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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 ...
Oh please enough of the 80s eps.
I have seen most of these already. Could you please play a few from the 70s. 31 August 1975 featuring Sherbet, JPY. 29 September 1979 featuring Rainbow. 12 August 1979 featuring Sherbs, Dave and the Derros great ep this one.....!! Would much appreciate it....
The episode with Rainbow was actually Ep 217 October 28 1979 (it has a wrong date recorded in these archives) and Rage have shown that episode, they have also shown the August 12 1979 episode.
August 31 1975 Sherbet has been shown 4 times already on Rage to be the most repeated episode along with July 8 1979 (Iggy Pop - I'm Bored live). Not sure how many more times we need to see those but I think I've had enough of them.
Unfortunately there are only 46 surviving episodes from the 70's and Rage have shown every one of them...most of them multiple times. Rather than keep on repeating these I would rather watch DVD recordings made when Rage showed them and see some unaired material instead.
The 5 80's episodes they are showing this week have never been aired on Rage so I'm not sure where you would have seen these unless you are referring to at the time of the original broadcast.
rage have exhausted all 70s Countdown's over and over and there is nothing left to play. I am not sure either where these people have seen these 80s episodes of Countdown time and time again when rage have played no repeated Countdown
s this month at all since the original air date!
I love both 70's and 80's episodes but the 70's ones have been aired while the 80's haven't. But there are plenty of non Countdown odds and ends from the 70's - as we saw last week. Any 70's music related docos,concerts or clips are very welcome additions to retro night.
And of course there are hundreds of Flashez inserts in the vaults - will be requesting Rage to play some more of these next January.
What does botther me about tonight's programming are all the very common video clips in between the Countdown episodes.
There are soooo many standard video clips in betweeb that have been played to death over and over, this takes up a lot of time of actual ABC ARCHIVAL material!
The un aired 2 or so Flashez episodes left to play could have easily filled up this time and any interview spinets etc like we had last week. I hate when rage do common clips galore in between Countdown's, but hey ... what do you do ...
Yep, the common clips are a bit of a bore/waste of space. I see rage have probably chosen these artists because they appear on the Countdown episode or in the top 10 of the episode shown. But why couldn't they e.g. have picked a rarer/unseen before on rage Donna Summer video than 'She Works Hard For the Money' again?
Hi I have not seen a lot of those 70s eps since they first aired. Most of the 80s ones this retro I remember from original airing and or from repeats.I just personally prefer 70s music and love the old eps. Brings back some great memories of my youth....Was the best music back then IMO
If they have shown all the 70s ones then I'm wondering.. How many years has the retro month been going for? I've only got four of them and a couple of those was years ago from someone on here so I mustn't have been watching them for long...
Hi Chad, like Jason (and probably Guru Bob) I have been recording these since 1993 and have them on VHS up until 2005 and then recorded onto disc post 2005. I actually used to ring up the rage hotline (where you could listen to the playlist being read out and it cost a fortune) in 1992 and begged them to play Countdown episodes when you could leave a message after the beep. Ahh, they were the years! I used to do this weekly for about 6 months and bugger me, that night in January 1993 was amazing.
Retro month has been a thing since 1993, I believe, back when it was only Countdowns shown.
I didn't really become a regular retro month watcher until 2002; shocking, I know!
That's not really that long after Countdown finished.. I had no idea it has been going on for that long.
Does that mean a lot of people still have theirs on VHS or have they transferred them to DVD?
I have a lot from the 90s re-runs still on VHS. I have VHS recorder, but just never got around to transferring them yet. I think i only started taping on DVD from the early 00s re-runs.
I'd forgotten about the Rage hotline! Many times in 1992-93 I rang them to listen to the recorded message detailing every song they would be playing that night. They'd even recite the whole top 50/60 before it aired (or afterwards if you missed something).
I also remember the brief period when Rage was simulcast on FM radio, so often I'd be taping songs on cassette as well as VHS.
I'd forgotten about the Rage hotline! Many times in 1992-93 I rang them to listen to the recorded message detailing every song they would be playing that night. They'd even recite the whole top 50/60 before it aired (or afterwards if you missed something).
I also remember the brief period when Rage was simulcast on FM radio, so often I'd be taping songs on cassette as well as VHS.
I never once called the 0055 number. I probably would have if I'd known what it was (I assumed the 'information' just meant what was coming up in terms of specials etc.), and if I'd had more pocket money at the time to blow on it instead of other things.
The info for the 0055 number and simulcast on Triple J (starting NYE 1992 ) appears in this video... during #56 Teen Queens 'Love How You Love Me' (I put about 10-15 seconds of each video in it):
When the Triple J simulcast thing started, it ran for the full length of the top 60 on Saturday and Sunday mornings. It was quite strange hearing very commercial songs, like Peter Andre's 'Gimme Little Sign', airing on Triple J.
I'd forgotten about the Rage hotline! Many times in 1992-93 I rang them to listen to the recorded message detailing every song they would be playing that night. They'd even recite the whole top 50/60 before it aired (or afterwards if you missed something).
I also remember the brief period when Rage was simulcast on FM radio, so often I'd be taping songs on cassette as well as VHS.
I never once called the 0055 number. I probably would have if I'd known what it was (I assumed the 'information' just meant what was coming up in terms of specials etc.), and if I'd had more pocket money at the time to blow on it instead of other things.
The info for the 0055 number and simulcast on Triple J (starting NYE 1992 ) appears in this video... during #56 Teen Queens 'Love How You Love Me' (I put about 10-15 seconds of each video in it):
When the Triple J simulcast thing started, it ran for the full length of the top 60 on Saturday and Sunday mornings. It was quite strange hearing very commercial songs, like Peter Andre's 'Gimme Little Sign', airing on Triple J.
Rage simulcast nights were the ONLY time I listened to Triple J. It was quite amusing that they had to play Peter Andre or Teen Queens during the top 60.
The hotline was very expensive and I got into trouble with my parents several times - I wonder what kind of "service" they thought I was calling in the middle of the night
One of the simulcast nights I remember for some reason was when they played Neneh Cherry's "Money Love" as a new release - because it was a song you'd never hear on the radio otherwise. Around that time I also taped some UK hits by Inner City, Innocence and Maxi Priest that you'd never hear here.
Rage simulcast nights were the ONLY time I listened to Triple J.
Me too at that point... although I never listened to a whole show simulcast, I remember once setting the VCR to record the top 60, then listening to a little bit of it in bed with my clock radio.
Brad
It was quite amusing that they had to play Peter Andre or Teen Queens during the top 60.
Yes, I'm sure they hated having to do that. Although if I remember correctly, they stopped simulcasting while the top 60 was airing a few months later. I remember hearing The Heights' 'How Do You Talk To An Angel' simulcast and thinking how it was so not a Triple J song.
Brad
The hotline was very expensive and I got into trouble with my parents several times - I wonder what kind of "service" they thought I was calling in the middle of the night
Brad
One of the simulcast nights I remember for some reason was when they played Neneh Cherry's "Money Love" as a new release - because it was a song you'd never hear on the radio otherwise. Around that time I also taped some UK hits by Inner City, Innocence and Maxi Priest that you'd never hear here.
Which Inner City track was it, do you remember?
I remember watching rage on New Year's Eve '92, which would have been the first time they went simulcast. I don't remember if that Neneh Cherry video was aired that night, but it was on the 3rd January '93 (I kept a written playlist of that episode for some reason and posted it here a while back).
For some reason it didn't click for me that Friday night aired new release videos up until the start of the top 60, until around mid '93. Then I used to go to bed on Friday night, get up around midnight to watch new releases live for a few hours, then go back to bed. I'm sure they aired a lot of rare videos that they haven't aired again since. Do you still have your VHS tapes/digital transfers from this period?