History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff
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History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff
History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff is the show that aims to make grand and often oddball hard rock and heavy metal points through a narrative built upon the tiny idea of a quintet of songs. Buttressed with illustrative clips, Martin argues quickly and succinctly why these songs - and the speci...
Episodis Recents
366 episodis
History in Five Songs Episode 364: Best Weird Lineup Records
In Episode 364 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin celebrates rock and metal’s greatest one-off lineups, highlighting albums where a u...
History in Five Songs Episode 363: Title Not in the Lyrics
In Episode 363 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin dives into the curious world of songs whose titles never appear in their lyrics. H...
History in Five Songs Episode 362: Prog and Metal
In Episode 362 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin delves into how heavy metal and progressive rock evolved as musical "doppelgangers,...
History in Five Songs Episode 361: Career Sabotage Albums
In Episode 361 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin discusses “career sabotage albums.” These daring, strange, or self-destructive rec...
History in Five Songs Episode 360: Melody
In Episode 360 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin takes a deep dive into the power and pitfalls of melody, contrasting the “gas stati...
History in Five Songs Episode 359: Thrash and Hair Metal as Doppelgangers
In Episode 359 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin toys with the kindred nature of thrash and hair metal and how the two genres influe...
History in Five Songs Episode 358: Getting Behind Concept Albums
In Episode 358 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores why he’s not typically a fan of concept albums by spotlighting the ones th...
History in Five Songs Episode 357: Three Bands, Three Golds
In Episode 357 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores the surprisingly short list of musicians, including Ozzy Osbourne and Paul...
History in Five Songs Episode 356: Histories Waiting for You
In Episode 356 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores his personal “renaissance” of rediscovering music by using tools like Disc...
History in Five Songs Episode 355: Looks Great on Paper
In Episode 355 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin grapples albums and bands that seemed perfect on paper due to hype, reunions, image...
History in Five Songs Episode 354: ZZ Top and Billy Idol as Doppelgangers
In Episode 354 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin compares and contrasts ZZ Top and Billy Idol as unlikely “doppelgangers,” tracing h...
History in Five Songs Episode 353: Clone Bands
In Episode 353 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin moves through prog, metal, and rock, examining how artists from Rush to AC/DC and L...
History in Five Songs Episode 352: The Curse of the Second Live Album
In Episode 352 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores the “curse” of second live albums, arguing that follow-ups by bands like T...
History in Five Songs Episode 351: Greatest Comeback Albums
In Episode 351 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin traverses some of rock and metal’s greatest comeback albums, highlighting how arti...
History in Five Songs Episode 350: Recorded in Canada
In Episode 350 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores albums recorded in Canada, highlighting how Vancouver studios like Little...
History in Five Songs Episode 349: Live Albums That Meant Little
In Episode 349 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin contrasts his previous celebration of career-defining concert records by spotlighti...
History in Five Songs Episode 348: Peaked with a Live Album
In Episode 348 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin examines bands like Kiss, Foghat and others whose live albums either broke them com...
History in Five Songs Episode 347: Bands with Under-Performing Early Classics
In Episode 347 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores the intriguing phenomenon of major bands like Rush, Iron Maiden, and Nirva...
History in Five Songs Episode 346: Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel as Doppelgangers
In Episode 346 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin traces the parallel career arcs of Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel, comparing their con...
History in Five Songs Episode 345: Rock Stars with No Gold Records
In Episode 345 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores surprisingly famous rock stars across metal, prog, and punkrock who—despi...
History in Five Songs Episode 344: Infiltrated by Americans
In Episode 344 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores how famously British and international bands—from Yes and Black Sabbath to...
History in Five Songs Episode 342: Title Track as Last Track
In Episode 342 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin contemplates the unusual choice of albums where the title track appears last, and e...
History in Five Songs Episode 342: Title Track as Last Track
In Episode 342 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin contemplates the unusual choice of albums where the title track appears last, and e...
History in Five Songs Episode 343: Biggest Left Turns
In Episode 343 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores the most surprising and often baffling musical “biggest left turns,” spotl...
History in Five Songs Episode 341: Good Riddance to the ‘70s
In Episode 341 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin rings in the "new year” of 1980 by examining how classic rock, metal, punk, and new...
History in Five Songs Episode 340: Painkiller on The Razors Edge
In Episode 340 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin treats Judas Priest’s Painkiller and AC/DC’s The Razor’s Edge as near-identical 199...
History in Five Songs Episode 339: Stick Around
In Episode 339 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores how persistence and simply staying in the game can eventually pay off, usi...
History in Five Songs Episode 338: Rock ‘n’ Roll Vampires
In Episode 338 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores why veteran rock stars like Alice Cooper, Robert Plant, Rob Halford and ot...
History in Five Songs Episode 337: Missed the Pre-Grunge Window
In Episode 337 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin examines rock and metal bands that “missed the pre-grunge window” by failing to rel...
History in Five Songs Episode 336: Snuck One in Before Grunge
In Episode 336 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin ponders the bands who managed—through timing, luck, pivots, or pure momentum—to sne...
History in Five Songs Episode 336: Snuck One in Before Grunge
In Episode 336 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin ponders the bands who managed—through timing, luck, pivots, or pure momentum—to sne...
History in Five Songs Episode 335: Motörhead and Saxon as Doppelgangers
In Episode 335 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin traces the parallel rise, stumbles, and enduring legacies of Motörhead and Saxon, s...
History in Five Songs Episode 334: Why a Rock ‘n’ Roll Song?
In Episode 334 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin digs into why so many rock, metal, and even punk bands slip old-school 1950s-style...
History in Five Songs Episode 333: First Track Buzz-Kill
In Episode 333 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin dives into those puzzling album openers that deflate excitement right out of the ga...
History in Five Songs Episode 333: First Track Buzz-Kill
In Episode 333 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin dives into those puzzling album openers that deflate excitement right out of the ga...
History in Five Songs Episode 332: Shockingly Not on the Live Album
In Episode 332 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin digs into the most surprising omissions from classic live rock albums by legends li...
History in Five Songs Episode 331: Double-Powered Inventors
In Episode 331 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin ponders the bands and albums that helped invent multiple rock and metal genres at o...
History in Five Songs Episode 330: The NWOBHM in 1979
In Episode 330 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores the birth of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in 1979, tracing the pivo...
History in Five Songs Episode 329: American Doom in the ‘70s
In Episode 329 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin digs through the decade’s heavy underground to find traces of early U.S. doom metal...
History in Five Songs Episode 328: The Last Hair Metal Album
In Episode 328 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores “the last hair metal album”—digging into the moment before grunge overtook...