Episode 30: Welcome to the Boomtown Episode 30 (Science & Technology)

Welcome to the Boomtown

Welcome back to the 80s! What was your favorite technology of the 80s? Did you play videogames on an Atari, Sega or Nintendo system? Did you watch movies on a VHS or Betamax? Were you making calls on a Motorola brick phone? Or, did you “Clap on, Clap off” with everyone’s favorite hand-free controller, The Clapper? Episode 30 features songs about the science and technology of the 80s, with everything from calculators and computers, to rockets and robots.
A shout out to those of you who have been with us since the beginning and welcome to our new listeners. As always, thanks to the people who helped us put this together: Alan (for all our artwork), DJ Phil B (for the technical stuff) and David Baerwald and David Ricketts, also known as David + David, for their amazing album which inspired the title of our podcast.
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Songs chosen by Dr. Dave & Benny Banzai.
Group or artist - song title (album and release date)
Wendy Carlos - Theme from Tron (Tron soundtrack 1982)

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science (Extended) (The Golden Age of Wireless 1982)

Oingo Boingo - Weird Science (single version) (Weird Science soundtrack 1985)

Dire Straits - Industrial Disease (Love Over Gold 1982)

Pointer Sisters - Automatic (Break Out 1983)

Sheena Easton - Telefone (Long Distant Love Affair) (Best Kept Secret 1983)

El DeBarge - Who's Johnny (El DeBarge 1986)

The Polecats - Make a Circuit with Me (Make a Circuit with Me EP 1983)

Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever (Pac-Man Fever 1981)

Styx - Mr. Roboto (Kilroy Was Here 1983)

The Buggles - Living in the Plastic Age (The Age of Plastic 1980)

A Flock of Seagulls - Telecommunication (A Flock of Seagulls 1982, single release 1981)

Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator (Computer World 1981)

Rush - Countdown (Signals 1982, single release 1983)

The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue (Ammonia Avenue 1984)

Def Leppard - Rocket (Hysteria 1987, single release 1989)

Boston - Cool the Engines (Third Stage 1986)

Donnie Iris - Do You Compute? (Fortune 410 1983)

Prince - Computer Blue (Purple Rain 1984)

Revenge - They're So Incredible (Revenge of the Nerds soundtrack 1984)

Huey Lewis and the News - Back in Time (Back to the Future soundtrack 1985)

Listen, enjoy, share, follow. And thanks for keeping 80s music alive!
BB & DD