Love ‘Child’s Play’. 2XL used to play it quite a bit before they modernised the format a few years back.
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Child’s Play is a great song and to me it’s just the quintessential 70s vibe.
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Early 90s B105 and MMM would play a lot of Enigma. It was a time when world music was quite popular. Both stations would also play Deep Forest as well.
Other tracks that received airplay at the time which didn’t fit the typical radio airplay sound include Julie Cruise - Falling and Lily was here - Dave Stewart.
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Listening to Mojo Radio today and heard a blast from the past.
Timex Social Club - Rumors
Such a Maori song! Made it to #2 in Aotearoa in 1986. Huge hit with the whanau.
In Australia peaked at #94.
Breeze just played a U2 song that didn’t make me change stations. The 1984 release called Bad. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it on commercial radio ever. Possibly got a spin on FM104, but likely in an album show.
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Here’s what I heard during last nights’ DX session…
The Sweetest Taboo - Sade
(2WAY FM Port Macquarie)
Motor City - Company Of Strangers
Gimme Some Loving - Ganggajang
Never Miss Your Water - Diesel
(all on Connect FM Bankstown)
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
(Triple M nights)
Bennie And The Jets - Elton John
(Coast FM Gosford, used to get played on WSFM all the time but rarely hear that on commercial radio these days)
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
(on Pulse FM Windsor/Richmond)
Treaty - Yothu Yindi
(on ABC Local Radio NSW - they were doing a segment on iconic Australian songs, they only played snippets of some others, but this one got played in full).
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Sounds like Connect really had a whole Australian thing going on. Their program guide says ‘Love Songs with Scotty’ on Tuesday nights. So yeah, I suppose those tracks are getting some love.
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‘Motor City’ is a perfect pop song that literally hits all the right notes for me. A damn shame it doesn’t get played much now.
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Musically? Lyrically?
Great songs don’t always have to be unexpected. You don’t always need a ‘wow’ or a ‘I can’t believe they’re playing this.’ Radio isn’t necessarily about chasing the next best obscure thing.
Sometimes it can be exactly as expected. And still sound great, because often that’s what great radio is about. Great beat. Great vocals.
Get out my head - Shane Codd on slam! Hobart. Sounds good.
Today’s listening
2UE
Baby I’m A Want You – Bread
SWR FM
One Thing Leads To Another – The Fixx
Street Cafe – Icehouse
Forget Me Nots – Patrice Rushen
Twist In My Sobriety – Tanita Tikaram
Change – Tears For Fears
The Sun Always Shines On TV – A-ha
You Got It (The Right Stuff) – New Kids On The Block
Always The Sun – The Stranglers
Dreaming – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Rockin In The Free World – Neil Young
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Gotta get up to get down, looking for some education… the galaxy defenders
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Ironically, it’s now this capital city station that is playing the laid back ‘rural hits’ of yesteryear. It’s on AM too so there’s the added nostalgia factor.
I’m guessing the Swar highlights are from Awesome 80s and/or Inphase.
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Yes, ‘Awesome 80s’… a good show, even if the announcing is a bit repetitive/predictable… but hard to be too critical when it’s community radio.
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One also suitable for the ‘Did They Really Play That?’ thread, but it definitely fits here.
Brain Damage by Pink Floyd on Triple J as part of the 50th birthday broadcast today. Forgot this was on today!
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Basically EVERY song they’ve played so far has a home in this thread or the ‘Did They Really Just Play That?’ thread. Bloody hell, what a listen. This is what radio should be and really underscores how crap mainstream radio is these days. The eclecticism even puts my show to shame.
I’m an hour behind as for some strange reason, my smart speaker is streaming the Cane Toad version of JJ 
Hopefully they dig out the first day of 2JJJ-FM in 2030 
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Maybe your internet is just really really slow! 
Don’t Need Love - Johnny Diesel & The Injectors
Heard on 2CHR 96.5 Cessnock when up at Maitland today.
Has sooo many great hits lost to radio, but all they want to flog these days is ‘Cry In Shame’ or ‘Man Alive’.
You Never Miss Your Water (till you’re dry).
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I have the 12" single of that, it used to get a lot of club play in Melbourne at that time. Timex Social Club spun off to Club Nouveau who had a big hit both in the clubs and charts of Australia the following year with “Lean On Me”.
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