Offbeat Tracks

She may have recorded one of the greatest ballads in the history of pop music and kickstarted the career of one of pop music's all-time greatest singers, but we spend most of this episode pining for the release of the song she sings in Beat Street.

Two guys approach superproducer Arthur Baker with the idea of making an entire album based on the Dhar Braxton single "Jump Back (Set Me Free)," and he jumped right on it.

Are Propaganda more German than Kraftwerk? At what point must a band record under a different name? We're back from our summer break, and we tackle this and more in our most German episode yet!

Doing proper justice for one of the all-time great pop divas.

A rare '80s soundtrack that really deserves to be counted among the classics!

The two-hit wonder that you probably thought was a one-hit wonder! (Though we still aren't convinced their second hit actually exists.)

It's that time again! Connor is back with us, and we're perusing all the oohs, ahhs, and wtfs of Eurovision 2019.

It's time for a Superlatives episode, and this time we're tackling non-dance songs that were covered as club cuts (mostly in the '90s, because people couldn't seem to stop doing it then for some reason).

One man retires from a life of academia to make an album in his bedroom, and ends up being credited by many as the lone savior of dance music.

A Jesse-Johnson-formed band that spent two albums exploring the dancepop side of the Minneapolis sound.