I wouldn’t. Despite family members telling me I should go on it because I ‘know so much about music’ I’m well aware that I’d crash and burn on Popmaster.
What about you?
(And do have any past contestants on board?)
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I wouldn’t. Despite family members telling me I should go on it because I ‘know so much about music’ I’m well aware that I’d crash and burn on Popmaster.
What about you?
(And do have any past contestants on board?)
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I don’t know it. Do we have any sample questions?
However I think and ‘Afterword’ team for a quiz, pub or otherwise, is overdue …
I think I would do well, but another candidate for the “crash and burn” when actually on air.
When I do hear it on the radio, my score is usually same or above the contestant, but that does involve an element of umming and ahhing, and correcting my first answer
Popmaster, meh! Radio 4’s Counterpoint is the one to be on. I appeared on it a few years ago, winning my heat but losing in the semi-final.
Wot? Someone who doesn’t sneer audibly at the pop questions on Counterpoint? No wonder you didn’t make the final 😉
“No, it’s before my time” as everbody bloody says.
The sad fact is that my music knowledge is ridiculously encyclopaedic over a reasonably short stretch of ground. Even my knowledge of modern pop is limited to the singles I love – I wouldn’t know a Kanye West song since, say, Late Registrarion, or a Jess Glynne song, or a Little Mix song if I found it in me tea.
When compiling my top 10 of 2015, I realised that a) I could only think of 9 qualifying records and b) absolutely none of them would ever come up on a pub quiz.
Sme boat here even though you are a decade younger 😉
popjustice is your friend Bob
I have loved Popjustice in the past, but he palled for me quite badly.
I meant popjustice.com, did you mean that too? If not I’ve exposed myself as even more out of touch than I thought here….
Yep, we’re talking about the same thing. Popjustice is pretty much just Peter Robinson – or was, at least – so I think of it as a “him” rather than an it or a them.
OK so serious question: where does the older pop-loving gentleman go today for his news on today’s music?
Here?
6Music?
Mojo?
@rigid-digit lol. Good one.
@mc-escher I honestly don’t know. The site that @joe-r writes for, No Ripcord, has some good writing (mostly Joe’s) although can be a bit Pitchfork-attempt in parts.
I suspect Popjustice is the best bet.
When I used to listen regularly at work I’d often get 30 points, sometimes more. But I’d just as often get only six, plus I know I’d have terrible stage fright, so have never considered ringing up.
Ken did read out a text from me last year, which was a bit of a thrill. I do love Ken Bruce.
Ok, I’ll confess, I was on a couple of weeks ago (10th December).
Had tried a few times before, but managed to get on this time. Did ok – 27 points, and won on a tiebreak.
It’s an excellent quiz – Ken Bruce marshals it well, and it never fails to challenge (I listen on iPlayer radio most nights while doing the tea). Champions League (on at the moment) is rock hard.
Congratulations milky! I heard todays final. I hadn’t heard of most of the artists/bands featured let alone knowing any of the answers. I do listen most days and enjoy it but wouldn’t be much good at it as my knowledge is not that great for vast swathes of pop history.
Thanks @Carolina. I’ll try to catch the final later (one of the chaps on it managed 39 when he was on the daily quiz and full marks on the Champions League questions which is incredible).
I always struggle with the recent questions. Sometimes they’re a bit “recent Radio 2” other times they’re just a bit “whooooo?” ((c) Mark and Lard).
The bonuses are the killer. If you get lucky on those, then it’s 18 points which bumps your score up loads.
I was on about 12 years ago & won with 30 points. The digital radio is still going strong. I suspect I’d do much less well now, as I know very little pop music from the intervening period. It was good fun.
I was on the original incarnation of Pop Master in the 80’s – I am extremely embarrassed to admit that it then on the Diddy David Hamilton afternoon show.
I actually won and as my score was high I was wisked up to that London to take part in the final which was recorded in the BBC Concert Hall before an audience. (When I say wisked it was a return 2nd class rail ticket and 1 nights accommodation at a 3 star hotel – Mrs Daff accompanied me put I had to pay for her train ticket and accommodation!)
The finals were broadcast a couple of weeks later occupying a 15 minute slot from Monday to Friday. I actually won the finals too but can’t recall what I was given…….
As for Ken’s Pop Master I try to listen but my results are variable! Sometimes I can get 30+ but not often! The problem is that 30 years ago I only had the period 1956 – 1985 in my head whereas now I have 1956 – 1985 plus random periods up to 2015! To be honest I did quite well on one of the ‘finals’ I heard last week but today’s may just as well had been spoken in a completely foreign language!
Today’s final was really difficult! I got a few answers right, but the 2 contestants did very well.
A normal round usually sees me do pretty well, and I enjoy the quiz…as long as (eek!) Zoe Ball isn’t helming it, in KB’s absence!
Oh, I like when Zoe does it, she’s friendly, charming and very funny, especially when she cocks it up. It’s that joyless, over-mascara’d Claudia Winkleman I can’t stand – she’s brusque with the contestants and often interrupts them. Makes me cringe.
CW is a hoot on Strictly. And I’ve grown to like that OTT kohl-fringe combo. She’s smart and she’s funny and doesn’t take herself at all seriously.
I haven’t listened to pop radio for 15 years, she may well be different on there.
If I want to hear somebody really delightful presenting music I know where to go…. 🙂
“I haven’t listened to pop radio for 15 years…”
Afterword t-shirt right there 🙂
15 years might be pushing it a bit for some of our correspondents. Pop radio in 2000? Oooh dear. Here be Chemical Brothers.
How ’bout, “The last time I listened to Radio 2, the Organist was Entertaining”
My results can vary between desultory and brilliant. No doubt if I ever appeared on there it would be the former and I would make a complete mass of myself.
Same with Mastermind – often on general knowledge will get 13 or 14 but equally can get 5 or 6.
We were only discussing this yesterday and I said that I’d either do absolutely terribly, getting questions wrong I’d otherwise get right, or I’d smash all Popmaster records, only to fail when they ask for 3 in 10 by anybody who released records after 1985.
Similarly, although I always do reasonably well when I watch Countdown, I just know that if I actually entered I’d lose to some bespectacled 8 year old child genius.
My pop knowledge runs from about 1978 to 1994 after that it gets a bit specialist so i’d soon come unstuck and it’d be just my luck 3 from 10 was Leona Lewis or Sam Smith
I’d be very good up to 1980. Then OK up to Live Aid and shit at everything after.