Chart Music Podcast

[DrGreggles]

Listen right to the end!!!

[dr beat]

Fucken BA Robinson!

This is the best so far

[dr beat]

Actually no f them right off

[Epic Bisto]

Listen right to the end!!!

Still laughing and absolutely horrified thinking about this.

[Porter Dimi]

Great episode. Sarah Bee on Michael Jackson makes me wish she was on the show more.

[daf]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY UP!

Just been informed this was a show I recently donated to the podgang (looking for elusive 90's editions) - You're welcome!

[Schnapple]

The nineties episodes mean more to me, as I remember them quite clearly, so this was a total hoot. Also, yes, low-key in love with Sarah Bee and we have several mutual Facebook contacts, and she keeps arising as a 'suggested friend'.  I won't add her and lead with Bummer Dog, though.

[Brundle-Fly]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY UP!

Just been informed this was a show I recently donated to the podgang (looking for elusive 90's editions) - You're welcome!

Well done sir!

[non capisco]

Another episode full of highlights, not least of all Sarah's empathic take on the Jackson scandal. I have to say Al's anecdote about what went on at 'meet the readers' days at the scud mag he used to work for was pretty depressing and repugnant. I suppose his past career was always going to throw something that bleak up but I found it a bit weird delivered in the same 'here, you'll love this one' tone as something like Bummerdog.

The post-credits bit, fucking hell!

Also 'Did either of you review gigs where only seven people turned up?'
(beat)
'....Well, there was the Romo tour.'

[Epic Bisto]

Another episode full of highlights, not least of all Sarah's empathic take on the Jackson scandal. I have to say Al's anecdote about what went on at 'meet the readers' days at the scud mag he used to work for was pretty depressing and repugnant. I suppose his past career was always going to throw something that bleak up but I found it a bit weird delivered in the same 'here, you'll love this one' tone as something like Bummerdog.

To be fair, the mental image of a reader skipping down the street with four shopping bags of grot is quite endearing. His needs were met and no harm was done. Imagine going to your local chip shop and being allowed to take home as much cod and chips that you could fit in a rucksack. Sounds like a good deal to me.

As for that post-credits bit, was anyone reminded of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsCY8SjJ1Y

[non capisco]

To be fair, the mental image of a reader skipping down the street with four shopping bags of grot is quite endearing. His needs were met and no harm was done. Imagine going to your local chip shop and being allowed to take home as much cod and chips that you could fit in a rucksack. Sounds like a good deal to me.

It was more what was going on in that meeting room with the sugarcubes. You could hear Pricey's revulsion, quite rightly. It turned from larks to a less than cheery story about physical exploitation of women, then. A bit tonally off from the usual Chart Music fare, I'd argue.

[non capisco]

As for that post-credits bit, was anyone reminded of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsCY8SjJ1Y

Ha ha, yeah. I'm sure the "reader" who conjured up that story had that in mind.

'Scatman's World' is just a bare faced ripoff of 'Go West', isn't it?

[Brundle-Fly]

It was more what was going on in that meeting room with the sugarcubes. You could hear Pricey's revulsion, quite rightly. It turned from larks to a less than cheery story about physical exploitation of women, then. A bit tonally off from the usual Chart Music fare, I'd argue.

Come on, Einar Örn Benediktsson wasn't that bad!

Joking aside, I found their candour of working in the lowrent porn industry of nearly a quarter of a century ago rather fascinating.

[non capisco]

Ah, I was gonna do an Einar joke and all!

It was an interesting segment and I'm not trying to do a j'accuse on Al or anything but that detail was fuckin 'orrible. An anecdotal recall of some fairly stomach churning exploitation delivered with a bit more jocularity than I was comfortable with, tbh.

[Brundle-Fly]

Ah, I was gonna do an Einar joke and all!

It was an interesting segment and I'm not trying to do a j'accuse on Al or anything but that detail was fuckin 'orrible. An anecdotal recall of some fairly stomach churning exploitation delivered with a bit more jocularity than I was comfortable with, tbh.

Fair enough.

What I like about CMP is its unbridled non-censoroius tone. I can't bear this 'treading on eggshells' bollocks anymore. Sure, if something fucks you off, it must be challenged but I really embrace that flinty openess in podcasts that you don't get in regulated media.

[non capisco]

What I like about CMP is its unbridled non-censoroius tone. I can't bear this 'treading on eggshells' chicanery anymore. Sure, if something fucks you off, it must be challenged but I really embrace that flinty openess in podcasts that you don't get in regulated media.

Yeah, right enough. And it wasn't as if he was going "My employers were forcing women to have things eaten out of their genitals by a visiting bunch of creepy inadequates.....brilliant!". Such a grotty story though, thrown out within a bunch of more anodyne anecdotes and recounted in the same manner. It took me aback a bit. 

[Brundle-Fly]

Yeah, right enough. And it wasn't as if he was going "My employers were forcing women to have things eaten out of their genitals by a visiting bunch of creepy inadequates.....brilliant!". Such a grotty story though, thrown out within a bunch of more anodyne anecdotes and recounted in the same manner. It took me aback a bit.

Yes, it was a bit throwaway unpleasantness now you come to mention it. He's very flip about his days working under Richard Desmond, a right odious fucker, truth be told. I can't take any moral highground though for personal reasons.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/09/richard-desmond-crude-ruthless-proprietor-express-newspapers

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

My insomnia and Chart Music are such copacetic bedfellows. Sarah Bee, Pricey and Al are a great team, I could listen to them for - woohoo! - three hours.

These people cheer me up no end.

[Epic Bisto]

Yes, it was a bit throwaway unpleasantness now you come to mention it. He's very flip about his days working under Richard Desmond, a right odious fucker, truth be told. I can't take any moral highground though for personal reasons.

Which episode was it where he discussed Desmond's treatment of the gay magazine employees in the office? There wasn't any gloating over those stories - everybody including Al was rightly disgusted.

[Natnar]

Updated episode list by TOTP airdate

February 5th 1970, Episode #10 NK TP
June 22nd 1973 Episode #25 DS SP
November 15th 1973, Episode #3 TP SP
December 25th 1973 Episode #17 DS TP
April 11th 1974, Episode #9 SP DS
April 10th 1975 Episode #6 NK SP
April 29th 1976 Episode #18 TP SP
July 14th 1977 Episode #1 DS SB
October 6th 1977 Episode #23 NK TP
November 16th 1978 Episode #13 NK TP
February 1st 1979 Episode #20 TP SP
April 12th 1979 Episode #4 SP NK
August 14th 1980 Episode #5 TP DS
September 4th 1980 Episode #15 SP DS
September 24th 1981 Episode #8 TP SP
January 14th 1982 Episode #11 TP SP
May 6th 1982 Episode #27 SP TP
December 22nd 1983 Episode #16 NK SP
February 9th 1984 Episode #2 DS TP
August 9th 1984 Episode #26 TP NK
July 4th 1985 Episode #22 NK SP
August 22nd 1985 Episode #7 TP NK
July 31st 1986 Episode #24 SB TP
September 24th 1987 Episode #14 TP SB
June 15th 1989 Episode #19 SB NK
March 16th 1994 Episode #12 NK SP
May 11th 1995 Episode #21 DS TP
August 31st 1995 Episode #28 SB SP

So years still left to be covered, 1971, 1972, 1988, 1990-1993, anything post 1995

[gmoney]

"Could very well be the next Gary Neville" from the Montell Jordan song. Fantastic.

[Natnar]

Taylor is the one who has appeared on the most podcasts so far with Simon Price a couple of episodes behind him.

17 Taylor Parkes
15 Simon Price
11 Neil Kulkarni
8 David Stubbs
5 Sara Bee

[DrGreggles]

Needs more Bee!

Actually I think they're all great, she's just the one I have developed a crush on.

[DrGreggles]

"Could very well be the next Gary Neville" from the Montell Jordan song. Fantastic.

Sami Hyypia was mentioned in Beyonce's 'Crazy In Love' too.

Should we start a 'Songs That Reference Premier League Defenders' thread?

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

I think Sarah Bee is probably too busy to do more of them otherwise Al would be able to be more even with the spread. Taylor has plenty of time on his hands as he mentioned that he was out of work in an earlier episode.

[buzby]

Didn't do much for me this one. Too much time spent on the grim details of Al's career working for Desmond, and Bee's defence of Jackson was a bit contradictory (we have to have sympathy for people who were abused, but Michael was innocent) and had a touch of the 'Leave Michael Alone!' about it. Price's assessment of 'we will never know' is a bit more realistic.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

"Can you imagine Taylor being in Friends?" really made me laugh.

[daf]

So years still left to be covered, 1971, 1972, 1988, 1990-1993, anything post 1995

Stay tuned -

[Epic Bisto]

The playlist for this episode is up on the Youtubes. Guess which video is the last one on the list?

[Satchmo Distel]

The porn stuff is generally too laddish for me and I think Sarah was trying to make that point as subtly as she could. Al may feel that humour is the best way to deal with it - to show the absurdity and grotesqueness of the industry - but it perhaps assumes too much about the irony boundaries of the listeners.

I was somewhat shocked that MM writers felt they needed to supplement their income by not turning down jobs with porn mags, but I also have memories of living in circumstances where I would have taken the gig.