Pop Quiz | Delayed
Sorry, but no pop quiz this week as I have been too busy making hand sanitiser. Back next week, promise!
Did Harold MacMillan cause Gluten intolerance?
As a follow up to last weeks adventures with Hugh Dalton and the onesie this week we have another look at the era of the big state. After World War 2 Clement Attlee shrunk the state prodigiously as Prime Minister, reducing the share of GDP taken up by Government spending by more than any PM … Read more
80s jangle-pop | And a very long piano solo
This weeks mix is mellow and jangly, featuring an Oboe, and the longest piano solo in pop history I’ve included the track start times for people who don’t like piano solos. There are 25 tracks, no tricks this week, and an obscure bonus track at the end for people who really know their jangly pop … Read more
How Hugh Dalton invented the onesie
The last few weeks have marked a massive change in the way we view the role of the state. Government is shifting to the kind of interventionism we haven’t seen since Harold Wilson or even Clement Attlee. Very quietly a few weeks ago the Railways were brought back into state control, with the whole free … Read more
Phil and Friends | The Answers
Here are the answers to last weeks progtastic pop quiz: The track that people seemed to struggle with was this one: This was, of course, the vocal line to “If You Love Someone (Set Them Free) by Sting from CD-bothering megahit “Dream of the Blue Turtles”, but with the back track from “Eye in the … Read more
Pop Quiz | Ska and Reggae
Hobsbawn argues that to understand the C19th you should start in 1789 and end in 1917. He also argued that to understand 80s pop quiz you should start in 1978 and end in 1992. He was a wise man. This weeks pop quiz is all about the ska and reggae scene. From ’79 onwards the … Read more
Goodbye Jeremy
“Just remember how you felt on that dreadful morning of June 10th, just remember how you felt then, and think to yourselves: June the Ninth, 1983, never ever again will we experience that.’” This was Neil Kinnock’s first speech to Labour Conference as leader. He had started the process of taking the Labour back from … Read more
Guest Quiz | Country Singer or Station?
Another guest quiz form our top pal Pete Blakeman. Simply identify which are Country Singers and which are Stations [quiz-cat id=”3304″]
March Quiz
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Pop Quiz | New Wave P1 | The Answers
The Alarm 68 Guns Big Country Fields of Fire Department S Is Vic There? Duran Duran Planet Earth The Undertones Jimmy Jimmy The Knack My Sharona The Look I am the Beat Kim Wilde Kids in America Altered Images Happy Birthday Toyah Thunder in the Mountains Blondie Call Me The Only Ones Another Girl, Another … Read more