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Which Decade Is Tops For Pops?

Mike Atkinson

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Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 136

Each episode, we look at six hit singles that were in the same position in the UK Top 10 exactly ten years apart, from the 1960s through to the 2010s. We talk about them, you vote for them, and points are awarded to the decades which they represent. As the episodes roll on, the votes roll in, and the points stack up, which decade will ultimately emerge as Tops For Pops?

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Dave Dee, Rod Stewart, Rick Astley, Spice Girls. Westlife, Marshmello/Khalid

Season 4 · Episode 8

jeudi 14 novembre 2024 • Duration 01:42:36

DDDBM&T move beyond mere language, Rod conflates Britt and soccer, SAW rehash a US club smash, Spiceworld lacks an atlas, Westlife have the business class blues, and mojitos are garnished with self-pity.

YouTube // Spotify // extra tracks & bonus bits

To join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:

The Patreon Supporters Club // X: @whichdecadetops // Bluesky: whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.com

The voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Tuesday 3rd December 2024.

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S4 E7 Results: we can't all be movie buffs!

Season 4 · Episode 7

lundi 11 novembre 2024 • Duration 30:28

Theo takes over as our new Voice Of Youth, with some "controversial" opinions on a surprising set of results, during which we veer off into some frankly BRILLIANT pitches for movie remakes.

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Lulu, Pete Wingfield, Denise LaSalle, Corona, Charlotte Church, Walk The Moon

Season 4 · Episode 3

dimanche 28 juillet 2024 • Duration 01:30:29

Lulu sidesteps the Dumper in the nick of time, a pop hit that rock critics can "dig", synthed-up Zydeco, a miming model, When Profanity Filters Go Wrong, and our most polarising track EVER: just watch the fur fly.

YouTube playlist // Spotify playlist // extra tracks & bonus bits

To join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:

The Patreon Supporters Club // X: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.com

The voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Monday 12th August 2024.

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Express Results Bulletin: S4 E2

Season 4 · Episode 2

jeudi 25 juillet 2024 • Duration 23:34

Simpsons fans beware: there are some factual inaccuracies ahead, as our extra tracks playlist will confirm - also featuring DJ Trev's Platonic ideal of a kids song, the first single Mike ever bought, and B.Bumble's woeful Radio One afterlife.

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B. Bumble & The Stingers, Wings, Bow Wow Wow, Kris Kross, Eminem, Usher

Season 4 · Episode 2

lundi 15 juillet 2024 • Duration 01:31:09

Ballet class nostalgia, pop merchandising's 19th century roots, problematic cover art, a songwriting team of 26, techno as a pejorative term, and a questionable quest for self-discovery.

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Bonus playlists: Kim Fowley tracks // Kris Kross samples

To join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:

The Patreon Supporters Club // X: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.com

The voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Tuesday 23rd July 2024.

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Express Results Bulletin: S4 E1

Season 4 · Episode 1

jeudi 4 juillet 2024 • Duration 29:57

Sian Pearce becomes our first ever female guest on the podcast, joining Mike, Nick and Trev for a thorough dissection of the latest set of voting. Did Dizzy beat Dizzee? Did anyone like Cliff? Did anyone have anything to say about Shanks & Bigfoot? How did ska-punk lead to the Muppet Show? And should we be filling our bladders with lean? Only one way to find out...

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Tommy Roe, Blondie, Cliff Richard, Shanks & Bigfoot, Dizzee Rascal/Armand Van Helden, Lil Nas X

Season 4 · Episode 1

lundi 17 juin 2024 • Duration 01:30:37

If it hadn't been for that pesky Jason Donovan, all these Number Two hits would also have been chart-toppers. Dizzy meets Dizzee, Angela Trimble has lost her cat, Sir Cliff scores a century, UKG struggles to travel north, and country's new Golden Age starts right here.

YouTube playlist // Spotify playlist // extra tracks & bonus bits

To join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:

The Patreon Supporters Club // X: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.com

The voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Tuesday 25th June 2024.

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Season Three: The Grand Finale

Season 3 · Episode 11

mercredi 22 mai 2024 • Duration 59:48

In which we look back at the 60 tunes that featured in Season Three, counting down the final totals on the Master Scoreboard, and seeing where this leaves our cumulative Mother Board.

Playlst for Season Three, in chronological order

We'll be back with Season Four at the end of June.

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Express Results Bulletin: S3 E10

Season 3 · Episode 10

jeudi 16 mai 2024 • Duration 35:58

With no guest and no Master Scoreboard, we thought this would be a quick one. But then we got talking about periods when pop treads water, and the democratisation of its means of production, and the She Drives Me Crazy thwock, and the baffling 2006 disdain for Bridge Over Troubled Water, and communal/collective pop vs introspective headphone music, and cats in panto, and pretending to be gay in strip clubs... and, well, let's just say that things escalated.

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Elvis Presley vs Simon & Garfunkel vs Detroit Spinners vs Paula Abdul vs Sisqo vs Professor Green

Season 3 · Episode 10

lundi 29 avril 2024 • Duration 01:25:24

A demobbed King reclaims his crown, the Wichita Lineman crew triumph again, the sound of 1976 reappears in 1980, a choreographer jives with a cat, the Cosmo Smallpiece of millennial R&B plays fast and loose with co-writing credits, and a player gets played right back.

YouTube playlist // Spotify playlist // extra tracks & bonus bits

To join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:

The Patreon Supporters Club // X: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.com

The voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Monday 13th May 2024.

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