Sam Leppard
spleppard.bsky.social
Sam Leppard
@spleppard.bsky.social
Mainly pop music, but all the other good stuff in life too. Occasional DJ & drummer. Colchester, UK.

last.fm - https://www.last.fm/user/splepp
Looks like I'm off to spend some money then!
October 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is great - not least as I hadn't realised Eddy Grant and The Equals had finally made it to digital/streaming! I think it must have only happened last year. I think I'm right in saying everything available prior to that were re-recordings.
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Some personal trivia, but when my youngest son was born by c-section, Let's Hear It For The Boy happened to be playing on the radio in the operating theatre. A memorable, if sightly crazed, soundtrack for what was a pretty intense (and joyful) experience. "Let's hear it for my baby" indeed.
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
just going to tag @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social as I'm not on the spreadsheet yet - and will also use this opportunity to say that Aretha is my main! Forgot about that first time around.
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
OK, quick browse through some playlists and lets go for:

Valentine Brothers - Money's Too Tight To Mention ('82)
Aretha Franklin - Get It Right ('83)
Shirley Lites - Heat You Up (Melt You Down) ('83)
Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room ('84)
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Entirely fair. I suspect some of these careers have played out slightly differently across the two sides of the Atlantic though as a lot of these are still relative heavyweights over here. Off to listen to your mix now though - lots to discover on there!
September 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Great work as always! I'm not Gen Z (sorry!) but I AM British, so have taken the liberty of quickly compiling some notable UK tunes not represented here. Appreciate some of it is a bit 'legacy indie', but you might find something useful? All 10m+ streams on spotify.

open.spotify.com/playlist/79Z...
UK indie 2015-19
open.spotify.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The White Album.
August 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Norman Records' Bluesky admin: "I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band"

*hits 'post'*
August 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You joke, but that’s literally what inspired that line!

www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
Keep 'em separated
Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk-rock band The Offspring, has a lot of different interests. One of them is biology.
www.asbmb.org
August 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’m not new to this Tubes track but new enough to still find its unexpected weirdness thrilling. Although I don’t think I’ve ever been more aware that at some point that same weirdness will become grating. Hasn’t happened yet though. An easy vote.
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Shameful admission: Having been introduced to Love Rollercoaster via the RHCP version in the Beavis & Butthead movie I always think the Ohio Players original lacks a bit of energy without the Anthony Kiedis “double dipper” rap. I’m Voting Cadogan.
July 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bowie was my main. When people ask me my favourite song ever I always say this. It begins: drums, sax, it twists & turns, the backing singers briefly steal the show, then Bowie steals it back. It builds & builds. A quick Beatles callback. Then everything stops for one final flourish. Perfection.
July 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As much of a tune as it is, September is the last thing anyone wants to be reminded of at a school fete.
July 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
what came first, the song title Sister Seagull, or the realisation from the Be-Bop Deluxe guitarist that he could make a convincing seagull sound with his guitar effects? I think we all know the answer. It got my vote.
July 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Listening properly to Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time in ages I find myself wondering would I enjoy it more as a song if the entire middle section was cut out? After a lifetime of over-exposure that bit leaves me cold, but I'm surprised to find I still have some time for the rest of it.
July 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Anyway, I'm reading the Neneh Cherry autobiography. It's very good.
July 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Similarly, 'Golden Years - Single Version' is available on Bowie's Who Can I Be Now box set. It's about thirty seconds shorter than the album version from '76, but I think just an edit.
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How much of a stickler do you want to be? If you swap AC/DC's It's a Long Way To The Top... for the version on the Backtracks album you get the original 1975 Australian release rather than the 1976 album version. Not that they're wildly different.
July 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM