The Darbus Show Archive

Date: January 22, 2010 (Tonight's theme: 1980s)

Length: 4:58:19

On the The Darbus Show, I jumped into my DeLorean time machine and travelled in time back to the 1980s. I played a lot of great music and even some movie and TV show clips, and commercials from the '80s. Mrs. Darbus wasn't here for the show until about the last hour. She was away for the evening at a school-related function. Technical difficulties abounded, though, for the first hour and 15 minutes of the show. First the laptop from which I play the music died because of a low battery. For some reason the extension cord it was plugged into got unplugged earlier in the day. While scrambling to make room elsewhere to plug the laptop, I inadvertantly unplugged the cable modem, so I lost my Internet connection. Once I got the Internet and laptop back up, the music was choppy and skipping. I had to restart the laptop. Sheesh! Finally at 7:15, everything was back up and running just fine, and The Darbus Show went on as planned.

    Dinner Mix

    (Arby's or McDonald's sandwiches and fries and/or curly fries.)

  1. "Doctor! Doctor!" - Thompson Twins
  2. "Peter Gunn" (Twang Mix) - The Art of Noise
  3. "Running" - Information Society
  4. "Stop!" - Erasure
  5. "How to Be a Millionaire" (Bond St. Mix) - ABC

  6. Clip from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
  7. "Breakaway" - Big Pig (attempt 1)
  8. "Breakaway" - Big Pig (attempt 2)
  9. "Breakaway" - Big Pig (attempt 3)
  10. "Breakaway" - Big Pig (final play)
  11. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin (attempt 1)
  12. Clip from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
  13. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin (final play)
  14. "New York" - Microchip League (MCL)
  15. Ring Pop Commercial

    16. The Onion Radio Weekly World Report

  16. "19" (Destruction Mix) - Paul Hardcastle
  17. "Gyrlz, They Love Me" (12" Version) - Heavy D. and the Boyz
  18. Teddy Ruxpin Commercial
  19. "Talk Talk" - Talk Talk
  20. Clip from Back to the Future
  21. "The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis and the News
  22. "Let's Get it Started" - M.C. Hammer
  23. Anti-Drug Commercial: This Is Your Brain on Drugs
  24. "White Lines (Don't Do It)" - Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
  25. "I Want to Break Free" - Queen
  26. "House of Fun" - Madness

    27. Musical Question of the Week

  27. "What's on Your Mind?" - Information Society
    28. Responses:
    Darbina: "I want dessert right now."
  28. Clip from "Knight Rider"
  29. "Cars" - Gary Numan
  30. "Believe it or Not" - Joey Scarbury

    31. Then and Now

  31. "She's On It" - Beastie Boys (1985)
  32. "Too Many Rappers" - Beastie Boys feat. Nas (2009)

    33. Darbus Sings

  33. "Zero" - DJMCDJ

    34. "Weird Al" Song of the Week

  34. Clip from Al-TV
  35. "Good Old Days" - "Weird Al" Yankovic

    36. iTunes Single of the Week

  36. "July Flame" - Laura Veirs

  37. "Go!" - Tones on Tail

    38. High School Reunion

    (class of 1987)

  38. "Big Hollow Man" - Danielle Dax (1987)
  39. Lite Brite Commercial
  40. "Fly on the Windscreen - Final" - Depeche Mode (1986)
  41. "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" - Power Station (1985)

    42. Alphabet Street

    ('K' St.)

  42. "Kiss the Dirt" - INXS
  43. "Keep On Movin'" - Soul II Soul
  44. "Kinda I Want To" - Nine Inch Nails

    45. Mrs. Darbus' Pick of the Week

  45. Due to Mrs. Darbus' absence, there was no pick for this week
  46. Anti Drug Commercial: "I Learned by Watching You"
  47. "Just Say No" - Young M.C.
  48. "AEIOU Sometimes Y" - Ebn Ozn
  49. "Gone Daddy Gone" - Violent Femmes

    50. Reversi

    (Bryce was the first to correctly identify the song)

  50. Clip from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  51. "Oh Yeah" (Dance Mix) - Yello

    52. Reversi Answer

  52. "Walk Like an Egyptian" - The Bangles

  53. "Ride a White Horse" - Goldfrapp
  54. "Mother's Talk" - Tears for Fears
  55. Clip from "Remington Steele"
  56. "Private Eyes" - Daryl Hall and John Oates
  57. "Pop Goes the World" - Men Without Hats

    58. Real News... Really

    All Request Hour

  58. Coke Commercial (featuring Max Headroom)
  59. "Paranoimia" - The Art of Noise (featuring Max Headroom)
  60. "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" - Culture Club
  61. "Union of the Snake" - Duran Duran
  62. "Genius of Love" - Tom Tom Club
  63. Wendy's Commercial: Where's the Beef?
  64. "Fast Food" - Stevens & Grdnic
  65. "She Blinded Me with Science" - Thomas Dolby
  66. "Hyperactive!" - Thomas Dolby
  67. "Axel F" (Extended Version) - Axel F
  68. Nintendo Commercial
  69. "Do the Donkey Kong" - Buckner and Garcia
  70. "Doctorin' the Tardis" - The Timelords
  71. "Mr. Knowitall" - Primus
  72. "Nasty" - Janet Jackson