The singer from Soundgaren has died. I expect a multi-hour rage tribute, as he was an 'alternative' musician.

Tonight there's a 3-hour tribute to Chris Cornell, the Soundgarden singer.


Saturday morning vault section (repeated Sunday morning ABC, Sunday night ABC ME, and Tuesday night ABC ME):

LOS DEL RIO Macarena ()
- hasn't aired on rage since January 1997.

This coming Saturday morning's Vault segment is being hosted by CDB

I'm still wondering when the Clouds guest programming will happen. It was reported in the SMH the weekend rage had their 30th birthday. But a month later we're still waiting....

According to the ebroadcast tv guide, The Clouds will be guest programming on Saturday 3rd June. But it is the advised day only and subject to change.

Saturday morning Vault segment (hosted by CDB ):

RALPH TRESVANT Sensitivity
SWV Right Here (Human Nature Mix)


Neither video has aired since playlists have been online.

Otherwise, another boring weekend hosted by an 'alternative' act with many often-aired-on-rage videos

Our light at the end of the tunnel is that is almost half through the year, (scary as that may seem) - but at least, as the great Jon Bon Jovi sings "We're half way there" to COUNTDOWN!!!!

Saturday night:

SUZANNE VEGA Blood Makes Noise (though it aired during the watermark in the 4:3 region of the screen years)

YELLO feat SHIRLEY BASSEY The Rhythm Divine


Other than that, it's much of the same usual stuff that Clouds have chosen.


plus some Clouds videos - of course, rage have erroneously billed them as THE CLOUDS) on Saturday night that haven't aired for a while... but frustratingly missing the video for 'Anthem', which was probably the one I was most looking forward to .

Saturday morning:

DEADSTAR Don't It Get You Down - hasn't aired since playlists have been online
ANGELIQUE KIDJO Wombo Lombo - hasn't aired since playlists have been online

Saturday morning (a 90s female artists playlist, but it's full of videos they regularly air):

FRENTE Sit On My Hands - wouldn't have aired since 1996.

CHER If I Could Turn Back Time - hasn't aired since playlists have been online; maybe not since it fell out of the top 50, in 1990.

Saturday morning:

FELIX Don't You Want Me - probably hasn't aired since 1993.


Saturday night:

CATATONIA Mulder and Scully - hasn't aired since 2002
SINEAD O'CONNOR Emperor's New Clothes - hasn't aired since 2006
URGE OVERKILL Sister Havana - hasn't aired since 2005
SKUNK ANANSIE Weak - wouldn't have aired since 1996
TONI PEAREN In Your Room (last aired in 2009)
MARK WILLIAMS Show No Mercy (aired in 2011, but with watermark on it)
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Wishing I Was There - last aired in 1998
TINMAN Eighteen Strings - wouldn't have aired since 1995
KWS Please Don't Go - wouldn't have aired since 1992
HI TEK 3 Spin That Wheel - wouldn't have aired since 1990
DOOP Doop - wouldn't have aired since 1995
JX Son Of A Gun - wouldn't have aired since 1994
THE OUTHERE BROTHERS Ole, Ole - not sure what year this is from, but it hasn't aired since at least 1997

Missed Sat. night. What night will it be repeated again?

Now this is interesting:

Saturday morning Vault segment:

JULIE ANDREWS A Spoonful Of Sugar (From Mary Poppins) (Disney)


Saturday night:

FLEETWOOD MAC The Chain ()

Wow, the playlists for the weekend are up already! There are a few videos on Saturday night that haven't aired in a long time:

STAN RIDGWAY The Big Heat (Independent) (last aired during the 2009 Wild Card special)
MINNIE RIPERTON Lovin' You () (hasn't aired on rage before to my knowledge)
DIVINYLS I'm Jealous () (hasn't aired since 1995)
FLYING PICKETS Only You () (hasn't aired before)

Very excited that MINNIE RIPERTON Lovin' You is being played!!!!

SO RARRRRRE! Never seen it on rage!

That performance of STEVE HARLEY AND THE COCKNEY REBELS Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) was just WOW!!!!!

rage usually play a different video, my word ... Steve Harley is so darn beautifuuuuuuul x

Noticed that they played the original clip for Divine - You Think Your A Man. In the past I thought they had played the Countdown performance (including the credits).

Saturday morning:

THE BREAKFAST CLUB Right On Track () (has only aired in the digital era during the watermark in the 4:3 area of the screen years)


I think the theme for Saturday morning's Vault segment is 1987, but it includes several tracks released in 1986. Typical rage

Short too at only 11 eighties songs for the whole weekend, but I guess we should be grateful they've spared that much, and that it isn't too alternative. I don't know how Husker-Du fits into the theme, being a non-charter and something I've never heard.

If their write-up reflects what will be written on the superscript though, it should be Debbie (not Deborah) Harry for that song, and 'French Kissin' In The USA' (rather than "kissing"). Which is odd as they got "hangin'" right for Kim Wilde.
Good that they are playing both, though there are undoubtedly rarer videos from both they could be playing.

Nice to see 'Right On Track' (hopefully not by The Breakfast CLU), 'Luka', 'U Got The Look' and 'To Be A lover', though not exactly hard to find elsewhere.

Saturday morning:

10,000 MANIACS These Are Days


Saturday night:

EAGLES The Long Run (though it aired during Glenn Frey's tribute last year)

plus a bunch of Hanson videos that probably haven't aired since they were in the top 50


I was watching a 10,000 Maniacs video earlier (though not the one above) and thought for some reason "it wouldn't surprise me if Hanson chose them" and they did!

Someone affiliated with (I think a producer) Nick Cave, The Cruel Sea etc. died recently, so are getting a tribute tonight (Friday night):

12:00am

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Nick The Stripper (Mushroom)
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE Rooms For The Memory (Warner)
THE FERRETS Just Like The Stars (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA Better Get A Lawyer (Polydor)
THE CRUEL SEA Just A Man (Polydor)

12:30am

SUPERNAUT I Like It Both Ways ()
KIM SALMON and THE SURREALISTS I Fell (Polydor)
BEASTS OF BOURBON Chase The Dragon (Polydor)
STRAITJACKET FITS Bad Note For A Heart (Mushroom)
MICK HARVEY and ANITA LANE Initials B.B. (Mushroom)
DAVE GRANEY 'N' THE CORAL SNAKES You're Just Too Hip Baby (Polydor)
TISM Get Thee To A Nunnery (Shock)
PEL MEL Pandemonium (GAP Records)

1:00am

STRAITJACKET FITS Done (Mushroom)
POWDERFINGER Tail (Polydor)
BOYS NEXT DOOR Shivers (Mushroom)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Loverman (Mushroom)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS As I Sat Sadly By Her Side (Fest/Mush)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Love Letter (Virgin)
STRAITJACKET FITS Spacing (Mushroom)
THE CHUCKY MONROES Mortal Remains (Independent)

1:30am

BEASTS OF BOURBON The Low Road (Polydor)
MERCY ARMS Half Right (Independent)
THE BLACKEYED SUSANS Mary Mac (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA Black Stick (Polydor)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Red Right Hand (Mushroom)
BEASTS OF BOURBON Just Right (Polydor)

2:00am

THE CRUEL SEA Woman With Soul (Polydor)
TEX PERKINS I Know Y' Know I Know (Universal)
ASTRID MUNDAY Closer (Independent)
THE GO-BETWEENS Your Turn, My Turn (Missing Link)
THE FERRETS Don't Fall In Love ()
MICK HARVEY and ANITA LANE Harley Davidson (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA This Is Not The Way Home (Independent)
NICK CAVE and KYLIE MINOGUE Where The Wild Roses Grow (Mushroom)

2:30am

NICK CAVE and PJ HARVEY Henry Lee (Mushroom)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Stagger Lee (Mushroom)
POWDERFINGER Grave Concern (Polydor)
STRAITJACKET FITS If I Were You (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA Seems Twice (Polydor)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Do You Love Me? (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA The Honeymoon Is Over (Polydor)

It aired in 2015, but this Saturday morning during the 10:30-11:30 guest programmer hour (repeated Thursday night ABC ME):

BERLIN The Metro ()

Saturday night:

STEPHEN CUMMINGS Back Stabbers (Polydor) (last aired 2009)
WARD 13 Midnight Caravan () (as Jason has pointed out)

Saturday night:

THE UNDERTONES Teenage Kicks (Sire Records) (hasn't aired since playlists have been online)

TEARS FOR FEARS Pale Shelter (Mercury) (hasn't aired since playlists have been online)

MEN AT WORK It's A Mistake (CBS) (hasn't aired since playlists have been online)

Saturday night:

XTC Life Begins At The Hop (hasn't aired as a standalone clip on rage since playlists have been online)

OK, here's what rage broadcast last night:



And here's that image overlaid on top of the proper 4:3 clip:



So not only is the clip zoomed in, they screwed up the aspect ratio as well!

I feel a letter to rage coming on...

That's a really bad crop. They didn't have to zoom in that far. It's better for rage to show the actual original aspect ratio as you don't miss out on what the director intended to show and for the quality of the video. One of the downsides of 4:3 aspect ratio though is that from my experience in the retail selling of televisions is that funnily enough, a lot of people think that 4:3 aspect ratio on a 16:9 screen is a fault because they don't realise televisions used to have a different shape before digital TV. That shouldn't be reason enough to crop 4:3 footage to widescreen because there is a lack of knowledge by many consumers.

Wow, that's really bad. I haven't yet watched my recording from last night to see for myself.

I wish rage/the ABC would not zoom in on these old videos at all; it just looks so bad. Who could seriously think it was an improvement?

There have been a couple of old letterboxed videos re-aired in recent times that they haven't enlarged to 16:9, such as Robert Plant's 'Big Log', which I am grateful for.

I think this was just a pure c*ck up and nothing more - I don't think it was deliberate. Since this clip has not been played at all in the past nearly 20 years, they must have sourced the analog clip from the library and then promptly screwed up the digitisation. Zooming plus wrong aspect ratio - maybe the work experience kiddie was on deck?

I emailed these images to Tyson Koh at rage... let's see if they do anything about this. I asked them to fix the clip up and show it again some time soon.

Not sure how often they play Soul Kiss, 50 Years or Trouble Spot Rock but they're on this week amongst others on Sat morning, Sunday morning and presumably during the week replay. All Australian and predominantly 1985 apart from Air Supply and Mondo Rock.

JIMMY BARNES Working Class Man (Bloodlines)
INXS What You Need (Warner)
HOODOO GURUS Like Wow Wipeout (BMG)
MENTAL AS ANYTHING Live It Up (Warner)
MODELS Out Of Mind Out Of Sight (Festival)
DIVINYLS Pleasure and Pain (Virgin)
UNCANNY X-MEN Fifty Years (Mushroom)
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Soul Kiss (Interfusion)
AIR SUPPLY The Power Of Love (Arista)
ICEHOUSE No Promises (Chrysalis)
AUSTRALIAN CRAWL Trouble Spot Rock (Freestyle Records)
THE CHURCH Already Yesterday (Parlophone)
MONDO ROCK Come Said The Boy (WEA)

Saturday morning (repeated Sunday morning ABC, Sunday night ABC ME, and Tuesday night ABC ME):

NEW ORDER Blue Monday (Remix)
(*assuming this will be 'Blue Monday 1988', it hasn't aired since 2002).

JEAN MICHEL JARRE Zoolook

Malcolm Young of AC/DC tribute this coming Friday night for those interested.

For those of you who missed the Malcolm Young AC/DC special on the weekend, we'll be repeating it in full this Wednesday night from 11:45pm on ABC2. Don't say we never do anything for you. Let there be rock!

Following Daryl Braithwaite's programming Saturday night are several videos that haven't aired in many year/(before?) on rage:


DARYL BRAITHWAITE Rise (CBS / Columbia)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Let Me Be (CBS / Columbia)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE All I Do (CBS / Columbia)

3:30am

DARYL BRAITHWAITE As The Days Go By (CBS)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Prove Your Love (Infinity)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Love Like A Child (Infinity)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Love Has No Pride ()


not sure which of the list below haven't aired before on rage (as standalone clips, anyway):

SHERBS I Have The Skill (ABC)
SHERBS I'm OK (ABC)
SHERBET Howzat (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Free The People (Festival)

4:00am

SHERBET You're All Woman (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Hound Dog (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Can I Drive You Home (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK You're My World (Festival)
SHERBET Summer Love (Festival)
SHERBET Child's Play (Festival)
SHERBET Rock Me Gently (ABC)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK You've Got The Gun (Fest/Mush)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Don't You Know That I Do (Festival)

4:30am

SHERBET Magazine Madonna (Festival)