I Completed 80s Music

It's a biggie! Yes, in the second half of Playlist 54 we finally meet Toto on the plains of Africa. U2 also get chilly on New Years Day but not before Dire Straits warm us up again with a bop round the pool. Echo and the Bunnymen spare us the cutter, Eddie Rabbitt links up with Crystal Gayle and we end by meeting another of Australia's finest exports, Icehouse! (And yes I do mistakenly say February 1982 at the end. Whoops, of course it's 83!)

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8. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter

9. Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool

10. U2 - New Years Day

11. Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle - You And I

12. Toto - Africa

13. Icehouse - Hey Little Girl

We're gonna rock down to podcast avenue in this weeks ep as January 1982 continues in playlist 54. Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes grind the assault course to fly jets (you eyeballin' me Mayo-naise?!), Eddy Grant sings about a street in London while Prince prepares us for the Millenium.The Thompson Twins make their introduction, Bauhaus dance with old Nick and we end with Kajagoogoo hitting number one after a chance encounter with a Duran Duran member! Hits, hits and more hits!

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1. Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong

2. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

3. Prince - 1999

4. Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side

5. Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

6. Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick

7. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

Another shiny shiny episode this week as we continue into early 1983. Ian Astbury discovers a band in his cellar, China Crisis emulate Eno, Haysi Fantayzee dance around the apocalypse, the Alan Parsons Project causes the Mixtaper to have a wobbly bottom lip, Level 42 have Alan Partridge eating the Chinese Way and the Belle Stars leave us with the sign of the times. What an ep! (seriously though, bring your tissues for the Alan Parsons section, it all gets a bit dusty). 

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8. The Southern Death Cult - Fatman

9. China Crisis - Christian

10. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

11. The Alan Parsons Project - Old And Wise

12. Level 42 - The Chinese Way

13. The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times

Welcome to 1983 and year 4 of our quest! Playlist 53 starts with Wham! celebrating unemployment, we travel the high and low roads with Runrig and meet Billy Griffin. Joe Jackson takes us for a night on the town before the Stranglers get all Parisian. Men at Work have an iconic 80s moment and we pop and lock our way to the end of the show courtesy of Grandmaster Flash.

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1. Wham! - Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?)

2. Runrig - Loch Lomond

3. Billy Griffin - Hold Me Tighter In The Rain

4. Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out

5. The Stranglers - European Female

6. Men At Work - Down Under

7. The Furious Five & Grandmaster Flash - Scorpio

Merrrrry retro Christmas and a Happy 1983! And we have some gifts as we finish playlist 52 with some magic tricks and a blue story! Then we're into the celebrations proper as we reflect back on the year that was 1982, hand out some awards and then look forward to all the treats 1983 has in store!

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8. Whodini - Magic's Wand

9. Pete Wylie and the Mighty Wah - The Story Of The Blues

It's the last playlist of 1982 and (almost) the last episode of that year as we jump onto playlist 52. The Maisonettes take us down Heartache Avenue, we get two Christmas singles, Fleetwood Mac make their welcome return after 3 years, Dionne Warwick signs off, Laura Branigan signs the Stanley Cup and John Williams shows us how movie music should be done - Elllliiiottt!

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1. Dionne Warwick - All The Love In The World

2. The Maisonettes - Heartache Avenue

3. David Essex - A Winter's Tale

4. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

5. Fleetwood Mac - Oh Diane

6. Laura Branigan - Gloria

7. John Williams & The LSO - Flying Theme (From E.T The Extra-terrestrial)

We start with The Beat and end with a Beat Surrender this week as we roll into December 1982 and the end of The Jam. Cliff Richard also limbers up for a run of Christmas Hits, we learn why we all briefly got fascinated by the pan pipes, Phil Collins goes Motown and goes massive and Malcolm McLaren goes from agent provocateur to artiste provocateur!

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8. The Beat - I Confess

9. Cliff Richard - Little Town

10. Incantation - Cacharpaya

11. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love

12. Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals

13. The Jam - Beat Surrender

It's almost December 1982 and as we open our advent calendar who do we find behind the cardboard doors? (it's the 80s, so no milk chocolate) Bing Crosby and David Bowie! We also introduce the Pale Fountains for one brief dalliance and bathe in the creative majesty of The The. Bucks Fizz get hot and bothered in the kitchen, Culture Club can't stop dropping hits, Madness win an Ivor Novello and Ultravox enter a Faustian pact! It's quite the episode. 

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1. Bing Crosby, David Bowie & London Symphony Orchestra - Peace On Earth / The Little Drummer Boy

2. The Pale Fountains - Thank You

3. Bucks Fizz - If You Can't Stand The Heat

4. Culture Club - Time (Clock Of The Heart)

5. Madness- Our House

6. Ultravox - Hymn

7. The The - Uncertain Smile

He's only gone and done it! The tonne! 

Yes folks, somehow, amazingly, this is the 100th episode of the pod. 

After a brief celebration and discussion about how technically backward I now am, we get back into the show proper. Modern Romance kick off the party reminding us the 80s were the best years of our lives. Meanwhile Duran Duran get on a yacht and ruin some perfectly tailored suits. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart re-enter the charts and launch Eurythmics. We hear more from Simple Minds and Musical Youth and the Human League end the show looking in the mirror.

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8. Modern Romance - Best Years Of Our Lives

9. Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere

10. Duran Duran - Rio

11. Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger

12. Musical Youth - Youth Of Today

13. The Human League - Mirror Man

Hallelujah by alexander - go check out their work on orangefreesounds.com 

Drum Roll by LazyChillZone - go check out their work on Pixabay.com

And when I get that feeling it's like podcast healing! Yes folks as we reach the cusp of the tonne (episode 99 over all!), Playlist 50 brings us Marvin Gaye's brief comeback. Hall and Oates get chased by a panther, America bring their box of magic tricks, while a Flock of Seagulls consider a burgeoning photography career. Donna Summer makes her step into the 80s with the help of literally everyone, Clannad make us feel a feeling and Michael Jackson and Macca have a minor quarrel over a lady. It's a fun one this week!

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1. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

2. Darryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater

3. America - You Can Do Magic

4. A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)

5. Donna Summer - State Of Independence

6. Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game

7. Michael Jackson feat Paul McCartney - The Girl Is Mine