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Stay tuned below with regular Countdown full archival information for each Countdown episode rage shall be airing every Saturday throughout January ...

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Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Saturday morning:

10,000 MANIACS These Are Days


Saturday night:

EAGLES The Long Run (though it aired during Glenn Frey's tribute last year)

plus a bunch of Hanson videos that probably haven't aired since they were in the top 50


I was watching a 10,000 Maniacs video earlier (though not the one above) and thought for some reason "it wouldn't surprise me if Hanson chose them" and they did!

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Someone affiliated with (I think a producer) Nick Cave, The Cruel Sea etc. died recently, so are getting a tribute tonight (Friday night):

12:00am

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Nick The Stripper (Mushroom)
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE Rooms For The Memory (Warner)
THE FERRETS Just Like The Stars (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA Better Get A Lawyer (Polydor)
THE CRUEL SEA Just A Man (Polydor)

12:30am

SUPERNAUT I Like It Both Ways ()
KIM SALMON and THE SURREALISTS I Fell (Polydor)
BEASTS OF BOURBON Chase The Dragon (Polydor)
STRAITJACKET FITS Bad Note For A Heart (Mushroom)
MICK HARVEY and ANITA LANE Initials B.B. (Mushroom)
DAVE GRANEY 'N' THE CORAL SNAKES You're Just Too Hip Baby (Polydor)
TISM Get Thee To A Nunnery (Shock)
PEL MEL Pandemonium (GAP Records)

1:00am

STRAITJACKET FITS Done (Mushroom)
POWDERFINGER Tail (Polydor)
BOYS NEXT DOOR Shivers (Mushroom)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Loverman (Mushroom)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS As I Sat Sadly By Her Side (Fest/Mush)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Love Letter (Virgin)
STRAITJACKET FITS Spacing (Mushroom)
THE CHUCKY MONROES Mortal Remains (Independent)

1:30am

BEASTS OF BOURBON The Low Road (Polydor)
MERCY ARMS Half Right (Independent)
THE BLACKEYED SUSANS Mary Mac (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA Black Stick (Polydor)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Red Right Hand (Mushroom)
BEASTS OF BOURBON Just Right (Polydor)

2:00am

THE CRUEL SEA Woman With Soul (Polydor)
TEX PERKINS I Know Y' Know I Know (Universal)
ASTRID MUNDAY Closer (Independent)
THE GO-BETWEENS Your Turn, My Turn (Missing Link)
THE FERRETS Don't Fall In Love ()
MICK HARVEY and ANITA LANE Harley Davidson (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA This Is Not The Way Home (Independent)
NICK CAVE and KYLIE MINOGUE Where The Wild Roses Grow (Mushroom)

2:30am

NICK CAVE and PJ HARVEY Henry Lee (Mushroom)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Stagger Lee (Mushroom)
POWDERFINGER Grave Concern (Polydor)
STRAITJACKET FITS If I Were You (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA Seems Twice (Polydor)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Do You Love Me? (Mushroom)
THE CRUEL SEA The Honeymoon Is Over (Polydor)

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

It aired in 2015, but this Saturday morning during the 10:30-11:30 guest programmer hour (repeated Thursday night ABC ME):

BERLIN The Metro ()

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Saturday night:

STEPHEN CUMMINGS Back Stabbers (Polydor) (last aired 2009)
WARD 13 Midnight Caravan () (as Jason has pointed out)

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Saturday night:

THE UNDERTONES Teenage Kicks (Sire Records) (hasn't aired since playlists have been online)

TEARS FOR FEARS Pale Shelter (Mercury) (hasn't aired since playlists have been online)

MEN AT WORK It's A Mistake (CBS) (hasn't aired since playlists have been online)

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Saturday night:

XTC Life Begins At The Hop (hasn't aired as a standalone clip on rage since playlists have been online)

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

ohnoitisnathan
XTC Life Begins At The Hop (hasn't aired as a standalone clip on rage since playlists have been online)

And they mananged to totally screw it up - the clip is totally zoomed in and blurry for some reason. Seriously, they only showed about 50% of the image frame. When I get a chance I will upload the comparison to the original clip.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

OK, here's what rage broadcast last night:



And here's that image overlaid on top of the proper 4:3 clip:



So not only is the clip zoomed in, they screwed up the aspect ratio as well!

I feel a letter to rage coming on...

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

That's a really bad crop. They didn't have to zoom in that far. It's better for rage to show the actual original aspect ratio as you don't miss out on what the director intended to show and for the quality of the video. One of the downsides of 4:3 aspect ratio though is that from my experience in the retail selling of televisions is that funnily enough, a lot of people think that 4:3 aspect ratio on a 16:9 screen is a fault because they don't realise televisions used to have a different shape before digital TV. That shouldn't be reason enough to crop 4:3 footage to widescreen because there is a lack of knowledge by many consumers.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Wow, that's really bad. I haven't yet watched my recording from last night to see for myself.

I wish rage/the ABC would not zoom in on these old videos at all; it just looks so bad. Who could seriously think it was an improvement?

There have been a couple of old letterboxed videos re-aired in recent times that they haven't enlarged to 16:9, such as Robert Plant's 'Big Log', which I am grateful for.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

I think this was just a pure c*ck up and nothing more - I don't think it was deliberate. Since this clip has not been played at all in the past nearly 20 years, they must have sourced the analog clip from the library and then promptly screwed up the digitisation. Zooming plus wrong aspect ratio - maybe the work experience kiddie was on deck?

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

I emailed these images to Tyson Koh at rage... let's see if they do anything about this. I asked them to fix the clip up and show it again some time soon.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Clip Magnet
I emailed these images to Tyson Koh at rage... let's see if they do anything about this. I asked them to fix the clip up and show it again some time soon.


Good on you. I doubt they'll re-air it soon, though, unless another guest programmer picks it, or it is played as an in-between clip during January on a Countdown or Rock Arena episode XTC appear in.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Not sure how often they play Soul Kiss, 50 Years or Trouble Spot Rock but they're on this week amongst others on Sat morning, Sunday morning and presumably during the week replay. All Australian and predominantly 1985 apart from Air Supply and Mondo Rock.

JIMMY BARNES Working Class Man (Bloodlines)
INXS What You Need (Warner)
HOODOO GURUS Like Wow Wipeout (BMG)
MENTAL AS ANYTHING Live It Up (Warner)
MODELS Out Of Mind Out Of Sight (Festival)
DIVINYLS Pleasure and Pain (Virgin)
UNCANNY X-MEN Fifty Years (Mushroom)
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Soul Kiss (Interfusion)
AIR SUPPLY The Power Of Love (Arista)
ICEHOUSE No Promises (Chrysalis)
AUSTRALIAN CRAWL Trouble Spot Rock (Freestyle Records)
THE CHURCH Already Yesterday (Parlophone)
MONDO ROCK Come Said The Boy (WEA)

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Armin
Not sure how often they play Soul Kiss, 50 Years or Trouble Spot Rock but they're on this week amongst others on Sat morning, Sunday morning and presumably during the week replay. All Australian and predominantly 1985 apart from Air Supply and Mondo Rock.

JIMMY BARNES Working Class Man (Bloodlines)
INXS What You Need (Warner)
HOODOO GURUS Like Wow Wipeout (BMG)
MENTAL AS ANYTHING Live It Up (Warner)
MODELS Out Of Mind Out Of Sight (Festival)
DIVINYLS Pleasure and Pain (Virgin)
UNCANNY X-MEN Fifty Years (Mushroom)
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Soul Kiss (Interfusion)
AIR SUPPLY The Power Of Love (Arista)
ICEHOUSE No Promises (Chrysalis)
AUSTRALIAN CRAWL Trouble Spot Rock (Freestyle Records)
THE CHURCH Already Yesterday (Parlophone)
MONDO ROCK Come Said The Boy (WEA)


I googled the playlists before, and 'Soul Kiss' hasn't aired since playlists have been online; probably never since rage has existed, either.

This segment is repeated:

Sunday morning ABC 5-6am
Sunday night (Monday morning) ABC ME 12-1am (depending on when the show starts)
Tuesday night ABC ME 9:30-10:30pm (depending on when the show starts)

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Saturday morning (repeated Sunday morning ABC, Sunday night ABC ME, and Tuesday night ABC ME):

NEW ORDER Blue Monday (Remix)
(*assuming this will be 'Blue Monday 1988', it hasn't aired since 2002).

JEAN MICHEL JARRE Zoolook

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Malcolm Young of AC/DC tribute this coming Friday night for those interested.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

For those of you who missed the Malcolm Young AC/DC special on the weekend, we'll be repeating it in full this Wednesday night from 11:45pm on ABC2. Don't say we never do anything for you. Let there be rock!

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Following Daryl Braithwaite's programming Saturday night are several videos that haven't aired in many year/(before?) on rage:


DARYL BRAITHWAITE Rise (CBS / Columbia)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Let Me Be (CBS / Columbia)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE All I Do (CBS / Columbia)

3:30am

DARYL BRAITHWAITE As The Days Go By (CBS)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Prove Your Love (Infinity)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Love Like A Child (Infinity)
DARYL BRAITHWAITE Love Has No Pride ()


not sure which of the list below haven't aired before on rage (as standalone clips, anyway):

SHERBS I Have The Skill (ABC)
SHERBS I'm OK (ABC)
SHERBET Howzat (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Free The People (Festival)

4:00am

SHERBET You're All Woman (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Hound Dog (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Can I Drive You Home (Festival)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK You're My World (Festival)
SHERBET Summer Love (Festival)
SHERBET Child's Play (Festival)
SHERBET Rock Me Gently (ABC)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK You've Got The Gun (Fest/Mush)
SHERBET - LIVE GTK Don't You Know That I Do (Festival)

4:30am

SHERBET Magazine Madonna (Festival)

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Airing between 8:30am and 9:00am this coming Saturday morning:

THE B-52'S Whammy Kiss (Warner Bros Records)


This hasn't aired on rage since playlists have been online.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

... and it looked like a YouTube rip. Urgh.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Clip Magnet
... and it looked like a YouTube rip. Urgh.
I know. I thought the same thing. Plus the did it for 2 other clips shown during that segment, I'm pretty sure.

I'd rather rage didn't show videos at all than resort to YouTube rips.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

This Saturday night:

GEISHA Fool's Way (EMI)
BELINDA CARLISLE Mad About You (IRS)
BANANARAMA Hotline To Heaven (London)
JACKO My Brain Hurts (Independent)
CERRONE ft. BETH DITTO Supernature (Alan Braxe Mix) (Because Music)


Have not aired on rage before, at least during the digital era, as far as I am aware.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Jacko i think has been on before. Lifted from Countdown from memory. Unless the have re acquired the clip

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

JASE
Jacko i think has been on before. Lifted from Countdown from memory. Unless the have re acquired the clip
I'm pretty certain they have only aired 'I'm an Individual' before, which did have a Countdown artist/title superscript over it.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

You're absolutely correct

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

This Saturday night:

REDGUM I've Been To Bali Too (Sony)

It has aired on a Rock Arena episode repeated this decade, but hasn't aired as a standalone clip before to my knowledge.

Re: The 'retro videos those who don't regularly check the rage playlists might miss' thread

Following Todd Rundgren's guest programming this weekend, on Saturday night/Sunday morning:


XTC Dear God (Virgin)

3:30am

MEAT LOAF Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Sony)
MEAT LOAF You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Sony)
PSYCHEDELIC FURS Love My Way (Sony)
JAMES TAYLOR Her Town Too (CBS)
STEVE MILLER BAND Abracadabra (Polydor)
ROXY MUSIC More Than This (Polygram)

4:00am

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS Minute By Minute ()
JACKSON BROWNE Somebody's Baby (Asylum)
PAUL McCARTNEY & MICHAEL JACKSON Say Say Say (Universal)
THE PRETENDERS Don't Get Me Wrong (WEA)
AMERICA The Border (Capitol)
AIR SUPPLY All Out Of Love (Arista)
THE CARS Drive (Warner)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm On Fire (Sony)

4:30am

GERRY RAFFERTY Whatever's Written In Your Heart (Big Bear Records)
CHICAGO Stay The Night (WEA)
BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND Still The Same (Big Bear Records)
REO SPEEDWAGON I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore ()
LINDA RONSTADT You're No Good ()
WINGS With A Little Luck (Capitol)
STEVE WINWOOD While You See A Chance (Festival)