History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff

by Pantheon Media

Category

Music History

Frequency

Updated Weekly

Language

English

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 specific sections of these tracks - support his mad professor premise, from the wobbly invention of an “American” heavy metal, to the influence of Led Zeppelin in hair metal or to more succinct topics like...

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Recent Reviews

Bands Ruined by Funk

Enjoy Prog•7/18/2025

So if I don’t care for Atlantic Star, Chic or Peaches and Herb, it’s because I hate black people? C’mon, Martin, spare us your white guilt. It is possible to dislike a band and not be a racist.

Blah.

Daddy Pickles!•5/14/2024

Blah blah blah blah,blah, blah blah, blah blah,blah blah blah and a ton of weird mouth noises.

Love it

KW_77•4/11/2023

I’ve been listening to this pod for a while now and Martin’s breadth of knowledge across rock music is quite impressive. He packs more information into a short 15-30 minute podcast than many longer form shows do. Also he gives a lot of love to overlooked bands from the 70s, 80s and 90s and has turned me on to some great tunes!

Guru of rock

Jkb22008•4/1/2021

Martin is second to none with his knowledge of 70s and beyond rock acts.

Different views

marked for life•11/4/2020

Of course i dont always agree, but martin is always informative and has opened me to music i didnt know about