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
Thanksgiving Music Favorites
We talk turkey....and pie...and candy and occasionally about songs that make us think about Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving episode from 2018 reminds us of how fortunate we are to have food, friends …
00:50:10 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
The World According To Allee Willis
If you know the Earth, Wind & Fire songs September and Boogie Wonderland, The Pointer Sisters Neutron Dance or I'll Be There For You, aka the opening theme from Friends, then you're familiar with som…
00:33:06 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
Mindy Smith Needs A Quiet Town
Mindy Smith made quite an impression on Dolly Parton with her take on Dolly's iconic song, "Jolene". She followed that up with her beautiful debut album, One Moment More. Now twenty years into her ca…
00:52:53 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Robert Hilburn Has Some Words In Defense Of Randy Newman
Robert Hilburn, former LA Times Music Editor/Critic, has become one of the preeminent music biographers for the singer-songwriter. Known for his deep dives into the lives of legendary artists, Robert…
01:00:28 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Halloween Remastered 80s style
It's not a repeat if you haven't heard it before, so this is the perfect time to revisit Dave's favorite holiday and the one Holly tolerates because candy is involved. We talk about our favorite Hall…
00:39:43 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Iain Matthews Tells Us How Much Is Enough
Iain Matthews’ 53rd-ish solo album is entitled "How Much Is Enough". He joins the podcast and we learn all about the start of his career, from selling shoes on Carnaby Street in mid-60s Swingin' Lond…
00:50:55 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Steve Diggle finds harmony with The Buzzcocks
We celebrate Punk For A Day Day on October 25 by recognizing one of our favorite Punks. One wouldn't blame Steve Diggle if he decided to pack up The Buzzcocks name after the death of vocalist Pete Sh…
00:50:01 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Denny Tedesco Gets Into The Immediate Family
What does music documentarian Denny Tedesco do for an encore, after beautifully capturing the family of musicians known as The Wrecking Crew? How about find another family? That’s exactly what Denny …
00:56:10 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Earth To Moon Unit Zappa: A Podcast
Moon Unit Zappa has led quite a unique life. The daughter of Frank and Gail, she always called her parents by their first names. Moon was gifted a journal every year since she was five, and now she d…
00:52:23 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
One-Hit Wonder Day
Did you know September 25th is National One-Hit Wonder Day? Well, neither did we, but since we now know it's a thing, we created this episode. Did we invite friend of the show, Craig Rosen onto the p…
01:13:05 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Redd Kross Remain Innocent
It's been quite a year for the brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald of Redd Kross. They’re currently in the middle of a tour in support of their eponymous double album, their oral history memoir, Now Yo…
01:16:38 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
Pop songs: 1984 vs 2017
Most people believe the year they graduated high school was the greatest year in pop music history. We put that theory to the test as we match up the year Dave graduated high school, 1984, against 20…
00:57:03 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
Warren Zanes Delivers Us To Nebraska
Warren Zanes' recent career trajectory has landed him in Nebraska…specifically, Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album, Nebraska. Warren’s book, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Neb…
00:54:49 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Robyn Hitchcock Never Left 1967
Robyn Hitchcock has had quite the musical career. So much so that two movies have been made about him: The documentary Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death...and Insects, and the Jonathan Demme-directed…
00:55:25 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Desperately Seeking Susan Seidelman
Susan Seidelman has directed films with Meryl Streep, John Malkovich, and Madonna, but how does a humble girl from the suburbs of Philadelphia get to such a point? It's all documented in her new book…
00:52:36 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
Matt Pinfield: Music, Mayhem And MTV
Matt Pinfield would probably consider himself "just a music fan from New Jersey". But fans of his radio and club shows, as well as music artists like David Bowie and Depeche Mode immediately recogniz…
01:19:53 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
It's Lyndsanity! with Lyndsey Parker
Music Journalist Lyndsey Parker is a fixture on the Los Angeles music scene. For more than two decades, she served as the Music Editor for Yahoo Entertainment, interviewing all our favorite music art…
01:27:45 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
We Groove To Swedish Egil
We first heard Swedish Egil at KROQ in Los Angeles, where for ten years he played his favorite dance, ska, and electronic music, introducing us to bands like New Order and Kraftwerk. From there, he b…
01:11:42 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Alan Hunter: The OG MTV VJ
Alan Hunter was the first person we saw for the debut of MTV on August 1, 1981 (just don't remind Mark Goodman of this fact). Alan has maintained a passion for the 80s music that defined our youth. T…
01:15:09 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
Paige Stark Is Good At Love
Paige Stark is a multi-hyphenated artist. She's a Director-Writer-Actor-Producer, but she joins our podcast because we’re fans of her music. Her just- released EP is entitled Good At Love, and we get…
01:05:40 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
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