The Giddy Carousel of Pop
@giddypoppod.bsky.social
A Smash Hits appreciation podcast. Follow us on your podcast app of choice.
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He’s wearing glasses so surely the pop caption would be
‘Noddy Frame’
‘Noddy Frame’
February 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM
He’s wearing glasses so surely the pop caption would be
‘Noddy Frame’
‘Noddy Frame’
Our @wholehogg.bsky.social is riding the giddy carousel - in a Noddy car. The twerp.
February 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Our @wholehogg.bsky.social is riding the giddy carousel - in a Noddy car. The twerp.
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If today is involving any form of reconnection with real life after the festive period, ease yourself back in with variously compiled pop chat. The latest episode of Back to Now with guest @whenisbirths.bsky.social is the perfect January listen!
All podcast places or here: linktr.ee/poprambler
All podcast places or here: linktr.ee/poprambler
January 5, 2026 at 10:38 AM
If today is involving any form of reconnection with real life after the festive period, ease yourself back in with variously compiled pop chat. The latest episode of Back to Now with guest @whenisbirths.bsky.social is the perfect January listen!
All podcast places or here: linktr.ee/poprambler
All podcast places or here: linktr.ee/poprambler
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Ep 73. Make Christmas Great Again.
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social gets to grip with the new releases. We pick our year-end favourites. News, readers letters, a festive quiz and a heap of crate digging nonsense. pod.link/1456163688
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Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social gets to grip with the new releases. We pick our year-end favourites. News, readers letters, a festive quiz and a heap of crate digging nonsense. pod.link/1456163688
Support the show
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
December 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Ep 73. Make Christmas Great Again.
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social gets to grip with the new releases. We pick our year-end favourites. News, readers letters, a festive quiz and a heap of crate digging nonsense. pod.link/1456163688
Support the show
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
Gareth @justplayed.bsky.social gets to grip with the new releases. We pick our year-end favourites. News, readers letters, a festive quiz and a heap of crate digging nonsense. pod.link/1456163688
Support the show
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
Some adverts from 1982
December 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Some adverts from 1982
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@wholehogg.bsky.social @giddypoppod.bsky.social are you and Simon aware of this? I reckon at least one of is.😊
Watching Father Ted’s a Christmassy Ted and remembered this nugget of pop trivia, the priest with the most boring voice Father Fitzgerald (Sean Barrett) in Ireland's largest lingeree section was the cover star of The Smith's single "How Soon is Now" a still from the 1958 film "Dunkirk".
December 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
@wholehogg.bsky.social @giddypoppod.bsky.social are you and Simon aware of this? I reckon at least one of is.😊
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Back to NOW! New Episode! 🎧
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Back to NOW! New Episode! 🎧
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
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Ep 72. A bumper episode... we're joined by comedian James Mullinger, we have positivity in the post bag, @justplayed.bsky.social is back with new releases, quiz, news and all your favourite record collecting nonsense.
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Support the show
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Support the show
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ep 72. A bumper episode... we're joined by comedian James Mullinger, we have positivity in the post bag, @justplayed.bsky.social is back with new releases, quiz, news and all your favourite record collecting nonsense.
link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD
Support the show
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD
Support the show
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
Great night out seeing Adam in Sheffield. His drummers were superb.
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Great night out seeing Adam in Sheffield. His drummers were superb.
Smash Hits were there for ALL enquiries
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Smash Hits were there for ALL enquiries
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Here's Ric talking about the history of the Cuban Boys and criticising the band's competition on the album Now! 45.
Back to Now! New Episode! 🎧
Revisit the first NOW of the 21st century with guest @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - it’s NOW45! Millennial hangovers and pop tunes aplenty!
Episode and full album playlist available here or where you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/poprambler
Revisit the first NOW of the 21st century with guest @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - it’s NOW45! Millennial hangovers and pop tunes aplenty!
Episode and full album playlist available here or where you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/poprambler
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Here's Ric talking about the history of the Cuban Boys and criticising the band's competition on the album Now! 45.
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Look at all the pretty colours and the beautiful music straining inside them straining to be heard! Let's see how much of it I can release into this evening's Soho Radio show. 6-8pm live.
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Look at all the pretty colours and the beautiful music straining inside them straining to be heard! Let's see how much of it I can release into this evening's Soho Radio show. 6-8pm live.
Great project - looking for unheard and obscure albums reviewed in ver Hits and giving them a short review.
Take a look at #smashhitsalbumreviews
Take a look at #smashhitsalbumreviews
It’s Duran Duran on the cusp of greatness on the cover of Smash Hits (Oct 15-28 1981) I’ve got ‘Dare’, ‘See Jungle..’ & Blondie’s Greatest Hits but the others are unheard #smashhitsalbumreviews
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Great project - looking for unheard and obscure albums reviewed in ver Hits and giving them a short review.
Take a look at #smashhitsalbumreviews
Take a look at #smashhitsalbumreviews
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Ep 71. We go format crazy with @avavsystems.bsky.social. Taylor Swift has done some variants. Madonna has annoyed us, again, counterfeit scams... a gloomy post box...plus news, quiz and all your usual crate digging larks.
link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD
Support the show.
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD
Support the show.
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Ep 71. We go format crazy with @avavsystems.bsky.social. Taylor Swift has done some variants. Madonna has annoyed us, again, counterfeit scams... a gloomy post box...plus news, quiz and all your usual crate digging larks.
link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD
Support the show.
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD
Support the show.
ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
New arrival at Giddy Pop Towers...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New arrival at Giddy Pop Towers...
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Not a glowing review of Geno in Smash Hits, March 1980
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Not a glowing review of Geno in Smash Hits, March 1980
It's late December 1980 and the next issue of ver Hits will have a free badge. Which one are you holding out for?
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's late December 1980 and the next issue of ver Hits will have a free badge. Which one are you holding out for?
Terrible news - thank you for some wonderful musical memories Dave x
Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
Synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid
Dave Ball, who as one half of Soft Cell brought dark, cutting-edge synth-pop to the masses, has died aged 66.
Representatives for the musician said he “passed away peacefully in his sleep at his London home on Wednesday”. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Terrible news - thank you for some wonderful musical memories Dave x
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Alexei Sayle and his Comic Strip chums channelling Dexys on their 1981 homage to Pop-Up Toasters
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Alexei Sayle and his Comic Strip chums channelling Dexys on their 1981 homage to Pop-Up Toasters
Our very own @simongmusic.bsky.social will be spinning the platters that matter in the glamorous surroundings of Glossop this Saturday. All in support of @bobfischer.bsky.social and The Haunted Generation. It’ll be a hoot!
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Our very own @simongmusic.bsky.social will be spinning the platters that matter in the glamorous surroundings of Glossop this Saturday. All in support of @bobfischer.bsky.social and The Haunted Generation. It’ll be a hoot!
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What a wonderful episode - I've laughed and learned! I've also been saving up hearing Don't Stand Me Down for the first time until I heard @giddypoppod.bsky.social on the subject, and now I can't bloody wait! But in the interests of dressing appropriately while I do it, I'm off to buy a nice suit.
🎠 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW 🎠
We're joined by
@oharaviolin.bsky.social @kevadams.bsky.social @simonprice.bsky.social and Chris Heath to discuss all things Don't Stand Me Down on it's 40th anniversary.
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We're joined by
@oharaviolin.bsky.social @kevadams.bsky.social @simonprice.bsky.social and Chris Heath to discuss all things Don't Stand Me Down on it's 40th anniversary.
Listen here podfollow.com/the-giddy-ca....
Also now on YouTube! youtube.com/@thegiddycar...
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
What a wonderful episode - I've laughed and learned! I've also been saving up hearing Don't Stand Me Down for the first time until I heard @giddypoppod.bsky.social on the subject, and now I can't bloody wait! But in the interests of dressing appropriately while I do it, I'm off to buy a nice suit.
A primer in the Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall from ver Hits.
October 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A primer in the Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall from ver Hits.
Love this Smash Hits meets Blake's Seven mash up artwork
1 WEEK left to pre-order this red vinyl/mag bundle. A love letter to #Blakes7 and the music of its era by @philheeks.bsky.social Think Laura Brannigan meets Bronski Beat! Raising money for charity, in memory of Jacqueline Pearce. PRE-ORDER: bit.ly/markedtokill VIDEO: bit.ly/federationvi...
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Love this Smash Hits meets Blake's Seven mash up artwork