Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The Bridge: Monster Drums Edition
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Think you know music? Hit Parade, the music history podcast from Slate, is back with a new episode of The Bridge.
In this mini-episode of Hit Parade, Host Chris Molanphy is joined by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding of the podcast Switched on Pop. Together, they quiz one listener contestant with some music trivia. The player also has the opportunity to turn the tables: They get a chance to try to stump Molanphy, a music journalist for the past 25 years, with one of their own trivia questions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.9 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to The Bridge. |
| 0:14.8 | Everybody wants to find graffiti bridge. |
| 0:18.2 | Something to believe in. |
| 0:19.8 | A reason to believe that there's a heaven apart. |
| 0:25.1 | That's Prince's Graffiti Bridge from the 1990 movie and album of the same name. |
| 0:31.3 | The film and soundtrack were Prince's attempt to bridge his career from the 80s into the 90s, and the song talks about |
| 0:39.4 | a heaven above. In other words, the afterworld, a longtime lyrical obsession of the late |
| 0:45.3 | Prince. It's one last callback to our hit parade live show last month about posthumous hits |
| 0:51.7 | and hitmakers from the Great Beyond. |
| 1:03.2 | And these mini episodes bridge our full-length monthly hit parade episodes, give us a chance to catch up with listeners, and enjoy some trivia. |
| 1:14.4 | This month, I'm excited to welcome two very special guests, co-hosts of their own amazing podcast about how pop music works. Voxes switched on pop. |
| 1:20.1 | Please welcome songwriter Charlie Harding and musicologist Nate Sloan. Hey, guys. |
| 1:20.5 | Hello. |
| 1:27.9 | That's so amazing to hear your voices on my podcast. I've been, I've had you guys in my ears for so many months now. |
| 1:33.1 | It's, it's a long time coming. Yeah. Well, I feel like we were kind of willed together Wonder Twins power style because not only do we tweet at each other all the time, but there have been |
| 1:39.7 | several listeners of our respective podcasts who've been saying for a while that we should |
| 1:43.5 | probably team up and, you know, give the people what they want, I guess is my philosophy. Totally, yeah. We could either fight to the death or combine forces, and I'm glad we've chosen the latter. Super team. Right. I mean, if we've learned nothing from Avengers endgame, the joining forces thing is the way to go. For those who are not familiar with Switched on Pop, and frankly, if you're a hip |
| 2:03.1 | parade listener, you totally should be. |
| 2:05.0 | Please tell our listeners what your podcast brings to the table each week and what you guys |
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