Friday’s Best Pop Song Ever

Friday’s Best Pop Song Ever

A short podcast that takes a long look at some of the best pop songs you’ve never heard.

Episodes

September 3, 2020 14 mins
Todd rides a wave of 60s soft pop bliss with unlikely pop tunesmith Margo Guryan.
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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.
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February 3, 2020 17 mins
Todd Interrogates this 1976 hit from multi-talented Linda Ronstadt sideman Andrew Gold.
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December 26, 2019 19 mins
Todd explores the career of songwriter John Carter through one of his most memorable contributions to the "Sunshine Pop" genre.
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November 27, 2019 13 mins
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."
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October 23, 2019 14 mins
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.
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September 28, 2019 14 mins
Todd 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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September 1, 2019 16 mins
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.
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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.
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The Dutch folk-pop band Shocking Blue had far more up their sleeves than their one U.S. hit.
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May 31, 2019 15 mins
Todd digs into "Do Ya", a song made famous by ELO, but originated by Jeff Lynne's previous band, The Move
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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.
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March 29, 2019 13 mins
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.
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February 22, 2019 11 mins
South Africa's first all woman band produces an international monster hit -- and Todd is here to unpack it.
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January 31, 2019 12 mins
Todd explores the complicated release history of this dance punk tune turned 80s radio mainstay.
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December 23, 2018 10 mins
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.
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November 19, 2018 10 mins
Todd 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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October 21, 2018 11 mins
Todd finds joy in Yuki's breakthrough Jpop hit.
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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.
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August 24, 2018 18 mins
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.
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