Episode 11 - 1984 Part 2

Album of the Year Podcast

The 1984 cipher continues with 2 more classic albums! We kick things off with a deep dive into the billboard top 100 (1:46) Kris reminds Marty of a previous conversation regarding the movie “Blow” (5:16) Kris seeing Willie Nelson at Battleship Texas at 6 years old (8:50) More vital Huey Lewis talk (10:54) Key differences between “Dancing in the Dark” and “Dancing in the Sheets” (16:30) Kris tells a great story about The Cars and “city music” (24:40) An assembly Marty attended in 4th grade which he was subjected to a musician playing “Axel F” on a Xylophone (27:02) Trying our best to see how much Ann Wilson was in the red with gambling debts when she recorded “Almost Paradise” (28:20) We then get to Kris’s pick, the ethereal and emotive Cocteau Twins album “Treasure” (37:20) After breaking down the finer points of this monumental album, Kris and Marty break down one of the albums that put Minneapolis on the map, The Replacements “Let it Be” (1:07:25). Thanks as always for listening!