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Dave and Holly talk about their favorite 80s music albums from 1982. Holly liked to dance and swoon citing Yaz and ABC. Dave liked to feel morbid citing Springsteen's Nebraska. However, they agree that 1999 was what made 1982 special. Thanks Prince!Listen to all the music on our Spotify playlistGet three FREE months of Amazon Music courtesy of your 80s music aficionados at What Difference Does It Make
Dave and Holly continue their talk about their favorite 80s music records from 1982. Holly seems to favor bands from Down Under like INXS and Split Enz while Dave goes for odd looking Englishmen like Elvis Costello and Richard Thompson.Listen to the music discussed on our Spotify playlist Get three FREE months of Amazon Music courtesy of your 80s music aficionados at What Difference Does It Make
Holly and Dave get to interview one of their radio heroes, the one and only Freddie Snakeskin, air talent and PD for KROQ Roq of the 80s. In part 1, Freddie talks about his origin story and the cast of characters that helped shape the station.Get three FREE months of Amazon Music courtesy of your 80s music aficionados at What Difference Does It Make
Freddy Snakeskin talks about helping the innovator of the "ROQ of the 80s" format, Rick Caroll manage KROQ and then taking over for Rick and becoming the Program Director. Freddy also discusses the amazing on air talent including Rachel Donahue, Dusty Street, Jed The Fish, Rodney Bingenheimer and Sam Frees. We also touch upon the infamous KROQ trips to Hawaii. Get three FREE months of Amazon Music courtesy of your 80s music aficionados at What Difference Does It Make
In the final of our 3 part interview with Freddy Snakeskin. We talk about more about the air talent including Richard Blade and Swedish Egil and the beginning of the end for the ROQ of the 80s format. Freddy discusses his flip to MARS FM and once again landing back at KROQ HD2 ROQ of the 80sGet three FREE months of Amazon Music courtesy of your 80s music aficionados at What Difference Does It Make
Dave and Holly talk about the songs that we heard on KROQ, Roq of the 80s in 1982. The first song on the list "I Had Sex With ET" by Barnes and Barnes leads into a podcast within our podcast, "Movie Talk" with Dave and Holly. We eventually start talking about some of our favorite artists including The Clash, Joe Jackson and Squeeze.Follow along on the Spotify playlistGet three FREE months of Amazon Music courtesy of your 80s music aficionados at What Difference Does It Make
Simon LeBon may have said being on a boat for Duran Duran's Rio video was a joke but Holly and Dave knew this something to aspire to. We should all look this good whilst sailing. The real joke was the "Sex" song by Berlin. And there was nothing funny about German band Trio singing about not being loved, nor was Sparks being funny while being Eaten By The Monster Of Love. It's all under discussion on this episode of "What Difference Does It Make...
Dave and Holly talk about the the seven Inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2019. In this episode, we start off our conversation with Winger(?!?) and ending it with MTV's Real World. In between, we do manage to talk about our love for Stevie Nicks, The Zombies and Roxy Music. Holly desperately tries to guess which artist(s) have been assigned to officially do the induction speech for the ceremony...
In anticipation of the 2019 Inductees, Dave and Holly spend most of their time talking about wanting to see Janet and Def Leppard in Vegas and The Cure in Australia. Dave struggles with the spelling of Leppard and Holly struggles with trying to guess the individual's that will induct each artist into the Rock Hall. Dave also gets to fanboy on Radiohead and Holly gets to fangirl on The Cure. Hear the music on the "What Difference Does It Make" Spotify playlist...
Holly and Dave are back at it going back to 1982 and talking about the songs we heard back in 1982 on KROQ Roq of The 80s in Los Angeles. In this episode we go through songs 90 to 80. We realize that the Translator's "Everywhere That I'm Not" would not be as effective in the social media era, Dave learns that Mink Deville, much like Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull is a band name and not an actual person in the band, Holly does her Joey Tribbiani impersonation and Dave destroys the studio...