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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 ...
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
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.
Hopefully it won't have too much impact, but I'm dreading the possibility that Retro week 4, which would already be locked in, will cater to these nineties fans with episodes of Recovery.
Could that be why we've already had 5 episodes of Countdown each week, to get them out of the way? And no Rock Arena. I really hope I'm wrong!
Hopefully it won't have too much impact, but I'm dreading the possibility that Retro week 4, which would already be locked in, will cater to these nineties fans with episodes of Recovery.
Could that be why we've already had 5 episodes of Countdown each week, to get them out of the way? And no Rock Arena. I really hope I'm wrong!
The facebook page generally caters to 'younger' people, I think, which is why the 90s specials get such interest. Even though it's the same 'alternative' music they always play.
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.
Monday night's playlist has been put up on the rage website already:
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s4798249.htm
1999 seems to be the theme.
Bumping for tonight.
More triple J $hit tonight...
On the VAULT tonight Luscious Jackson, Bran Van 3000, Beastie Boys, Propellerheads, Ben Lee, Gerling, FUR and more. 2:28 am on ABC TV.
SANDPIT Die 501
FUR High Side
BUDD Yeti
GERLING Jimmy Wah Crow Bar
NOISE ADDICT Sixteen
BEN LEE Cigarettes Will Kill You
LUSCIOUS JACKSON City Song
BEASTIE BOYS Ricky's Theme
BS 2000 Buddy
MONEY MARK Maybe I'm Dead
RUSSELL SIMINS I'm Not A Model
PROPELLERHEADS Bang On!
BRAN VAN 3000 featuring CURTIS MAYFIELD Astounded
BIS Detour
SEAN LENNON Home
UGH! They really are making us pay for retro month aren't they?
It's happened every February. They must think they've aired 80s material to death in January, so they avoid it for a while. It'll come back soon enough. It's far more popular than anything post-80s.
The trouble with rage post 80s is that e.g. when they have a Vault playlist of a year from the 90s, 99% of it (if not 100%) will be 'alternative' music, as though that was the only music being made in the 90s. Never mind that they play this sort of music all the time.
I would love for them to do some 90s dance Vault episodes, but it seems the only 90s dance stuff they're familiar with is cr@ppy late 90s trash or ultra-commercial stuff.
80s female artists special tonight:
SADE Love Is Stronger Than Pride
SADE Nothing Can Come Between Us
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL These Early Days
TRACY CHAPMAN Fast Car
TRACY CHAPMAN Talkin' Bout A Revolution
TONI CHILDS Stop Your Fussin'
TONI CHILDS Don't Walk Away
EURYTHMICS I Need A Man
EURYTHMICS You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
EURYTHMICS Shame
MARTHA DAVIS Tell It To The Moon
CYNDI LAUPER Heading West
CYNDI LAUPER My First Night Without You
BELINDA CARLISLE Heaven Is A Place On Earth
BELINDA CARLISLE Circle In The Sand
LAURA BRANIGAN Cry Wolf
DEBBIE GIBSON Foolish Beat
DEBBIE GIBSON Only In My Dreams
SAMANTHA FOX Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now
T'PAU China In Your Hand
JANE CHILD Don't Wanna Fall In Love
JODY WATLEY Don't You Want Me
KARYN WHITE Secret Rendezvous
TAYLOR DAYNE Don't Rush Me
KIM WILDE Four Letter Word
KIM WILDE Hey Mister Headache
MEL and KIM That's The Way It Is
Wow, I take back what I said about Rage avoiding eighties or female pop artists for awhile.
Playlist is on the website again - http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s4805837.htm
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That's very funny. But it's not a bad retro, a few clips in there that haven't seen the light of day for a very long time.
Haha, I missed the headache.
Great rare clip, even though they'll probably play it, and 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now', in the wrong aspect ratio.
**** it! Missed it again. Will pay good price for a copy of this. No black bars please.
Back to cr@p this week...
On the VAULT tonight Erykah Badu, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott , The Roots, Cody ChesnuTT, Common, Kanye West, John Legend and more. 1:15 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.
ROOTS, THE Distortion To Static
ROOTS, THE Proceed
ROOTS, THE feat. ERYKAH BADU You Got Me
ERYKAH BADU Didn't Cha Know
ERYKAH BADU Bag Lady
JILL SCOTT Gettin' In The Way
JILL SCOTT A Long Walk
LAURYN HILL Doo *** (That Thing)
LAURYN HILL Ex-Factor
LAURYN HILL Everything Is Everything
FUGEES, THE Killing Me Softly
FUGEES, THE Fu-Gee-La
FUGEES, THE Ready Or Not
REFUGEE CAMP ALLSTARS Rumble In The Jungle
DEAD PREZ Hip Hop
MOS DEF Miss Fat Booty
COMMON The Sixth Sense
BILAL Love It
BILAL Soul Sister
ROOTS, THE The Seed
CODY CHESTNUTT Look Good In Leather
KANYE WEST All Falls Down
KANYE WEST Through The Wire
KANYE WEST Jesus Walks
COMMON Testify
COMMON and THE LAST POETS The Corner
COMMON Go
JOHN LEGEND Ordinary People
JOHN LEGEND Used To Love U
JOHN LEGEND Number One
That is an awesome lineup of music. Right up my alley, so I will enjoy the hell out of that.
But I don't think it's really in the spirit of the "Vault" either. An easy rule of thumb for me - if the clips are from the 16:9 (widescreen) era, then they've come from the cupboard, not the vault.
Yeah, it's not that the music is awful (though it's not to my taste apart from Jill Scott), it's that it isn't Retro (or "Vault"). There needs to be a clear line drawn in the sand defining where "retro" begins. I would feasibly allow the Fugees/Lauryn Hill stuff from the 90s as the very newest, but absolutely not the stuff from the 2000s.
Sounds good Nathan. Would love a copy. Are you able to upload 'Shame' to Youtube? The only vid for it is the 'Blocked in the UK' and plays the song but the video is all over the place. I think it's the same with 'Circle in the Sand'. Can you upload that one too?
@Luuuuc - " if the clips are from the 16:9 (widescreen) era, then they've come from the cupboard, not the vault."
What about faux-widescreen letterboxed 4:3 clips which were the occasional rage in the '80s? :smiley:
Ummm... can I use the old school teacher copout and call that "the exception that proves the rule"? :wink:
NICE!
The vault runs for just over 3 hours tonight... so let's have a dance special! Except it's another late 90s/early 00s special; the third one, in fact. Meanwhile, a late 80s/early 90s dance vault has never aired.
Tonight on the VAULT Roger Sanchez, Bob Sinclar, Paul Van Dyk, Junior Jack, Blank & Jones and more. 12:26 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.
JS-16 Stomping System
MARK VAN DALE with ENRICO Water Wave
PERPETUAL MOTION Keep On Dancin'
666 Alarma!
LOCK'N'LOAD Blow Ya Mind
PIET BLANK and JASPA JONES After Love
PAUL VAN DYK Another Way
DJ JEAN The Launch
MARIO PIU Communication (Somebody Answer The Phone)
HI-GATE Pitchin' (In Every Direction)
FLICKMAN The Sound Of Bamboo
A.T.G.O.C. Repeated Love
SLACKER Scared
PM PROJECT You Know I Want You
MILK INC La Vache
MOVIN' MELODIES Rollerblade
TINA COUSINS Killing Time
R.O.O.S. Instant Moments
U.S.U.R.A. Open Your Mind '97
JAKATTA American Dream
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL VS SOUL VISION Tracey In My Room
ROGER SANCHEZ Another Chance
BOB SINCLAR My Only Love
PETE HELLER Big Love
DE FUNK Pleasure Love
SUPERCAR Tonite
CEVIN FISHER Burning Up
ECLIPSE Makes Me Love You
BIG TIME CHARLIE On The Run
WISDOME Off The Wall (Enjoy Yourself)
NU GENERATION In Your Arms (Rescue Me)
PHATS and SMALL Tonite
JUNIOR JACK My Feeling
LOST 'N' ALIVE Everything I Play
LAWYER, THE I Wanna M M M
MECCAHEADZ Nightskool
LOVE CONNECTION The Bomb
SPILLER Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)
WICKED PHUNKER Jungle Boogie
JAZZY M Jazzin' The Way You Know
LOVE BITE, THE Take Your Time
ROBBIE RIVERA presents RHYTHM BANGERS Bang
GROOVEZONE Eisbaer
STEVE 'SILK' HURLEY presents VOICES OF LIFE Word Is Love (Say The Word)
BAMBOO Bamboogie
WILDCHILD Renegade Master
SMASH 'N' GRAB Drive Me Crazy
RUN DMC vs JASON NEVINS It's Like That
NYCC - NEW YORK CITY CONNECTION Fight For Your Right (To Party)
Disappointing!
The post-January backlash continues.
As of 6.15pm Monday, 8 hours after it was posted, the Rage post on Facebook has only 40 'like' responses and just 3 comments, only one of which is vaguely complimentary. Compare this to true 70s & 80s retro nights, which often have hundreds upon hundreds of 'likes' and encouraging comments too many to count. I think it's quite obvious what the Rage watchers really want.
I've been suggesting a Vault with many of these clips for a few years now. I'm definitely someone who is interested in this particular Vault as it features dance and electronica videos from the late 90s/early 00s that were played during the 4:30AM timeslot on rage. It would appeal more to a niche cult audience and I didn't expect it would have too many likes and comments. Though I'm glad they are catering for this particular genre. If Nathan reads this, there is an opportunity to grab many rare clips that haven't been shown in years and are not available on Youtube, such as...
LOCK'N'LOAD Blow Ya Mind (UK #6, Aus #45)
A.T.G.O.C. Repeated Love (UK #38)
LOST 'N' ALIVE Everything I Play
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL VS SOUL VISION Tracey In My Room (UK #34)
WICKED PHUNKER Jungle Boogie
SMASH 'N' GRAB Drive Me Crazy (Aus #45)
There might be a few more there as well, however, those are the ones I am aware of that are not on Youtube and haven't been aired in many years.
^ I did read this. My gripe wasn't so much that this was being shown, just that they've now done 3 late 90s/early 00s dance/electronic music specials, but haven't touched the late 80s/early 90s for a dance-themed vault. There are some clips shown on tonight's show that I intend to keep. There are several that I don't know, though (at least by title). Good for you that they're showing multiple clips they have been asking for.
A late 80s/early 90s dance Vault would be nice. I'm not too familiar with many music videos from that particular era, otherwise I would suggest some to rage. But I do like dance music from the late 80s/early 90s, such as house, hip house, acid house, italo house etc. I would recommend coming up with a list of clips as suggestions from that era that you would like to see and posting it as a comment in the Vault posts. I posted my list of suggestions approximately every 3 months for a couple of years or so. It took a long time but they at least kept some of these clips in mind for tonight's Vault. It seems as though they keep suggestions for many years. I've noticed that they occasionally play rare clips that were suggested from years ago, even from the rage message board days.
I'm relieved. Another week not trying to find a spare 3 hours on the HDD.
Almost exclusively Triple J rubbish tonight... again. I'm not even sure what the theme is, other than 90s alternative.
Tonight on the VAULT The Rollins Band, Helmet, Frank Black, TISM, Dirty Three, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Reels, Died Pretty, Screamfeeder, Magic Dirt Official and more. 12:26 am on ABC TV. Playlist below.
ROLLINS BAND Liar
PAW J.E.S.S.I.E.
HELMET In The Meantime
MUDHONEY Here Comes Sickness
BABES IN TOYLAND Sweet 69
FRANK BLACK Headache
BUFFALO TOM Soda Jerk
SUPERCHUNK Driveway To Driveway
SMUDGE Superhero
SCREAMFEEDER Fill Yourself With Music
CROW Railhead
FALL, THE Victoria
BATS, THE Smoking Her Wings
GO-BETWEENS, THE Your Turn, My Turn
TACTICS Second Language
SIOUXSIE and THE BANSHEES Spellbound
DIED PRETTY Stoneage Cinderella
ALEX CHILTON Lies
MORPHINE Buena
KIM SALMON and THE SURREALISTS I Won't Tell
BEASTS OF BOURBON Cool Fire
DIRTY THREE, THE Everything's ****ed
ROBERT FORSTER Cryin' Love
ED KUEPPER Not A Soul Around
REELS, THE Bad Moon Rising
ANDY PRIEBOY Tomorrow Wendy
LUSH De-Luxe
CLOUDS, THE Hieronymus
FALLING JOYS, THE Lock It
G W McLENNAN Surround Me
HUMMINGBIRDS, THE Get On Down
RATCAT That Ain't Bad
MEANIES, THE Scum
MARK OF CAIN, THE Interloper
TUMBLEWEED Gyroscope
HOSS The Tiredest Man Awake
MAGIC DIRT Redhead
SPIDERBAIT Jesus
CUSTARD Singlette
POP WILL EAT ITSELF Bulletproof
TISM Defecate On My Face
HEADLESS CHICKENS Gaskrankinstation
SKUNKHOUR Up To Our Necks In It
CALIGULA Roundabout
TIDDAS Ignorance Is Bliss
KEV CARMODY and THE TIDDAS On the Wire
Agreed, another very poor Vault if you're a mainstream pop fan.
I can't discern a theme either, and there are a couple of random eighties songs in there (The Reels, Siouxsie & The Banshees) that don't seem to belong to any theme.
The Monday night vaults seem to be a little longer this year. I can't wait for 3 hours of classic 70s & 80s.
Ed Kuepper and The Reels... those clips have not been played for a long time, I'll take that. Maybe not most of the rest though. Shame they couldn't play the Clouds "Anthem" or "Alchemy's Dead" since those two clips were curiously omitted from their GP last year. It probably means they have lost those clips :white_frowning_face:
