Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The Bridge: Genre v. Generation, ’80s to ’10s

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this mid-month mini-episode of Hit Parade, host Chris Molanphy is joined by Ned Raggett, freelance music writer for All Music Guide and The Quietus and expert on the ’80s U.K. bands celebrated on the most recent full-length episode of Hit Parade. Chris and Ned discuss what they call the “holy quartet” of British postpunk bands—The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode and New Order—and Ned weighs in on the challenge of what to call this wave: Is it goth? mope-rock? Do these bands actually constitute a genre, or more of a generational cohort? Also, Chris quizzes a Slate Plus listener with some music trivia, and the contestant turns the tables with a chance to try to stump Chris with a trivia question of his own. And finally, Chris teases the upcoming full-length episode of Hit Parade, which will be a retrospective look at the 2010s.

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0:00.0	You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music.
0:12.3	Hey, everybody.
0:13.6	This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History.
0:18.7	Welcome to The Bridge.
0:20.1	Today, the world's trial that you did. podcast of Pop Chart History. Welcome to The Bridge.
0:41.8	That's Lament by The Cure, a deep cut on the UK goth rock band's 1983 album Japanese Whispers. An EP culled from that LP was the Cure's first album to chart in America. This song is just one of the many
0:47.7	dark foreboding tracks the Cure were recording in this period. In the song, Cure singer and songwriter Robert Smith sings mournfully
0:56.8	about a tragedy he witnessed underneath a bridge. And these mini episodes, Bridge,
1:10.8	are full-length monthly episodes. Give us a chance to catch up with listeners, and enjoy some hit parade trivia.
1:17.1	This month, I'm thrilled and honored to welcome a guest who's not only a longtime friend, but an estimable writer and critic.
1:25.4	I first encountered Ned Raggett when he was a freelancer on
1:29.9	all music, where he has written literally hundreds of reviews, including much of the UK
1:35.5	post-punk I cover in the latest full-length hit parade episode. Ned writes for numerous places,
1:42.3	including The Quietus, Band Camp, and KQED Arts.
1:47.2	Ned, welcome to the bridge.
1:49.3	All right. Hey, great to be here. Thanks very much for having me.
1:52.3	Thank you. You know, we had a funny conversation. I can't remember if it was September or October when you were saying, hey, is anybody going to do something about the fact that 30
2:01.0	years ago, right about now, all of these UK post-punk and goth rock acts were scoring hits on the
2:07.7	charts. Maybe somebody should do something about that. And I pinged you privately and I said,
2:12.6	shh, pst, don't tell anybody. I'm totally doing something with that. So where do I begin?
2:19.4	Where did your fandom for this music come from?
2:22.2	Well, that's an interesting question because even though I have, I claim no great authority,
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