It would have taken a particularly gifted Nostradamus in the 1990s to predict both the demise of the traditional western rock band and the rise and rise of their South Korean replacements. yet that's what happened?

But how did it happen? Join me as we take a medium-sized dive into what K Pop is all about and how come it's been such a runaway success.

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The best and worst double albums ever. The 50 greatest cover versions of all time. The 100 greatest British albums of all time. The greatest indie anthems ever. The 100 greatest albums you've never heard. The 50 darkest albums of all time. The 101 albums to hear before you die.

Why must we always rank rank rank these records?

Let's have a medium-sized dive on the urge to rank, whether it's helpful or not, the pluses but also the minuses.

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The terminally uncool "pop" programme from the terminally uncool state TV station, BBC1. A recipe for failure, surely. And yet, everyone watched Top of the Pops. Why was that?

Take a trip back in time to the culturally hegemonic imperial phase of the programme; to a time when it was great act of subversion to play air guitar as you mimed to your hit live on air; to a time when Tony Blackburn was being driven round a lagoon by a Womble in a speedboat.

Let's find out why Top of the Pops was so uncool it went all the way back round and became cool again.

Be expertly briefed each week on a wide variety of intriguing musical topics.