{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#16: December 22nd 1983 - Hold On, Here Comes Jism","description":"The latest edition of the podcast which asks: if the Thompson Twins made you a sandwich, would you want to eat it? It\u2019s Christmas Time, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, but there\u2019s no need to be afraid \u2013 because we\u2019re a full year away from any Band Aid rubbishness. It\u2019s the last episode of The Pops before Xmas of 1983, and the studio is festooned with balloons and party hats, making it just like every other episode that year. And what a line-up \u2013 sneered at by John Peel and jollied along by Kid Jensen \u2013 it isn\u2019t! Musicwise, this is the mankiest Selection Box of teeth-loosening dessicated cat shit we\u2019ve come across in a long while. Out go the Synth-mentalists of a few years ago, and in come in bare-footed, frizz-haired Serious Musicians. Terry and Arfur pop up to flog one of the crappiest Christmas songs ever, a Breakfast TV puppet with johnnies for ears defiles hip-hop, and Paul McCartney has a war with himself. On the plus side, Billy Joel goes back 20 years to leer at some girls having a pyjama party, Slade go back ten years and ignore a couple of Zoo Wankers, and Culture Club put a full orchestra in serious danger.  And the No.1 is properly right-on. Neil Kulkarni and Simon Price join Al Needham for this one, and have a good stare through the window of late 1983 like Dickensian urchins, breaking off to discuss such important matters as sex education videos of the 80s, running into Mrs McCluskey in a charity shop, asking lead singers how to get to Wales while they\u2019re nobbing someone up against a tour bus, and the curse of Sta-Prest Fanny. With all the swearing you could ever want.    ","author_name":"Chart Music: the TOTP Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.chart-music.co.uk","html":"