novelty songs

Welcome to all our new listeners in the Pitcairn Islands! In a packed episode, ElTele rejects tea bags, and continues on his jazz guitar odyssey. Nice! The Captain reviews the debut crime novel by Scottish comedian and raconteur Frankie Boyle.

In our main feature, we examine The Guardian's list of the 70 greatest singles which reached number two in the UK charts. Are these records better than the number ones which beat them to the top spot? How often did novelty records get to number one, and why? ElTele digs into the six part Story of Only Fools and Horses documentary, talks about the career of series writer John Sullivan, and the 'spinoff film and TV series' phenomenon.

We round off the episode with comments on the controversy at the football World Cup.

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Darryl Charles ("Black Gentrifier," DTF Podcast, The Layoff Kids), hangs out with Chip and James to talk about what all the cool kids are and were doing at any given moment. They go through some of the biggest fads of all time, James talks about the craziest fad diets that have ever existed, and Chip goes through the history of the novelty song. So get your Tamagotchi and some Tang and listen in! 

Welcome to an all-new Films for the Void!, Episode 10! In this episode, Landon interviews  Novelty Songs brainchild Tyler Common, who enters the void to talk about Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson's 2001 film Shrek! Together, the pair chat about the ins and outs of starting a new musical project, The Maine's new album XOXO: From Love & Anxiety in Real Time, and some of Common's favorite films of all-time - all on the latest episode of Films for the Void!
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Theme Music by Meghan Gove

We're confronting the fact that Leonard Nimoy covered "Proud Mary," and it's got us talking about blithe confidence, celebrity side projects, and the profound confusion caused by terrible art.

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This episode, we’re doing a deep dive on a song that means a lot to Germans who remember the heady days of reunification in 1989. If you want to do your own exploration of the earworm that may* have ended the Cold War, check out:

• David Hasselhoff - Looking For Freedom Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/h2f9dumn8DM (We’re listening to this at 9:10 in the episode)
• David Hasselhoff - Looking For Freedom Live in Berlin (1989): https://youtu.be/dYVi7n7aoB4 (Starting at 14:52 in the episode)
• David Hasselhoff & André Rieu - Knight Rider Theme Song & Looking For Freedom: https://youtu.be/BSeWA8f0Qv0 (We start watching this at 23:16 in the episode)

Special thanks to Aaron P for listening and giving feedback. Much appreciated.

* It absolutely did not.

2020 may be miserable, but it's STILL HALLOWEEN DAMN IT. So we assembled a crack team of the Flop House gang, plus comedy writers Mike Reiss and Ken Keeler (who, between them, are responsible for much of the greatness of The Simpsons, The Critic, and Futurama) to discuss the most important and timely issue possible -- the 1962 novelty hit, The Monster Mash.

Also, if you're reading this on the day of release, 10/31, you still have until midnight to donate to charity and be entered in our raffle to win exclusive Flop House merch! Full instructions beyond the link!

Yes, Heidi Klum recorded a Christmas song, and no, we can't believe it either. Her Teutonic hubris has us talking about frightened children, Seal's domestic coping strategies, and those rare cultural artifacts that deserve both an F and an A.
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We're ranking songs called "Jump," and that's got us talking about everything from Gerald Ford to childhood fights to the secret randiness of calypso music. Oh, and there's a sidebar about Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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