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12 Jun 2017

11 June 2017

Playlists

Show 333

Still I’m Sad by Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow. 1975 original.

Le Freak by Chic. Rquest.

Rockhard in a Funky Place by Prince. Request.

Because of Love by Janet Jackson. Request.

*1000 Miles Away by Hoodoo Gurus. Request.

When all is said and done by Abba. Request.

+Selling Jesus by Skunk Anansie. Featuring British lesbian musician, model, etc. Skin. This is from Skunk’s 1995 debut album, Paranoid and Sunburnt.

+Living on my Own by Freddie Mercury. It’s from Mr. Bad Guy, his first solo album – he wrote all 11 songs. Released in 1985, during a period in which Queen were on hiatus…”they were on a break!” It was dedicated “to my cat Jerry—also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe—screw everybody else”.

+Rage Hard by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Their fifth single. It was released in August 1986. It was also the second track on their second and final album, Liverpool, released in the same year. LGBTIQ for lead singer William Holly Johnson.

Aussie sixpack of soundtrack songs

*Good Times by INXS. From the 1987 Lost Boys soundtrack. This is a live version with Jimmy Barnes joining the rest of the INXS team.

*Mad, Bad and Dangerous by Lisa Edwards and Lindsay Field. From 1986’s Crocodile Dundee, voiced by Lisa Edwards and Lindsay Field. Lindsay is also a well known session musician and a long time member of the John Farnham Band; he has also toured with such artists as Olivia Newton-John, Jimmy Barnes, Glenn Shorrock, Renee Geyer and Brian Cadd.

*Never by Moving Pictures. Another track from that best selling 1984 Footloose soundtrack…the only one by an Aussie band. They formed in Sydney in 1980.

*Throw your arms around me by Hunters and Collectors. From the 1995 Toni Collette, Ben Mendelsohn, Geoffrey Rush film Cosi. It’s hilarious – a mental hospital puts on the Mozart opera Cosi Fan Tutte.

*Golf Course by Michael Hutchence. From the 1986 film Dogs in Space, a 1986 Australian film set in the “little band scene” in Melbourne in 1978. It was directed by Richard Lowenstein and starred Michael Hutchence as Sam, the drug-addled frontman of the fictitious band from which the film takes its name. Ths song is a cover of a track by The Ears, the Melbourne band that was the real band behind the fictionalized story in the film.

*Boys in Town by The Divinyls. From the 1982 film Monkeygrip, starring Noni Hazelhurst, Colin Friels and a young Alice Garner…before she was Carmen on SeaChange and earned a PhD in history from Melb Uni.

Riders in the Night by Freur. From the guys who later formed Underworld. They formed in Cardiff at Freur…though they originally just had a squiggly line for a name. When they signed with CBS, they had to have a real name and this was it. After they charted with their debut, Doot Doot, the others failed…but it’s good. I like it anyway.

The Windy Season by Anita Mui. She was a huge sensation in Hong Kong from the 1980s forward. This was her first big break, winning the New Talent Singing Award in 1982. She announced her cervical cancer diagnosis in Sept 2003 and died that December…her sister died from the same cancer previously.

I Want You by Cabaret Voltaire. Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson, the group was formed in Sheffield, UK and named after the Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland, that was a centre for the early Dada movement. This 1985 single is from The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, their seventh full-length studio album.

Faces by Lene Lovich. From No Man’s Land, 1982. Her third album.

Love Games by Strange Advance. 3^rd single from their debut album, Worlds Away in 1983. They are Canadian, formed in Vancouver in 1982 by Drew Arnott, Darryl Kromm and Paul Iverson.

If Wishes were Horses by Sweeney Todd. Title track from their second album, released in 1978…Canadian band featuring a 17 year Bryan Adams as their temporary singer! Who knew??

Eisbaer by Grauzone. Or, in English, Polar Bear by Grey Area. They were a Swiss band from Berne, active only from 1980-82. This was their biggest hit, 12 in Germany, 6 in Austria…it’s from 1981.