Which Decade Is Tops For Pops?

It's an episode of pure pop joy, as the Face Of 68 ditches the psych, deep uncoolness goes full circle and becomes deeply cool, a bunch of style mag trendies give UK dance culture a significant nudge forwards, idiotically happy faces are grafted onto sad songs, a theft is denied, and a singer-songwriter escapes the curse of The Brits.YouTube playlist // Spotify playlist // extra tracks & bonus bitsTo join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:Patreon // Twitter: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.comThe voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Tuesday 6th June 2023.

The Eurovision results are revealed, and we have a bit of a chat about this year's contest along the way. Also features the return of DJ Trev, and our first look at this season's Master Scoreboard.

To coincide with Eurovision season, we bring you a special episode, in which we compare and contrast six Eurovision runners-up from six decades, exactly ten years apart. Who will tickle your fancy? Will it be the Swiss chanson, the worldwide hit from Spain, Israel's singer before she got "world music" credibility, the United Kingdom's game showbiz hoofer, Belgium's dark horse "tone poem", or Azerbaijan's perspex box? In DJ Trev's absence, Eurovision expert (and former Eurovision correspondent for Gay Times and Attitude) Chris Higgins joins Mike Atkinson and Nick Parkhouse to take a detailed deep dive into six decades of the world's biggest music show.(Please note that Chris was battling significant audio problems during this recording, so despite painstaking post-production repairs, his contributions aren't as sonically HQ as we would have liked.)YouTube playlist // Spotify playlist // extra tracks & bonus bitsTo join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:Patreon // Twitter: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.comThe voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Wednesday 17th May 2023.

As we await Trev's return, pop expert and former journo Chris Higgins kindly steps in to join Mike and Nick for the latest results. (Warning: Chris was having to battle a constantly fluctuating signal, so some of his contributions are a little less than full hi-fi quality.)

The grumpy old Manfreds return, and we ponder whether there's any psych in their pop. The Seventies rehash the Fifties (again!), The Eighties serve us with sophisti-pop (as no one called it at the time), the magic randomiser chucks us a double dose of Gwen, Milton Keynes indie meets downtempo EDM, and we take an extended NME package tour digression.YouTube playlist // Spotify playlist // extra tracks & bonus bitsTo join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:Patreon // Twitter: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.comThe voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Wednesday 3rd May 2023.

Join Mike, Nick and the AI-generated TREVBOT as they reveal and discuss the results of Season 2, Episode 1.

It's a brand new season, the scoreboard has been reset, and you are hereby cordially invited to join the Which Decade Supporters Club on Patreon (yes, it's time to start rattling the begging bowl). In this episode, Motown makes its debut, glam rock leathers are swapped for brushed denim and cheesecloth, the Pet Shop Boys coyly emerge via Patsy Kensit, two of hip hop's biggest names do battle, and bassline house makes its first (and almost certainly last) appearance.YouTube playlist // Spotify playlist // extra tracks & bonus bitsTo join in with the voting, please submit your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites, plus your "most bad and hated" selection, to:Patreon // Twitter: @whichdecadetops // Facebook // whichdecadeistops@gmail.comThe voting deadline for this episode is 6pm UK time, Wednesday 19th March 2023.

In this special episode, we announce the final results of Which Decade Season One, stopping off at each decade to have a good think about What It All Means, and picking our own highs and lows from the Pop Hits Of Yesteryear that the Magic Randomiser has seen fit to throw at us.

It's a wrap on Toxic Masculinity Week, and we have the results of the voting, plus the pick of your comments on this troublesome set of tunes.