(Almost) all of this week’s pop footballing action will be reviewed and discussed tomorrow at 4pm on Resonance FM 104.4 by your faithful hosts, pictured in flagrante at right. This is a regular 30 minute show, broadcast every Saturday in London. It’s also available as a podcast right from this very site, so you can even check out past weeks if you’re truly mental. See you on the radio!
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We’re back to live action this week as senior pop analyst and USA manager Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack for the kickoff of the Round of 16. With every match a decider, the managers are pulling out all the stops, breaking out the big guns, i.e. playing really good songs. This week our hosts take in all the action from France vs Nigeria, USA vs Germany, South Korea vs South Africa, and Ghana vs Slovenia. (As broadcast on Resonance FM 104.4 in London.)
Produced by Elisha Sessions.
Length: 30:00 Played: 464 
With the winning teams resting and limbering up for the trials ahead, Roger Bozack takes time out from the putting green to share some of his favourite efforts from those nations who found themselves left out in the cold when all the votes were counted. Some truly admirable and inventive play here and in most cases you have to say these countries left it all out on the field. I think I can speak for Roger when I say thanks, dudes, for some brain-bending tracks.
Produced by Elisha Sessions.
Length: 30:00 Played: 457
Sixteen songs in thirty minutes! It’s like lunch in a pill. Roger Bozack and Peter Baran race through this week’s jam-packed schedule to bring you foreshortened highlights of some matches and extended musing on others. This week the Federacion de Football de Pop Eff Ayyy (I think I’ve got that right) has sent its administrative adjutant, Tim Hopkins, along to share with us his juicy behind the scenes secrets. We cover Denmark v Japan, Cameroon v Netherlands, Slovakia v Italy, Paraguay v New Zealand (though Paraguay’s effort is hampered by bitrate injuries), Portugal v Brazil, Korea DPR v Cote d’Ivoire, Chile v Spain and Switzerland v Honduras all get a look in. Whew! You can vote on them all in this handy post. Next week is a clip show.
Produced by Elisha Sessions.
Length: 30:00 Played: 646
What can we expect from the new-look NME? Inside gossip about Hollywood, duh! With the news that Sam Mendes might be directing the next James Bond movie, it’s worth considering how different the Bond series might have looked if Mendes had applied his careful deconstruction of American ennui to the entire project. Instead of just a thuggish ladykiller with clever gadgets, Bond might have spoken to an entire generation’s pissy dissatisfaction with this Winesburg Ohio we’re all trapped inside of. Just think of what might have been:
- “My Job Is Not Enough”
- “Dr. No, I’ve Got a Headache”
- “From Russia With Vague Longing”
- “The Bitch Who Loved Me”
- “Octopissy”
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Martin Skidmore, manager of the Algerian team, joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack for the most action-packed week yet. The final round of the group stage is bearing down on us – who will go through and who will go home? We hear France vs South Africa; highlights from Mexico vs Uruguay, Nigeria vs South Korea, Greece vs Argentina, and Serbia vs Australia; and of course the showdown between Baran’s Team USA and Skidmore’s Algeria as well as the other match from that group, England vs Slovenia, minus Black the Ripper whose freestyle violates Resonance FM’s pre-watershed policy on lyrical, um, aggressiveness. You can vote on all these in one handy place, right here.
Produced by Elisha Sessions.
Length: 30:00 Played: 240
A brace of forward play and rasping cross-field action awaits as Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via satellite for Brazil vs Cote D’Ivoire, Portugal vs Korea DPR, Honduras vs Spain, and Chile vs Switzerland, as well as a guest appearance from 1986 Pop World Cup finalists, Italy, with Raggio di Luna and “Comanchero”. As broadcast on Resonance FM 104.4 on April 3 2010.
Produced by Elisha Sessions.
Length: 30:00 Played: 249
Finally! The Pop World Cup on Resonance 104.4 FM in London catches up with the action on Freaky Trigger – ALL the matches on the show (at time of posting) are live and votable. Peter Baran and Roger Bozack bring you extended highlights of the Netherlands vs Japan, Cameroon vs Denmark, Italy vs New Zealand, and Paraguay vs Slovakia and leave you with “Stay Close” by Barcelonan four-piece Delorean.
Produced by Elisha Sessions.
Length: 30:00 Played: 4158
A huge, ever-growing, pulsating radio show that’s now broadcast on Saturdays at 4pm on Resonance FM 104.4 in London, the Pop World Cup returns in podcast form this week with a two-fer (we’re catching up with the present). This time Peter Baran and Roger Bozack hear efforts from Germany, Australia, Ghana, England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia and Serbia, and we finish with a friendly between Australia and Germany – it’s Azzido da Bass and Aston Shuffle with “They’re Killing It”.
Produced by Elisha Sessions.
Length: 30:00 Played: 293