Friday's Best Pop Song Ever
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 6:50:01
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Sinopse
A short podcast that takes a long look at some of the best pop songs you've never heard.
Episódios
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Episode #29 - ”Think Of Rain”
03/09/2020 Duração: 14minTodd rides a wave of 60s soft pop bliss with unlikely pop tunesmith Margo Guryan.
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Episode #28 - ”You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory”
16/04/2020 Duração: 16minGuitarist Johnny Thunders' death at 38 turned his song "You Can't Put Your Arms Into A memory" into something it was perhaps never meant to be.
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Episode #27 - ”Lonely Boy”
03/02/2020 Duração: 17minTodd interrogates this 1976 hit from multi-talented Linda Ronstadt sideman Andrew Gold.
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Episode #26 - My World Fell Down
26/12/2019 Duração: 19minTodd explores the career of songwriter John Carter through one of his most memorable contributions to the "Sunshine Pop" genre.
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Episode #25 - ”Captain of Your Ship”
27/11/2019 Duração: 13minTodd journeys to the bottom of the charts to celebrate the criminally underappreciated girl group Reperata and the Delrons and their hit oddity "Captain of your Ship."
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Episode #24 - ”Love Thy Will Be Done”
24/10/2019 Duração: 14minIt's surprising that, of all the Prince covers out there, the one by 80s teen pop singer Martika is one of the most moving and artistic.
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Episode #23 - ”Keys to Your Heart”
28/09/2019 Duração: 14minTodd explores the relationship between pub rock and punk rock through the story of Joe Strummer's pre-Clash band The 101ers.
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Episode #22: ”Missing You”
01/09/2019 Duração: 16minTodd plays compare and contrast with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" and John Waite's soundalike hit from 1984. His conclusions just might surprise you.
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Episode #21 - ”Since You’ve Been Gone”
26/07/2019 Duração: 13minNo, not the Kelly Clarkson song, but rather Russ Ballard's more grammatically--if inconveniently--titled hit for numerous artists including Rainbow and Cherie Currie.
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Episode #20 - ”Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
27/06/2019 Duração: 11minThe Dutch folk-pop band Shocking Blue had far more up their sleeves than their one U.S. hit.
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Episode #19 - ”Do Ya”
31/05/2019 Duração: 15minTodd digs into "Do Ya", a song made famous by ELO, but originated by Jeff Lynne's previous band, The Move
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Episode #18 - ”I Can’t Let Maggie Go”
24/04/2019 Duração: 15minThe question on the table is not whether Honeybus, a band largely unknown outside the UK, were any good (they were), but whether they could have been as big as the Beatles.
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Episode #17 - ”Modern Kicks”
29/03/2019 Duração: 13minTodd examines the tragically brief career of Portland power pop revivalists The Exploding Hearts, whose "Modern Kicks" is a four minute, distortion soaked slice of punk pop bliss.
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Episode #16 - ”Substitute”
22/02/2019 Duração: 11minSouth Africa's first all woman band produces an international monster hit -- and Todd is here to unpack it.
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Episode #15 - ”Dancing With Myself”
31/01/2019 Duração: 12minTodd explores the complicated release history of this dance punk tune turned 80s radio mainstay.
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Episode #14 - ”Ba Da Da Bum”
23/12/2018 Duração: 10minTodd shines a light on Dara Puspita, an all-woman band from Indonesia who lived out the plot of countless 80s rock videos by playing their rock in defiance of an authoritarian regime bent on silencing them.
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Episode #13 - ”Untrue, Unfaithful”
19/11/2018 Duração: 10minTodd investigates Nita Rossi's cult hit and takes a detour to examine how the music of Burt Bacharach and John Barry shaped the adult pop sound of the late 60s.
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Episode #11 -”Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son”
27/09/2018 Duração: 14minTodd pulls the strings to see what's behind French poppet France Gall's Eurovision winning song and her working relationship with the "dirty old man of French Pop", Serge Gainsbourg.
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Episode #10 - Fox On The Run
24/08/2018 Duração: 18minGlam pop band Sweet spent several years under the thumb of powerful British songwriters Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. With "Fox on the Run", they finally came into their own.