We love rock n roll! But we also love pop, new wave, synthpop, you get the picture. It's now May 1982 and Joan Jett explodes onto the UK scene. The RAH band show us their perfumed garden (ooh er missus) and Tight Fit swing out of the charts. D Train walks in a brilliant cover, Blondie walk off until 1997 and the Associates make fun of the entire circus. It's quite the episode!

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Links to Playlist 40:

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8. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock n Roll

9. The RAH Band - Perfumed Garden

10. Tight Fit - Fantasy Island

11. D Train - Walk On By

12. Blondie - Island Of Lost Souls

13. The Associates - Club Country

All we wanna do is TalkTalk on this podcast and this week we natter about April 1982 and a slew of incredible hits on playlist 40. Macca and Stevie Wonder duet on a song about racial harmony, Hot Chocolate go girl crazy while the Fixx bring the cold war paranoia. Meanwhile Vince Clarke leaves Depeche Mode to form Yazoo with Alison Moyet. Patrice Rushen drops a club classic which becomes a staple of a 90s film franchise. Junior gets some motherly advice and all TalkTalk wanna do is talk talk!

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Links to Playlist 40:

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In case the hyperlinks don't work, the tracks are:

1. Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory

2. Girl Crazy - Hot Chocolate

3. Yazoo - Only You

4. The Fixx - Stand Or Fall

5. Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots

6. Junior - Mama Used To Say

7. Talk Talk - Talk Talk

Hopefully we're really saying something (bop bop shooby do wah) with this episode of the pod as we tackle the back 6 songs of playlist 39 and April 1982. Bowie kicks us off as he teaches us to put out fires with gasoline. Bardo then attempt to replicate Bucks Fizz Eurovision success (nerves ensue). The J Geils band have one last hurrah. Banarama return the favour to Fun Boy Three. The English World Cup Squad demonstrate our love for badly sung team songs and we end with Haircut 100's Fantastic Day, masking some less than fantastic problems.

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Links to Playlist 39

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In case the hyperlinks don't work, the tracks are:

8. David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

9. Bardo - One Step Further

10. The J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

11. Bananarama & Fun Boy Three - Really Saying Something

12. England World Cup Squad 1982 - This Time We'll Get It Right

13. Haircut 100 - Fantastic Day