Music Trivia: The MTV and Alt-Rock Edition

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

Slate Podcasts

Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Bridge is back, and this time it's tackling some music trivia about the heyday of MTV, and some alt-rock favorites. Play along at home and quiz yourself by listening to The Bridge. If you’d like to be a contestant on an upcoming show, sign up for a Slate Plus membership, and then enter as a contestant here. You can also enter if you’re already a Slate Plus member. Want your question featured in an upcoming show? Email [email protected]. Podcast production by T. J. Raphael Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade,
0:03.7	Slade's podcast of pop chart history.
0:06.0	Welcome to The Bridge.
0:08.3	In popular music, The Bridge is a transition in the middle of a song.
0:12.1	It's the section that contrasts with the verse and
0:14.5	the chorus and gets you from point A to point B. We call these many episodes of hit parade,
0:20.1	The Bridge, because they serve the same function. It's also our little homage to James Brown who, on his 1970 Smash Get Up I feel like being a sex machine,
0:30.0	utters what is probably the most famous reference to the bridge of a song ever.
0:34.4	He literally takes you to the bridge.
0:36.4	Get up, get on up.
0:38.4	Get up, get on up.
0:40.4	Bobby.
0:41.4	Should I take him to the bridge. Go ahead. Take him on to the bridge. Take them to the bridge go ahead take them on to the bridge take them to the bridge
0:47.6	take them to the bridge take them to the bridge
0:52.1	I'm thrilled to be joined this month by Steve Liktai, who is the executive
0:57.4	producer of Slate Podcasts and my producer for the most recent episode of Hit Parade
1:02.3	about Myly Cyrus and the history of the music video.
1:05.6	Hi Steve.
1:06.4	Hello Chris.
1:07.4	Thank you so much for being here.
1:09.1	We're doing this episode in Slate's DC Studios.
1:12.2	I split my time between DC and New York and this is a DC month and
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