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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: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

a 70's Countdown, even though a repeat, would have made the night perfect. Plus there would be many who wouldn't have recorded every episode that's aired. Otherwise looks like a fun night- love Hitscene and the first Flashez clips in a decade :heart_eyes:

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

At nathan, a very stupid move not to have Countdown two weekends in a row. It's a travesty!!!!!

And rage starting off with Kate Bush 'Hammer Horror', they could at least play the Countdown performance so there is at least a glimmer of Countdown!!!!

And at Gary, I to would even prefer that rage added another 70s repeated Episode, maybe one they haven't played since the 90s.

Oh ... that FLASHEZ piece with Alice Cooper fans with Vox-Pops. They have played that before as well as the Roy Orbison interview at Pentridge!

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

I noticed that the Alice Cooper one is a repeat- at first I thought the tattoo one had also been aired but thankfully it's a new one.

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

Uh-oh.

I just saw this on the ABC 'news' site:


https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/murder-ballads-by-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-is-25-years-old/13171940

That normally means that there's some cross-promotion with rage, when they start running puff pieces like this under the guise of being 'news' :fear: There were Kylie stories on the ABC news page, and on the 7.30 Report coinciding with the rage Kylie special last year.

I guess that means a Nick Cave guest programming is coming up on rage? Or at least an all-night special on him?

Probably (let's hope!) not until after retro month and (I'm assuming) a Mardi Gras special in the first week of March.

Unless rage want to be particularly stupid (hey, what's stopping them now?) and devote week 4 of retro month to an all-night Nick Cave fest.

Remember, they plonked a Madonna special slap bang in the middle (I think week 3) of retro month in 2007.

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

I'd say retro month is pretty unlikely more likely something post Feb. Red Right Hand is the one Nick Cave song that I like the rest is blah

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

I enjoyed this morning and am looking forward to tonight so each to their own I guess. :slightly_smiling_face:

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

Week 3 of Retro Month over only week 4 to go! I didn't mind Flashez, Hitscene and GTK. Hopefully more Countdown to wrap it up. The 1989 top 10 was great it didn't need that much re-playing. I'd also like next weekend Countdown Revolution, Billabong Band, Melody Time, Country Style, Valerie Cooney Sings / Vic Sabrino Sings, Make Ours Music, Lorrae Desmond Show and 90s kids game show Vidiot. Please NO Recovery, 10.30 Slot and Triple J TV.

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

I watched the video for 'Hammer Horror' last night (which the audio and video s t u f f e d up) and went to sleep when this nerdberger came on with no personality introducing an act...Bring back Molly!

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

Not that this really matters too much as Hitscene March 13, 1971 (Ep 82) had already been shown during Retro Month 2001 so this was a repeat.

I'm with everybody else, show more Unaired Countdown in Week 4 please.

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

An excellent night, really enjoyed most of it except for stuff like Led Zeppelin and Sabbath ugh

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

The trouble is, we get 20 hours of "RETRO MONTH" per year (not counting the 5am "PG" music videos) (and this year we're getting about 16 hours!) but because they now want to do more than "Countdown" ..... well, just think of how many episodes of "Rock Arena", "The Factory", "Beat Box", "The 10:30 Slot" and "Recovery" are in their vault. Not to mention all the miscellaneous stuff (musical guests on various TV shows).

Quite frankly, it is my unconsidered opinion that they need to do a "RETRO NIGHT" on "rage" once per week, maybe twice, on one of their overnight repeats (Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, not Monday - VAULT night). Or add it to "ABC TV Plus" which, otherwise, sucks! Or even stick it on ABC-ME where 11pm to 5am is free every night bar Sunday.

I guess this all stems from the fact that there is a new generation in charge of "rage" who haven't finished trawling the vaults yet and who think that if it is over 20 years old then it should be played. Coming soon, "Stan" by Eminem in the old song section. Also, given how much the ABC's budget has been cut (down by 25% in 2019 compared to 2009 then more cuts in 2020) they probably can't afford to have more than interns programming "rage".

Re: rage goes retro 3 - Awful news unfortunately

Picture of Tim Finn on Countdown set for week four