Matt & Sheryl's GenExcellent Playlist

Send us Fan Mail Matt and Sheryl return to 1984 with two of the biggest singles of the year from Ratt and Thompson Twins and the last top 20 hit from Alan Parsons Project

Send us Fan Mail Mike joins Matt & Sheryl as they quickly add two songs from artists who have previously been added to the playlist and go over their favorite albums and songs from 2025

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl continue into 1984 with two of the biggest stars of the era at the beginning of their careers adding Madonna "Borderline" and Bon Jovi "Runaway" to the playlist.

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl start a new year with one of the first releases of the year, Van Halen's 1984 and Matt's song pick "Panama" and a second Echo & The Bunnymen song for Sheryl, "The Killing Moon" from their 1984 album Ocean Rain. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt and Sheryl reach the end of 1983, bringing Mike along to add his song of the year, Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun" and album, Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues.  Matt adds his last two songs to the playlist, Kenny & Dolly's "Islands in the Stream" and REM "Talk About the Passion" from his album of the year REM Murmur and they all dis...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Matt & Sheryl each choose two artists who's careers skyrocketed in 1983 from exposure on MTV. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl discuss progressive rock in the early 80s adding the only US #1 single from Yes, "Owner of a Lonely Heart" to the play list and revisit the Genesis self-titled album from '83, other 70s prog bands that moved ahead with the times in the 80s and the new neo prog movement bubbling up.

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl get closer to completing their song choices for 1983 with Bonnie Tyler's larger than life rock ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart", Journey's ode to the difficulties of maintaining relationships at home while on the road, "Faithfully" and The Fixx and their impeccably produced 80s classic "One Thing Leads to Another". 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl move on with 1983 adding three songs to the playlist, Big Country "In a Big Country", Duran Duran "Is There Something I Should Know" and The Tubes "She's a Beauty" along with Sheryl's album of the year, Big Country The Crossing . 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl continue their musical journey through 1983 with Matt's global pick for the year, Irene Cara's "Flashdance...What a Feeling" from the iconic movie Flashdance and Sheryl's playlist selection, Spandau Ballet's "True", another song that hit big from the New Romantic movement that included their British rivals, Duran Duran. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl do a deep dive into the Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) scene from 1980 - '83 choosing two songs for the playlist from 1983, Nena "99 Luftballons" & Peter Schlling "Major Tom (Coming Home)". 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl open their minds to the glam metal movement that started gaining ground in '83 with the huge success of Def Leppard Pyromania as Matt chooses  "Photograph" for the playlist and Sheryl's playlist pick stays in the new wave vein with Men At Work's "Overkill" from their great second album Cargo .

Send us Fan Mail Matt and Sheryl continue with 1983 adding Matt's picks, the Eurythmics breakthrough hit single "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and the Bacharach/David classic "Always Something There to Remind" me covered by synth pop duo Naked Eyes & Sheryl's pick, the highly influential and biggest selling 12" single of all time, New Order's "Bl...

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl add U2 "New Year's Day" and Echo & the Bunnymen "The Cutter" as their first playlist picks for 1983

Send us Fan Mail Mike joins Matt & Sheryl to discuss their favorite albums and songs released in 2024

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl start a new year with 2 albums released in late 1982 that found their popularity in 1983 and beyond, Michael Jackson's Thriller and Prince's 1999

Send us Fan Mail Matt, Sheryl & Mike wrap up 1982 with Mike's song pick, Elvis Costello "Beyond Belief" and album XTC English Settlement, Matt's final song, John Cougar "Jack & Diane", Sheryl's final song, Modern English "I Melt With You" and all the many near miss songs and albums for the year. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl near the end of 1982 with their penultimate episode bringing back a song they previously discussed featuring the Toto guys backing Donna Summer with Quincy Jones producing and the last great Who single "Eminence Front" along with the album it came from It's Hard and Pete's solo album All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl divert from 1982 and discuss one hit wonders with deeper catalogs that fall within the playlist years of '72 - '99 as well as Sheryl's 1982 playlist song pick, Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science" and Matt chooses his album for 1982, The English Beat Special Beat Service.

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl push through 1982 with one of the last yacht rock songs to chart in the US top 10, America's "You Can Do Magic" and Sheryl's album pick for '82, an album that shook the music world throughout the year and into '83 warranting comparisons to Beatlemania, Duran Duran Rio .

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl make their way further into 1982 with songs that were considered one hit wonders in the US but had more success in the UK as the second British Invasion starts to take over America. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl continue adding to the playlist with The English Beat's beloved "Save it for Later" and Van Halen's cover of Martha and the Vandella's "Dancing in the Street" from one of their most overlooked albums, Diver Down. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl focus on Toto in 1982, adding their hit single "Rosanna" to the playlist and Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry", featuring the Toto guys as session musicians, and discuss other albums they contributed to that year. 

Send us Fan Mail Matt and Sheryl move a little deeper into '82 with Matt's picks, supergroup Asia's "Heat of the Moment", The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat" and Sheryl's choice XTC's melodic masterpiece "Senses Working Overtime".

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Sheryl move into a new year with Sheryl's first 1982 choice "Don't You Want Me" and Matt's pick "Down Under",  both songs that were released in 1981 but became huge hits in '82.