I posted this here a while ago, but someone added this to the rage wikipedia page months ago:

Thirtieth Anniversary special
Rage's 30th anniversary occurred during April 2017. The nation will celebrate with a week of programming including two specially produced documentaries which will explore the uniquely Australian experience of watching the influential music show. The first will celebrate the incredible history of rage and explore its influence on Australian music and culture. The program will feature a plethora of musical talent and songs from across the decades, musicians whose work has been a mainstay of rage but who were also viewers themselves. The second, Songs from the Red Couch: 30 Years of Guests rage Programmers, will delve into the archives to relive some classic moments from our studio. Out of the thousands of songs programmed by our guests over the years a few have been chosen multiple times; those are songs that have resonated with artists from all genres, ages, genders and nationalities. Essentially this list makes up the best music videos of all time.


It doesn't mention this competition; maybe plans have changed, or the info above is not accurate (no source was provided).

The rage website still has the '28 years of music videos' slogan on it A sign of how much they've dropped the ball with updating this kind of basic stuff.

Michael, really, one song from each year?

Well then I am out of the competition as I chose 2 videos from 1987 and then 2 videos from 1988, ooooops.

Just my thoughts there Jason, but i have come up with my Top 5. They are going to be from our dearly departed multi million selling artists of the 80s who all had an album and a video in 1987, which being the start of rage. 'Whitney' - Whitney Houston,'Sign of The Times' - Prince, 'Faith' - George Michael, 'Bad' - Michael Jackson, 'Time Will Crawl' - David Bowie. Now I've just got to pick a single/video from each album? Surely the rage provrammers will like this playlist? It's themed! 😃 which is what they love.

Oops....'Never Let Me Down' - David Bowie

I could select the album title singles, but 'Whitney' throws a spanner in the works.

Well, Richard Wilkins (the f@#ker) stole my idea. He did a music report on Today yesterday morning talking about the great albums of 1987 and most of those by departed artists. . I'm abandoning this idea now. Anyway, had a think about it and here is my Top 5 that I submitted:

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
The Way - Fastball
Big Love - Fleetwood Mac
Mirrors - Justin Timberlake
Patience - Guns n Roses

I won't bore you with my reasons for picking these songs. They're not my ideal playlist, but have to keep the rage guys happy and for me to get a look in. Don't get me wrong, I love these songs and I just hope they still have the video for 'Runaway Train' - can't say I've seen it on rage recently. I also had to span the songs out over the years, ie picking 'Mirrors' from 2013.

When I submitted, they said we may play or all one of your videos. WTF? I guess if people have submitted the same songs/videos then it will be silly to play a song numerous times over the weekend. I was also being selective too, thinking that any of my songs won't be replicated in someone else's playlist.

Mel & Kim 'F.L.M'

The original Australian video (each country it was released in had different missing people) for 'Runaway Train' featured several of the backpacker murder victims... whose bodies were found while it was in the charts!

A second edit was subsequently made, with new missing persons in their place, which I've uploaded to my Vimeo account here - https://vimeo.com/196389137

There was a site I saw a few months ago which had updates on some of the missing people featured in the video (from various countries).

I saw a disc someone sent me a while ago with 'Runaway Train' on the playlist, presumably the Australian version, but I haven't checked yet whether it was the first or second edit.

Nice bit of info there Nathan. I checked out your vimeo and the clip is taken from the Top 60 of 1993. I have this also. It's starting to become vintage now hey?