Great songs heard on radio

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YouTube: Working Dog Productions

I remember this song from Good Morning Vietnam.

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I’ve played ‘Five O’Clock World’ as a SMOKIN’ OLDIE on my show. Great song, even if it doesn’t apply so much these days (most people work beyond 1700!)

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Yes. I remember hearing about how she was going to be a big star and then it’s been crickets since then.

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George Benson’s Breezin’ on Sunshine FM. Used to get a lot of play on the first commercial FM stations.

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Most famously, it was the first song on Fox FM when it launched in 1980 (where the intro was played at the wrong speed)

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Gold 104.3 are doing a countdown of the best songs of 1984 today, and some good ones have been played:

A Beat for You - Pseudo Echo
Wild Boys - Duran Duran
Freedom - Wham

EDIT: Played later

Self Control - Laura Branigan
Victims - Culture Club

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Pseudo Echo song is great!

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A Beat For You was thrashed on 2SM in 1984. How do I know this? From listening to a few of @Frankster’s airchecks that I saved.

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A Beat for You is one of those songs that sounds way better on a slightly higher pitch. So much so that it is almost unlistenable at normal speed once you’ve heard it at the higher pitch. I think 2SM used to play it this way.

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They have some great songs that are a better listen than the overplayed Funky Town cover.

Like that one, Listening, Love An Adventure, Don’t Go, Stranger In Me and Living In A Dream

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Currently on Triple M 102.9 Newcastle I’m hearing
Bent - Matchbox Twenty as part of the MMM Regionals’ version of Double Shot Tuesday.
Charted at 19 on the Aria charts in 2000 and one of the lesser played songs on radio in their discography.

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I like that Culture Club song too👍

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2LT Lithgow play some good songs when they’re not relaying 2GB talk (which sadly is a lot of the time). Heard these two back to back last night on their Blue Mountains 101.1 FM relay before 8pm

The Nips Are Getting Better - Mental As Anything
Can’t Wait To See You - Eurogliders

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Ditto for 2BS; their music mix outside of the networked shite is fairly similar to Breeze (4BRZ).

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I would be very happy if the Capital Radio Network bought 2LT and turned it into Forever Classic.

2LT 101.1 comes in quite well here on the TEF radio and has reasonable stereo sound.

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‘Forever Classic 2LT’ has a nice ring to it. ‘From the top of Mount Lambie and all across Lithgovia’ does, too.

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Some good ones today

SWR 99.9 Awesome 80s

Kiss N Tell – Bryan Ferry
Pink Cadillac – Natalie Cole
Forever Live And Die – OMD
I Can’t Wait – Nu Shooz
What Have I Done To Deserve This – Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield
Fresh – Kool & The Gang
Human – Human League
Living In America – James Brown

GNFM Saturday Night Party Mix

Now You’re In Heaven – Julian Lennon
Computer Games – Mi-Sex
Don’t Go – Pseudo Echo
The Way – Fastball
Healing Hands – Elton John
Bridge To Your Heart – Wax
Leaps And Bounds – Paul Kelly & The Messengers

And I’ve been hearing this one quite a bit lately - heard it on GNFM tonight. Not sure why it seems to have made a comeback of sorts lately


Puttin On The Ritz – Taco

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Maybe they’re just going where fashion sits.

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I’ll still listen to it with my high hat and arrow collars :grin:

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Been hearing “Run to You” by Bryan Adams on a few stations recently, particularly Triple M 80s and WSFM. Pretty good song if you ask me :slight_smile:

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