Hey! Remember the 80's?

Join Kari and Joe this week to talk the music of Saturday Night Live in tidbits, along with some very important concert announcements. 

Then they dive back into Dave Kinzer's "The 80s Music Compendium" to cover a couple piano solos, an organ solo, a guitar solo, a harmonica solo and a saxophone solo. Whew. 

Get ready to hear about the Boogie Nights-ish backstory of the band Great White, a heartwarming story involving fortified wine, and possibly the worst cover of the 80s decade??

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Hello friends, Kari and Joe are back with a tidbit check-in on all those 80s music documentaries you've been waiting for! 

Then, they get into Volume 1 of Richard Blade's Flashback Favorites, the iconic DJ's compilation series that was intended to be all good songs, no filler. Did he succeed? Do you recognize the songs and bands he chose? Do the words "quick, slow, quick, quick, slow" mean anything to you?

Also, it's a special edition of Just a Bit Outside dedicated to the source of the quote himself, the one and only Bob Uecker.

All this, plus an attempted kidnapping, an urban legend about John Lennon and a trip to the beach!

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Happy New Year to our loyal listeners. Joe and Kari are back with a new episode. They are here to finish up the Billboard list of the 100 Best Pop Songs That Didn't Hit the Hot 100. Some of your 80's shoegaze faves are here: The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths. Thank goodness there are some more upbeat songs as well, courtesy of Frankie Beverly and Maze, and the act that appears in the number one spot on the list. Go ahead and click play -- for inspiration! 

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Let's say goodbye to 2024 with episode 264. In Tidbits, Kari will beg you to watch a new Netflix special and give an abbreviated report of Phil Collins: Drummer First. Then, Kari and Joe are flipping last week and bringing you Billboard Top 100 Pop Songs that didn't hit the Hot 100 first and Just a Bit Outside second. You'll have to decide who you believe about an infamous lyric of the 80s... Sheila E. or your own ears. Then, it's a legend that never got his due in the US, at least during his lifetime. In JaBO, it's an icon, a backing band and an R&B star from the end of the decade that couldn't make his success last. 

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Episode 263 is here just in time for Christmas! Wouldn't you think this would be a Christmas Episode? Not a chance -- as your friends Joe and Kari are still getting their bearings! You'll get a stocking full of Tidbits though, as your hosts remember more things that happened during the break! 1st Segment: Just a Bit Outside, a look at songs that charted but didn't break into the top 40. You'll hear Joe fumble the title of one of the most famous songs in the history of recorded music (sorry, Al Green), while a hard rock band conjures up movie quotes in the brain of Kari. // Billboards Top 100 Pop Songs that didn't hit the Hot 100 - yes, we are still looking through this list and picking out the 80's gems. This episode finds a re-recorded rock classic, and a trailblazing hip-hop remix. 

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Hello friends! Kari and Joe are back to... just chat.

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There are no words to describe the loss of producer David, but Kari gives it a try.

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Episode 260: Joe and Kari are going back to July 17, 1982, to peruse an issue of Billboard magazine (Thank you, Monty Greeley). You'll hear about articles and ads featuring Jimmy Spicer and The B.B. & Q Band, and some more familiar names like Carly Simon and Robert Plant. Kari's happy to discuss Bonnie Hayes, and Joe always gets a thrill talking about a Mandrell sister (Barbara, this time). 

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Episode 259: Happy Pride Month, all! Joe and Kari have a great episode this week inspired by an idea from friend of the podcast Dom! Prepare to build a rainbow using 80's songs, albums, and bands that use colors in their names: "Orange Crush" by REM, "Red Light" by Linda Clifford, the Moody Blues, you get the picture! So many fun songs in this one, plus some juicy tidbits, this episode's got it all!!

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Episode 258: First up in Tidbits, a little update about the other 80's movies that Joe and Kari watched during their time together. First segment: revisiting the Billboard list of the 100 Best Pop Songs that didn't reach the Hot 100. Joe and Kari discuss entries from Grace Jones, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes, Kate Bush, and NWA. 

The next segment was teased a bit ago: Trash Or Treasure? Up for debate is Ray Parker Jr's 80's Output Minus Ghostbusters. 

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