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I just had a look at the rage Playlist for this weekend not realising it was a 90s special but saw this thread recently.
What a rather C R A P special, shows how truly dreadful the 90s were in general.
I at least would have loved some Early 90s House and Dance from the likes of Opus III, Cathy Dennis, Jesus Loves You, 808 State, Beatmasters, Quadraphonia, Ultra Nate, Betty Boo and some great Synth Pop from Vertigo, Les Rhytmes Digitals, Savage Garden and some International Crisis, Shakespear's Sister, Pet Shop Boys, Bjork and would have LOVED Collette with Who Do You Think You Are and Jason Donovan's RSVP !!!!! And something else besides Read My Lips from Melissa like Is It? ... And even some Monaco, JX, Tracey T w a t and some 90s Bananarama and The Human League would have been welcomed ... And may I add Peter Andre with his PWL produced You Drive Me Crazy would have been interesting. And where is Erasure's cover of Abba's Voulez Vous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some 90s PWL like Nancy Davis, Sybil, Lonnie Gordon, NEWTON!!!!!!, Yell and Sonia would have been brilllliant, arghhhhhh.
rage's attempt at some Pop and Dance is truly lazy because I doubt they really know much besides the general Pop and Dance of the era ... Of course it is filled with Alternative rubbish for most part and the Pop and Dance that is presented is very generic... Black Box with Everybody Everybody is one of the decent selections among the commercial Dance they chose.
And not even Madonna's Bedtime Stories which is one of THE THE THE best videos EVER made!!!
Jason, your suggestions would have been brilliant.
Instead we're getting one that veers between the mediocre and the bland same old same old we always get. What a wasted opportunity, but not unexpected.
Highlights include 'The Emperor's New clothes' by Sinead, 'In Your Room' by Toni Pearen, 'Weak' by Skunk Anansie, but there's nothing that will tempt me to watch.
The playlist overall is dull and predictable, but I'm pleasantly surprised there are *some* pop/dance clips there that they haven't aired since the 90s. Going by the blurb on the website and the first hour of it on Saturday morning, I was expecting it to be entirely 'alternative', all-male, Triple J c r a p.
Black Box with Everybody Everybody is one of the decent selections among the commercial Dance they chose.
No doubt it's going to be the Le Freak mix that they've aired a couple of times in recent years, rather than the original European version where Katrin runs through a field etc., which I much prefer.
What bugs me also are the repeated pop/dance clips, like Zhane's 'Hey Mr DJ'. Couldn't they have dug out 'Groove Thang' or at least something different?
I prefer You belong To Me from JX and not a fan of Son of A Gun
They did air 'You Belong To Me' last year in one of the 90s dance Vault episodes; albeit with overscan lines.
One thing I learnt recently is that the blonde woman lipsyncing in the 'Son of a Gun' video is the blonde woman appearing in Womack & Womack's 'Teardrops' video! She is actually a singer/sang with Womack & Womack, but for whatever reason, was lipsyncing in the 'Son of a Gun' video.
I knew Headless Chickens' 'Cruise Control' wouldn't be the 1994 remix version that became a hit, but would instead be the 1991 version they regularly air... and lo and behold, it was