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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 ...
Love it! Some interesting choices here. Looking forward to it.
Hi do they ever replay these clips on another night
Duncan Browne “Wild Places” - pretty sure they have never played that clip before! Countdown did play a very brief except from this clip once or twice, but never the whole 6 progressive rock minutes of it. This song was also a bit of a staple “filler” between programmes on the ABC in 1980-81, but most of the clip was replaced with the ABC’s own random images of galaxies, landscapes and stuff. I remember seeing it many many times. Good memories!
Cowboys are the theme tonight, it seems.
Tonight on the VAULT Depeche Mode, Madonna, Detroit Grand Pubahs, Primal Scream, Metallica, The Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr, Primus, Divine, The Reels, Devo, Pretenders and more. 2:00 am on ABC TV.
BOYS DON'T CRY I Wanna Be A Cowboy
DIVINE Walk Like A Man
SKATT BROS Life At The Outpost
BONNIE TYLER Holding Out For A Hero
DEVO Whip It
REELS, THE According To My Heart
DIED PRETTY Harness Up
DEPECHE MODE Personal Jesus
R.E.M. Man On The Moon
SMASHING PUMPKINS Perfect
PRETENDERS, THE Human
MADONNA Don't Tell Me
METALLICA Mama Said
PRIMAL SCREAM Country Girl
DETROIT GRAND PUBAHS Sandwiches
SALT 'N' PEPA Gitty Up (Rickidy Rawhide Mix)
CAKE Never There
BECK Devil's Haircut
PRIMUS Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
DINOSAUR JR Goin' Home
PAVEMENT Father To A Sister Of Thought
SPARKLEHORSE Hammering The Cramps
As RetroTragic has posted in another thread, this coming Monday night's vault episode is a Kate Bush special. The playlist is online already at the link below:
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/monday-night-4-june-2018---vault/9825260
Next week's Vault playlist is up on the rage website. I'm not sure what the theme is, other than perhaps early 90s alternative.
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/monday-night-11-june-2018-on-abc---vault/9850812
Smashing Pumpkins special tonight...
Tune in to the VAULT tonight for a swag of videos from 90's rock gods The Smashing Pumpkins + their 1998 Sydney secret gig and Recovery Special. 1:37 am on ABC TV. Check out the playlist below.
SMASHING PUMPKINS Behold! The Night Mare (Live at Circular Quay, 1998)
SMASHING PUMPKINS Ava Adore (Live at Circular Quay, 1998)
SMASHING PUMPKINS Daphne Descends (Live at Circular Quay, 1998)
SMASHING PUMPKINS Crestfallen (Live at Circular Quay, 1998)
SMASHING PUMPKINS Stumbleine (Live at Circular Quay, 1998)
SMASHING PUMPKINS Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Live at Circular Quay, 1998)
SMASHING PUMPKINS Shame (Live at Circular Quay, 1998)
SMASHING PUMPKINS 1979
SMASHING PUMPKINS Tonight Tonight
SMASHING PUMPKINS Thirty Three
SMASHING PUMPKINS Rocket
SMASHING PUMPKINS Today
SMASHING PUMPKINS Disarm
SMASHING PUMPKINS Cherub Rock
SMASHING PUMPKINS Siva
SMASHING PUMPKINS Rhinoceros
The theme tonight appears to be early 80s Australian/New Zealand bands:
Tonight on the VAULT ICEHOUSE, The Reels, Official: Split Enz, Pop Mechanix, The Dugites, Little Heroes and more. 2:09 am on ABC TV.
THE REELS Shout and Deliver
SPLIT ENZ One Step Ahead
THE SWINGERS It Ain't What You Dance, It's The Way You Dance It
POP MECHANIX Jumping Out A Window
OUTLINE Maybe It's A Game
INXS The Loved One
FLOWERS We Can Get Together
FLOWERS Walls
ICEHOUSE Love In Motion
THE DUGITES Part Of Me
THE DUGITES In Your Car
THE DUGITES Waiting
MEO 245 Other Places
LITTLE HEROES The Last Number One
LITTLE HEROES For A Bleeding Heart
THE SPORTS How Come
THE SPORTS Stop The Baby Talking
MONDO ROCK Chemistry
PAUL KELLY and THE DOTS The Lowdown
Bugga i missed it
same
JASE & Michael, I've still got the whole show, in both 4:3* and 16:9, on my recorders. Were there specific clips you were after, or the whole program?
(*that being said, many if not all of the 'new' clips were stretched beyond 4:3, so a thin slice of the picture is cropped off on the 4:3 recording).
The Mondo Rock and Paul Kelly clips were Countdown performances, and the Swingers clip was cut due to the show starting late.
Tonight on the VAULT ICEHOUSE, The Reels, Official: Split Enz, Pop Mechanix, The Dugites, Little Heroes and more. 2:09 am on ABC TV.
THE REELS Shout and Deliver
SPLIT ENZ One Step Ahead
THE SWINGERS It Ain't What You Dance, It's The Way You Dance It
POP MECHANIX Jumping Out A Window
OUTLINE Maybe It's A Game
INXS The Loved One
FLOWERS We Can Get Together
FLOWERS Walls
ICEHOUSE Love In Motion
THE DUGITES Part Of Me
THE DUGITES In Your Car
THE DUGITES Waiting
MEO 245 Other Places
LITTLE HEROES The Last Number One
LITTLE HEROES For A Bleeding Heart
THE SPORTS How Come
THE SPORTS Stop The Baby Talking
MONDO ROCK Chemistry
PAUL KELLY and THE DOTS The Lowdown
While a few of them were Countdown performances it was great to get the actual clip of Dugites - Waiting. Little Heroes, Swingers, Pop Mechanix and Outline were other rarities.
One of the best vaults shown to date, pity it was only 59 minutes.
Having just looked through the recording in detail I noticed that they cut out The Swingers and Pop Mechanix clips from the list Nathan posted.
Although they were likely to be the live Countdown performances it would still been nice to have them in.
They do all seem to be 1981 Australian/New Zealand performances
The actual playlist was:
THE REELS Shout and Deliver
SPLIT ENZ One Step Ahead
OUTLINE Maybe It's A Game - very rare clip
INXS The Loved One
FLOWERS We Can Get Together
FLOWERS Walls
ICEHOUSE Love In Motion
THE DUGITES Part Of Me - very rare clip
THE DUGITES In Your Car
THE DUGITES Waiting - very rare clip
MEO 245 Other Places - live on Countdown
LITTLE HEROES The Last Number One - Countdown clip
LITTLE HEROES For A Bleeding Heart - very rare clip
THE SPORTS How Come
THE SPORTS Stop The Baby Talking
MONDO ROCK Chemistry - Countdown clip (I think)
PAUL KELLY and THE DOTS The Lowdown - live on Countdown
The Mondo Rock clip had to be Coundown, as I saw audience heads in it near the start. (unless it was from some other show)
I hate when some of the Monday night episode gets cut because of earlier programming running overtime. In this case it was Parliament Question Time. Geez.
Hi Nathan, yes, lock me in for the full episode! Cheers.
Yes the Mondo Rock clip was a Countdown studio performance from show #293, 19 July 1981.
Coming up on the VAULT tonight Groove Armada, Jungle Brothers, St Germain, Moloko, Layo and Bushwacka, MJ COLE, Alex Gopher, Wicked Beat Sound System, GusGus, DJ KRUSH and more. 2:23 am on ABC TV.
JUNGLE BROTHERS Because I Got It Like That
WISE GUYS, THE Ooh La La
FATT DEX Jus' Funkin'
GROOVE ARMADA Superstylin'
FREESTYLERS Told You So
BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out
X-PRESS 2 featuring DAVID BYRNE Lazy
LAYO and BUSHWACKA! Love Story
IAN POOLEY Followed
ALEX GOPHER The Child
QUANNUM I Changed My Mind
MOLOKO Sing It Back
LLORCA with NICOLE GRAHAM Indigo Blues
ST GERMAIN Alabama Blues
UNITED FUTURE ORGANISATION Good Luck Shore
ADAM F Circles
D*NOTE Lost And Found
PRESSURE DROP Got To Be For Real
WICKED BEAT SOUND SYSTEM Stay With Me 'Til Dawn
LAMB Gorecki
GUS GUS Polyesterday
MJ COLE Sincere
MJ COLE featuring ELIZABETH TROY Hold On To Me
MJ COLE Crazy Love
RAE and CHRISTIAN featuring VEBA All I Ask
DJ KRUSH Kemuri
HERBALISER, THE The Blend
FREQ NASTY featuring PHOEBE ONE Booming Back Atcha
Not sure what the theme is, but it seems they are late 90s tracks.
Rage posted their playlist on FB this morning, over 8 hours ago, and has only had '12 likes' thus far, and next to NO comments.. Shows what a cruddy Vault it is tonight. Oh well, hopefully some great 70s and 80s coming up soon.
This is an interesting playlist for me anyway. Even though not many people resonate with the playlist, it doesn't mean that it is bad or won't be liked by some people. Some of the most popular artists and musicians are not considered to be the best.
As posted in the other thread, there is no episode this week, but a 121 minute episode is scheduled for next week, and a 166 minute episode scheduled the week after, according to http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/rage/
Coming up on the VAULT tonight Fine Young Cannibals, The Beautiful South, Sydney Youngblood, Lil Louis, The Beatmasters, ADEVA, Kym Mazelle, Bananarama, Margaret Urlich and more. 1:49 am on ABC TV.
THEN JERICO Big Area
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH, THE Song For Whoever
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH, THE You Keep It All In
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS Don't Look Back
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS I'm Not Satisfied
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
AC BLACK Funky Situation
SYDNEY YOUNGBLOOD If Only I Could
LIL' LOUIS French Kiss
LIL' LOUIS AND THE WORLD I Called U (But You Weren't There)
SYBIL Don't Make Me Over
NGAIRE To Sir With Love
JENNY MORRIS Self Deceiver
ARTHUR BAKER AND THE BACKBEAT DISCIPLES The Message Is Love
DR ROBERT AND KYM MAZELLE Wait
D-MOB ft. CATHY DENNIS C'Mon And Get My Love
PAUL SIMPSON ft. ADEVA Musical Freedom (Free At Last)
ADEVA Beautiful Love
ADEVA I Thank You
ADEVA Treat Me Right
BEATMASTERS, THE ft. THE COOKIE CREW Rok Da House
BEATMASTERS, THE ft. CLAUDIA FONTAINE Warm Love
BEATMASTERS, THE and MERLIN Who's In The House
DISCO 2000 Uptight
SONIA Listen To Your Heart
BANANARAMA Only Your Love
MARGARET URLICH Number One (Remember When We Danced All Night)
MARGARET URLICH Only My Heart Calling
MARTIKA Water
MARTIKA More Than You Know
The electronic TV guide and an online TV guide I looked at show this episode starting at 1:05am, rather than 1:49am as rage have posted on Facebook. Hopefully this means that there will be an extra 44 minutes of videos from this vault theme shown! I wonder what they'll be if so. Hopefully some more Sonia videos that aren't 'You'll Never Stop Me Loving You'.
Unfortunately, as I suspected they would do, it looks as though *every* video other than 'Rok Da House' from the playlist above was stretched beyond the 4:3 area of the screen. The picture was even overlapping with the watermark on the Paul Simpson/Adeva and Beatmasters featuring Marlin tracks - these were not originally letterboxed 4:3 videos, so there was absolutely NO need for rage to do this. I wish they would stop f**king with aspect ratios like this.
So.... was the theme 1989 clips? They seem to be from around that period
However, for once, rage haven't gone for 'alternative' music, and all of these are dance or pop.
I think you are dead right, at least 95% of these were from 1989.
I also sent you an email Armin, but it may have gone to your spam box as I have had to create an entirely new email address as yahoo won't let me into my original one. I hope this is okay!:smiley:
Sorry guys I just read Nathan's post of some 1990 clips.
Tonight on the VAULT Stevie Wonder, The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一, Kraftwerk, Stereolab, Echo and the Bunnymen, Miles Davis, Carole King and more. 1:59am on ABC TV.
ELTON JOHN Crocodile Rock (GTK, 1972)
CAT STEVENS Father and Son
STEVIE WONDER I Just Called To Say I Love You
RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS, THE Unchained Melody
WILSON PICKETT In The Midnight Hour
ARETHA FRANKLIN Respect
MARVIN GAYE Can I Get A Witness
KATRINA and THE WAVES Walking On Sunshine
BOW WOW WOW I Want Candy
FALCO Der Kommissar
KRAFTWERK The Model
SERGE GAINSBOURG and BRIGITTE BARDOT Bonnie And Clyde
EARTHA KITT I Don't Care
MILES DAVIS Decoy
ERIC B and RAKIM Juice
SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK Dancerama
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO and IGGY POP Risky
VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE Sweet Jane
JOAN JETT and THE BLACKHEARTS Crimson and Clover
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do
FRANK ZAPPA You Are What You Is
MINUTEMEN This Ain't No Picnic
ROYAL TRUX Liar
NIRVANA Smells Like Teen Spirit
PAVEMENT Cut Your Hair
GREEN DAY Brain Stew/Jaded
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Barbed Wire Love
MADNESS One Step Beyond
SEX PISTOLS Pretty Vacant
CLASH, THE Train In Vain
PRETENDERS, THE Talk Of The Town
TALKING HEADS Once In A Lifetime
CHERYL LADD Think It Over
CAROLE KING City Streets
JONI MITCHELL My Secret Place
CARLY SIMON Coming Around Again
ART GARFUNKEL A Heart In New York
JAMES TAYLOR Her Town Too
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The River
SMITHS, THE This Charming Man
ECHO and THE BUNNYMEN The Cutter
JESUS and MARY CHAIN, THE Never Understand
STEREOLAB The Noise Of Carpet
BELLE and SEBASTIAN Lazy Line Painter Jane
BETA BAND, THE Squares
I'm not sure what the theme is tonight. The photo accompanying the playlist though showed someone sitting among a large collection of vinyl records.
I like it, but if there's a theme to that then I'm not seeing it!
Disappointing version of French Kiss played last week. They used to play the rude version during the top 50
As a side note... a while back I listed my copy of the Australian cassingle of 'French Kiss' on discogs.com, and 147 users have added it to their wants list! Why it is so popular, I don't know.
https://www.discogs.com/Lil-Louis-French-Kiss/release/6301615
*EDIT: This program will now start at 1:24am* Some serious conversation stimulators coming up on the VAULT tonight from Katrina & The Waves, Righteous Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Velvet Underground, Ryuichi Sakamato and more. 1:59am on
Nathan...i have a long version on a cd where the moaning and slowed down beat is at the start...is this what you have??
rage replied to my facebook comment asking what the theme for tonight's vault was. They posted a picture of a poster for John Cusack's 'High Fidelity', which (not being a movie buff at all) I assume is a film.
Monday night's playlist is up on the rage website now. It's a Pink Floyd vault, with some solo Roger Waters & Dave Gilmour clips in there too.
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/monday-night-30-july-2019-on-abc---vault/10045536
Next Monday night's playlist is up on the rage website already. It's a 1995 theme.
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/monday-night-6-august-2018-on-abc/10071500
You f#$kin' beauty 1995 good music and memories!
It looks like a nice playlist even though I would like to see more rarer and obscure content from that era.
Did anyone record this week's vault episode in 16:9, and haven't deleted it yet? My 16:9 recording stopped 2 hours in, so I missed about the last 1.5 hours.
My 4:3 recording worked, though. It's only for clips that are stretched beyond the 4:3 region of the screen that I'd potentially need the 16:9 recordings for.
It was good to see on this vault episode that rage did not blow up several letterboxed 4:3 clips to 16:9, as they normally do:
Spearhead - Hole In the Bucket
Madonna - You'll See
Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro '95
Rednex - Old Pop In an Oak
Others, though, were blown up, like 'Kiss From a Rose', 'U Sure Do', 'Too Hot', 'Sorrento Moon', 'You Belong To Me'.
Hi Nathan, i got the lot in 16:9. Let's trade and fix up their mess! LoL.
I've still got a bunch of DVD's for you (and Jason the forum owner) lying around here. I'm going to get them sorted "soon".
Tonight's playlist was posted on the rage website on Friday:
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/monday-night-13-august-2018-on-abc/10107678
They've also thankfully added the theme there, which is the music of the Sopranos.
Next Monday's vault playlist is up on the rage website. The theme is maybe Australian alternative acts (though Southend is on there, and they're dance):
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/monday-night-20-august-2018-on-abc/10133414
Monday night's vault playlist is up again on the rage website. 1985-1986 seems to be the theme, with an alternative slant; although there is some poppier stuff towards the end.
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/monday-night-27-august-2018-on-abc/10162414
**** you rage. Finished early. No Wild Blue. No Jean Beauvoir.
I’ve wanted a nice copy of “Walk Away” for ages. First time rage has ever played this in its 30 year history! Thank you rage!!
I had an NTSC copy but like most NTSC conversions of PAL clips from that era, it was C R A P quality.
Wow. D a m n gets censored. Thought i better clarify in case people thought it was the other word.
I was very annoyed that they dropped 'Feel The Heat' and 'Alone Without You'.
I didn't know Wild Blue, but having just googled it (I see it was released here) I liked it. It's a shame they dropped that too.
