Mike Atkinson
@whichdecadetops.bsky.social
Podcasts: Which Decade Is Tops For Pops?, Record Mirror Disco Charts
Book: James Hamilton's Disco Pages, 1975-1982
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Book: James Hamilton's Disco Pages, 1975-1982
https://linktr.ee/mikeatkinson1
Reposted by Mike Atkinson
Reading the excellent second volume of James Hamilton's Disco Pages, expertly reassembled by @whichdecadetops.bsky.social, and although he's into the '80s now it's still startling, though amusing, to see how much my Young Punctum writing seemed to have been influenced by his reviewing style!
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Reading the excellent second volume of James Hamilton's Disco Pages, expertly reassembled by @whichdecadetops.bsky.social, and although he's into the '80s now it's still startling, though amusing, to see how much my Young Punctum writing seemed to have been influenced by his reviewing style!
I had a splendid time on Saturday with @dj-greg-wilson.bsky.social at the launch for the new James Hamilton book, after which I reconstructed a set from early 1984, detouring into a late 1983 set when he played 24 electro-funk records in 24 minutes. Here's the mix: www.mixcloud.com/miketd/james...
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I had a splendid time on Saturday with @dj-greg-wilson.bsky.social at the launch for the new James Hamilton book, after which I reconstructed a set from early 1984, detouring into a late 1983 set when he played 24 electro-funk records in 24 minutes. Here's the mix: www.mixcloud.com/miketd/james...
Reposted by Mike Atkinson
This has just arrived and it looks brilliant. That's the bedtime reading sorted for a good while.
James Hamilton's Dance Pages 1983-1989, an 800 page hardback, will be published on 12th December - but you can already pre-order a copy at superweirdsubstance.com/product/jame...
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This has just arrived and it looks brilliant. That's the bedtime reading sorted for a good while.
Reposted by Mike Atkinson
The first volume is brilliant, and I'm so looking forward to this. James Hamilton's Record Mirror column was a must-read for me until about 1985,and led me to discover some real gems.
James Hamilton's Dance Pages 1983-1989, an 800 page hardback, will be published on 12th December - but you can already pre-order a copy at superweirdsubstance.com/product/jame...
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The first volume is brilliant, and I'm so looking forward to this. James Hamilton's Record Mirror column was a must-read for me until about 1985,and led me to discover some real gems.
James Hamilton's Dance Pages 1983-1989, an 800 page hardback, will be published on 12th December - but you can already pre-order a copy at superweirdsubstance.com/product/jame...
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
James Hamilton's Dance Pages 1983-1989, an 800 page hardback, will be published on 12th December - but you can already pre-order a copy at superweirdsubstance.com/product/jame...
Record Mirror Disco Charts takes a look at a Top 20 from April 1980, with the help of John Morales: remixer, producer, DJ, and best known in the 1980s for his M&M mixes with the late Sergio Munzibai.
shows.acast.com/record-mirro... and all the usual podcast places.
shows.acast.com/record-mirro... and all the usual podcast places.
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Record Mirror Disco Charts takes a look at a Top 20 from April 1980, with the help of John Morales: remixer, producer, DJ, and best known in the 1980s for his M&M mixes with the late Sergio Munzibai.
shows.acast.com/record-mirro... and all the usual podcast places.
shows.acast.com/record-mirro... and all the usual podcast places.
July 1976: as the nation sweltered, Peter Hook was finding his true path, having seen the Sex Pistols live in Manchester a month earlier. Meanwhile, the RM Disco Chart mixed pop & rock crossover hits with soul, funk, disco and the ever-present "slowies". shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
July 1976: as the nation sweltered, Peter Hook was finding his true path, having seen the Sex Pistols live in Manchester a month earlier. Meanwhile, the RM Disco Chart mixed pop & rock crossover hits with soul, funk, disco and the ever-present "slowies". shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
Which Decade S5 E10: Roy Orbison, David Bowie, Lionel Richie, Eternal, Jamelia, James Blunt.
Three R&B-pop tunes rub up against three chaps of varying degrees of coolness, thus completing this season's selections.
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(Track listing in the ALT text)
Three R&B-pop tunes rub up against three chaps of varying degrees of coolness, thus completing this season's selections.
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(Track listing in the ALT text)
October 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Which Decade S5 E10: Roy Orbison, David Bowie, Lionel Richie, Eternal, Jamelia, James Blunt.
Three R&B-pop tunes rub up against three chaps of varying degrees of coolness, thus completing this season's selections.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
(Track listing in the ALT text)
Three R&B-pop tunes rub up against three chaps of varying degrees of coolness, thus completing this season's selections.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
(Track listing in the ALT text)
Which Decade Results: Cardiac Kimchi.
With a little bit of this, and a little bit of that - and even the occasional result - we review the voting from our last main episode.
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With a little bit of this, and a little bit of that - and even the occasional result - we review the voting from our last main episode.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Which Decade Results: Cardiac Kimchi.
With a little bit of this, and a little bit of that - and even the occasional result - we review the voting from our last main episode.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
With a little bit of this, and a little bit of that - and even the occasional result - we review the voting from our last main episode.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Reposted by Mike Atkinson
keeping the 1982 vibe going with this edition of the Record Mirror Disco Charts podcast featuring a very engaging guest, none other than Arthur Baker. very fun and very interesting, lots of familiar names from the poll pass by: open.spotify.com/episode/3WmS...
8th May 1982, with Arthur Baker
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October 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
keeping the 1982 vibe going with this edition of the Record Mirror Disco Charts podcast featuring a very engaging guest, none other than Arthur Baker. very fun and very interesting, lots of familiar names from the poll pass by: open.spotify.com/episode/3WmS...
Which Decade S5E9: a Heritage Chart comeback, some persistent shapeshifters, France's Candle In The Wind, diva-house's purple patch, Kid Rock's mate reveals multiple levels, and Parkycore in its purest form.
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Track listing in the ALT text.
Voting deadline: Mon Oct 20
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Track listing in the ALT text.
Voting deadline: Mon Oct 20
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Which Decade S5E9: a Heritage Chart comeback, some persistent shapeshifters, France's Candle In The Wind, diva-house's purple patch, Kid Rock's mate reveals multiple levels, and Parkycore in its purest form.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Track listing in the ALT text.
Voting deadline: Mon Oct 20
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Track listing in the ALT text.
Voting deadline: Mon Oct 20
Which Decade Results: Dan joins us from Idaho, we find a damp biscuit in the back of the snack cupboard, and a whoops-excuse-me threatens to derail the entire episode.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Which Decade Results: Dan joins us from Idaho, we find a damp biscuit in the back of the snack cupboard, and a whoops-excuse-me threatens to derail the entire episode.
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shows.acast.com/which-decade...
If 20 year-old electro-funk fanatic me had known that one day he would be talking to Arthur Baker in granular detail about the music of 1982, he might have spontaneously combusted. This is a wonderful episode, and a particular thrill to publish.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If 20 year-old electro-funk fanatic me had known that one day he would be talking to Arthur Baker in granular detail about the music of 1982, he might have spontaneously combusted. This is a wonderful episode, and a particular thrill to publish.
shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
NEW WHICH DECADE: Marcello Minerbi, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Princess, TLC, Kelly Clarkson, Lost Frequencies.
An accelerating plate-smasher, two country covers, a hidden rivalry revealed, "alternative is a relative concept", and a gateway-drug flat-smasher.
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An accelerating plate-smasher, two country covers, a hidden rivalry revealed, "alternative is a relative concept", and a gateway-drug flat-smasher.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NEW WHICH DECADE: Marcello Minerbi, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Princess, TLC, Kelly Clarkson, Lost Frequencies.
An accelerating plate-smasher, two country covers, a hidden rivalry revealed, "alternative is a relative concept", and a gateway-drug flat-smasher.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
An accelerating plate-smasher, two country covers, a hidden rivalry revealed, "alternative is a relative concept", and a gateway-drug flat-smasher.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Which Decade Results: Nick's Sweaty Brown Envelope.
New Patreon subscriber Mike joins us for a look at the voting for S5E6, where a last place sends Trev "incandescent with rage", a JLS/Morrissey hypocrisy is posited, and Nick takes delivery of a clammy gift.
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New Patreon subscriber Mike joins us for a look at the voting for S5E6, where a last place sends Trev "incandescent with rage", a JLS/Morrissey hypocrisy is posited, and Nick takes delivery of a clammy gift.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Which Decade Results: Nick's Sweaty Brown Envelope.
New Patreon subscriber Mike joins us for a look at the voting for S5E6, where a last place sends Trev "incandescent with rage", a JLS/Morrissey hypocrisy is posited, and Nick takes delivery of a clammy gift.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
New Patreon subscriber Mike joins us for a look at the voting for S5E6, where a last place sends Trev "incandescent with rage", a JLS/Morrissey hypocrisy is posited, and Nick takes delivery of a clammy gift.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Reposted by Mike Atkinson
So proud of this podcast and honoured to have been invited by @whichdecadetops.bsky.social and Greg Wilson to chitchat about the Futurist / Electrodisco sounds of my formative music years. #RecordMirror
For the latest episode of Record Mirror Disco Charts, @djpaulette.bsky.social joins us for a detailed look at a Futurist/Electro-Disco Top 20 from April 1981: an era when electronics, fashion and politics fused, and when our future fascinated us more than our past.
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September 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So proud of this podcast and honoured to have been invited by @whichdecadetops.bsky.social and Greg Wilson to chitchat about the Futurist / Electrodisco sounds of my formative music years. #RecordMirror
For the latest episode of Record Mirror Disco Charts, @djpaulette.bsky.social joins us for a detailed look at a Futurist/Electro-Disco Top 20 from April 1981: an era when electronics, fashion and politics fused, and when our future fascinated us more than our past.
shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
August 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
For the latest episode of Record Mirror Disco Charts, @djpaulette.bsky.social joins us for a detailed look at a Futurist/Electro-Disco Top 20 from April 1981: an era when electronics, fashion and politics fused, and when our future fascinated us more than our past.
shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
Here's our latest Which Decade episode in full - track listings are in the ALT text.
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August 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Here's our latest Which Decade episode in full - track listings are in the ALT text.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
I'll be playing 1980s gay classics (IN A LIBRARY!) in September, for the launch of CJ DeBarra's excellent history of Queer Nottingham (in which I am quoted several times, along with many other people who were there at the time).
August 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'll be playing 1980s gay classics (IN A LIBRARY!) in September, for the launch of CJ DeBarra's excellent history of Queer Nottingham (in which I am quoted several times, along with many other people who were there at the time).
S5E7 Part 3/3: JLS, Shawn Mendes/Camila Cabello.
Concluding this episode: an emotionally blackmailing eye-roller, and a steamy alleged long con.
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Your voting deadline is 6pm UK time, Sunday 31st August.
Concluding this episode: an emotionally blackmailing eye-roller, and a steamy alleged long con.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Your voting deadline is 6pm UK time, Sunday 31st August.
August 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
S5E7 Part 3/3: JLS, Shawn Mendes/Camila Cabello.
Concluding this episode: an emotionally blackmailing eye-roller, and a steamy alleged long con.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Your voting deadline is 6pm UK time, Sunday 31st August.
Concluding this episode: an emotionally blackmailing eye-roller, and a steamy alleged long con.
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Your voting deadline is 6pm UK time, Sunday 31st August.
Which Decade S5E7 Part 2/3: Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, Ricky Martin.
Glenn Miller connects to hard house, and después de mí el diluvio!
(31 minutes, Part 3 drops tomorrow.)
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Glenn Miller connects to hard house, and después de mí el diluvio!
(31 minutes, Part 3 drops tomorrow.)
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August 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Which Decade S5E7 Part 2/3: Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, Ricky Martin.
Glenn Miller connects to hard house, and después de mí el diluvio!
(31 minutes, Part 3 drops tomorrow.)
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Glenn Miller connects to hard house, and después de mí el diluvio!
(31 minutes, Part 3 drops tomorrow.)
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Which Decade S5E7 Part 1/3: Rolling Stones, Boomtown Rats.
An interstitial Brian Jones sandwich and Bob's prescient regret open our latest episode (24 minutes, Part 2 drops tomorrow).
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An interstitial Brian Jones sandwich and Bob's prescient regret open our latest episode (24 minutes, Part 2 drops tomorrow).
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
August 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Which Decade S5E7 Part 1/3: Rolling Stones, Boomtown Rats.
An interstitial Brian Jones sandwich and Bob's prescient regret open our latest episode (24 minutes, Part 2 drops tomorrow).
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
An interstitial Brian Jones sandwich and Bob's prescient regret open our latest episode (24 minutes, Part 2 drops tomorrow).
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Which Decade Results: The Clarinet Clarification, aka The Chapin Gateway, aka The Tennant Easter Egg. Tough week, tight scores, but a long overdue triumph!
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August 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Which Decade Results: The Clarinet Clarification, aka The Chapin Gateway, aka The Tennant Easter Egg. Tough week, tight scores, but a long overdue triumph!
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@irvinewelsh.bsky.social is our latest guest for the RMDC podcast, talking about a Disco Top 20 from September 1978, and answering a few questions about his new disco album, Men In Love (a soundtrack to his new novel of the same name)
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August 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@irvinewelsh.bsky.social is our latest guest for the RMDC podcast, talking about a Disco Top 20 from September 1978, and answering a few questions about his new disco album, Men In Love (a soundtrack to his new novel of the same name)
shows.acast.com/record-mirro...
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Strongly recommended - this is an amazing, beautiful project.
One More Tune
ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch
is now available
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ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch
is now available
thedarkoutside.bandcamp.com/album/ilx-an...
July 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Strongly recommended - this is an amazing, beautiful project.