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Episode 163: Something Missing and Burnt Toast Jesus

Episode 163: (07-21-2014) Where DJ Ear, Brother Dave Carr, and Brado make note of errors: There is no such band called the Brother Dave Miller Band, but there is a Steve Miller Band; the Atari 8600 never existed, but the Atari 2600 did; George Lucas didn’t kill a dinosaur, that was Steven Spielberg; Elijah Wood’s name is not Frodo. Featuring the “Beatles, Jesus, or The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” game show!

All on the Meltdown Show for your Melt-Download listening pleasure!

This is just ridiculousness! I can’t believe it! The Beatles appeared on 53 separate radio shows between March of 1962 and June of 1965!

An audience research report for the Beatles June 4th, 1963 performance shows a divided audience: 34 percent of fans surveyed gave the Beatles an A+ or an A, but nearly as many (31 percent) gave them a grade in the C range. (The BBC grading scheme suffered from grade inflation; it only went down to C-, and “yuk” wasn’t an option.)

The report goes into more detail. “According to a few particularly enthusiastic under-twenties, they were ‘really with it’ … Other pop fans were unimpressed … complaining that their singing was noisy, harsh and untuneful, and their choice of music lacking in variety.”

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