PODCAST TIME! One-Hitters of '87
Ah yes, the one-hit wonders of '87. You're gonna get Swayze, you're gonna get T'Pau (pictured), you're gonna get...uh...um...oh hell, I don't remember. Let's just say it's not reportage that drives this particular podcast, which is pretty damn entertaining anyway.
It's just Spears and yours truly rocking the mikes on this one -- no sexy American girlfriends would come play with us. Perhaps that's because I spend great chunks of time describing such patented boudoir maneuvers as "the Dance of the Seven Buttons" and "the Hover," which tends to work 3 percent of the time -- and tends to terrify the other 97 percent.
As always, you can listen to the Stuck in the '80s podcast by clicking HERE or downloading us on iTunes. Have fun and Hover responsibly!
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
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Good times, Daly, good times! It's an UBER sausage hang, and we're all invited to visualize your seduction moves, listen to the squeaking refrains of self-love, enjoy Spears begging for mercy on the Swayze tune... it's chocked full of perverse goodness!
Posted by: Marissa | January 03, 2008 at 08:50 AM
Tell Senor Spears that he doesn't need to worry about my access to nuclear weapons, he needs to worry about my friends at McDill AFB.
Scary, Special Operations friends who know six different ways to kill a man with a green Crayola. I helped them build a couple of training bases in the Amazon, so they owe me.
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | January 03, 2008 at 09:18 AM
Ha! Just have your boys scare him a bit. Just wave the Crayola in front of his smug mug, let him know who's boss.
Posted by: Sean Daly | January 03, 2008 at 09:40 AM
1987, what a year. I should remember all the 1 hitters from my senior year, but I guess all that got trumped by my massive crush on Miss Debbie Gibson. She goes by Debroah now but to me she will always be Debbie.
Posted by: sparky | January 03, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Because I'm so annoying and whiny, I have a hard time listening to the podcasts in their entirety. This one, tho, I've heard twice. This is Spears' funniest performance, I think. Sure, no pathetic stories, but his off-the-cuff skills are wickedly sharp. You can tell he's cracking me up big time. Good times, indeed.
Posted by: Sean Daly | January 03, 2008 at 09:44 AM
SD this is off the present topic, but is Jack Blades going to be a podcast or an interview?
Posted by: sparky | January 03, 2008 at 09:52 AM
I'm impressed by the rage each of you were able to manufacture (yours toward Spandau and Steve's toward Swayze). Did you use the memory of the tune to spark such vitrolic rants, or did you use some other motivation?
Listen to me, getting my James Lipton on!
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | January 03, 2008 at 09:53 AM
Blades will be both a podcast AND an interview (on the blogs and possibly in the newspaper as well). That's a lotta Blades.
Posted by: Sean Daly | January 03, 2008 at 10:28 AM
The 'Hover' and the 'Dance of the Seven Buttons' had me cringing. You guys should have a contest where the winner gets to come down to Tampa and participate in a podcast with you.
Posted by: Bassnote | January 03, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Bassnote: ROADTRIP!!!
Posted by: Marissa | January 03, 2008 at 10:55 AM
If it involves hovering and button dancing, maybe the loser should have to make the trip to Tampa!
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | January 03, 2008 at 10:58 AM
WHAT?! You don't know "Don't Disturb This Groove"?!?!?! ARE you kidding me?! I LOVE that song. I can't believe you don't know that one. I guess I know it because the stupid radio station I listened to did dedications every night and it was played along with "Always and Forever" (gag) EVERY night!
and two, Humpty Dance Rocks... thanks!
Stuck in the 80's.
Jules
Posted by: sjdrj | January 03, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Jeff LOL!
Posted by: Bassnote | January 03, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Yeah, it's funny how age changes things. I knew "Don't Disturb This Groove" right off, but had never heard of the song you guys ended the podcast on. Of course, I was only 10 at the time!
Posted by: John Hays | January 03, 2008 at 11:55 AM
By the way, I definitely vote for either of the last 2 women as permanent cohost on the show. They were both great!
Posted by: John Hays | January 03, 2008 at 12:02 PM
So I'm a little late in chiming in a little late on this one, sorry I've been under the weather! But I have to say...
Bassnote.. I don't know if it's because I'm a female.. but the Hover move and Dance of the Seven Buttons had me frightenedly intrigued. (insert image: me covering my face with my hands, but peaking through my fingers!!) LOL
Marissa/Bassnote.. Nashville is certainly on your route to Tampa!!
Posted by: Carla | January 03, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I was thinking the very same thing, Carla! ROADTRIP!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Marissa | January 04, 2008 at 12:59 AM