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Why Always She?Episode 37 - The sun comes shining throughThis week Charli and Matt try (and mostly succeed) not to be too insufferable about Leicester's solid performance and shock draw against the formidable Chelsea. They also discuss Everton's scene-stealing result against an injury-depleted City, and go in on Taylor for his failure to adjust his system or plan properly for the loss of key players.
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.Healing with Sharon Parkes , Isaiah 62:4 MinistriesJoin Louise as she explores the root of fear, overworking and high performance - and the power of Healing and Deliverance with Sharon Parkes , Isaiah 62:4 Ministries
2023-12-2041 min
The Men Australia ForgotSPECIAL - 50th anniversary tributeListen to Nasho Fair Go President Geoff Parkes' stirring tribute on the 50th anniversary marking the end of conscription in Australia.
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Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#71 (Pt 4): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The DormNeil 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 influence upon the charts of 1981 – the Syd Little of America…Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | PatreonGet your tickets for Chart Music at the London Podcast Festival HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf2023-06-251h 46
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastMay 17th 1977 - The Nationwide Jubilee Song ContestIn the last episode of Chart Music, we broke down Nationwide's Jubilee Fair - an astonishing melange of forelock-tuggery, Trad Jazz and moaning that things were better when we had an empire and National Service, which offered its viewers both an opportunity to revel in the past and a chance to experience what it was going to be like in the entertainment room of a care home in the future. But we stopped short of mentioning one thing: the ending, where the winner of the Nationwide Jubilee Song Contest got the chance to reprise their tune. A...2022-09-101h 34
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#67: June 9th 1977 – God Save Chart MusicThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; are the Wurzels going to float in an eternal hellscape of bodily waste and toenails for singing about turning bulls gay?This episode would have been perfect for the other month while Shakin’ Jubilee was occurring – but no matter, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, because we’re going right back to the apogee of the Silby Joobs, which no-one ever said in 1977 because people weren’t as rubbish as they are today. Flags! Bunting! Street parties! Massive patriotic Yorkshire puddings! Blatant chart-rigging! Your hosts are a) giving thousand-yard stares over some sausage...2022-08-276h 41
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#67 (Pt 4): 9.6.77 – God Save Chart MusicTaylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni join Al Needham to put the Silver Jubilee episode of The Pops firmly to bed, as Legs & Co make do with Demis Roussos’ cast-offs, recount the time Bob Marley met the Wurzels, and examine the most shameful event in chart history, as Little Rabbit Arse holds down the Sex Pistols. GOD SAVE HISTOREE, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS…Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon*** See us LIVE on Sept 17th *** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-08-261h 36
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#67 (Pt 3): 9.6.77 – God Save Chart MusicTaylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni continue their drill into the Silver Jubilee TOTP with Al Needham. Discover how the Wurzels let down Al at a visit to a farm in 1978! Thrill to the sight of Tony Blackburn pulling a bit of string so Neil Innes can look confused as he waves a tiny flag about! Gasp as the Stranglers take the strings off their instruments, swap them with each other, and slip in a drug reference! And stare aghast at the state of Honky!Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon*** See us L...2022-08-251h 46
CHART MUSICChart Music #67: June 9th 1977 – God Save Chart Music
The latest episode of the podcast which asks; are the Wurzels going to float in an eternal hellscape of bodily waste and toenails for singing about turning bulls gay?
This episode would have been perfect for the other month while Shakin’ Jubilee was occurring – but no matter, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, because we’re going right back to the apogee of the Silby Joobs, which no-one ever said in 1977 because people weren’t as rubbish as they are today. Flags! Bunting! Street parties! Massive patriotic Yorkshire puddings! Blatant chart-rigging! Your hosts are a) giving thousand-yard stares over some sausage rolls an...2022-08-2400 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#67 (Pt 2): 9.6.77 – God Save Chart MusicNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham continue their journey into the Silver Jubilee episode of Top Of The Pops, pausing to gaze forlornly at Tony Blackburn – who is in full Fathers 4 Justice mode – before being a bit disappointed by Osibisa failing to do the West Midlands Safari Park advert, and having to talk about ELO AGAIN…Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon*** See us LIVE on Sept 17th *** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-08-241h 29
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#67 (Pt 1): 9.6.77 – God Save Chart MusicTaylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni join Al Needham for a massive street party to commemorate the Silver Jubilee episode of Top Of The Pops – but before that, it’s a coat-down for the Monarchy, a comprehensive breakdown of the Nationwide Jubilee Fair, a flick through that week’s Melody Maker, and a look at how the Department of Transport thought that a picture of Simon Bates massive unbespectacled floating head would teach the kids not to get killed on their Grifters in the mid-Eighties. IT’S A POTENTIAL H-BOMB OF AN EPISODE, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS… Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook...2022-08-231h 56
The 2Cents FC ShowEpisode: 84 | Raheem Taylor-ParkesThis week the guys link up with one of the new up and coming connectors in the sports world, Raheem Taylor-Parkes. They talk about hie early years in the Philadelphia Union academy system, playing on both the Canadian and USYNT's where he built friendships with some of North American soccer's newest crop of rising stars (Christian Pulisic, Alphonso Davies, Weston McKennie, etc.) and how he transitioned from his playing career into a budding creative events company in Hyphenate Creative Co.Learn more about Hyphenate Creative Co. here: @hyphenatecreativecoSupport the show by joining our...2022-08-0147 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#66: March 15th 1990 – De La StokeThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; has anyone ever lost their virginity while listening to a Jive Bunny record?It’s the long-awaited return of Our Sarah and Taylor after their encounter with the Spiteful Armoured Bollock, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – and to welcome them back, Al allowed them to pick out an episode. Consequently, we’re heading deep into the heart of the Neighties. Your panel are a) being Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning without the sex, b) hovering over the pause button during the Top 40, and c) playing Human Frogger on the way...2022-06-256h 01
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#66 (Pt 4): 15.3.90 – De La StokeTaylor Parkes and Sarah Bee straddle Al Needham and ride him hard in the final furlong of this episode of The Pops, pausing along the way to muse upon the hardcore Dad-hop of Jive Bunny, celebrate an actual decent #1 single, ask if you can get poppers in pound shops, and give full respect to the one with the Gordon Honeycombe hair in Inspiral Carpets. GET ON ONE, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS!Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-06-241h 23
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#66 (Pt 3): 15.3.90 – De La StokeSarah Bee and Taylor Parkes realign with Al Needham and – like the dog that returns to its own vomit – proceed to tuck in on this episode of The Pops. There’s a wodge of Breakers to wade through, followed by a chance for the Dads who were outraged by Candy Flip to have a good laugh at the absolute state of Bobby Omnishake…Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-06-231h 22CHART MUSICChart Music #66: March 15th 1990 – De La Stoke
The latest episode of the podcast which asks; has anyone ever lost their virginity while listening to a Jive Bunny record?
It’s the long-awaited return of Our Sarah and Taylor after their encounter with the Spiteful Armoured Bollock, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – and to welcome them back, Al allowed them to pick out an episode. Consequently, we’re heading deep into the heart of the Neighties. Your panel are a) being Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning without the sex, b) hovering over the pause button during the Top 40, and c) playing Human Frogger on the...2022-06-2200 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#66 (Pt 2): 15.3.90 – De La StokeTaylor Parkes, Sarah Bee and Al Needham commence their excavation of this episode and rapidly uncover an extremely knackered Simon Mayo introducing some Pub Goth, New Kids On The Block playing some exceedingly futile basketball and trying to show off to some girls, and stare aghast as Candy Flip herald the dawning of the Age of Nadirius...Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-06-221h 32
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#66 (Pt 1): 15.3.90 – De La StokeSarah Bee, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham ready themselves for a comprehensive rummage through an episode of The Pops from the spring of 1990, leafing through that week’s NME and its four-page spread on the Stone Roses chucking some paint about, and a discussion Human Frogger and the deepest of delves into Mike Read’s Heritage Chart, before concluding that the world is full of things that you can shove up your arse.Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-06-211h 50
Marathon Minute with Max and Michael OrnstilEpisode 30: Raheem Taylor-ParkesMarathon Minute returns after a brief hiatus for not just any conversation but their Steph Curry episode. Episode 30 features 24 year old Canadian born entrepreneur and founder of Hyphenate Creative Co, Raheem Taylor-Parkes. Raheem was a talented footballer as a kid, playing for both the US and Canadian youth national teams before playing collegiately at Virginia and Oregon State. Despite his decorated resume and stints pursuing playing professionally in Switzerland and Denmark, Raheem decided to retire at 22 and begin his career as an entrepreneur. Raheem's personality and ability connect allowed him to create meaningful relationships with some of the biggest names...2022-06-131h 30
Tell Me What To ReadBook Discussion (Student Edition) - APRS UNSW - Jamie Chambers & Kerisha ParkesThis is Tell Me What To Read, the podcast of Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore. Today, Nick chats with Jamie Chambers, President of the Advertising and Public Relations (APRS) Society at UNSW, and Kerisha Parkes, Projects Team Director at APRS about the work they do on UNSW Campus, and the books they are reading and enjoying. Back to Uni Sale: https://bit.ly/2XXmlTt APRS: https://bit.ly/3Nv2yTH Books mentioned in this podcast: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal - Stealing Fire: https://bit.ly/3iILiwe Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman - Manufacturing Consent: ht...2022-05-2341 min
The Cacophony SessionsBONUS - The Young One (featuring Taylor Parkes of Chart Music Podcast)Two weeks after everyone else, The Cacophony Sessions weighs in on the Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan & Spotify debate by dedicating one of our bonus episodes to the mythical Canadian singer-songwriter and his massive discography - from Crosby, Stills Nash & Young to Buffalo Springfield. Usual voices Dan Whitell and Tom are joined by the illustrious music writer Taylor Parkes, as we do our best to choose Neil Young's best songs and albums; the best Neil Young covers; our thoughts on the recent controversy and everything in between from George Michael: rap...2022-03-151h 37
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #63: December 28th 1972 – Thank God For Belgian World In ActionThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; Singleton Noakes Purvis and Judd, or Baxter Woollard and Rodd – who was the better Prog band?Santa has come once more to Chart Music, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – but this year he’s decided not to curl one off into our stocking, and has dropped off what is indisputably the greatest episode of the Pops we’ve chanced upon thus far in our five-year odyssey, plucked from the very dawning of the Golden Age. No, it’s not a Xmas Day one – that year’s episode, featuring Jinglenonce OBE introducing Clair by Gilbert O’Sul...2021-12-297h 17
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast63 (Pt 4): 28.12.1972 – Thank God For Belgian World In ActionNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham gleefully rip into the final part of their exhumation of the last TOTP episode of 1972, and it’s banger after banger after banger. The Osmonds begin their journey on the Highway to whatever Mormons think is Hell! Chuck Berry tempts the youth into mutual masturbation in Coventry, while Rolf Harris tries to distract them! Michael Jackson and his family steal in near the end to drop the performance of the night! We drool over T Rex for ages! And there’s Ringo! HAPPY 1973, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS!Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | T...2021-12-282h 02
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#63 (Pt 3): 28.12.1972 – Thank God For Belgian World In ActionTaylor Parkes, Neil Kulkarni and Al Needham ramp up their excitement at this astonishing episode of The Pops as the hits keep on coming. We get the twin piano attack of Hilda Woodward and Roberta Flack, followed by the Wolverhampton Tramps of the Future. Benny Hill returns for one last slap of the bald head of chart success, Chicory Tip nick a hit record off poor Giogio Moroder, and Cherry Gillespie sits in a huge paper bag for three days, being let out to emote to Harry Nilsson… Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon2021-12-272h 15
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#63 (Pt 2): 28.12.1972 – Thank God For Belgian World In ActionTaylor Parkes, Neil Kulkarni and Al Needham begin their submergence into Top Of The Pops ’72, and discuss the less-than-immaculate interplay between Tony Blackburn and his foul nemesis Edmonds. Mike Leander (and his singer, who we’re not supposed to talk about these days, but do) drops his magnum opus. Donny Osmond does some Weenybopper edging and bats his eyelids like a rabbit trapped in a fence. And Alice Cooper blows up a school and gets Mary Whiteshouse’s knickers in a twist…Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. S...2021-12-261h 37
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#63 (Pt 1): 28.12.1972 – Thank God For Belgian World In ActionNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham frenziedly lay out the most spanglfierous buffet of Pop ever witnessed on Chart Music, as we go all the way back to late 1972 and the dawning of the Golden Age of our weekly Thursday Night Pop Treat. As they assemble a pyramid of Watneys Party Four and fill a paddling pool with Angel Delight, they learn that people were moaning about Top Of The Pops even then, examine the musical output of the Inner London Education Authority, have a flick through Melody Maker and – in the spirit of the season – Neil tenderly forgive...2021-12-251h 27
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #62: November 3rd 1977 – WHOO! HEY!The latest episode of the podcast which asks; if David picked potatoes on Jack Heap’s playing field for one hour, how many Fumanchews would he able to cram into his gaping maw? Once again, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, Team Chart Music has returned to the safety of the late Seventies, and your panel is a) having their crayons thrown out of the window after an incident that could have been ripped from The Shining, b) being disappointed by Scalextric, and c) getting their arse tanned over an art installation on some concrete staircases. And all the time, the terro...2021-11-066h 12
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#62 (Pt 4): 3.11.1977 – WHOO! HEY!Taylor Parkes, David Stubbs and Al Needham finish off this episode of The Pops in fine style. David Bowie watches his mate cheat on his missus up against a wall. Showaddywaddy nick some girl’s silver top hat with ‘VOTE FONZIE’ on it. Abba eschew all that Pop-A-Matic rammel and deliver another whopper of a #1. And Smokie are represented by a black void. PLUS Dave Bartram’s travelogue of rubbish holiday parks, what an audition for Opportunity Knocks looks like, and some properly obscene Bruce Foxton stroke fiction… Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon 2021-11-051h 55
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#62 (Pt 3): 3.11.1977 – WHOO! HEY!David Stubbs and Taylor Parkes join Al Needham for further larks and japery in a classic slice of Jubilee-era Pops. The Barron Knights advance the theory that Irish people are stupid and homosexuals are amusing. Freddie Mercury pretends to be a bottle of Irish liqueur and encourages middle-class kids to rummage through their Dad’s golf bag. Legs and Co play Sexy Lady Croquet. And Status Quo get in Alan Partridge’s Wife on the bass… Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i2021-11-041h 14
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#62 (Pt 2): 3.11.1977 – WHOO! HEY!Taylor Parkes, David Stubbs and Al Needham get stuck into this episode of The Pops, but not even they can match the bundle of frizzy energy that is Peter Powell, who makes his debut and hits the ground running. He likes EVERYTHING! Meanwhile, the Great ELO-Faust Wars of Barrack-in-Elmet are re-examined, Paul Weller puts his girlfriend’s address on his guitar, and Karen Carpenter invites some aliens over for tea…. Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-11-031h 47
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#62 (Pt 1): 3.11.1977 – WHOO! HEY!David Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham are planning a journey into the dark heart of late 1977 – a treacherous odyssey through a land strewn with gargantuan chart acts, shape-shifting monstrosities who can change from The Old Sailor to Him Out Of The Floaters in the blink of an eye, fertility symbols hewn from clay and feral youths who prey on unsuspecting Labradors. Dare you join them? Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-11-021h 29
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#59: 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave On War Orphan FarmThe 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 - so much so that the menfolk of Top...2021-05-311h 07
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#59 (Part 3): 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave On War Orphan FarmNeil Kulkarni and Taylor Parkes join Al Needham for 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.2021-05-291h 28
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#59 (Part 1): 3.7.1986 – It’s ‘Orrible Being A Slave On War Orphan FarmTaylor Parkes, Neil Kulkarni and Al Needham lay 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 Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acas...2021-05-271h 46
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#58: 23.10.1980 – Top Of The Gear#58: 23.10.1980 – Top Of The GearThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: has anyone ever done that to 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 amorphous goo off the chrysalis it emerged...2021-04-171h 32
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#58 (Part 4): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The GearTaylor Parkes, David Stubbs and Al Needham bring 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.2021-04-161h 25
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#58 (Part 3): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The GearDavid Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham look 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.2021-04-151h 25
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#58 (Part 2): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The GearTaylor Parkes, David Stubbs and Al Needham commence 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.2021-04-141h 09
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#58 (Part 1): 23.10.1980 – Top Of The GearDavid Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham prepare 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...2021-04-131h 18
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#56: 25.12.1983 – Oh Dear!! A Bat Bit YouThe 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 child picks at th...2021-01-101h 16
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#56 (Part 1): 25.12.1983 – Oh Dear!! A Bat Bit YouAl Needham’s hosting a late New Year’s party, and all the Pop-Crazed Youngsters are invited. And unsurprisingly, it involves you being made to sit in an armchair and watch an episode of Top Of The Pops while other people shout at you – and this time, it’s the Xmas Day one from 1983. But before that, him and Sarah Bee and Taylor Parkes leaf though that week’s Melody Maker, reminisce on Xmases past, and get you all ’83-compliant for our LONGEST EPISODE EVER… Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acas...2021-01-0553 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#54: 25.5.1978 – Nineteen Seventy GibbThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: would you go to see Panties at Canning Town Bridge House?Unbelievably, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, this appears to be only the second time we’ve chanced across 1978 – which is a shameful way for a podcast about Top Of The Pops to act, because this year is rammed with cultural behemoths dominating the landscape, with the musk of all the things that Chart Music cherishes hanging thick in the air. We're right on on the perineum ‘twixt Saturday Night Fever and Grease, Tony Blackburn has just slid into his Tony Manero out...2020-11-171h 40
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#54 (Part 4): 25.5.1978 – Nineteen Seventy GibbWe’re into the final stretch for an outstanding episode of The Pops, and Al Needham, Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni strain every sinew as they navigate Disco Cilla, avoid Jimmy Pursey as he tumbles to the floor, bow to the true bosses of 1978, and join Joe Jordan and Kenny Burns for a geographically incorrect carnival, just before they fall on their faces like Bobby Davro in front of Keith Chegwin and Jim Bowen…Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-11-161h 57
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#54 (Part 3): 25.5.1978 – Nineteen Seventy GibbThe twin cultural juggernauts of 1978 collide in this episode of Top Of The Pops, and Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni beg Al Needham to slow down so they can have a good look at the splintered and mangled carnage. A second shift for Legs & Co appears to catch them with their pants down, the TOTP Orchestra lay off the Party Fours for a bit, and your Mam can’t take her eyes off Phil Lynott’s shiny trousers… Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati2020-11-151h 31
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#54 (Part 2): 25.5.1978 – Nineteen Seventy GibbUh oh – The Pops has finally got some competition, as the pilot episode of Revolver crashes into ITV’s Saturday teatime schedule, so naturally Neil Kulkarni and Taylor Parkes have a look at it while Al Needham chivvys them through the opening shots of this week’s episode. Get ready for top-drawer critical analysis on disco strippers, late-Seventies jumper technology, a list of potential Oliver Tobias understudies, and razor-sharp criticism on whatever rubbish band photos are in the chart rundown this week…Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...2020-11-141h 24
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#54 (Part 1): 25.5.1978 – Nineteen Seventy GibbTeam ATVLand – Al Needham, Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni – reassemble for a catch-up about posture correctors, run down the brand new Chart Music Top Ten, leaf through that week’s NME, and gird each other’s loins in preparation for a massively intense burrow into a Top Of The Pops from the very the heart of 1978… Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-11-131h 28
Airchecks and interviews of Cameron Scott- BohannaInterview with Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton.Mark Coulton, Federal Member for Parkes in is Gurley today with a legend of cricket, Peter Taylor raising awareness of skin cancer and encouraging people to get their skin checked. We also talked about Queensland opening its borders to regional New South Wales and whether or not we can travel overseas.2020-11-0206 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #52: February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO SpeedwagonThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: if The Smiths were still making singles today, would they have a still from Sex Lives Of The Potato Men on the cover?The latest episode – another five hour-plus plunge into the very depths of your favourite Pop TV show – lands us on the very perineum ‘twixt Band Aid and Live Aid, in a shameful era when even the Weetabix are pretending to be American street youths, and on the very cusp of the achingly slow decline of The Pops. The majority of the Zoo Wankers have been culled, t...2020-08-101h 43
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #52 (Part 4): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO SpeedwagonThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: if The Smiths were still making singles today, would they have a still from Sex Lives Of The Potato Men on the cover?The latest episode – another five hour-plus plunge into the very depths of your favourite Pop TV show – lands us on the very perineum ‘twixt Band Aid and Live Aid, in a shameful era when even the Weetabix are pretending to be American street youths, and on the very cusp of the achingly slow decline of The Pops. The majority of the Zoo Wankers have been culled, t...2020-08-091h 50
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #52 (Part 3): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO SpeedwagonThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: if The Smiths were still making singles today, would they have a still from Sex Lives Of The Potato Men on the cover?The latest episode – another five hour-plus plunge into the very depths of your favourite Pop TV show – lands us on the very perineum ‘twixt Band Aid and Live Aid, in a shameful era when even the Weetabix are pretending to be American street youths, and on the very cusp of the achingly slow decline of The Pops. The majority of the Zoo Wankers have been culled, t...2020-08-081h 16
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #52 (Part 2): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO SpeedwagonThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: if The Smiths were still making singles today, would they have a still from Sex Lives Of The Potato Men on the cover?The latest episode – another five hour-plus plunge into the very depths of your favourite Pop TV show – lands us on the very perineum ‘twixt Band Aid and Live Aid, in a shameful era when even the Weetabix are pretending to be American street youths, and on the very cusp of the achingly slow decline of The Pops. The majority of the Zoo Wankers have been culled, t...2020-08-071h 10
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #52 (Part 1): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO SpeedwagonThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: if The Smiths were still making singles today, would they have a still from Sex Lives Of The Potato Men on the cover?The latest episode – another five hour-plus plunge into the very depths of your favourite Pop TV show – lands us on the very perineum ‘twixt Band Aid and Live Aid, in a shameful era when even the Weetabix are pretending to be American street youths, and on the very cusp of the achingly slow decline of The Pops. The majority of the Zoo Wankers have been culled, t...2020-08-061h 16
When Saturday ComesBonus episode: When Saturday Comes at 400 (part 2)The concluding episode of a special two-part podcast documentary as When Saturday Comes reaches 400 issues. A look behind the scenes at the magazine, from complaining club chairmen and dubious takeover bids, to the process of taking the magazine from planning to print. Plus, a delve into regular features such as Match of the Month and the letters pages, and insight into the magazine’s decision not to carry gambling advertisements. Contributors include WSC staff, writers Harry Pearson, Barney Ronay, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham and Cameron Carter, illustrator Tim Bradford and photographer Colin McPherson. Support the show2020-07-2758 minWhen Saturday ComesBonus episode: When Saturday Comes at 400 (part 1)A special two-part podcast documentary as When Saturday Comes reaches 400 issues. In this first episode, contributors including co-founders Andy Lyons and Mike Ticher, writers Harry Pearson, Barney Ronay, Taylor Parkes and Cameron Carter and magazine editorial staff discuss the early days of WSC, first encounters and contributions, favourite articles, and that Tim Lovejoy book review. Support the showWould you like to hear twice as many podcasts and longer editions of these ones, and support our print magazine? You would? Then join the WSC Supporters' Club! Sign up here: www.p...2020-07-2053 min
The The One Show ShowEpisode 5.28 - Regrets of A Centenarian, Nicolas Wintoning and Alex's Non Prank CallThe utterly great journalist and Chart Music podcaster Taylor Parkes joins Jon and Marc to see the One Show off on a well deserved cruise post-lockdown. On the Marie Celeste. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-07-1633 min
The The One Show ShowEpisode 5.27 - You Can #Can't Complain, Yesterday's Pulp and Patronising Posh PastaThe utterly great journalist and Chart Music podcaster Taylor Parkes joins Jon and Marc for the final two-part autopsy on the rotting corpse of The One Show, which has been found desecrated round the back of a forecourt in central London. Hooray! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-07-1540 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #51: March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb IraqThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: a party held by the Osmonds, or a party held by the Rollers?The LONGEST EVER EPISODE OF CHART MUSIC finds your host and his chums still on lockdown but DILL DANDING, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, which gives us the opportunity to pick out an episode from the Dark Ages of the mid-Seventies and properly wang on about it. The Saxons are at their flappiest, the collars are condor, Tony Blackburn has been uncrated and set free, and all is as well with the world as it could be in 1975. I...2020-07-071h 07
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #51 (Part 4): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb IraqThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: a party held by the Osmonds, or a party held by the Rollers?The LONGEST EVER EPISODE OF CHART MUSIC finds your host and his chums still on lockdown but DILL DANDING, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, which gives us the opportunity to pick out an episode from the Dark Ages of the mid-Seventies and properly wang on about it. The Saxons are at their flappiest, the collars are condor, Tony Blackburn has been uncrated and set free, and all is as well with the world as it could be in 1975. I...2020-07-061h 28
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #51 (Part 3): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb IraqThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: a party held by the Osmonds, or a party held by the Rollers?The LONGEST EVER EPISODE OF CHART MUSIC finds your host and his chums still on lockdown but DILL DANDING, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, which gives us the opportunity to pick out an episode from the Dark Ages of the mid-Seventies and properly wang on about it. The Saxons are at their flappiest, the collars are condor, Tony Blackburn has been uncrated and set free, and all is as well with the world as it could be in 1975. I...2020-07-051h 27
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #51 (Part 2): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb IraqThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: a party held by the Osmonds, or a party held by the Rollers?The LONGEST EVER EPISODE OF CHART MUSIC finds your host and his chums still on lockdown but DILL DANDING, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, which gives us the opportunity to pick out an episode from the Dark Ages of the mid-Seventies and properly wang on about it. The Saxons are at their flappiest, the collars are condor, Tony Blackburn has been uncrated and set free, and all is as well with the world as it could be in 1975. I...2020-07-041h 32
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #51 (Part 1): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb IraqThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: a party held by the Osmonds, or a party held by the Rollers?The LONGEST EVER EPISODE OF CHART MUSIC finds your host and his chums still on lockdown but DILL DANDING, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, which gives us the opportunity to pick out an episode from the Dark Ages of the mid-Seventies and properly wang on about it. The Saxons are at their flappiest, the collars are condor, Tony Blackburn has been uncrated and set free, and all is as well with the world as it could be in 1975. I...2020-07-031h 15
Corbynism: The Post-MortemDefining CorbynismWhat exactly is Corbynism? That is the question we set out to answer on Episode 7 of Corbynism: The Post-Mortem, with our special panel of guests featuring the left wing academics behind the book Corbynism: A Critical Approach, Frederick Harry Pitts and Matt Bolton, and music journalist Taylor Parkes, author of one of the most prescient and damning articles ever written on Corbynism.
Corbynism: A Critical Approach can be found here.
Taylor Parkes on the Corbyn campaign trail can be found here.
A full transcription of the episode can be found on our website.
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Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #48: 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisChart Music #48: 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: Matchbox – big elderly Ted-racists, or just really keen on The Dukes Of Hazzard?It’s a long-overdue return to the Pic n’ Mix counter of TOTP, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and this time we’ve pulled out a plum from the early days of the new decade, which is now FORTY BASTARD YEARS AGO. Mike Read has been quarantined to the balcony, resplendent in a clankening of badges, and he is poised to drop an episode shot throug...2020-02-141h 09
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #48 (Part 4): 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisChart Music #48: 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: Matchbox – big elderly Ted-racists, or just really keen on The Dukes Of Hazzard?It’s a long-overdue return to the Pic n’ Mix counter of TOTP, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and this time we’ve pulled out a plum from the early days of the new decade, which is now FORTY BASTARD YEARS AGO. Mike Read has been quarantined to the balcony, resplendent in a clankening of badges, and he is poised to drop an episode shot throug...2020-02-131h 32
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #48 (Part 3): 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisChart Music #48: 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: Matchbox – big elderly Ted-racists, or just really keen on The Dukes Of Hazzard?It’s a long-overdue return to the Pic n’ Mix counter of TOTP, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and this time we’ve pulled out a plum from the early days of the new decade, which is now FORTY BASTARD YEARS AGO. Mike Read has been quarantined to the balcony, resplendent in a clankening of badges, and he is poised to drop an episode shot throug...2020-02-121h 12
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #48 (Part 2): 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisChart Music #48: 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: Matchbox – big elderly Ted-racists, or just really keen on The Dukes Of Hazzard?It’s a long-overdue return to the Pic n’ Mix counter of TOTP, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and this time we’ve pulled out a plum from the early days of the new decade, which is now FORTY BASTARD YEARS AGO. Mike Read has been quarantined to the balcony, resplendent in a clankening of badges, and he is poised to drop an episode shot throug...2020-02-111h 16
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #48 (Part 1): 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisChart Music #48: 24th January 1980 – Imagine If Charles Manson Had Heard ThisThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: Matchbox – big elderly Ted-racists, or just really keen on The Dukes Of Hazzard?It’s a long-overdue return to the Pic n’ Mix counter of TOTP, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and this time we’ve pulled out a plum from the early days of the new decade, which is now FORTY BASTARD YEARS AGO. Mike Read has been quarantined to the balcony, resplendent in a clankening of badges, and he is poised to drop an episode shot throug...2020-02-1051 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #47: 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of Showaddywaddy#47: 25/12/77 – The Last Supper Of ShowaddywaddyA sort-of-festive episode of the podcast which asks: Jesus, why do we always leave this to the last minute instead of doing it in August like everyone else?It’s the arse-end of the year, and you know what that means, Pop-Crazed Youngsters: another ram of our hands into the Quality Street tin of a Xmas TOTP. This year, it’s 1977, which means that Noel Edmonds has taken one of his suits that all look the same out of the wardrobe – but this year he’s joined by Kid Jensen...2019-12-301h 46
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #47 (Part 4): 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of Showaddywaddy#47: 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of ShowaddywaddyA sort-of-festive episode of the podcast which asks: Jesus, why do we always leave this to the last minute instead of doing it in August like everyone else?It’s the arse-end of the year, and you know what that means, Pop-Crazed Youngsters: another ram of our hands into the Quality Street tin of a Xmas TOTP. This year, it’s 1977, which means that Noel Edmonds has taken one of his suits that all look the same out of the wardrobe – but this year he’s joined by...2019-12-271h 16
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #47 (Part 3): 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of Showaddywaddy#47: 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of ShowaddywaddyA sort-of-festive episode of the podcast which asks: Jesus, why do we always leave this to the last minute instead of doing it in August like everyone else?It’s the arse-end of the year, and you know what that means, Pop-Crazed Youngsters: another ram of our hands into the Quality Street tin of a Xmas TOTP. This year, it’s 1977, which means that Noel Edmonds has taken one of his suits that all look the same out of the wardrobe – but this year he’s joined by...2019-12-261h 09
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #47 (Part 2): 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of Showaddywaddy#47: 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of ShowaddywaddyA sort-of-festive episode of the podcast which asks: Jesus, why do we always leave this to the last minute instead of doing it in August like everyone else?It’s the arse-end of the year, and you know what that means, Pop-Crazed Youngsters: another ram of our hands into the Quality Street tin of a Xmas TOTP. This year, it’s 1977, which means that Noel Edmonds has taken one of his suits that all look the same out of the wardrobe – but this year he’s joined by...2019-12-251h 19
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops PodcastChart Music #47 (Part 1): 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of Showaddywaddy#47: 25th December 1977 – The Last Supper Of ShowaddywaddyA sort-of-festive episode of the podcast which asks: Jesus, why do we always leave this to the last minute instead of doing it in August like everyone else?It’s the arse-end of the year, and you know what that means, Pop-Crazed Youngsters: another ram of our hands into the Quality Street tin of a Xmas TOTP. This year, it’s 1977, which means that Noel Edmonds has taken one of his suits that all look the same out of the wardrobe – but this year he’s joined by...2019-12-241h 01
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#44: November 8th 1984 - Yo! Bum Rush The QuoThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: is Simon Bates negging or cock-blocking? Into the penultimate stretch of the Critics' Choice series, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and Our Sarah has taken us all the way back to the time when her keen Pop sensibilities were hauling itself upright from the ooze. And she. Has. Chosen. Well.We're weeks away from Band Aid and the Eighties are already starting to ming of unwashed cock, but this episode - presented LIVE IN THE STUDIO by Geoffrey and Pigwanker General - is nowhere near as horrific as it could have been, e...2019-10-114h 05
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#43: March 6th 1969 - Ah-Ha-Ha-Ha!The latest episode of the podcast which asks: Why didn't NASA do something for the old 'uns?It's the mid-point of our Critics Choice series, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and this time Our Taylor has taken us back - way back - to the spring of 1969, when two-thirds of Team ATVland weren't even thought of and the third was imprisoned in a cage made out of pallets, with all nails sticking out. Musicwise, well: we are 301 days from the end of this decade - the greatest decade in history, mark you - and Top Of The Pops has...2019-09-063h 33
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#41: August 26th 1976 - From Acker Bilk To Chlamydia In Two MinutesThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: can you remember a wazz you had 43 years ago? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, is the beginning of a five-part mini-series where members of Team Chart Music run a finger along our TOTP collection and select one of their favourites - and Our David has kicked it off by pulling out an absolute plum from the very end of the Drought. Your panel were killing time during the summer holidays sitting in hot cars, playing Shove Matchbox, or trying to be the Lord Killinan of the ladybirds, but over in th...2019-07-094h 01
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#39 - May 21st 1981: Grill Equals FannyThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: did Phil Oakey ever have it out with the Undertones for coating him down on My Perfect Cousin? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, is the longest EVER, but don't blame us - because there is so much going on in this episode of The Pops, and we take a concentrated blast of 1981 full in the face. No lie, it's wave after wave of late-Eighventies pop brilliance, broken up by assorted bits of rubbish, and Dave Lee Travis in an elongated hat. We've coated down the Living Gnasher Badge enough times, b...2019-04-234h 45
National Association for Primary EducationTower of London – NAPE 021Following my interview with Lucie Parkes – Formal Learning Manager at Historic Royal Palaces (episode NAPE 011), I was invited to shadow a school visit around the Tower of London.
It was such a delight to see one of their education projects in action and witness first hand how a yr3 class were captivated by the stories and history of such a magnificent historical landmark.
In this this episode you will hear from the teachers and children who took part in the tour around the Tower of London.
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Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#38: April 29th 1971 - Everybody's Got The ClapThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: Rod Stewart - a grower or a shower? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, involves one of the grimmer aspects of Top Of The Pops, as it comes in the wake of one of the regular audience members comitting suicide, the subsequent tabloid coverage when it was revealed that she'd left a diary behind, and the fallout from it - which continued right the way up to this decade. And it's something we can't not talk about. Musicwise, it's a glorious mish-mash of fare from '71, the International Year...2019-03-203h 30
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#36: October 11th 1979 - Welcome, Welcome, Welcome Home To Chart MusicThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; how would Mike Read get on in the WWF? and how long would it take before someone took his guitar off him and stoved his head in with it? It's been too long, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but we're back from our spell of R&R at Pontins Camber Sands and are going armpit-deep into the cavity of one of the landmark episodes of Top Of The Pops - the one with the biggest TV audience ever. ITV are on strike, and the only other thing on the telly is carriage dr...2019-01-243h 53National Association for Primary EducationLearning at Historic Royal Palaces – NAPE 011Lucie Parkes – Formal Learning Manager at Historic Royal Palaces.
Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity that provides high quality cultural learning experiences for schools. At HRP our aim is to make the stories of our palaces relevant, accessible and enjoyable for all. We offer a programme of sessions across the key stages and in a range of subject areas, as well as CPD opportunities for teachers and a wealth of online learning resources for use in the classroom.
As Formal Learning Manager at Historic Royal Palaces, I manage the development and...2019-01-1621 min
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#35: December 25th 1976 - The World's Most Erotic Quality Street TinA special-ish episode of the podcast which asks: why do we always leave the Xmas episodes to the last minute? Another MASSIVE examination of Pop-telly nirvarna sees us tucking in to the annual Xmas day selection box - this time from the year of Nineteen and Seventy-Six. And lucky us: we've been invited to the head table of Radio One, dominated by the bearded gorgons of The Happy Sound themselves - DLT and Noel Edmonds - as they give the nation an opportunity to watch them pretend to like each other, have one massive trifle EACH, fuck a...2018-12-243h 56
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#32 - October 28th 1982 - Come To The Sabbat, Simon's ThereThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: why didn't Top Of The Pops do a Bonfire Night special instead, the traitorous, British-way-of-life-hating bastards? Yeah yeah, we know: another early Eighties one. But if you thought we were going to wait another year before we got stuck into this particular episode, you don't know Chart Music. The Pops is entombed in its rah-rah-rah flags-and-balloons Zoo-wanker phase and has pulled out all the stops (i.e., gone through the BBC props cupboard) decided to do a Halloween special, even though Halloween means next to arse all in the...2018-10-293h 15
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#31 - August 11th 1983 - For No Bums Will Ever Tempt Me From SheThe latest edition of the podcast which asks: that thing with the earlobes - the entire country didn't just imagine it, did they? It's the summer of '83, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and your avuncular host is battling a series of crises: not only is he still recovering from a de-bagging on the school field and sulking over the re-election of the foul hag Thatcherax, he's fending off rumours about his sexuality before he's even had the chance to do anything with the bastard. Luckily, all that's about to change, as his spiritual guide Paul Weller has got a...2018-09-253h 19
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#30: November 23rd 1989 - Hulk Get Jheri Curl!The latest episode of the podcast which asks: if Bummerdog was a band, what would they sound like? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, is one of the absolute landmark moments of the long and storied history of The Pops - the week where all the rubbish of the Laties is finally driven into the sea by streetwise lairy youths with a malevolent shuffle and a drug-induced attitude. And as well as Big Fun, the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays are on too. Those of you who remember this episode as a full-on Madchester takeover - with 808...2018-08-313h 25
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#27 - May 6th 1982: We Form Like Voltron, And KGA Is The HeadThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: has there ever been a Good Bates? The year is 1982, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, and the world is waiting for England. Actually, no - what the world is waiting for is for Tomorrow's World to piss off, because this episode of The Pops is a bit special. No less than three football teams have been hitting the BBC bar all afternoon and rubbing a manky-jumpered shoulder with the Pop Elite and partake in an unforgettable half-hour-and-a-bit of flag-waving, scarf-brandishing, dirge-chanting palaver. It's not all footybollocks, though: Junior and Patrice...2018-06-183h 37
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#26: August 9th 1984 - John Peel's Yummy FingerThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: that scrap between Reagan and Chernenko - whose coat would you be holding? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, sees us refraining from fretting about Armageddon for a bit and getting blasted full in the face by non-stop Rah-Rah-Rah American Olympic nonsense instead, revelling in the thrill of being able to watch BBC1 at four in the morning and indulging in golf ball-assisted masturbation while pretending to be Daley Thompson. But if the IOC think that Top Of The Pops is going to be moved from its rightful slot on a...2018-05-312h 52
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#24: July 31st 1986 - Toneh Adleh Aht Ter Spandaah BallehThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: no, really - how do you soil a bra? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, sees us getting our hands down the back of the sofa on another random episode of Top Of The Pops - but as it's 1986 - a year we haven't done yet - we're half-expecting to touch a maggot-infested rat, or an open pot of hair gel with all mould on it. We needn't have worried, though, this particular episode has real-life Indie bands that you only see in the music papers in it, and they've actually le...2018-05-032h 33
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#23: October 6th 1977 - Soul Rail Replacement ServiceThe latest edition of the podcast which asks: so how do you actually soil a bra, then? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, takes us back, back, back to the autumn of '77, and it's a proper Lucky Bag of Randomness - just how we like it. The wake for Elvis is still dragging on, Punk is everywhere (apart from on Top Of The Pops, or in the charts), and Noel Edmonds is very keen to tell you that he's the Lion King of Radio One and he has two hours of telly on Saturday mornings, in his Hepworths su...2018-04-133h 11
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#20: February 1st 1979 - Not My Favourite DJ Of All TimesThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: an emaciated John Lennon in a boxing match with the six months-dead Elvis Presley - who wins? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, is mental. Come with us as we set the Time Sofa all the way into the very heart of the Eighventies, to a Bizarro-world where people actually thought – yes, with their actual brains – that Mike Read was sort of cool. Yes, it’s the Chart Music debut of Mr Blue Tulip himself, which may be touched upon at some point in this episode, we can’t remember. Musicw...2018-02-273h 05
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#18: April 29th 1976 - Dave Lee Travis Stamping On A Human Face, ForeverThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: what, him out of Brotherhood Of Man with the ‘tache? How old? Fucking hell! After an extended hiatus, the greatest podcast in the world about old episodes of Top Of The Pops roars back with its usual melange of incisive music criticism, flare-baiting, dodgy microphones and the language of the billiard hall. This episode, we’re on the cusp of The Great Drought, and Tony Blackburn is on hand, bearing the gormlessly smiley visage of a man who knows he’s going to be giving his next-door neighbour a seeing...2018-01-232h 46
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#17: December 25th 1973 - The Old Songs Are The BestA moderately special episode of the podcast which asks: so what did Tony Orlando do to get banged up for three years, then? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, is a massively-flared, clompy-heeled, zebra-printed celebration of one of the greatest traditions of any British Christmas Day: the opportunity to force the rest of your extended family to sit through an end-of year episode of The Pops and revel in the torrent of tutting coming out of your Nana’s mouth as she works their way through the Quality Street. Fourteen chart-toppers from The Most Seventies Year Ever are trotted ou...2017-12-243h 11
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#14: September 24th 1987 - A Grey and Pink-Flecked Gelled-Up NightmareThe latest episode of the podcast which asks: how bad would your war have to get before you start thinking of calling up Johnny Hates Jazz? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, sees the Chart Music gang trapped on the wrong side of Eightiestown, surrounded by a faceless herd of blandos in shitty suits with the sleeves rolled up, goaded into action by a wizened Don mincing about on top of a balcony. Bottom line: this episode of TOTP is absolute cat shit. Because it’s co-presented by Mike Smith, who refused to have anything to do wi...2017-11-202h 29
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#13: November 16th 1978 - The Demon Prince of the Third Division The thirteenth go-around of the podcast which asks: Showaddywaddy? Again? Really? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, finally sees the good ship Chart Music sail way past the three-hour exclusion zone – but it can’t be helped, because the episode of Thursday Evening Pop Valhalla we dissect here is a classic. Some of the big guns of the Seventies are pulled out, but are immediately bricked by snotty New Wave oiks in charity shop clothes, the foul spell of Revolting and Neutron-Bomb is banished forever, and Kid Jensen looks on from his Fortress of Solitude in a...2017-10-313h 27
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#11 - January 14th 1982: David Van Day's Chart MusicThe eleventh episode of the podcast which asks: is anyone willing to swap a Fonz action figure for a ‘Shakin’ Stevens and the Sunsets – Heterosexual Rock n’ Roll’ badge? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, has been a bastard to put together, and the sound quality may be a bit manky at times - but oh, what a glistening slab of televisual spangliness awaits us. It’s a full-on Flags & Balloons TOTP, this one, overseen by the circular face of The Hairy Breakfast Brunch Bar (who has wisely been kept away from The Kids and is monitored at all times), and...2017-09-202h 54
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#10 - February 5th 1970: Tony Blackburn’s World-Famous Kneecap-WarmersThe tenth episode of the podcast which asks: when did vest and pants go from being an instrument of self-expression to a punishment for leaving your games kit at home? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, sees us going back further than we’ve ever been before, to a time where Beatle wigs are still in Woolworths and nobody seems to mind that the BBC have taped some horse racing over their coverage of the Moon Landings. And what delights await us, as we see a show still in its embryonic stage and groping – but not in a DLT mann...2017-08-312h 37
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#8 - September 24th 1981: Two Pound Of Tripe In A One Pound BagThe eighth edition of the podcast which asks: a new version of Top Of The Pops with sketches? FUCK OFF! This episode sees the controls of the Time Sofa hijacked by our own Simon Price, who force-lands it smack in the middle of 1981. He's been saying for ages that '81 is the greatest Pop year ever, forcing us to throw down the frilly, fingerless gauntlet. Things start weirdly with Simon Bates looking like a supply teacher and the return of Slade and Alvin, but then it's wave after wave of 'bands' that don't even have p...2017-08-012h 34
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#7 - August 22nd 1985 - Nobody Ever Said; "Oh No, Jaws Is Coming"The seventh episode of the podcast which asks: if Les Dennis and Dustin Gee were Torvill and Dean, who would be who? This episode sees us firmly on the wrong half of the Eighties, with Live Aid a mere five-and-a-bit weeks behind us, and the Greatest Pop Programme Ever is not coping very well with it. At all. For starters, it's been shunted up to 7.55pm to make way for Eastenders, The Kids are burdened with pom-poms and manky pastels and pushed right to the back of the studio and danced at by Pineapple Studio Wankers, there's...2017-07-171h 47
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#5 - August 14th 1980: Watch Yer Backs!The fifth episode of the podcast which asks: why is Richard Stilgoe going on about acne? This episode finds Top Of The Pops smack in the middle of the Eighventies in a state of flux, after being off air for nine weeks due to a Musicians Union strike. The Kids are sat on the floor, the set is even more sparse than usual, and they're experimenting with guest co-hosts - a process which would start with Elton John and end with, er, Russ Abbot. This week, it's Tommy Vance and Roger Daltrey - The McVicar Himself - w...2017-06-161h 55
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#3 - November 15th 1973: Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken and DonnyThe third edition of the podcast which asks: is that an apple or a strawberry on Pans Peoples' arses? In this episode - the chunkiest yet - we set the controls of the Time Sofa smack into the heart of the Glam era and get down to '73. The charts are encrusted with the bland mung of Osmond, but it's also rammed out with mid-Sixties chancers suddenly finding themselves in the Big Time in strange trousers, and milking their opportunity dry. And Tony Blackburn is on hand to vibrate with excitement, suggest that records about failed relationships make gre...2017-04-072h 01
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast#2 - February 9th 1984: When You Want To Suck And Chew ItThe second edition of the podcast which asks: who would win in a massive cage fight amongst Radio 1 DJs of the 70s and 80s? This episode, we enter the late winter of George Orwell’s visionary magnum opus – but not even in his worst nightmares would he have imagined the Ministry of Pop Telly trying (and failing) to throw the No.1 single down the memory hole. And a Top 40 with two Thompson Twins entries. Thankfully, we’re spared both of them, but what we actually get is cow-heavy and laden with the musk of the lower re...2017-01-161h 34