Episode 287 - A Very Special Episode

Join Joe, Kari and Charlie to celebrate Charlie's 80s Attic, reminisce about almost six years on the air and hear some big news about the future of the station. Send us a text

Join Kari and Joe for a crazy ride through a compilation Joe bought for 50% off at the Hollywood Bowl called Hits 80’s, and with that weird syntax and punctuation, you guessed right, it’s from France! And this episode has one of the strangest mixes of music we’ve covered in awhile!Get ready to hear from a 14-year-old American theater kid, learn all about “new beat” music and go “around a dream” (twice). After all that, you will need some Scotch, the band and the liquor. Oh, and of course, it was Europe in the 80s so there’s a Stock-Aitken-Waterman production in the mix. All that, plus a shocking surprise from Joe’s latest trip to the grocery store… DUN DUN DUN DUN.Send us a text

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Joe and Kari as they discuss some 80s acts with Native American heritage. And we’re ping ponging wildly between genres in this episode, going from southern rock to new wave to thrash metal to adult contemporary. There’s something for everyone in the mix! Think you won’t enjoy it… well, never say never. Oh, and also, this episode is your fate, DON’T DEBATE.Send us a text

Another great suggestion from Dom finds Joe and Kari exploring some literal bops and bangers... 80s songs that actually have those words in the titles. And this episode is a real international affair, with acts from Australia, Belgium, Sweden and Oklahoma in the mix. Are you are a Bop Girl doing The Modern Bop or maybe your Heart Goes Bang (or Bang Bang)? No matter how you bop or bang, hopefully you will find something to love in this episode.Send us a text

Join Kari and Joe as they cover some soundtrack songs of the 80s, including two versions of a theme to a cult classic that was originally going to star Debbie Gibson, the demo version of what would become one of the biggest soundtrack songs of the decade and a collaboration between Roy Orbison and... Glenn Danzig??!!?? Yes, it's as weird as it sounds.Send us a text

Join Joe, Kari and special guest DJ Matt Bailer to discuss Matt's special project revisiting the music of 1980 to create his own personalized top 40 charts! This has led him to discover so many great lost songs he wants to share with Joe, Kari and all of you, so get ready to take a free ride, spend some time in the kitchen, fall in love, shout and scream and learn how to be a hustler (if you wanna get on).1980 usually means boring boring boring, but not this time. Tune in and find out!Send us a text

First up in tidbits, Kari and Joe also talk 80s artists collaborations with Miley Cyrus and once again beg some millionaires to just go to therapy already.Then they are going just a bit outside yet again to talk about those songs that hit the Hot 100 but peaked between number 41 and number 100. This time around it's six tracks from 1989, including brothers covering brothers, an icon in her adult contemporary era, more hair metal than you can shake a can of aqua net at, and... Dion. Yes, Dion is back.Pop open an Orangina and listen!Send us a text

Join Kari, Joe and special guest Dom (aka DC Sheehan) to explore the full range of novelty songs of the 80s. There's one that hit the top 40, one by the king of novelty pop himself, one that went all the way to NUMBER ONE in the UK (and number two in New Zealand, but don't blame Dom, he didn't buy it), and two "rap" "songs" that... defy any and all explanation.Then get ready to be introduced to the beautiful voice (and commanding stage presence) of Margaret Urlich, a New Zealand singer who was a multi-award winner with both a group and as a solo artist, made chart history as the decade ended and actually did the impossible (got Kari to appreciate a cover of Don't Dream It's Over).All that, plus live clips from some favorite 80s acts at the recent Radio 2 in the Park festival in the UK and the shocking confession from Joe that he, in fact, is aware of horses as a species.Send us a text

Kari and Joe don't want to work, they just want to bang on the vibraslap all day, so... we did. Well, we talked about songs that used vibraslap for about 50 minutes, same difference. Join us for the fun! That vibraslap is so versatile everyone from yacht rocker Ali Thomson to rock rockers Pat Travers Band (covering a reggae classic, don't ask) to R&B legends The S.O.S. Band to sophistipoppers Simply Red can make great use of it. Hear songs from those folks and more, plus tidbits about The Boss, a total wanker, and Axl Rose wilding out at Bungalow 8. If that doesn't make you smash the download button, I don't know what will.Send us a text

come on inside. Join Joe and Kari (with a soundtrack programmed by friend of the podcast Dom) as they take a road trip through the many songs of the 80s titled with roads (and some related tracks as well). We're visiting that cheating jerk Leo Sayer down on Orchard Road, stopping for a couple rounds at the Double Deuce and hitting a Roadblock with Stock Aitken Waterman.Grab a fountain soda, your favorite snack, buckle up and let's go!Send us a text