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In this episode Kieran, Paul and I continue to look at 1980s music videos by discussing the Stephen R. Johnson directed video for Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer'.

For the record, we couldn't get enough music 40 years ago. This week Enjoy Stuff remembers how we consumed our music and what was popular in 1983. Jay and Shua spin you right round baby, right round on Enjoy Stuff!

Let’s look back at what music was popular in 1983 and how we listened, on a very musical episode of Enjoy Stuff 

News

Wednesday is renewed for a season 2 at Netflix

Some kids at an elementary school in Racine, Wisconsin are collecting cereal for a world record. You can donate tasty breakfast or money here: Amazon Wish List. 

Peter Gabriel is releasing his first new album in 21 years!

4/4/23 you too can enter the grid when TRON Lightcycle Run opens in Magic Kingdom

Ke Huy Quan wins a Golden Globe and reveals that his entertainment lawyer knows the Truffle Shuffle

Sad news as we lost a trio of legends. RIP Lisa Marie Presley, Jeff Beck, and Robbie Kneivel

Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends

What we’re Enjoying

After watching season 1 of Willow on Disney+, Jay went back and remembered how fun Willow the movie was. A fantasy adventure with humor and a lot of heart. Shua has been immersed in a Star Trek soundtrack playlist on Spotify that includes music from just about every show, movie, and project you could think of. A nice variety of sci-fi tunes for your daily listen. 

Sci-Fi Saturdays/MCU Location Scout

In 1998 Aerosmith would close their eyes, just to hear you breathing. Creepy? Not when you realize it’s the soundtrack from the Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck disaster flick Armageddon. As hokey and over the top as this Michael Bay movie is, it’s still a lot of fun. Check it out on Sci-Fi Saturdays on Retrozap.com. Plus, stay tuned for a little known post-apocalyptic film called Six-String Samurai, coming this Saturday. 

Enjoy Music!

Music has been a determining factor of a culture since Ringo Starr discovered it as a Caveman. But in the 80s it seemed to take it to a whole other level. This week we take a look at where we got our music and what was popular. 

This week, 40 years ago, Men at Work had the number one spot with Down Under. And while Australia was all the rage at this time, it was just one of the many songs we would keep track of on the charts when we listened to Casey Kasem bring it to us each week on American Top 40. 

While listening to the radio was nice, we couldn’t pick the songs we wanted. So we headed into the record stores for our records and tapes. Enjoy Stuff will share the history and origins of some of our listening vessels on this week’s show. 

Plus, we remember some of the iconic stores that were enjoying their heyday in the malls and other venues across the country. It’s a musical episode for the scrapbook. Come join us as we Enjoy Music!

Where did you get your music in 1983? Did you listen on vinyl, cassette, American Top 40? Did you read all of these shownotes? First person that emails me with the subject line, “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack 65

Join us “live” from The Whirling Tiger as we talk with Tim Cappello. He’s an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, a singer, a songwriter and a man who will forever be known as - the sexy sax man from “The Lost Boys”. 

And while we consider pausing the interview to start looking for back issues of Interview Magazine, we also mention… Tina Turner, John Coltrane, Billy Crystal, Captain Beefheart, Charlie Parker, military bands, The New England Conservatory of Music, Michael Chapman, Lennie Tristano, The Raspberries, banned from CBGBs, The Marotta Brothers, Andy Warhol, throwing live bait into the audience, Elton John, clarinet, Saturday Night Live, Eric Carmen, tie-dye, Cameo, I know a guy that can do both, Peter Gabriel, we were doing McDonald's conventions, Joel Schumacher, being a meme, Steely Dan, Lester Young, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Garland Jeffreys, Jon Hamm, head banging to sax, a wall of LPs, Aretha Franklin, you gotta have some wrong in what you are doing, Ornette Coleman, utility players, The Ken Dolls, Adolphe Sax and the ever-present cod-piece. 

“That’s just another night in Santa Cruz.”

Melancholy Joy Mixtape ft. carla joy bergman

In this episode carla and I complied a mixtape of songs that feature melancholy joy. Songs that we go to and have gone to in times when we felt melancholic and needed to bounce back, sad songs that bring joy, songs that inspire resilience. Below are links to the spotify playlist, transcript, and links to carla's work:

The spotify playlist is missing some songs from our episode that aren't on streaming platforms. We also added 20+ more songs to the playlist and talk more about why we chose them on the show.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Y3j8ZA96GJEK6jFTJo9DI?si=7acdf2cb63b24bf4

Transcript: https://christimesteele.tumblr.com/post/658655846149079040/transcript-time-talks-ep-40-melancholy-joy

Links to carla's podcast Silverthreads, the Grounded Futures podcast, carla's book Joyful Militancy with Nick Montgomery, Radiant Voices (book), and Joyful Threads Production: https://linktr.ee/joyfulcarla

Sourgout's music: https://sourgout.bandcamp.com/

This week, Sam is joined by PR genius Vix Leyton and Survivalist (not singer) Peter Gabriel! They discuss alternative worlds, defending against sasquatches, being Welsh and saving child miners.

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This episode makes connections between '80s Goth and Dark Wave and more recent songs in those styles. It starts on a completely different path at first. Jeff wants to play me a song by a local Maine artist that I find was part of 2 groups I know. This leads to another Struts conversation and 2 collaboration songs.

Once the actual theme starts a few different concert experiences come into play, the lack of baritone and bass vocals in popular music, and a lot of talk about songs that build. This seems to be a comfort zone for Jeff, who offers some interesting connections which leads to one that only I became aware of during editing. This process is always so much fun.

We end on a highlight for Jeff that will lead to the next episode.

This episode of Monstrosity is the first ever that we are referring to as  a 'Wildcard" episode. It's a "Wildcard" episode because it breaks our usual format in several ways. But none of that matters, because...

This episode features British rock star Steve Hackett, the legendary guitarist from the one of the most successful rock bands of all time, GENESIS! And Monstrosity host David Race is one of the biggest Genesis fans on earth, so the detailed "Genesis questions" David gets Hackett answering are fantastic! In many cases, they are questions that we don't think Steve has ever been asked before!

After a fun and informative interview with Hackett, we speak with Linda Godfrey, about some of the more "off the grid" cryptids.

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