A (Mostly) 80s Music Podcast: What Difference Does It Make?
Dave and Holly, your 80s music aficionados, talk to the artists and music industry insiders that made it the greatest decade for music.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 288
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
KROQ 1982 Countdown Songs Numbers 30 to 21
Summer is here so Holly and Dave start imagining going on a Duran Duran type tour and heading to Sri Lanka or hanging out to the beach and listening to Haircut 100. However you may enjoy the change i…
00:44:42 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
1982 KROQ Countdown Song Numbers 40 to 31
In our "bits and chunks" episode of What Difference Does It Make, we discuss a couple Levis commercials, Principal Vernon from The Breakfast Club and the love affair between Gloria Jones and Marc Bol…
00:47:35 |
Fri 24 May 2019
1982 KROQ Countdown Song Numbers 50 to 41
A lot to unravel in this episode. Tattoos on Jews, John Cusack or Adam Levine, Stan Ridgway singing inside a pot full of beans and we learn about King Cotton and Roscoe's Rap. It's all inside our KRO…
00:49:39 |
Fri 17 May 2019
1982 KROQ Countdown Song Numbers 60 to 51
Holly and Dave try to get water? milk? blood? from a turnip in this episode and discuss Inglorious Bastards, Area Codes, prank phone calls and Simon, Holly's WAZE guy. We also manage to discuss songs…
00:31:11 |
Fri 26 Apr 2019
1982 KROQ Countdown Song Numbers 70 to 61
Dave and Holly have an "interesting" episode. They begin by wondering if the word "interesting" is an effective word to describe something of interest. Holly gives a shout out to her most interesting…
00:34:31 |
Fri 19 Apr 2019
1982 KROQ Countdown Song Numbers 79 to 71
In this episode Holly and Dave discuss how nice it would be to be Nick Lowe and unexpectedly receive a million dollar check for a song you wrote 20 years ago. Dave worries about parking on the dance …
00:18:04 |
Fri 12 Apr 2019
1982 KROQ Countdown Song Numbers 90 to 80
Holly and Dave are back at it going back to 1982 and talking about the songs we heard back in 1982 on KROQ Roq of The 80s in Los Angeles. In this episode we go through songs 90 to 80. We realize that…
00:31:47 |
Fri 05 Apr 2019
Rock Hall Inductees 2019 Part 2
In anticipation of the 2019 Inductees, Dave and Holly spend most of their time talking about wanting to see Janet and Def Leppard in Vegas and The Cure in Australia. Dave struggles with the spelling …
00:43:57 |
Thu 28 Mar 2019
Rock Hall Inductees Class of 2019
Dave and Holly talk about the the seven Inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2019. In this episode, we start off our conversation with Winger(?!?) and ending it with MTV's Real World. In…
00:26:29 |
Fri 22 Mar 2019
1982 KROQ Countdown 100-91
Simon LeBon may have said being on a boat for Duran Duran's Rio video was a joke but Holly and Dave knew this something to aspire to. We should all look this good whilst sailing. The real joke was th…
00:27:51 |
Fri 01 Mar 2019
1982 KROQ Music Countdown 106.7 to 101
Dave and Holly talk about the songs that we heard on KROQ, Roq of the 80s in 1982. The first song on the list "I Had Sex With ET" by Barnes and Barnes leads into a podcast within our podcast, "Movie …
00:32:58 |
Fri 22 Feb 2019
Freddy Snakeskin of KROQ Interview Part 3
In the final of our 3 part interview with Freddy Snakeskin. We talk about more about the air talent including Richard Blade and Swedish Egil and the beginning of the end for the ROQ of the 80s format…
00:28:44 |
Fri 25 Jan 2019
Freddy Snakeskin of KROQ Interview Part 2
Freddy Snakeskin talks about helping the innovator of the "ROQ of the 80s" format, Rick Caroll manage KROQ and then taking over for Rick and becoming the Program Director. Freddy also discusses the a…
00:20:54 |
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Freddy Snakeskin of KROQ Interview Part 1
Holly and Dave get to interview one of their radio heroes, the one and only Freddie Snakeskin, air talent and PD for KROQ Roq of the 80s. In part 1, Freddie talks about his origin story and the cast …
00:25:38 |
Wed 09 Jan 2019
Favorite Albums from 1982 Part 2
Dave and Holly continue their talk about their favorite 80s music records from 1982. Holly seems to favor bands from Down Under like INXS and Split Enz while Dave goes for odd looking Englishmen like…
00:39:47 |
Fri 09 Nov 2018
Favorite Albums from 1982
Dave and Holly talk about their favorite 80s music albums from 1982. Holly liked to dance and swoon citing Yaz and ABC. Dave liked to feel morbid citing Springsteen's Nebraska. However, they agree th…
00:41:05 |
Fri 02 Nov 2018
KROQ 1981 Top Songs 20 to 11
We've reached number 11 as we do our deep dive into the top 106.7 songs played on KROQ in 1981. The women reign supreme as Chrissie Hynde, Lene Lovich and The Go-Go's, dominated the KROQ airwaves. In…
00:29:56 |
Fri 12 Oct 2018
KROQ 1981 Top Songs 30 to 21
Dave and Holly continue to count down the songs played on KROQ in 1981. Dave reminisces about The Waitresses and Square Pegs, attempts to remind Holly about the Adam Ant Prince Charming dance and mak…
00:24:07 |
Wed 03 Oct 2018
KROQ 1981 Top Songs 39 to 31
Holly and Dave discuss songs 39 to 31 of the KROQ countdown from 1981. Strange but true KROQ played Rush's Tom Sawyer in 1981 so Holly gets to geek out over her favorite prog rock band and Dave still…
00:32:02 |
Wed 26 Sep 2018
KROQ 1981 Top 106.7 songs 69 to 40
Holly and Dave continue their discussion of the top 106.7 songs played on KROQ in 1981. In this Ep we go through songs 69 (wink) to number 40. So many dirty songs on this list, from Sex Junkie to Wha…
00:23:19 |
Wed 19 Sep 2018
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