Ok, so my 70s haven't been good to me & I'm having a needless amount of trouble assembling a relatively clean show about "things that go in and out of you." This was so much easier 8 years ago. Oh, wait...
In May of 2013, I restarted TMMS with a mixtape themed show. It went over well as I recall. Maybe I've been trying too hard with all these themes. START AGAIN.
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At the end of the 1980s, pop music lay in ruins. The horrors of disco had come to an end, punk and New Wave had arrived and we were well on our way to burying every last one of the Bee Gees (yes, I know, but YOU didn't have to listen to that deathless Saturday Night Fever album on the radio over & over & over again for 3 years), but then I looked away for a moment in 1985 and it happened.
KISS had washed off their makeup and everybody else put it on. It was hair metal! HAIR F*CKING METAL! ZZ Top and Motorhead vanished mysteriously and everyone with a guitar who didn't look like a deranged Eleanor Roosevelt suddenly thought they could RAP?! And it was at this moment of abject horror that my local radio station cancelled Dr. Demento. It was a truly godawful time, people.
Dr. D came back to me at the end of 1988, but my interest in pop music never did. And during the dark times of rap and/or androgyny, I made dementia mixtapes. Guess what this show's about, go on...