Countdown Episodes * 70s & 80s Australian Music Programs * Music Video * Molly Trading * Collecting * Archival Information * Record/CD releases and more .........
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
COUNTDOWN IS BACK THIS JANUARY, 2019 ... ON rage !!!!! Stay tuned below with regular Countdown full archival information for each Countdown episode rage shall be airing every Saturday throughout January ...
30 years ago this week - King score their one and only hit in Australia, Howard Jones gets ever closer to the top 10 and it's power ballad o'clock with REO Speedwagon. Plus, Aussie bands Dynamic Hepnotics and Vitabeats debut new songs.
Details plus the full top 50: http://chartbeat.blogspot.com.au/201...l-14-1985.html
Awesome Euro disco with Fun Fun Fun (featuring Spagna!), plus Duran Duran split in two and Teena Marie gives Sheila E and Sheena Easton a run for their money
Nightshift, Wide Boy, Something That You Said, Kiss Me, Welcome To The Pleasuredome plus 7 songs that missed the top 50 including singles by V Capri, Guy McDonough and Eric Clapton.
Eurythmics rock out, Freddie Mercury has a solo hit, Eurogliders get hot and steamy, Uncanny X-Men slow it down, classic one-hit wonders DeBarge and more.
Dire Straits debut on the singles and albums chart with 1985's biggest record, plus Julian Lennon, Kim Wilde, Art Garfunkel and a couple of long-forgotten Australian rock bands: The Promise and F.A.B.
I forgot how ridiculous the automatic censorship was here (not the moderator's doing)... even the word d@mn is censored. So many possibilities the ***** word could be.
I didn't even notice it had been censored when I posted it. It's the Q word (as in GLBTIQ), which of course has now been championed by the gay community but may well have still been an insult back in 1985.
Animotion debut with "Obsession" - but they weren't the original artist to record it.
Plus China Crisis' biggest Australian hit, The Style Council try to get the populace riled up, Do Re Mi's debut smash and Men At Work's final chart appearance.
Also, top 50 misses from Supertramp, US talent show star Sam Harris, Sheena Easton's lady bits and, once again, The Angels.
Dream Academy's only hit single, Phil Collins' best single, Godley & Creme's surprisingly not bigger single and a megamix of some of The Sweet's best known singles.
Tina Turner goes beyond thunderdome, the end of the road for Australian Crawl, Hoodoo Gurus' bittersweet breakthrough, Eurythmics change musical direction and Billy Joel gets a second wind.
Plus, the theme from the biggest musical of the year (in Australia, anyway) and top 50 misses from AC/DC, DeBarge and Survivor.
The year's highest number of new entries, including Freeway Of Love, Frankie, Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes), In Too Deep, Like A Surgeon, Icing On the Cake, Goodbye Bad Times, Forever Young and Tomb Of Memories.
Plus, top 50 misses from Belouis Some, Freddie Mercury, V Spy V Spy and Jean Knight.
Three future number 1s debut: Take On Me, I Got You Babe and Dancing In The Street. Also, Part-time Lover, Summer Of '69 and an Electric Pandas song no one remembers.
Plus, top 50 misses from The Family (the band that originated Nothing Compares 2 U!), Sting (his best single!) and Renee Geyer (she's in the ARIA Hall of Fame!).
I guess I must qualify as that no one as I certainly remember Missing Me, I thought it was the Pandas best track. For several years I requested the Countdown episode that the clip appeared on and was very happy when they showed it in 2011.
The reason many from later generations can't remember it is because it never gets played on radio anymore and hasn't for the best part of 30 years. It did get to No24 on the Melbourne 3XY charts.
I have the single
The Songwords appeared in the Australian Smash Hits magazine September 9 1985
I guess I must qualify as that no one as I certainly remember Missing Me, I thought it was the Pandas best track. For several years I requested the Countdown episode that the clip appeared on and was very happy when they showed it in 2011.
The reason many from later generations can't remember it is because it never gets played on radio anymore and hasn't for the best part of 30 years. It did get to No24 on the Melbourne 3XY charts.
I too remember it - though until now never knew who it was by or what it was called.
I remember an episode of C'mon Kids mentioning (or featuring) Electric Pandas on it, probably from early 1986. But I didn't think I knew any of their music at the time (even 'Big Girls' passed me by) until now.
You mention radio not playing it. I can't recall when or where, but I know I've definitely heard it somewhere 'recently' (recent being in the last 5 years or so). Maybe it was while getting a haircut or something, or in a shop, as I haven't listened to the radio in years. But I remember noticing the track, and thinking "I must find out who this is by/what it's called"... but then forgot all about it until reading Gavin's blog post and playing the video.
I probably saw it during rage retro month in 2011, but might have fast-forwarded through it. I hope I kept it.
Seven new entries, seven classic songs: Gambler, Running Up That Hill, Cherish, Invincible, Johnny Come Home, In Between Days and St Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion).
Plus, top 50 misses from The Dream Academy, Sheila E, Loverboy, Amy Grant, Geisha and Placido Domingo.
Whitney finally breaks into the top 50... with a cover. Rose Tattoo also take a remake into the chart. And new entries from Aretha Franklin, ZZ Top, Prefab Sprout and Red Box
Plus, top 50 misses from Sting, Electric Pandas, The Church, Cheech & Chong and Feargal Sharkey.
It certainly made the chart a curious read during that fortnight if not downright 'weird' as "Entry Number Ones" were something that the US and UK had in abundance and were somewhat 'alien' to my eyes [then].