Episode #83: Turn On, Tune In, Rock Out #9 - NBC's Le Disco special, 1978
This week Roger looks back at the height of the disco era, when NBC decided to pre-empt SNL for a special shot in a soundstage turned into a club. The...
Old Man Yells at Music
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A podcast where an oldish man talks measuredly about the pop music and pop charts of the past, looking at the songs and artists that have succeeded to varying degrees over the years.
Episode #82: October 3. 1981
The Old Man goes back 40 years to look at the of an early 80s autumn. There's rock from multiple countries, an ode to international female industry, o...
Episode #81: September 23, 1978
This week Roger goes back to a time when stoners ruled the box office, hippies played the Pyramids, and everyone else was getting down and boogie oogi...
Episode #80: The Old Man's Ultimate Tournament of Uneasy Riders of the 80s - Quarterfinals
This week it's the Round of 8 in the search for the most atypical US pop hit of the 80s. War battles horniness, traditional gender roles take on vocal...
Episode #79: Tales From the Bargain Bin #9 - Toy Matinee
Roger returns to the discount rack to talk about an album he paid actual Canadian cents for nearly 30 years ago. It's the only album by a group led by...
Episode #78: September 5, 1992
This week Roger goes back to when the kids were going back to school 29 years ago. There would be no cartoons for them on NBC that year, but on the ra...
Episode #77: August 19, 1989
This time Roger looks at the hits from the late stages of the last summer of the 80s. We've got crazy people offering comfort, a hair metal band's ide...
Episode #76: Busted Bubbles of 1976
Roger’s Busted Bubbles series continues with a look at songs that couldn't quite make it to the big time of the Hot 100 in 1976. They were loveable pa...
Episode #75: August 7. 1971
This time Roger goes back 50 years to look at the charts of the summer of '71. We've got hippy-dippy folk, preaching greasers, a legend getting bluesy...
Episode #74: July 19. 1997
This week Roger looks back to a time when Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones were erasing memories on the big screen, Chuck Norris was showing why you don...