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Oh, dip! Look who's back!  Chris and Jared have returned to discuss just what is political music.

We bring "The Ladies of the 80's" to a close with an unmitigated banger.  Not talking about sausage but this British(?) crew led by The Dread Pirate Hynde, purely plundered our hearts and minds.  No more rhyming.  I mean it!  Beware the rope-a-dope of Side B...

Ladies of the 80"s can't stop and won't stop.  Let's cast our ears back to the "Reagan Era" for this delightful second album by The Bangles.  We'll see what a young "up and comer", Prince had to contribute and how the gals had everyone walking like Egyptians.

We're still about the "Ladies of the 80s" in this episode.  Out of the early 80s L.A. punk scene came a force of nature known as the Go-Gos.  With a little bit of help from an "old school" record man behind the board, they delivered a classic that won't quit.  Just like Jared's love for Belinda Carlisle.  

We're going to kick off our "Ladies of the 80's" run with the queen herself, Pat Benatar.  "Crimes of Passion" is her second album.  Released in 1980, no one could match her tough-guy femininity or her singing chops.  Throw in the guitar man Neil Giraldo and stand back and turn it up.  There's a reason these two have been making beautiful music together for over 40 years.  

Before things got dark and sad, there was a time when STP was on top of the world.  Their second album quieted a lot of the critics who had perhaps written the band off as "Grunge" pretenders to the throne.  Perhaps we needed to be convinced as well.  Sure, they could grunge it up with the best of them but they also had places to go outside of those lazy corners of pop rockdom.  Come and have a listen to a record that makes it feel like it's always raining in San Diego.  We've been converted.  Hallelujah.

This week we have our good "friend of the show", Troy Carter back in with us to take a listen to the second album from Wilco.  Join us as we geek out and sing along with these "Icons of Americans".  And... maybe some bad Celine Dion impressions. Dig it!

OK.  So, what is AC/DC's second album actually?  Nobody cares as long as it rocks like Ayers.  Enjoy this episode full of totally non-offensive Australian impressions.  Sorry.

How come we don't listen to The Cult more often?  Can a guitar solo be for the entire length of a song?  What the hell is a Fairlight? 
Come on.  You know we got these answers for you.  Here comes the rain, suckers!

Hardly can believe it's taken us this long to get around to The Doors.  American icons.  Art rockers who can right a hit.  Subjects of a brilliant documentary by Oliver Stone.  We might have realized that 99% of what we know about this band, we learned from Val Kilmer and Co.  Listen two times!