the usual gleeful abandon, asking themselves; what did Paul J...
#72 (Pt 1): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Simon 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...
#71: March 19th 1981 – Shaky Of The Dorm
The 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 th...
#71 (Pt 4): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Neil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham finally stumble upon the real 1981 – Strange The Clock, and the New Street Station Dolls – while Al deals...
#71 (Pt 3): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Neil 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...
#71 (Pt 2): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Neil 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...
#71 (Pt 1): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Neil 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...
#70: April 17th 1986 – The Rishi Sunak Of Top Of The Pops
The 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 recen...
#70 (Pt 4): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Neil 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 1...
#70 (Pt 3): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Sarah 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 assort...
#70 (Pt 2): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Neil 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-...
#70 (Pt 1): 17.4.86 – The Rishi Sunak Of TOTP
Sarah 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 unappe...
#69: December 27th 1974 – The Ramadan #1 Of 1974
The 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-...
#69 (Pt 4): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
David 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 i...
#69 (Pt 3): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
Taylor 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...
#69 (Pt 2): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
David 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 Pant...
#69 (Pt 1): 27.12.74 – The Ramadan #1 of 1974
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#68: May 1st 1980 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
The 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 Gre...
#68 (Pt 4): 1.5.80 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
Neil 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...
#68 (Pt 3): 1.5.80 – The Ken Of The Eighventies
Simon 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 per...