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Friday's Best Pop Song Ever

29 Episodes

15 minutes | 5 months ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #29 - THINK OF RAIN
Todd rides a wave of 60s soft pop bliss with unlikely pop tunesmith Margo Guryan.
17 minutes | 9 months ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #28 - YOU CAN'T PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY
Guitarist 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.
17 minutes | a year ago
FBPSE #27 LONELY BOY
Todd Interrogates this 1976 hit from multi-talented Linda Ronstadt sideman Andrew Gold.
19 minutes | a year ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #26 - My World Fell Down
Todd explores the career of songwriter John Carter through one of his most memorable contributions to the "Sunshine Pop" genre.
14 minutes | a year ago
FBPSE #25 - Captain of your Ship
Todd 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."
14 minutes | a year ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #24: "Love Thy Will Be Done"
It'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.
14 minutes | a year ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #23: "Keys to Your Heart"
Todd explores the relationship between pub rock and punk rock through the story of Joe Strummer's pre-Clash band The 101ers.
17 minutes | a year ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #22: "Missing You"
Todd 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.
14 minutes | a year ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #21 - "Since You've Been Gone"
No, not the Kelly Clarkson song, but rather Russ Ballard's more grammatically--if inconveniently--titled hit for numerous artists including Rainbow and Cherie Currie.
12 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #20 - "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
The Dutch folk-pop band Shocking Blue had far more up their sleeves than their one U.S. hit.
0 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #19 - Do Ya
Todd digs into "Do Ya", a song made famous by ELO, but originated by Jeff Lynne's previous band, The Move
15 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #18 - I Can't Let Maggie Go
The 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.
14 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #17 - MODERN KICKS
Todd 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.
12 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #16 - Substitute
South Africa's first all woman band produces an international monster hit -- and Todd is here to unpack it.
11 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #14 - Ba Da Da Bum
Todd 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.
10 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #13 - Untrue, Unfaithful
Todd investigate's 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.
12 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #12 -Joy
Todd finds joy in Yuki's breakthrough Jpop hit.
14 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #11 - Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son
Todd 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.
18 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #10 - Fox On The Run
Glam 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.
14 minutes | 2 years ago
Friday's Best Pop Song Ever #9: Italopop
Todd engages with Ally's anthemic dance pop masterpiece and takes on the phenomenon of European song competitions.
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