Looks like an (alternative, of course) New Zeealand artists theme tonight:

Tonight on the VAULT we've got videos by The Clean, The Chills, The Bats, Pavement, Ween, Tall Dwarfs, Straitjacket Fits, Betchadupa, Gerling and more. 1:15 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

CHILLS, THE Heavenly Pop Hit
VERLAINES, THE Bird Dog
VERLAINES, THE The Funniest Thing
DAVID KILGOUR You Forget
DAVID KILGOUR No No No
CLEAN, THE Anything Could Happen
CLEAN, THE Beatnik
CLEAN, THE Getting Older
PAVEMENT Shady Lane
SEBADOH Flame
WEEN Can't Put My Finger On It
CHRIS KNOX Not Given Lightly
CHRIS KNOX The Joy Of Sex
TALL DWARFS Turning Brown and Torn In Two
TALL DWARFS Wings
TOY LOVE Bride Of Frankenstein
3DS Dust
3DS Spooky
S.P.U.D. Breakdown Town
BATS, THE Block Of Wood
BATS, THE North by North
BATS, THE Smoking Her Wings
BATS, THE Courage
STRAITJACKET FITS Bad Note For A Heart
STRAITJACKET FITS Spacing
STRAITJACKET FITS If I Were You
STRAITJACKET FITS Down In Splendour
BIKE Circus Kids
GARAGELAND What You Gonna Do
GARAGELAND Kiss It All Goodbye
BAILTER SPACE E.I.P.
BAILTER SPACE Pass It Up
BAILTER SPACE Retro
DIMMER Don't Make Me Buy Out Your Silence
HEADLESS CHICKENS Gaskrankinstation
HEADLESS CHICKENS Cruise Control
FIONA MCDONALD Breathe
KING LOSER Troubed Land
LOVES UGLY CHILDREN Six Pack
LOVES UGLY CHILDREN Voodoo Girl
JPS EXPERIENCE Into You
BETCHADUPA Sleepy News
BETCHADUPA Awake
GERLING The Deer In You
SHOCKING PINKS, THE End Of The World
DIE! DIE! DIE! Wasted Lands


Though I don't know what Ween are doing there. Was one of them a New Zealander?

Toy Love from 1980 (they were on Countdown once) and The Bats from the late 80's are the highlights here.
Haven't heard of some of them so there might be a few other goodies there.

Oh wow!
What a great playlist!
First saw a lot of these NZ bands/artists,(many from the Flying Nun label), back in the early days of Rage. Such a unique sound - love it.
Yes, the Bats are a definite highlight, as are The Clean.

Thanks for the headsup,Nathan.

Load of $hite this week.

Tonight on the VAULT Korn, System of a Down, One Minute Silence, Deftones, Incubus, Sevendust, Mudvayne, Static-X, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Soulfly and more. 1:12 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

BIOHAZARD Five Blocks To The Subway
STUCK MOJO Pigwalk
BODY COUNT Body Count's In The House
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Killing In The Name
ONE MINUTE SILENCE Stuck Between A Rock And A White Face
ONE MINUTE SILENCE A Waste Of Things To Come
ONE MINUTE SILENCE Holy Man
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Sugar
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Chop Suey
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Aerials
DEFTONES Minerva
DEFTONES Back To School
DEFTONES Be Quiet And Drive
INCUBUS A Certain Shade Of Green
INCUBUS Pardon Me
SEVENDUST Denial
SEVENDUST Praise
STAIND Mudshovel
DISTURBED Stupify
GODSMACK Awake
MACHINE HEAD Crashing Around You
MACHINE HEAD From This Day
MUDVAYNE Nothing To Gein
MUDVAYNE Dig
SLIPKNOT Left Behind
SLIPKNOT Spit It Out
STATIC-X Black and White
STATIC-X I'm With Stupid
COAL CHAMBER Loco
FEAR FACTORY Linchpin
KORN Good God
KORN Got The Life
LIMP BIZKIT Nookie
LIMP BIZKIT Faith
SOULFLY Bleed
SOULFLY Back To The Primitive
ILL NINO God Save Us
ILL NINO Unreal
P.O.D. Southtown
P.O.D. Youth Of The Nation
P.O.D. Boom
DROWNING POOL Sinner
DROWNING POOL Bodies
KITTIE What I Always Wanted
KITTIE Brackish

I'm not sure what tonight's theme is, other than mid-90s 'black' artists (+ Mariah):

On the VAULT tonight The Fugees, Naughty By Nature, Groove Theory, Zhané, TLC, Deborah Cox, Diana King, D'Angelo, Method Man, Warren G, 2pac, The Pharcyde and more. 2:10 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

GROOVE THEORY Tell Me
ZHANE Sending My Love
ME'SHELL NDEGE'OCELLO If That's Your Boyfriend
D'ANGELO Brown Sugar
DEBORAH COX Sentimental
TLC Creep
MONICA Don't Take It Personal
AALIYAH At Your Best
METHOD MAN & MARY J BLIGE I'll Be There For You
METHOD MAN & REDMAN How High
FUGEES, THE Fu-Gee-La
DR DRE Keep Their Headz Ringin'
WARREN G and NATE DOGG Regulate
2 PAC How Do U Want It
2 PAC Dear Mama
COOLIO Gangsta's Paradise
COOLIO Fantastic Voyage
SKEE-LO I Wish
PHARCYDE, THE Runnin'
PETE ROCK and CL SMOOTH I'll Take You There
LL COOL J Doin' It
NAUGHTY BY NATURE Feel Me Flow
MARIAH CAREY Fantasy
DIANA KING Shy Guy
DAWN PENN You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
INI KAMOZE Here Comes The Hotstepper
SHAGGY Boombastic

Looks like a 1986 theme tonight (though a couple are from 1985). Unfortunately, it's nearly all stuff that has aired in recent years.

Tonight on the VAULT Pretenders, Stevie Nicks, The Cure, The Go-Betweens, Talking Heads (official), Dire Straits, The Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, Prince, Gwen Guthrie, Simply Red and more. 2:05 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

DREAM ACADEMY, THE Life In A Northern Town
CURE, THE In Between Days
GO-BETWEENS, THE Spring Rain
TRIFFIDS, THE Wide Open Road
P.I.L. Rise
TALKING HEADS Wild Wild Life
DIRE STRAITS Walk of Life
PRETENDERS, THE Don't Get Me Wrong
RIC OCASEK Emotion In Motion
STEVIE NICKS Talk To Me
BERLIN Take My Breath Away
HUMAN LEAGUE, THE Human
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK If You Leave
PET SHOP BOYS West End Girls
EURYTHMICS It's Alright
BILLY IDOL To Be A Lover
ROBERT PALMER Didn't Mean To Turn You On
PRINCE Kiss
CAMEO Word Up
GWEN GUTHRIE Ain't Nothing Going On But The Rent
ALEXANDER O'NEAL and CHERRELLE Saturday Love
ANITA BAKER Sweet Love
SIMPLY RED Holding Back The Years
DOUBLE The Captain Of Her Heart

They missed out:

SIMPLY RED Holding Back The Years

Looks like a 1979 special tonight... except it's a rather short episode.

Tonight on the VAULT Blondie, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, Warren Zevon, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, KISS, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney. 2:52 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

PAUL McCARTNEY Coming Up
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Shine A Little Love
WARREN ZEVON Nighttime In The Switching Yard
ALICE COOPER Clones (We're All)
BLONDIE Heart Of Glass
ROLLING STONES, THE Miss You
ROLLING STONES, THE Emotional Rescue
PINK FLOYD Another Brick In The Wall
QUEEN Another One Bites The Dust
KISS I Was Made For Lovin' You
ROD STEWART Da' Ya' Think I'm Sexy

Irish artists (well, some are Northern Irish) special tonight:

Tonight on the VAULT Thin Lizzy, The Undertones, Pogues, Sinéad O'Connor, Van Morrison (Official), U2, Hothouse Flowers, The Cranberries, My Bloody Valentine and more. 1:39 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

THIN LIZZY The Boys Are Back In Town
BOOMTOWN RATS, THE I Don't Like Mondays
UNDERTONES, THE Teenage Kicks
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Gotta Gettaway
POGUES, THE Dirty Old Town
POGUES, THE Summer In Siam
VAN MORRISON Celtic Swing
VAN MORRISON Have I Told You Lately
THAT PETROL EMOTION Cellophane
ADVENTURES, THE Broken Land
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS Don't Go
U2 All I Want Is You
SINEAD O'CONNOR Nothing Compares 2 U
CRANBERRIES, THE Linger
MY BLOODY VALENTINE Soon
WHIPPING BOY We Don't Need Nobody Else
ASH Girl From Mars

Looking ahead on the electronic TV guide last night, unless I read it wrong, there is no Tuesday morning ABC rage episode next week :( I hope it's only a one-off thing.

It makes you worry, hey? I dread to think they would bring Retro Monday to and end. Even worse would be to bring Countdown January to an end. Rage has certainly gone up a level in the last few years, playing a wider range of music from the 60s onwards. Keep it going, Rage!

Rage on the ABC website has no Rage for early Tuesday morning. Check this out ...

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/rage/
Website

They have ...

Monday 4 Dec 2017, 1:00am

then ...

Wednesday 6 Dec 2017, 1:23am

Nothing for Tuesday morning (late Monday night) :sob:

Looks like a 1997 special tonight, though at least one of those (Eels) is from 1996. As usual, it's pretty much all Triple J-friendly material.

Tonight on the VAULT Radiohead​, The Chemical Brothers, Björk​, Fiona Apple​, Missy Elliott​, Wu-Tang Clan​, Portishead​, Primal Scream, Beck​, Grandaddy​, Stereolab​ and more. 12:32 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

CORNERSHOP Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)
BLUE BOY Remember Me
BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out
DAFT PUNK Da Funk
RONI SIZE/REPRAZENT Brown Paper Bag
CHEMICAL BROTHERS, THE Block Rockin' Beats
PRODIGY, THE Smack My ***** Up
PORTISHEAD Over
BJORK All Is Full Of Love
BETH ORTON She Cries Your Name
FIONA APPLE Sleep To Dream
ERYKAH BADU On And On
JANET JACKSON Got 'Til It's Gone
MISSY ELLIOTT The Rain (Supa **** Fly)
MASE Feel So Good
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Hypnotize
WU-TANG CLAN, THE Triumph
RADIOHEAD Paranoid Android
BLUR Beetlebum
PULP Help The Aged
PRIMAL SCREAM Star
SPIRITUALIZED Electricity
EMBRACE All You Good Good People
VERVE, THE The Drugs Don't Work
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Into My Arms
BOB DYLAN Not Dark Yet
BECK Jack-Ass
EELS Novocaine For The Soul
FOO FIGHTERS Everlong
PAVEMENT Stereo
YO LA TENGO Sugar Cube
GRANDADDY Summer Here Kids
TEENAGE FANCLUB Ain't That Enough
BELLE and SEBASTIAN Lazy Line Painter Jane
STEREOLAB Miss Modular

1985 theme tonight:

Tonight on the VAULT Kate Bush, Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti, UB40, Romeo Void, 'Til Tuesday, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hall & Oates, Grace Jones and more. 12:20 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

CURE, THE Close To Me
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK So In Love
PREFAB SPROUT When Love Breaks Down
GENERAL PUBLIC Tenderness
MARILYN Baby U Left Me (In the Cold)
SCRITTI POLITTI The Word Girl
UB40 Don't Break My Heart
SADE Hang On To Your Love
LOOSE ENDS Hanging On A String
ROMEO VOID A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing
TIL TUESDAY Voices Carry
SIMPLE MINDS Alive And Kicking
KILLING JOKE Love Like Blood
KATE BUSH Running Up That Hill
BRYAN FERRY Slave To Love
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm On Fire
DIRE STRAITS So Far Away
TOM PETTY and THE HEARTBREAKERS Don't Come Around Here
TALKING HEADS Road To Nowhere
CARS, THE Hello Again
HALL AND OATES Method Of Modern Love
POWER STATION Some Like It Hot
GRACE JONES Slave To The Rhythm
YELLO Vicious Games
FLASH and THE PAN Midnight Man
JAN HAMMER Miami Vice Theme
RUSS BALLARD Voices
HOOTERS, THE All You Zombies

Great playlist from my favourite year (well equal favourite with 1984).

Nothing particularly rare, but I haven't seen Russ Ballard in good quality before.

Monday night's Vault episode, which I think for the first time actually starts on Monday night (11:57pm), playlist is up on the rage website now, and it's a Christmas special:

http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s4783896.htm

Rather boringly, it looks very similar to last year's Christmas special.

Loadacrap tonight:

Tonight on the VAULT Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Nina Simone, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Joy Division and more. 1:04 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

JIMI HENDRIX Fire (Live)
DOORS, THE Crawling King Snake (Live from GTK)
JAMES BROWN Get Up Offa That Thing (Live at Chastain Park)
J.J. CALE Cocaine (Live)
BILLY THORPE and THE AZTECS Cigarettes and Whiskey (Live from GTK)
DADDY COOL Come Back Again (Live)
SUPERTRAMP Bloody Well Right (Live)
WHO, THE Can't Explain (Live)
PINK FLOYD Comfortably Numb (Live)
LED ZEPPELIN Immigrant Song (Live)
DEEP PURPLE Fire Ball (Live)
BLACK SABBATH Neon Knights (Live)
ALICE COOPER School's Out (Live)
ROLLING STONES, THE (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Live)
DAVID BOWIE Let's Spend The Night Together (Live)
DAVID BOWIE Changes (Live)
LOU REED Rock 'n Roll (Live from GTK)
STEVIE WONDER Superstition (Live)
BILLY PRESTON I Wrote A Simple Song (Live)
NINA SIMONE For A While (Live at Ronnie Scott's)
RENEE GEYER It's A Man's Man's World (Live)
ELVIS PRESLEY Love Me Tender (Live)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS The Mercy Seat (Live in Lyon)
GO-BETWEENS The Clarke Sisters (Live)
JOY DIVISION Transmission (Live)
SONIC YOUTH Sister (Live)
DEAD KENNEDYS, THE Holiday In Cambodia (Live)
BUTTHOLE SURFERS 100 Million People Dead (Live)
BIG BLACK Jordan Minnesota (Live)

Totally not interested in watching live performances. Hopefully that 'theme' is now out of their system. Music videos in my book are purpose-made films to studio recordings.

Looks like 90s Australian special tonight:

Tonight on the VAULT The Cruel Sea, You Am I, Hoodoo Gurus, Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu, Frente, Underground Lovers, Itch-E & Scratch-E and more. 12:22 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.


CRUEL SEA, THE The Honeymoon Is Over
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Do You Love Me?
DAVE GRANEY 'N' THE CORAL SNAKES You're Just Too Hip Baby
YOU AM I Adam's Ribs
HOODOO GURUS The Right Time
HUNTERS and COLLECTORS Throw Your Arms Around Me
CROWDED HOUSE Distant Sun
YOTHU YINDI World Turning
CHRISTINE ANU Monkey and The Turtle
CHRISTINE ANU with PAUL KELLY Last Train
CALIGULA Before
UNDERGROUND LOVERS Losin' It
UNDERGROUND LOVERS Your Eyes
SEVERED HEADS Dead Eyes Opened
ITCH-E and SCRATCH-E Sweetness And Light
KYLIE MINOGUE Confide In Me
SINGLE GUN THEORY Fall
FRENTE Bizarre Love Triangle
MAX SHARAM Coma
NICK BARKER Time Bomb
YOU AM I Jaimme's Got A Gal
YOU AM I Berlin Chair
CRUEL SEA, THE Black Stick
CRUEL SEA, THE Better Get A Lawyer
TUMBLEWEED Daddy Long Legs
SILVERCHAIR Tomorrow

Well, rage seem to have abandoned the above playlist.

I tuned in about 20 minutes after it started, and 'Confide In Me' was on (which wasn't scheduled until the second hour)... then 'Fall', and then Frente!'s 'Horrible', which isn't on the playlist above, then 'Bizarre Love Triangle' and 'Coma', which is now airing.

D@mn. I hope I didn't miss anything good not scheduled in the first 20 minuets. Was anyone recording then?

After the clips mentioned above, they aired:

NICK BARKER Time Bomb
YOU AM I Jaimme's Got A Gal
YOU AM I Berlin Chair
CRUEL SEA, THE Black Stick
CRUEL SEA, THE Better Get A Lawyer
TUMBLEWEED Daddy Long Legs
SILVERCHAIR Tomorrow


as listed, then, oddly they repeated the Saturday morning Vault segment (the 8:30-9+ slot), from some artist I've never heard of.

I recorded it out of habit and they must have changed the broadcast timing as I set it to start recording 20min before the scheduled start and when I checked it this morning it was part way through Underground Lovers - Losin' It (which is a great song but I have it already from their Guest programming slot last year).

As the music is all around 1994 and it repeated part of the Saturday morning slot I had no interest in it and deleted it about 5 hours ago.

For anyone interested, this morning (Wednesday morning), the ABC rage program, which ran for just over half an hour, played the following:

DIVINYLS I Touch Myself
PJ HARVEY Down By the Water
GARBAGE Q u e e r
HOLE Celebrity Skin
IMANI COPPOLA Legend of a Cowgirl
SHERYL CROW If It Makes You Happy
MAZZY STAR Fade Into You


Normally, the Wednesday morning ABC program re-airs part of the Saturday night guest programmer/special. As the show was too short to replay a full Countdown episode, I guess they went with this.

Wow, Monday night's playlist is already on the website, and contains some great clips including Toni Basil's 'Over My Head'! I'm not sure what the theme is, though.

Monday night's playlist is up here http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s4789396.htm

The theme appears to be artists who've been in groups and released music as a solo act... though I'm not sure how Toni Basil, Pat Benatar, Sinead O'Connor, Divinyls, Innocence or Monie Love fit into that.

Chrysalis label maybe

Some of those acts were on Festival locally, but Chrysalis for international releases.

I wonder why rage chose to do a special on Chrysalis artists? It's not really like it would be a well-known label by the general public. EMI, they might have heard of, but not really this. Still, it's a good episode.

I had been suggesting Toni Basil's 'Over My Head' for a while, several years back. I don't really make requests/suggestions these days, as I figure they'll just play what they want to. But maybe they had noted it down as one to look for in the archives.

this thread for the benefit of Jason and any others who are used to my Monday playlist posts. Tonight's playlist was posted on the rage website on the weekend, and is linked above.

WOW !!!!!!!

Jellybean with Just A Mirage and The Real Thing!!!!!

Toni Basil with Over My Head!!!!!

And Sinead O'Connor with MC Lyte with i Want Your Hands On me which I have requested for years!

I have zero space on my DVD Recorder from the weekend with rage goes retro 2, better start burning

We are very spoilt tonight and this month with Countdown galore. It really is 80s heaven x

Some very RARE clips tonight which I have wanted for a long time

Terrible nineties Triple J playlist tonight.
I hope that doesn't mean Week 4 of Retro month has moved into "Recovery" mode.

I was hoping you'd relieved me of posting this one, Brad...

Tonight on the VAULT Sublime, Buck-O-Nine, Less Than Jake, Royal Crown Revue, Rancid, The Living End, Toe To Toe SHC, Bad Religion, Sick Of It All, Pennywise, Unwritten Law, Millencolin, NOFX, Frenzal Rhomb and more. 12:37 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

QUICKSAND Dine Alone
BAD RELIGION Do You Love Me?
ORANGE 9MM High Speed Changer
SICK OF IT ALL Potential For A Fall
PENNYWISE Same Old Story
TOE TO TOE Falling Short
H2O Everready
FACE TO FACE I Won't Lie Down
UNWRITTEN LAW Lonesome
BODYJAR Glossy Books
DOWNTIME Monkey
FRONT END LOADER Summer Hits
LIVING END, THE Prisoner Of Society
FRENZAL RHOMB Disappointment
VANDALS, THE It's A Fact
NO FX Leave It Alone
BLINK 182 Josie (Everything's Gonna Be Fine)
MXPX Chick Magnet
OFFSPRING, THE I Choose
MILLENCOLIN Lozin' Must
SUBLIME What I Got
311 All Mixed Up
SPRUNG MONKEY Get 'Em Outta Here
BUCK-O-NINE My Town
SUICIDE MACHINES No Face
HEPCAT No Worries
ROYAL CROWN REVUE Watts Local
REVEREND HORTON HEAT, THE One Time For Me
RANCID Time Bomb
VOODOO GLOW SKULLS Left For Dead
PIETASTERS, THE Out All Night
LESS THAN JAKE Dopeman
REEL BIG FISH Sell Out
MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES, THE The Rascal King
NO DOUBT Spiderwebs

It seems to be the way that after one of the best vault episodes ever, we get a c r a p one.

Not meaning to be disrespectful, but yet another January death (a member of Judas Priest), meaning yet another tribute that will impact on the Vault if they play (and repeat) a tribute.

More rubbish tonight:

Tonight on the VAULT The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio, The Walkmen, Interpol, The Kills, The White Stripes, The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem and more. 1:17 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.

WALKMEN, THE The Rat
TV ON THE RADIO Staring At The Sun
INTERPOL Obstacle 1
YEAH YEAH YEAHS Maps
YEAH YEAH YEAHS Date With The Night
LIARS Mr You're On Fire Mr
RAPTURE, THE House Of Jealous Lovers
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Losing My Edge
STROKES, THE Hard To Explain
STROKES, THE The Modern Age
KINGS OF LEON Red Morning Light
HIVES, THE Hate To Say I Told You So
HOT HOT HEAT Bandages
VINES, THE Outthaway
VON BONDIES, THE C'mon C'mon
VON BONDIES, THE It Came From Japan
WHITE STRIPES, THE Fell In Love With A Girl
WHITE STRIPES, THE Hotel Yorba
KILLS, THE Wait
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB Spread Your Love
RAVEONETTES, THE Attack Of The Ghost Riders

Rubbish indeed! How can that stuff even be considered retro?

Great, means I can save hard drive space as I am yet to burn Saturday nights Countdown's and Rock Arena

Pass.