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
Paul Rappaport Glides Over Hollywood
It's good to be Paul Rappaport. As the head of Rock Promotion at Columbia Records, Paul rubbed shoulders with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and Alice In Chains. It was Paul's creativit…
01:01:46 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
One To One: John & Yoko
Sam Rice-Edwards, co-director and editor for the rock documentary One to One: John & Yoko, joins the podcast. The film centers around the One to One benefit concert for the Willowbrook State School i…
00:41:48 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Squirrel Nut Zippers Go Back O' Town
Jimbo Mathus, frontman for the Squirrel Nut Zippers, joins the podcast to reminisce about his music origins, and how he landed in Chapel Hill, leading to the massive success of the band. Squirrel Nut…
00:52:11 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
April Fools' Day Music Favorites
Happy April Fools' Day! What songs make you smile? For Dave it's a knowing wink from an artist that knows this music can be ridiculous and yet, still love it. For Holly, it's music that makes her do …
00:58:57 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Stuck On The 80s Cruise
Christopher Cross might sing of sailing away, but does he feel that way about cruises? Man on the scene, Dave Sloan steps onto The 80s Cruise with his guests Steve Spears and Brad Williams, from the …
01:21:51 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
St. Patrick's Day 80s Music Favorites
We use the holiday of St. Patrick's Day to recognize a number of our favorite artists from The Emerald Isle. While we have a hard time pronouncing names like Cathal McGarvey, Seamus Ennis and Liam Ó …
00:42:34 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
The Music Discovery Of WXPN's Bruce Warren
Bruce Warren's title on LinkedIn may say he's "Chief of a lot less Stuff at WXPN”, but we think he's just being modest. For more than 30 years, Bruce has helped shape the sound of one of the most inf…
01:07:38 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Geoffrey Himes Explains The Ins And Outs Of Country Music
You might be familiar with Outlaw Country, but now there's a new subgenre of American country music. Author Geoffrey Himes' latest book, In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Ci…
00:42:46 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
Gary Kemp Brings Us To This Destination
Gary Kemp is clearly a busy man. He's got his podcast, The Rockonteurs, with fellow musician Guy Pratt, his tour with Nick Mason’s (Pink Floyd) band Saucerful of Secrets, and acting with his brother …
00:48:58 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
True Fables Of Jason Narducy
Jason Narducy is living his musical dream. He plays songs with the artists that helped frame his musical taste. It all started at the tender age of ten, playing in his punk band, Verböten. This year,…
00:54:05 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
We Found Love With Annie Zaleski
Happy Valentine's Day! We here at What Difference Does It Make love love songs, and so does Annie Zaleski. So much so, that she wrote a book about some of her favorite love songs, entitled We Found L…
00:41:03 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
The KROQ 1988 Countdown With Craig Rosen
Friend of the show, Craig Rosen, joins us for a record-setting fifth time. On this occasion, we look at songs 90 to 81 on the 1988 KROQ year-end chart. What do we learn? Craig's English teacher embar…
00:53:16 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
KROQ 1988 Countdown Begins
And so it begins, as we take a look at the top 106.7 songs played in 1988 on radio station KROQ in Los Angeles. Upcoming episodes will feature ten songs and a special guest, but for this episode, we …
00:33:38 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
1988 Pop Culture
It was the year of debuts, from The Wonder Years to Roseanne toYo! MTV Raps. The Grammys finally recognized the significance of Rap and Heavy Metal, but (spoiler alert) failed to recognize the true i…
00:59:24 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Stereo MC's Get Connected
Rob B and Nick Hallam, collectively known as Stereo MC’s, have been releasing music since the mid-1980s when they co-founded the Gee Street recording studio and record label. They had massive hits in…
00:45:12 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine: All I Ever Wanted
Back in 2020, we had the opportunity to chat with Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go's. She had just released her rock n’ roll memoir, All I Ever Wanted. Since then, the Go-Go's have released their officia…
01:12:47 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
New Year's 80s Music Favorites
Another holiday classic filled with some great 80s music! We discuss our new year's traditions, new year's resolutions, the history behind toasts and of course, all our favorite music we play to ushe…
00:39:11 |
Fri 27 Dec 2024
Happy Holidays 80s Music Favorites
It's the holiday season once again so Holly and I present to you this timeless classic episode...now with actual music! Dave's favorite holiday song is "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues. Holly go…
00:33:05 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
Christmas And Holiday 80s Music Favorites
It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Holly finds a couple Hanukkah songs favorites via friend of the show, JC Douglas. We talk "Baby, It's Cold Outside" which leads into the film Little M…
01:03:37 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
What Difference Does It Make Best Of 2024
It's been quite a year here at What Difference Does It Make. I mean, just look at the cover photo of us at an intimate rehearsal with Neil Finn from Crowded House, and you know we had a memorable yea…
00:42:08 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
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