Episode #213: No Parking on the Dance Floor

It's the June 2021 edition of Star Time's semi-annual '80s Atonement episode. Twice a year I do an all-'80s R&B show to make up for my being abducted by representatives of punk, new wave and independent-label rock around 1981. Everything ultimately turned out okay, thanks largely to Prince. Here's this half-year's selection of Linn drum machines, fat synthesizers, sentient automatons, and guitar riffs from halfway up the fretboard. Where we're going we don't need roads, although we could use a GPS.
ArtistSongYearLabel
Set 1   
The Gap BandAutomatic Brain1985Total Experience
Vanity 6If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)1982Warner Bros.
CharadesGimme the Funk1982Brunswick
Val YoungMind Games1985Gordy
The JetsCrush On You1985MCA
Ray Parker Jr. & RaydioTwo Places at the Same Time1980Arista
Set 2   
Diana RossWho1982RCA
Teena MarieThe Ballad of Cradle Rob and Me1981Gordy
Tom BrowneFunkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)1980Arista GRP
Steve Arrington's All Stars15 Rounds1984Atlantic
Trouble FunkGet On Up1984Sugar Hill
Debra HurdMake Me No Promises1983Geffen
Set 3   
KleeerHypnotized1981Atlantic
Yarbrough & PeoplesCrazy1980Mercury
AM-FMYou Are the One1981Dakar
LakesideOutrageous1984Solar
Leon HaywoodTenderoni1984Modern
XavionGet Me Hot1984Asylum
Set 4/Outro   
Midnight StarNo Parking on the Dance Floor1983Solar
CameoTalkin' Out the Side of Your Neck1984Atlanta Artists
Human BodyDX3-T181985Elektra
Brenda & The Big DudesTouch Somebody1985Fly (S. Africa)
Lenny WilliamsResponsible Man1981MCA
Fat Larry's BandTraffic Stoppers1982WMOT

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