Episode #92: Let's Get Serious

Admittedly, it is never easy for me to squeeze '80s music into normal episodes of Star Time, because the '80s are when the drum machines took over. I don't know about you, but I don't feel comfortable telling Clyde Stubblefield to move over for something called a "Linn LM-1." My twice-yearly solution has been to just do an all-'80s episode, and that's what you have here. Lots of familiar hits, some ballads, savage electro-funk, and the like. Also: WE HAVE JERMAINE. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
S.O.S. Band	Take Your Time (Do It Right)	1980	Tabu
Vaughn Mason & Crew	Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll	1980	Brunswick
Jermaine Jackson	Let's Get Serious	1980	Motown
One Way feat. Al Hudson	Pop It	1980	MCA
Stephanie Mills feat. Teddy Pendergrass	Two Hearts	1981	20th Century Fox
Ray, Goodman & Brown	Special Lady	1979	Polydor
Set 2
O'Bryan	The Gigolo	1982	Capitol
Instant Funk	You're Gonna Get Yours	1983	Salsoul
Donna Washington	'Scuse Me, While I Fall In Love	1981	Capitol
Gwen Guthrie	Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent	1986	Polydor
Ashford & Simpson	Solid	1984	Capitol
The O'Jays	Your Body's Here with Me (But Your Mind's on the Other Side of Town)	1982	Philadelphia Int'l
Set 3
George Clinton	Atomic Dog	1982	Capitol
Trama (The Funk-R-Roll Drama)	The Whip	1982	Spector
Rick James	Ghetto Life	1981	Gordy
Tom Tom Club	Genius of Love	1981	Sire
Klymaxx	The Men All Pause	1984	Constellation
Jacksons feat. Mick Jagger	State of Shock	1984	Epic
Set 4/Outro
BB&Q	(l'm a) Dreamer	1986	Elektra
Herbie Hancock	Rockit	1983	Columbia
Newcleus	Jam On Revenge (The Wikki Wikki Song)	1983	Mayhew
Prince	Sign o' the Times	1987	Warner Bros.
Philip Bailey	Walking on the Chinese Wall	1984	Columbia