Offbeat Tracks

Sharon Brown is an interesting story. A talented session musician turned dance music diva, and our first subject who has also been on The People's Court!

Would a band named after a Nietche principle ever truly live up to its philosophical name? Surprisingly, yes -- but Florida Man and his army of singers made some great dance music and pop ballads along their journey.

You probably know Lulu from a hit movie and theme song from the 1960s, but today we're looking at her personal declaration of independence in the form of a '90s eurohouse album.

Today we're looking at the Cincinnati group that launched the career of two legendary producers.

In 1987, Liza Minnelli wanted to make a pop album, so her record label set her up with the Pet Shop Boys. This was the result.

The one and only pop album released by Carrie Fisher's half-sister in 1990, and boy does it just SCREAM 1990!

It's no secret by now that Alanis had a couple of pop albums before she was the Alanis that the world knows. We decided it was time they get the respect they deserve.

In our 2019 retrospective, we recount our favorite offbeat discoveries of the year!

Before there was Big Time Rush, and significantly after there were The Monkees, there were the Guys Next Door. And boy were they cheesy.

Now known as a versatile at-least-quadruple threat, the great Vanessa Williams kicked off her music career with an album chock full of delicious dancepop and beautiful ballads.

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.

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.