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A podcast revisiting every song to hit number one on the ARIA charts in Australia from 1983 - present. The good. The bad. The mediocre. The, what's between bad and mediocre?
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Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
1981, the year Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats opened in the West End and in the world of culture, did Zorro The Gay Blade come out that year?
1981 Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkakLhwTu5gRrxSGVG4lvd0f
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Stepping back in time to 1982, the year Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs, permanently ending drug use worldwide, and well, something else must have happened. Did Grease 2 come out that year?
1982 Music Video Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkaTj4MUtbMP5QRniwQ2bnFE
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
2022, the year Queen Elizabeth II died, and well something else must have happened? Did Minions: The Rise of Grunge come out that year?
2022 YouTube Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkZIxt2uBXJBMMtNZG3g71GF&si=300IWyWO5NSbsGVM
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
2021, the year the people, to quote Rage Against the Machine, tried to "take the power back" in the US Capitol Riots, and well something else must have happened? Did The Boss Baby 2: Family Business come out that year?
2021 YouTube video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkZ-vjmoAP7i1wDSEnCQZva1
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
2020, the year a global pandemic kept most of the world inside permanently, except to go to the supermarket to buy magazines to use as toilet paper as there wasn't any, and well, something else must have happened. Did The Croods: A New Age come out that year?
2020 Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkYy2EEre5rVu8lY-_U443hu
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
The 2010s, the decade in which we transitioned away from the traditional way of listening to music, the mp3, and towards streaming shittier sounding digital files. The streaming era has provided us with many highs, although none come to mind at the moment, and many, many lows such as the entire Black Eyes Peas discography and a baby voice scatting novelty song reaching number one for half a calendar year.
2010s Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkaY20G0RJ9dWJVVyiRwlVyw
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
2019, the year Notre Dame burned down, and well something else must have happened. Did Men In Black: International come out that year?
2019 YouTube playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkYP0ZCVLZPqzx5agxiOnWt_
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
2018, the year the #MeToo movement went global with millions of survivors sharing their stories, and well something else must have happened? Did Sherlock Gnomes come out that year?
2018 playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkbBeg9oDhhW8AEhauETowIl
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
2017, the year Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the USA and, well, something else must have happened. Did the Baywatch movie come out that year?
2017 Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkb3-UZQCTuQYpo2gcsKht9Y
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
2016, the year the UK voted to leave the European Union and the US elected Donald Trump as President, both of which went very smoothly and, well, something else must have happened. Did The Angry Birds movie come out that year?
2016 Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSsyWdHgwwkZ8R0N4gcJgYO8ajbU8Fjic