Hey! Remember the 80's?

This week Kari and Joe celebrate the one and only Dolly Parton. What can you say about this beautiful angel on earth that has not already been said? Well, not much, but we still take a deep dive into her 80s hits and celebrate her voice, her choices, her performances, and her gorgeous spirit.  Paint on some jeans and get ready to stop traffic for this episode. Send us Fan Mail

Grab your party hat and get ready to celebrate some birthdays with Kari and Joe. Toni Basil is turning 83 (and can probably still fit into that cheerleader outfit from the "Mickey" video), Tracey Thorn is celebrating and Jennifer Rush is blowing out some candles as well. Kari and Joe talk about these fabulous ladies and more! Plus reviews of new music from TWO (count em, two) 80s artists...

Are you ready to match wits with Kari and Joe on some trivia questions about 80s movies, TV, and OF COURSE, music?? Well, hop in the backseat and take a ride with them as they see who will be the winner of this challenge. Play along and let us know how you did! Send us Fan Mail

Yes, another best songs of the 1980s list has been published and Joe and Kari are here to walk you through some of the songs (and call bullshit on at least one!) The bottom of Paste Magazine's list (100 - 93) has got a song about lust for adoration, a classic rap diss track, and one that will make you move your rumpa. Also, in tidbits, Joe and Kari cover two new songs from two classic 80s act...

This week is all over the place as Kari and Joe tackle some listener suggestions, songs they have wanted to talk about for awhile, and weird videos that were mysteriously linked in their podcast ideas spreadsheet. We'll never know how or why the video for Backstabber by Hyts was introduced into our lives, but we will never forget the lead singer singing into a phallus-like microphone in the s...

Get ready to once again cruise through the pages of Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco chart book as Kari and Joe highlight some of the notable artists and songs that were soundtracking the clubs in the 80s. Alphaville is promoting a revolution (possibly of the sexual kind?), Ana is way too into shy boys for a girl her age, Ann-Margret is LIVING HER BEST DAMN LIFE and Anthony Malloy is hitting t...

Kari and Joe are back from hiatus with a bunch of tidbits covering the past couple months. Are you dying to know what they thought of Madonna's new album? Or the Kylie documentary on Netflix? Well you are in luck. Then it's time to go just a bit outside, bookended by hard rock deeper hits from Van Halen and BulletBoys with a middle full of REO Speedwagon and Erasure. You never know what...

Get in losers, we're taking a road trip through the past seven years and 300 episodes of this podcast, can you flipping believe it? Send us Fan Mail

Take your seats, your TAs Joe and Kari are ready to go over this week's lecture by Professor Kinzer in Music Theory 101 all about drones, those unchanging pitches held for a number of beats or even notes repeated over and over for an extended amount of time.  We'll talk about some prime examples, including one of Kari's favorite songs from the end of the decade and it's suave r...

Stop screening your calls and PICK UP on this new episode of Hey! Remember the 80's? After some Tidbits about Jem and a daytime concert, you'll get the skinny on how to use a landline telephone (remember those?). Phones were BIG in the 80's, so naturally there are lots of SONGS about telephones, including a number one Dance hit from Cheyne, an attempted comeback from Village People,...

It's a mish mash of an episode with tidbits covering some recent songs with 80s flavor and a roundup of documentary news, including a "docu-concert" called The Phil Collins Story that mystified Kari and Joe even after several minutes of discussion. Then they talk new broadway musicals based on 80s movies, there's something for everyone... teenage vampires or lifelong female fri...

Hello, hello, hello! Episode 296 is here, along with some documentary Tidbits! Then it's time for a new segment called Dance Chart Fun (aka Kari Got a New Chart Book). You'll hear about some big (and not so big) names that made it to the Dance Chart in the 80s. Was ABC trying to pivot from Dance in the late 80s? And why did they put a crazed, murderous Dennis the Menace type in their vid...

Slowly but surely Kari and Joe are making their way through every song that peaked on the Hot 100 in the 80s between number 41 and number 100. In this edition, it's three songs from early 1980 and three from late 1989. Get ready for an all night thing, Cheap Trick paying homage to the Fab Four, The Jets paying homage to a malfunctioning drive-thru speaker and a soundtrack sequel song that nev...

Get ready for some SUPERsized tidbits! You wanna hear about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees... we got you! How about a review of the documentary  Billy Idol Should Be Dead...  hell yea, we got that too! Oh, what about Squeeze in the Radio 2 Piano Room... no problem. All that and morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeee can be found in this week's episode. Plus we promised you R&B Superstars and...

Hi there! Taking inspiration from a playlist by music guru and MP3 blog pioneer Matthew Perpetua, Joe and Kari are exploring songs with the "crazed energy or manic intensity" of a good ol 80s coke psychosis. Lindsey Buckingham was definitely (ALLEGEDLY) on something when he decided to record "I Want You". Go West also certainly (ALLEGEDLY) had a line for "party favors&quot...

Join Kari and Joe as they turn the pages on the February 4, 1984 issue of Billboard magazine. An Australian group is asking a computer for dating advice, R&B stations are getting Fresh and Genesis has got a ghost story to keep you up at night. We'll also sip on some cognac and nibble on bologna with Doug and the Slugs, get regretful with Deborah Allen and hear from both the DLR and SH ver...

It's time for an Adult Contemporary Education (topic courtesy of the one and only Dom.) Kari and Joe talk about AC gems that did not cross over to the Hot 100, or if they did, barely made a dent on that chart. The beautiful voices of Sade, Mica Paris, Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick are here to soothe you and there's also some MEN we cover as well (Kari throws salt over her shoulder,...

Join Kari and Joe to cover the second disc of Hits 80's, the crazy French compilation Joe bought at the Hollywood Bowl and then carted all along Hollywood Boulevard while he nearly froze to death (sarcasm). You will hear about Boys, and Boys and Girls, and Steps, and Change, and slinky, sexy, erotic funk. But most importantly, you will hear about a ROBOT who crashed a spaceship over the north...

Kari and Joe say goodbye to 2025 with a short episode that goes just a bit outside in 1980. Find out if nuclear weapons owe you a beer and what in the world new wave heavy metal pop sounds like.  There's also a segment that has sat in the archives for awhile: That's What Friends Are For. Big Country got a really big name to help them out on the title track to their third album, but the b...

Kari and Joe have friend of the podcast Chad back to revisit a topic he thought of a couple years back: songs that debuted just as the decade was ending that probably are more 90s but that we still love. This time around Joe Cocker, The Smithereens, After 7, Pixies are in the mix along with one acid house DJ with too many names (Dancing Danny D, Danny D, D-Mob) and another acid house DJ with infin...

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 Fan Mail

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” (...

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 DEB...

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 y...

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 Fan Mail