All About 80s Music – Details, episodes & analysis

In the 80s, 45 RPM singles were some of the most prized items of the GenX kids who were living through the greatest decade. Join us today as John and Steve pick out some of their favorite 45s and FLIP THEM OVER to talk about the B-Sides.

They discuss the B-Sides from hit singles: True, The Reflex, Radio Free Europe, Goody Two Shoes, Sunday Bloody Sunday and more ...

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The dB's are an indie pop band whose career started in the late 70s, spanned throughout the greatest decade and they're still going strong today. Their debut album , "Stands for deciBels" has just been remastered, re-released and is out now, available on thedbs.com. Join us for John's interview with Peter Holsapple and Will Rigby.

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Today John and Steve "babylon and on" about one of their favorite bands, as they shine the SPOTLIGHT ON SQUEEZE. They examine some of the best songs of the greatest decade by this very powerful pop group.

Songs discussed are Up the Junction, Pulling Mussels, Some Fantastic Place, Walk a Straight Line, Cool for Cats, Another Nail in My Heart, Piccadilly, Love Circles, Tempted and others.

On this one, John provides a lot of great insight and background on the band's history, songs and live shows.

They both give Chris Difford a ton of praise, Gilson Lavis gets a few shout-outs, as well as Paul Carrack and some of the other members through the various line-ups.

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John and Steve dive deep into one of the landmark albums of the early 80s: Haircut 100’s Pelican West. They go song-by-song to examine the qualities that made this collection of tracks so iconic. Additionally, they discuss the valuable contributions of each band member: Nick Heyward, Les Nemes, Graham Jones, Blair Cunningham, Marc Fox, Phil Smith and Patrick Hunt.

Tracks discussed include: Love Plus One, Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl), Fantastic Day and others.

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This week, John and Steve are back again with their original mixtapes from the 80s.

➿ The cassettes have been pulled out of the Walkman players, and both have a similar theme: celebrating George Michael and Wham!

🎶 Songs discussed are: Careless Whisper, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Faith, Wham! Rap, Club Tropicana, One More Try, Last Christmas, Edge of Heaven, Kissing a Fool, Everything She Wants, Freedom '90 and more!

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Many famous solo artists came out of the 80s, but it was also a fertile time for bands, groups and supergroups that had charismatic uber-talented frontmen and women at their helm.

In this episode, we take a look at a number of lead singers that fronted the best bands of the greatest decade and a few big solo artists as well.

Artists discussed are: Tony Hadley, Steve Perry, Robert Palmer, Ric Ocasek, Michael Stipe, Martin Fry, Paul Weller, Paul Young, Freddie Mercury, Michael Hutchence, and Bono.

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Before they were streaming services that allowed you to make playlists, there was the mixtape. It was a collection of songs that you put together onto a cassette tapes from records that you owned or borrowed from your friends, or from other cassettes you had in your collection. Sometimes you might’ve spent up to an hour listening to the radio, waiting for the right song to come on to tape it.

In this episode, John and Steve reach deep into their basement bins and pull out two of their original mixtapes from the '80s. John dives into college radio and indie hits, while Steve runs through a number of pop songs that were MTV classics during '81 -'83. Both tapes have a mix of obscure tracks and easily recognizable tunes.

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