Crack open the yearbook and flip to 1981 — a year when rock, funk, new wave, soul, and punk were all crashing into each other on the radio. This episode pulls together the songs that defined the moment: FM staples, dance-floor classics, underground gems, and tracks that still sound impossibly cool decades later. From Prince and The Police to X, ZZ Top, Depeche Mode, and Luther Vandross, this is 1981 in all its messy, confident, genre-bending glory.
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