Hello friend. Thanks as always for joining me. You are the straw that stirs the drink

never forget. Without you my friend, I'm just a creepy dude sitting in my

basement reading Wikipedia and listening to iTunes samples.

We have a massive show lined up, the best of new music from June of 1984 which featured two albums which between them collectively sold 30 million copies here in the United States alone

Meanwhile over on Patreon we got the best of the rest like a dozen albums that collectively were lucky if they sold 30,000 copies

But we have fun in our way looking at forgotten releases from Elvis Costello some solo turns from members of the Beach and top stardom, that, and so much more is waiting for you now and forever at

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okay you ready to start this show?

Your host to the evening is a really funny dude.

I forgot his last name but I've seen him before and he's really funny.

Give it up from Mike.

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Coming to you live on tape from an above ground basement in rapidly gentrifying Culver City

adjacent California boasting a partially obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood sign.

This is Talk of Ages.

I am your host Mike Tully here to shepherd you through an intense retrospective of the music that was new and

noteworthy in June of 1984. What a month it was for noteworthy new music. We don't have the same depth and breadth of old new releases to revisit that I've become accustomed to, but we've got plenty to talk about,

believe you me, let's put ourselves back in the historical

cultural landscape, the zeitgeist of the mid 1980s.

It was the era of the blockbuster.

I guess you could

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