Continuing our series on the year 1982, up for discussion this week are synth-pop albums, featuring Duran Duran's smash hit Rio, Thomas Dolby's debut masterwork The Golden Age of Wireless, Associates' Sulk, Gary Numan's I Assassin and much more!

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:49 Duran Duran - Rio
00:09:04 Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
00:15:00 Associates - Sulk
00:24:30 Talk Talk - The Party's Over
00:27:28 Genesis Six of the Best concert
00:29:29 China Crisis - Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms...
00:34:00 Gary Numan - I Assassin
00:36:40 Ultravox - Quartet
00:37:08 Icehouse - Primitive Man
00:37:25 Harioumi Hosono - Philharmony

Coming up next week, releases by Queen, Dire Straits, Prince and more!

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