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
Hans Everling is the SOB taking on KROQ from 1985
Hans Everling is the owner of SOB Audio Imaging in Amsterdam, and this week he takes on the challenge of giving his professional and honest opinion of songs #20 to #11 from the 1985 KROQ year-end pla…
00:53:52 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
Hear at Home with Andy Chanley
Hear at Home is an artist interview segment hosted by Andy Chanley on 885FM, but today we switch roles with Andy and WE talk to HIM about his radio career. Andy also helps us dive into songs from the…
01:08:28 |
Fri 20 May 2022
David Wild Is Totally Naked
David Wild has many friends, including us. He has just released a podcast with his good friend, Phil Rosenthal, entitled Naked Lunch. Fortunately, it's audio so we don't know if there's any actual nu…
00:58:30 |
Fri 13 May 2022
Ann Wilson Of Heart Finds Fierce Bliss
Ann Wilson, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and Heart vocalist, isn't one to rest on her laurels during a hiatus with the band. Finding inspiration through her songwriting, and creating thrilling new arran…
00:32:31 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Suzi Quatro Is Stumblin' In To Our Podcast
Suzi Quatro has been rockin' for over half a century and is showing no signs of slowing down. As the recent documentary, Suzi Q, shows, she is still as passionate today about her music as the day she…
00:44:48 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Martha Wainwright Tells Us Stories She Might Regret
How does Martha Wainwright survive growing up in the shadow of not only her father, Loudon Wainwright III, and her mother, Kate McGarrigle, but also her beautiful and extremely talented brother, Rufu…
00:51:53 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Thomas Robsahm Takes On A-HA
Thomas Robsahm, Director of the just-released documentary, a-ha THE MOVIE, is our guest this week. Depending on where you live in the world, the band a-ha may be considered an 80s one-hit wonder band…
00:44:54 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
Palle Bo: The Radio Vagabond
Palle Bo is a radio legend in Denmark. He's been in the game since the 80s, and now this "Radio Guru" is taking his act on the road, traveling the world and sharing his exploits in a podcast called T…
01:00:35 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Bob Waugh Dares To Be Different
Bob Waugh's radio career brought him to the best of the best radio stations at the perfect time. When the excitement of New Wave first struck New York in the 80s, Bob was spinning records at "Dare To…
00:57:30 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
Keith Coes - Music Director for Lightning 100 in Nashville
Keith Coes was destined for radio ever since he "won" a shift on the Vanderbilt University radio station, without ever actually attending the school. And he even became the Music Director! This metal…
00:48:55 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
Zeb Norris is Classic Hits Vermont
Self-Proclaimed "Hippie, Rocker, Seeker", Zeb Norris, enters the What Difference Does It Make virtual studio. Zeb was a K-Pop star long before any member of BTS was even born. In Zeb's case, KPOP was…
00:58:01 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Tami Heide and KROQ 1985
In 1985, Tami Heide was a host on WBCN, Boston's #1 rock radio station at the time. Today, Tami steps into the What Difference Does It Make virtual studio to discuss her career trajectory from Boston…
00:56:32 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Brad Savage bringing Akron Quality Rock
Brad Savage is a self-described radio nerd, traversing the United States sharing his love of music via his love of radio. He's been with REV105 and KTCZ in the Twin Cities. Moved to Columbia, Missour…
01:07:51 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
Larry "The Duck" Dunn Dares to be Different
Larry "The Duck" Dunn steps into the What Difference Does It Make virtual studio to provide some insight into the New York 80s music scene. Larry started his career at 92.7 WLIR, where he became the …
01:16:03 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
1985 KROQ songs 106.7 to 101
It's a new year in more ways than one for the What Difference Does It Make podcast, as we go "back to the future" and begin our look at the songs KROQ in Los Angeles played in the year 1985. In this …
00:31:43 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
1985 in Pop Culture
1985 was a year filled with incredible highs: LIVE AID!, The Breakfast Club, Eddie Murphy, and some soul-crushing lows: New Coke, the Super Bowl halftime show, the film Gymkata. It's all worth revisi…
00:48:58 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
Greatest Hits of 2021
Welcome to our greatest hits episode! First time to What Difference Does It Make? This is the perfect start to discovering our 80s music podcast. We look back at the highlights from 2021, as we talk …
00:58:50 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
It Never Ends with Tom Scharpling
Fans of Tom Scharpling might think they know him well. After all, he's hosted his own radio show/podcast, The Best Show for 20 years. Turns out, we only knew about a small portion of his life. It Nev…
00:44:52 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
The Wild, the Phil and the What Difference Shuffle
Friend of the show, David Wild, returns, and he wanted to bring along his bestie, Phil Rosenthal. Phil is the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, and Somebody Feed Phil, so first thing we do is throw…
01:17:23 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
John Illsley: Life in Dire Straits
John Illsley knew he wanted more out of life than a safe career working in the logging industry. His life took a major turn when he met the Knopfler brothers; Mark and David. With John taking the bas…
00:56:13 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
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