Episodes

This episode finds us discussing a controversial song by The Police, so much so that they actually recorded two different versions of it, the original in 1980 which creeped everybody out, and the 1986 version which not only b...

Occasionally, we have a story that doesn't quite fit into a regular episode, but we like it enough that we still want to share it, so we thought it would be fun to create mini-episodes for those little orphan stories. Our reg...

This episode is the first in a series about the singular and super-interesting story of 80's glam rock, which seemed to rise from nowhere to the top of the charts. This subject is so vast that we will break it up and share it...

This episode is actually devoted to an entire Paul McCartney album, 1989's "Flowers in the Dirt," that we think deserves more love than it gets. This was the beginning of everything Paul is currently doing to this day, from ...

In this episode, we explore the 1985 hit "Voices Carry" by Aimee Mann's former band 'Til Tuesday. as well as the beginning of her solo career and her involvement with occasional collaborator Jon Brion. This then led to their ...

The two of us ring in 2023 (not really) by discussing one of our favorite songs by one of our favorite bands, the 1984 hit "Hot For Teacher" by Van Halen. We also discuss one of the few perfect movies in existence, "The Princ...

In the TapeHeads spirit of the holidays, we tackle the controversial, condescending, and ultimately extremely successful song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" released by the super-group Band Aid in 1984. For our movie recommen...

We kick off this new endeavor by taking a look inside Yes's 1983 hit, "Owner of a Lonely Heart," along with context about just how different this album was from all of their previous ones. There are also some entertaining per...

Welcome to TapeHeads, a fun retrospective podcast about 80's music, culture, movies, etc., by two friends who were there.