Offbeat Tracks

You may know Jane as a founding member of The Go-Gos, or as a dead singing telegram girl, or as Joan of Arc, but we know and love Jane for her fabulous solo career, which we take a very DIY trek through today.

An album that helped propel us into the '80s, all the while cementing The Purple One's hypersexual image. Step through it track by track with us, and try not to get your feet wet.

A true offbeat icon, Diane Warren has written some of contemporary pop's most well-known and highly-regarded ballads and power ballads. We list off her popular stuff and then dive into some of the tracks you may not have heard or didn't know that she wrote.

Everybody has their set of favorite pop Christmas tunes. We've made our lists, checked each other's twice, and now we're sharing them with you to get you in the spirit of the season this week. I mean, as much as either of us enjoys doing that. Which is not very much.

Big hair, gender bending, Hi NRG synths and drum machines - what's not to love about this titan of '80s dance music?

For our second superlatives episode, we thought it fitting to talk (an admittedly broad definition of) protest songs. Hear what our favs are, and send us yours!

Rush rush to the dancefloor (not the yeyo) and get down with us to one of the greatest soundtracks of all time!

If you listened to pop radio in the '90s, you heard a Sophie B. Hawkins song. She's one of the multitude of artists of that era who slipped through the popularity cracks and is left dancing in the memories of those of us who can't get enough of Clinton-era hippie pop. We revisit Sophie's first two albums and touch on what she's been up to since then, including rewriting one of her hits for a Presidential candidate!

Happy birthday to the pioneering DJ, producer, and remix artist responsible for a multitude of dancefloor smashes! We go through our favorite Jellybean singles and remixes and plead for him to regrow his beautiful hair. Also, Max loses his mind laughing at Danielle's stupid joke about dolphins.

Happy Halloween! Enjoy listening to our suggestions for your spooky party playlist tonight.

If you've ever listened to an R&B song from the early or mid 1980s, chances are very good that you've heard some of Kashif's work. Although not a household name to mainstream audiences, his work was instrumental in shaping where R&B music would go for the entire decade. This is our tribute episode to a guy we think more people should know about.

Regina wrapped her hair up in tubes, put on some parachute pants, dropped one pop album on us in 1986, and then disappeared forever. Hear all about her new wave roots, her unreleased second album, and her most recent sighting as we step through her very brief but very fashionable career.

Have you ever needed something to listen to while studying, something to listen to in the bath, and something to listen to while having deviant encounters in '90s underground clubs, but only had enough money for one CD? Today's your lucky day!

After seeing her in concert, we knew we had to do a Taylor Dayne episode. Did you know about her two singles released under a different name, or her connection with Russian nightclubs? Listen and learn!

For a guy who's had this many hits, you'd think more people would remember that they remember him! As we sail through Richard's first four albums, we try to figure out why his singles stay lodged in the corner closets of our brains that never get cleaned out.

For our first Superlatives Episode, we decided if we could correctly identify a song we love that the other one hates. This, of course, trails off into a discussion about the songs we actually hate and why we hate them.

A family that chose music over lawn care! Hear the story of how they made it from the Hawaiian Inn to playing to a completely empty football stadium. Oh, and they were arguably one of the biggest teen acts of the late '80s too!

We strip down one of Danielle's favorite albums of all time, looking past the pageantry to try to figure out why this thing tanked.

We revisit the short-lived ultra-fame of this German duo and try as best we can to do their story justice and keep it about the great music.

An oddball, one-album duo from Miami, started by a radio DJ and almost stopped by George Clinton. What a story!