Weeee're baaaaaack! We simply can't be faded. Thanks to everyone who continues to remember us and keep us in the feed after the Big Hiatus! We return with an honored GUEST host - Heather Sommerhauser of JUNATIME, who talks to us about her work and helps us fish out the best of 1983 and put to bed the best and worst of it! 1983 Year End 80s Music Ex…

Big grab of underground/alt drops here at the end of the year, with seminal releases served up for today's listening ears? Also, Dylan and Elton albums? How do they fare in the early 80s? Where do your favorite 80s Exposed personalities land? PLACE YOUR BETS on TWITTER! Hootenanny | The Replacements Life's a Riot with Spy... | Billy Bragg Head Over…

The march to the end of 1983 continues with breakdowns and tears about Duran Duran, conflicting ideas on Billy Idol, and question marks about band Yes, the rise of the Eurythmics and The The. Rebel Yell | Billy Idol Seven and the Ragged Tiger | Duran Duran 90125 | Yes Touch | Eurythmics Soul Mining | The The Apple Music Playlist The podcast with gu…

In light of the passing of Olivia Newton-John, thought we'd give folks a chance to check out our take on XANADU - please keep in mind we recorded this 4 years ago - a bit of water under the bridge since then! Queen - The Game, Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Fela Kuti and Africa 70 - I.T.T. Olivia Newton John …

Yep, we did it. We listened to it. Track by track. Was the world right about Huey Lewis? Does the album Sports deserve the cinematic spiel it was given in American Psycho? Do you want a new drug? Is sometimes bad, ya know, uh.......bad? Also, - an 80sMusicExposed FIRST! We introduce NEW music from an artist we love JUNATIME! The podcast with guts: …

Just in time for your July 4th weekend! October 1983 records include one from our Patron subscribers! Was this the genesis of the rise of Genesis or the genesis of the decline of Genesis? Should it be "Color by Numbers" in the US? Was Lionel Richie's "Can't Slow Down" a "Thriller lite"? Nick Heyward? Who was that? Cyndi Lauper - did she popularize …

New episodes are on the way - but here's one you might have missed from the early days of 80s Exposed (2018) - We've grown a lot in 4 years - and learned a lot too!!! This one was a favorite from before many of you found us! Megan hadn't even joined us yet! Find us on the web! www.80sMusicExposed.com Breakdowns on - The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms Juda…

Try finding the keyboard shortcuts for the two dots in MOTLEY CRUE (I refuse). Like champs, we just come back to blow your mind once again with selection from the stack for SEPTEMBER 1983. Stick your hand in the (non-bargain) bin to have a look at these again! Welcome to the only podcast to DARE to put this line up on the same show: Shout at the De…

Special episode on the massively commercially successful David Bowie album Let's Dance, his first for EMI America, released 39 years ago - in April of 1983. After signing a 17 million dollar contract, he chose a fresh new producer in Nile Rodgers, and history was made! We talk about the importance of Let's Dance to the cultural moment, and prattle …

Seen any good TV lately? Take some BC or STANBACK POWDER and try to ignore The Slap heard around the world, and focus on an episode chock full of LETTER BAND NAMES! VISIT: 80sMusicExposed.com! Which of these statements is true: a) Henry now loves Billy Joel. b) Every podcast now mentions XTC somewhere. c) Dazzle Ships is underrated. An Innocent Man…

Back to a regular format show, featuring albums from JULY 1983!! Questions answered include: Was Metallica a thrash metal band? Were those bagpipes on the Big Country albums? Was The Final Cut really a Pink Floyd album? Was Robert Palmer defined by his biggest hits? What and who was ZAPP? Kill em All | Metallica The Crossing | Big Country The Final…

Attention Material Girls, and all others! The long-awaited Madonna episode is here! As we get together to pass judgment on Madonna's solo album from 1983, its ALSO an opportunity to discuss how Madonna does 2022, the Instagram era, ageism, and her seismic impact on 1983 and culture since then! Happy 2022 everyone! We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to d…

Holidays are over, but we keep on givin'! Megan, Henry, and Chris throw down on records from JUNE 1983! Did Henry interview David Byrne? Was Stevie Ray Vaughn proto-shoegaze? Midnight Star wrote about sex! A lot! Was Donna Summer into Jesus? Was The Church a better band after they "sold out"? All will be revealed!!!! Speaking In Tongues | Talking H…

WE ARE STILL GOING! Just in time for your holiday, a new edition of 80sX comes atcha! FOR MAY 1983, what do we have for thee? Reach the Beach | The Fixx Piece of Mind | Iron Maiden Power Corruption and Lies | New Order Life's a Riot with Spy... | Billy Bragg Eyes That See In The Dark | Kenny Rogers We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to do your own podca…

We are up to April 1983 (alt-April?)- and there are as many 80s albums falling into our laps like rain. (Maybe like leaves since we are recording in the fall?) Henry, Chris, and Megan catch these five albums from April of 1983!!! Whammy! | B-52's Murmur | R.E.M. In Outer Space | Sparks Violent Femmes | Violent Femmes High Land, Hard Rain | Aztec Ca…

Henry, Chris, and Megan jump in, hang on, and go back to the bin to cover albums from March 1983! Eliminator | ZZ Top Candy Girl | New Edition Metal Health | Quiet Riot The Hurting | Tears for Fears TRUE | Spandau Ballet Spotify Link We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to do your own podcast project using this link, which supports our show, and gets YOU …

A FULL EPISODE dedicated to the Final Album By The Police - Synchronicity! Who was Scylla and Charybdis? Megan, Chris, and Henry get Gordy another beer and discuss one of the biggest albums of the 80s by The Police! We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to do your own podcast project using this link, which supports our show, and gets YOU a $20.00 Amazon gi…

February brings us the battle of the vocalists! We put Bono, Steve Perry, Ian McCullough, and yes uh..... Dennis DeYoung (?) in the ring to duke it out! Who prevails? Who referees? Who has the gloves on? Who doesn't? Also somehow we review ANOTHER Ramones album? Frontiers | Journey War | U2 Porcupine | Echo & the Bunnymen Kilroy Was Here | Styx Sub…

Henry, Chris and Megan kick the doors down on 1983, and decide which of these albums from January 1983 are worth listening to. Was 1983 the year of the raspy voice? Did Foghorn Leghorn like Alabama or Def Leppard more? Albums considered are: Pyromania | Def Leppard Sweet Dreams | Eurythmics Pancho and Lefty | Merle Haggard /Willie Nelson The Closer…

After entirely too many weeks of challenges, Chris and Henry and Megan throw down and FINALLY close out 1982, holding court on all that fell into our earholes, and preparing to plunge upward to the year 1983!!!! We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to do your own podcast project using this link, which supports our show, and gets YOU a $20.00 Amazon gift c…

Dec. 1982 - The world knows technology is coming - undercurrents of suspicion and some worry about where this is headed, and some think it’s just a cute new boyfriend/girlfriend. Wesley Willis wore an Eddy Grant costume! Killer on the Rampage | Eddy Grant Trans | Neil Young Shabooh Shoobah | INXS All Four One | The Motels Night and Day | Joe Jackso…

Henry, Chris and Megan start shutting down the year with: Food comparisons A band named after a beverage Spurious claims about Lionel Richie Everyone must be hungry! Spotify Link CODA | Led Zeppelin Music For A New Society | John Cale Lionel Richie | Lionel Richie Rip It Up | Orange Juice Long After Dark | Tom Petty We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to…

The long-awaited and eagerly anticipated reckoning with THRILLER by Michael Jackson is here! Chris, Henry, and Megan deal with the best selling album of all time, and discuss the cultural impact of Michael Jackson on the world, and his tarnished legacy. We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to do your own podcast project using this link, which supports our…

In October 1982, masters of the craft swung for the fences - in a bid for artistic, commercial and critical success. ….and another band showed up also. Chris, Henry, and Megan help you decide which was which from this month in a decade that mattered! The Nightfly | Donald Fagan 1999 | Prince Midnight Love | Marvin Gaye H2O | Hall & Oates Kissing To…

King me! September brings us royalty with records from the 80s Art Rock King and Queen, The 80s Soundtrack King, the Kings of Progressive Rock, and the Kings of Hard Rock! This ain't chess, this is 80s Music Exposed! What famous 90s rock band stole their entire sound from Kenny Loggins? Click and inquire within! It's Hard | The Who High Adventure |…

Get your Nagel posters out of the attic! Another classic album episode-length episode! This time discussing RIO by Duran Duran! Duran Duran - were they annoying 80s-era teeny boppers? Coke-addled bon vivants? RIO - Overhyped synthpop or classic masterpiece? Chris, Henry and Megan stake all their claims to sort out the truth! Spotify Album ***We lov…

Decisions made: There's no better mode than a Depeche type of mode. Michael McDonald mode is unreachable for most humans. The Go-Go's did not actually go on Vacation Luther Vandross mode is also unreachable for most humans. Marshall Crenshaw mode and Elvis Costello mode are actually not the same.. Listener reminisces with us over the Worlds Fair an…

It's ALL HANDS on DECK again! And ANOTHER chapter in the ongoing Elvis Costello dispute! And Billy Bragg appears - wat! Other weird asides and rabbit holes to explore! Eye of The Tiger | Survivor Imperial Bedroom | Elvis Costello Screaming For Vengeance | Judas Priest Too-Rye-Ay | Dexy's Midnight Runners So Excited! | The Pointer Sisters Speak and …

A very special SECOND of its kind episode for 80s Music Exposed: Full episode album content - dedicated to milestone/ classic/ definitive albums from the 80s! This episode we consider: Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen - We love Buzzsprout! - Sign up to do your own podcast project using this link, which supports our show, and gets YOU a $20.00 Amazon g…

Its not a Mirage, there are men and women at work behind the Curtain - because this episode is Strait from the Heart! Fall in love with these albums from June 1982!!! Chris and Henry break em down again!!!! The Nylon Curtain | Billy Joel Strait From The Heart | George Strait The Lexicon of Love | ABC Mirage | Fleetwood Mac Cargo | Men At Work We lo…

What? The boys did southern rock? (well, kinda?) Chris and Henry get in their own phone booth, dudes, and journey back to grab albums from the 80s month by month, and listen and learn! Special Forces | .38 Special Avalon | Roxy Music The Gap Band IV | The Gap Band Combat Rock | The Clash Pornography | The Cure Speak and spell back to us here: Email…

Don't be a FOOL, Toto, this ain't no Tug of War, yr about to blackout! Instead DIVE right on in and welcome to April 1982! Chris and Henry continue their journey back to grab albums from the 80s month by month, and listen and learn! Records are: Toto IV | Toto American Fool | John Cougar Tug of War | Paul McCartney Diver Down | Van Halen Blackout |…

Shoot - Our March 1982 episode is one for the ages! Flock on over to our podcast, Maiden! Do you know the difference between Mike Love and Mike Score? Have you ever tried to work the word Asia into a podcast blurb? Henry and Chris duke it out over records from March 1982! Joined by our millenial in residence and social media manager Megan Maddox, s…

A very special first of its kind episode for 80s Music Exposed: Full episode content - dedicated to milestone/ classic/ definitive albums from the 80s! This episode we consider: The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five! Speak and spell back to us here: Email: 80sMusicExposed@gmail.com Twitter: @80sExposed Twitter Henry: @HankGee / Twit…

Hey Lou guys - Wiilie listen to our podcast? We think you should Nick a copy, maybe even during your Haircut - it should leave you in XTC! Chris and Henry (again) consider records from February 1982! The Blue Mask | Lou Reed Always on my Mind | Willie Nelson English Settlement | XTC Pelican West | Haircut 100 Nick The Knife | Nick Lowe Spotify link…

Hey cowboy, don't be a goody two shoes, and don't save it for later - Drive to Mesopotamia - look behind the magnolia curtain, and check out our album selections from January 1982! Chris and Henry consider records from January 1982! Behind The Magnolia Curtain | Tav Falco's Panther Burns Mesopotamia | The B-52's All The Best Cowboys... | Pete Towns…

Well we did it! We make it through 1981, even as we make it through 2020! END OF YEAR ROUND UP for all these records we listened to - the good, the bad, the ugly! LISTEN IN and see which records were AWESOME and which ones stank up the joint! The journey continues! Speak and spell back to us here: Email: 80sMusicExposed@gmail.com Twitter: @80sExpos…

Our service to you, dear listeners! Our first post-Covid episode! We listen, you listen, and we all can listen now. Live, from our RESPECTIVE LOCATIONS! We are well and we hope you are also! We are glad to be able to continue talking about records - indeed this might be the BEST TIME to discuss albums! Damaged | Black Flag Arcitecture & Morality | …

One more PRE-Covid episode in the can. Can't stop, won't stop! Put your worries and concerns in a box and revisit a time when you bought music at a store, and actually rubbed shoulders with others! For your Victory Garden building ears, we review these albums from November 1981: Tonight I'm Yours | Rod Stewart Shake It Up | The Cars Business as Usu…

Take a break from the zombie hellscape and fill your newly aimless days with our NEW EPISODE, with NEW EQUIPMENT with DEEP MORE PLEASING VOICES discussing the days of yore..... MORE specifically ALBUMS from OCTOBER 1981 Part Deux! .... and Megan is with us LIVE! ON! THE! SHOW! Albums reviewed: Get Lucky | Loverboy Physical | Olivia Newton John Octo…

Did the boys listen to October of 1981? WELL - Did Merle Haggard keep coke in his guitar case? It's not a Controversy, we Dare you to Police freeze frame yourself and listen to our podcast until you are just Haggard! Records coming out of the cornucopia horn: Big City | Merle Haggard Dare | The Human League Ghost in The Machine | The Police Controv…

HORNS STILL EXIST, WE MUST ASSURE YOU! Another Abacab-tastic episode, Mecca sure you eat your Oates, and Faithfully go into listen Mode to the Genesis of this podcast! Chris and Henry cover and dispute on: Red Mecca | Cabaret Voltaire Private Eyes | Hall & Oates Dangerous Acquaintances | Marianne Faithful Speak & Spell | Depeche Mode Abacab | Genes…

YES WE ARE STILL HERE, AND WE STILL CARE, and THE MARCH CONTINUES! No need to talk amongst yourselves! Another Special Double Issue Part 2 - Chris and Henry cover: Tattoo You | Rolling Stones Scissors Cut | Art Garfunkel Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash | The Replacements Something Special | Kool & The Gang Tin Drum | Japan Millennial hot tak…

Henry and Chris revisit records from JULY 1981 - AGAIN! AND THIS TIME THEY MEAN IT and omg Journey is discussed (finally)! And OINGO BOINGO even! OH MAI. Bella Donna | Stevie Nicks Escape | Journey 4 | Foreigner Precious Time | Pat Benatar Only a Lad | Oingo Boingo Megan from Detroit gives her (defends her!) pick of the month also! 80s Exposed drop…

The special double issue continues!!!!! August 1981 perlie dew drops drops for your Xmas vacation listening pleasure! Family Xmas making you cranky? Let the soothing album reviews role over you, into the sweet reverie of August of 1981! Megan the millennial (and our social media director) arrives with Thanksgiving wishes and right in time for your …

Well we're movin on up to a deluxe apartment in the sky! No more kitchen! FedEx guy channeled! BUT WE STILL DO SOME RECORDS! Henry and Chris begin reckoning with July 1981 albums: Whomp That Sucker | Sparks Beauty and the Beat | The Go-Go's Pirates | Ricky Lee Jones Pleasant Dreams | The Ramones High N' Dry | Def Leopard Megan gives us her pick of …

Henry and Chris bang out 5 albums from June - AGAIN! June had a bunch! Wha'ppen? | English Beat In the Pocket | Commodores Kim Wilde | Kim Wilde As Far As Siam | Red Rider RockihnRoll | Greg Kihn Band Chris show review - The Alarm / Modern English / and Gene Loves Jezebel (Jay Ashton version - we sort that out, too...) Megan discusses her pick of t…

June was a big deal in 1981, and again we have to split it in 'Twain! NEW EP! AN AVALANCHE OF CONTENT FORTHCOMING! The kitchen's days are numbered! A dog appears! Also - Henry and Chris review 5 selected albums from JUNE 1981! Albums reviewed are: Breakin' Away | Al Jarreau Season of Glass | Yoko Ono Talk Talk Talk | Psychedelic Furs Juju | Siouxsi…

We told you we had more, and we do! Henry and Chris dig out some records from MAY 1981, and decide which you should give another spin! The HITS KEEP COMING. Records reviewed are: Wild Gift | X East Side Story | Squeeze Red | Black Uhura Hard Promises | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Computer World | Kraftwerk Megan tries to decide which child is h…

OUR TWENTIETH episode!!! We're back, the first in an oncoming AVALANCHE OF MONTHS! The boys again use the R.A.G.S. method to select records from April 1981, come to blows over Flowers of Romance by PIL / Public Image Limited. Other records considered include: Mistaken Identity | Kim Carnes Street Songs | Rick James Chariots of Fire | Vangelis Faith…