Season 1 · Episode 13 · Jan 30, 2019 · 36 min

P.M. Dawn
“Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”

vs. Spandau Ballet "True"

Originally titled “True Memories of Bliss”

From the Riffs archive First aired Jan 30, 2019. The show was music-first back then — it has grown into a conversation about everything else since.

You are about to set adrift on a journey through time, where P.M. Dawn’s romantic rap ballads took hip-hop by storm and the new waves of British pop make a splash. What we geek out over in this episode: The soul music genre, saxophone solos, Bob James “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” (1974) and Run-DMC “Peter Piper” (1986), Joni Mitchell “The Boho Dance” (1975), Christina Applegate, MC KRS-One “The Bridge is Over” (1987) & “South Bronx” (1986), and the Boomerang movie (1992).

Like this one? Joe and Toby speak at events — the same conversation, on a stage.