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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

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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.

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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. 

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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 discuss their near misses from 1983. 

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

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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.

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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". 

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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. 

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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. 

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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)".