Chart Music

Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast

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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.

Author

Chart Music

Category

Music

Podcast website

www.chart-music.co.uk

Latest episode

May 7, 2026

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Episodes

Chart Music #53 (Part 4): May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! 09.10.2020

Chart Music #53: May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! The latest episode of the podcast which asks: if the first girl that Prince met on Alphabet St happened to be Blunder Woman, would he jerk his body like a horny pony would?  This episode – THE LONGEST EVER, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – finally sees us slipping the surly bonds of this rubbish century to touch the smiley face of 1988. We’re...

Chart Music #53 (Part 3): May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! 08.10.2020

Chart Music #53: May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! The latest episode of the podcast which asks: if the first girl that Prince met on Alphabet St happened to be Blunder Woman, would he jerk his body like a horny pony would?  This episode – THE LONGEST EVER, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – finally sees us slipping the surly bonds of this rubbish century to touch the smiley face of 1988. We’re...

Chart Music #53 (Part 2): May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! 07.10.2020

Chart Music #53: May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! The latest episode of the podcast which asks: if the first girl that Prince met on Alphabet St happened to be Blunder Woman, would he jerk his body like a horny pony would?  This episode – THE LONGEST EVER, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – finally sees us slipping the surly bonds of this rubbish century to touch the smiley face of 1988. We’re...

Chart Music #53 (Part 1): May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! 07.10.2020

Chart Music #53: May 12th 1988 – Boing! Boing! Boing! The latest episode of the podcast which asks: if the first girl that Prince met on Alphabet St happened to be Blunder Woman, would he jerk his body like a horny pony would?  This episode – THE LONGEST EVER, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – finally sees us slipping the surly bonds of this rubbish century to touch the smiley face of 1988. We’re...

Chart Music #52: February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO Speedwagon 09.08.2020

The 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...

Chart Music #52 (Part 4): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO Speedwagon 08.08.2020

The 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...

Chart Music #52 (Part 3): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO Speedwagon 07.08.2020

The 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...

Chart Music #52 (Part 2): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO Speedwagon 06.08.2020

The 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...

Chart Music #52 (Part 1): February 14th 1985 – British People React To REO Speedwagon 05.08.2020

The 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...

Chart Music #51: March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb Iraq 06.07.2020

The 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,...

Chart Music #51 (Part 4): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb Iraq 05.07.2020

The 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,...

Chart Music #51 (Part 3): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb Iraq 04.07.2020

The 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,...

Chart Music #51 (Part 2): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb Iraq 03.07.2020

The 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,...

Chart Music #51 (Part 1): March 20th 1975 – Guys ‘N’ Dolls Get Ready To Bomb Iraq 02.07.2020

The 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,...

Here Comes Quizm: The Chart Music Pub Quiz - Number 5 20.05.2020

Here Comes Quizm: The Chart Music Pub Quiz – Number 5   It's BACK! The greatest music quiz in the world, hand-crafted by quizular artisans in Nottingham, The Cradle Of Pop, with assistance off their Nana. 42 questions! 7 rounds! Swearing! Download what you need to, grab a pen, pick out a suitably disgusting team name, and spend some time in the pub of your mind, Pop-Crazed Youngsters......

Chart Music #50: March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit 18.05.2020

Chart Music #50: March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit The latest episode of the podcast which asks the question: What  was  David Stubbs doing while the Rainforest was falling? It's our half-century. Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but we're not making a fuss about it, bar the raising of the bat and a nod to the stands before returning to the job of whacking at a random e...

Chart Music #50 (Part 4): March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit 17.05.2020

Chart Music #50: March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit The latest episode of the podcast which asks the question: What  was  David Stubbs doing while the Rainforest was falling? It's our half-century. Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but we're not making a fuss about it, bar the raising of the bat and a nod to the stands before returning to the job of whacking at a random e...

Chart Music #50 (Part 3): March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit 16.05.2020

Chart Music #50: March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit The latest episode of the podcast which asks the question: What  was  David Stubbs doing while the Rainforest was falling? It's our half-century. Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but we're not making a fuss about it, bar the raising of the bat and a nod to the stands before returning to the job of whacking at a random e...

Chart Music #50 (Part 2): March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit 15.05.2020

Chart Music #50: March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit The latest episode of the podcast which asks the question: What  was  David Stubbs doing while the Rainforest was falling? It's our half-century. Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but we're not making a fuss about it, bar the raising of the bat and a nod to the stands before returning to the job of whacking at a random e...

Chart Music #50 (Part 1): March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit 14.05.2020

Chart Music #50: March 21st 1996 - The Movement That Wouldn't Feel The Benefit The latest episode of the podcast which asks the question: What  was  David Stubbs doing while the Rainforest was falling? It's our half-century. Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but we're not making a fuss about it, bar the raising of the bat and a nod to the stands before returning to the job of whacking at a random e...

Here Comes Quizm: The Chart Music Pub Quiz - Number 4 29.04.2020

Here Comes Quizm #4 It’s a bit late, but it’s still the greatest music quiz in the world that’s been made in Nottingham by someone who usually does a podcast about old episodes of Top Of The Pops. It’s the usual bill of fare, Pop-Crazed Youngsters: 42 questions, 7 rounds, an old woman on an organ, and some shouting and swearing. Tuck in, why don’t you? HERE IS THE ANSWER SHEET HERE IS ROUND NUMBER...

Here Comes Quizm: The Chart Music Pub Quiz - Number 3 20.04.2020

Here Comes Quizm #3 Oh yes – the music quiz that puts the TRAINERS to the ANUS is BACK. You know the drill: 42 questions, seven rounds, and an elderly woman throwing down on a Bontempi organ, put together and fired out by the host of the world’s greatest podcast about old episodes of Top Of The Pops. TUCK IN, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS! HERE IS THE ANSWER SHEET HERE IS ROUND NUMBER ONE - THE PICTURE RO...

Here Comes Quizm: The Chart Music Pub Quiz - Number 2 13.04.2020

HERE COMES QUIZM #2 Oh yes; back again, and now rolling every week until all this bollocks is sorted out, comes the pub quiz that doesn't need a pub. It's the same format as before, Pop-Crazed Youngsters: an hour-long, seven-round, 42-questioned music quiz that you can cheat at if you like, as there aren't any prizes. All we ask is that you do not spoiler any of the answers in the comments section...

Here Comes Quizm: The Chart Music Pub Quiz - Number 1 06.04.2020

When Al isn't doing Chart Music - the world's greatest podcast about old episodes of Top Of The Pops - he's in assorted Nottingham pubs barking questions at folk. He can't do that at the moment, so he's taking it out on the Pop-Crazed Youngsters in an hour-long, seven-round, 42-questioned music quiz that you can cheat at if you like, as there aren't any prizes. First thing you need to do is downlo...

Chart Music #49: January 7th 1982 - Yellow Hurll 31.03.2020

The latest episode of the podcast which asks: would you treat YOUR kids to a day out at Flick Colby's Zoo? We're returning to one of our favourite years for music television discussion, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but if you think it's another Eighventies splurge, think on; that era is not only officially dead, but its corpse is being gleefully stepped upon by assorted Pineapple dance studio chaff. Pet...

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