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12 Oct 2015

11 October 2015

Show 256

Laser by Laser. The b-side of His Name is Charly from 1981. Instrumental.

X-Ray Eyes by The Twins. Ronny Schreinzer and Sven Dohrow got together and formed the band in 1980 and they are still going strong nearly 35 years later. This is from their 1981 Album Passion Factory.

No One Like You by Scorpions. 1982 single from Blackout, their 8th album. This is their first single for which they produced a video. This is their 50th year having formed in1965…they even put out an original album in Feb of this year.

Life’s Too Good by The Resistors. German punk from the early 90s. This track is from their 1991 album Pain and Passion.

Black Hole Sun (acoustic) by Soundgarden. Request.

Reign of Fear by Rage. A German heavy metal band, formed in 1984. Rage formed under the name Avenger. After releasing their debut album Prayers of Steel and then the Depraved to Black EP in 1985, the band changed their name to Rage because there was another band in England that claimed Avenger first. Originally the new name was to be Furious Rage but it was eventually shortened to Rage…which one website claims came from the Judas Priest song; others don’t. The first album released under the new name was Reign of Fear in 1986; this is the title track.

Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap! This was released in April 1992 as a single from the album The Madman’s Return, their 2nd.

You Can Win if you Want by Modern Talking. a German dance pop duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen. Genre-wise they were often classified under Europop. They have been referred to as Germany’s most successful pop duo. This is their second single released from their debut album The 1st Album. It was released on March 13, 1985 but entered the top-10 in Germany on May the 13th, 1985, after spending three weeks within the top-5, the single reached the top eventually going gold and selling well over 250,000 units in Germany alone. The single peaked at No. 8 in France where it also reached a gold status for sales of 500,000 units.

More & More by Captain Hollywood Project. The first single from their 1993 debut album Love Is Not Sex. They are a German eurodance band with lead vocals by Nina Gerhard.

Love Habit by Shark Vegas. They were a Berlin-based W German synth pop group from the 1980s; this track is a 1986 single.

Aussies from 1991

*I Touch Myself by the Divinyls. 1991 number 1 hit…though it was released in Dec 1990. I wanted to play it, though, cuz I love her…

*Eating on the Plane by Robyn Archer. 1991 quirky single from the woman who gave us Dicks don’t Grow on Trees. She’s helping to bolster my LGBTI content this evening..

*Tingles by Ratcat. The title track to their smash 1991 EP, second on the Aria list of sales for that year.

*Better by The Screaming Jets. They were a blokey Newcastle band that formed in 1989. This is a 1991 single, also a track on their debut album All for One, released the same year.

*Where are You Now by Roxus. A band I’ve never played! And a mainstream one at that! Who knew I’d keep finding them?!! This is from Nightstreet, also from 1991 and made the Aria top 40 for this year. Roxus were from Melbourne and active between 1987 and 1992.

*Treaty by Yothu Yindi: composed by indigenous band Yothu Yindi in collaboration with Paul Kelly and Midnight Oil to protest the failure of the Australian Government to honour Prime Minister Hawke’s 1988 promise of a treaty with Indigenous Australians, made to them at the Barunga Festival. The song was remixed in Melbourne by Filthy Lucre in 1991 and rapidly climbed the Australian charts as did the album on which it was released, Tribal Voice (1992).

Friday Night by Arabesque. 1978 debut hit for this German all-female disco group. They were big in Japan and the Soviet Union…

Funky Town by LippsInc. The 1979 original…sometimes listed as 1980.

Take it From Me by Platinum Blonde. 1985 single from Standing in the Dark, their first full length album. It was the last single from that album and the only one that didn’t chart, even in their Canadian homeland.

Because the Night by The Patti Smith Group. 1978 single penned by Smith and Bruce Springsteen, released on her group’s album Easter.

Red Movies by Play. Title track from their 1985 album. Play was the British duo of Wayne Kennedy and David Rome.

Venus by Bananarama. I remember summer 1986, working at Darien Lake, usually listening to Bronski Beat on my WalkMan. But the top 40 radio station I could get in the car as I drove out there often played this…

KKK by G.A.N.G. German Italo-Disco from 1983 that seems to have been released only in single form.