Flicking through the dial, landing on, as they say, WSFM…now GOLD 101.7 - they’re doing a countdown of the 75 most influential female artists…quite a few songs that I haven’t heard the play in a while (or at all) 
Aretha Franklin - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Jenny Morris - You’re Gonna Get Hurt
Mariah Carey - Emotions
Christine Anu - My Island Home
Go Go’s - We Got The Beat
Do Re Me - Man Overboard
Workin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’.
Yeah there are benefits to travelling alone especially when you have kids in the back wanting to hear we built this city 
Serve that up Conga Line style:
10/3/2025
Triple M Nights with Dave Gleeson
7:25pm: “How to Save a Life” by The Fray
8:23pm: “Vertigo” by U2
smoothfm
7:55pm: “Dancing in the Moonlight” by Toploader
9:15pm: “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak
C91.3 FM
8:40pm: “Beautiful Day” by U2
9:04pm: “Mr Brightside” by The Killers
Nova Network
7:45pm: “A Sky Full of Stars” by Coldplay
GOLD 101.7
9:07pm: “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton
MIX 102.3
8:45pm: “Clocks” by Coldplay
Finally someone who thinks ‘great songs heard on commercial radio’ includes songs not stuck stuck stuck in the 80s.
Probably the best U2 track. Amazing. 2002 - 23 years ago and still one of the best Superbowl performances of all time.
An all time classic. And guess what? It’s not even from the 80s. Not even close. Forever in the charts and closed out their excellent performance at the 2017 AFL Grand Final.
A classic. Famously played on Toowoomba’s Loop station 99.1FM over and over. Some old fogeys on here think that great songs shouldn’t receive airplay and the fewer spins the better. Quite the opposite with this track.
And she performed it live at Ford Field during the Lions v Pats at Thanksgiving (and Bon Jovi performed ‘It’s my life’ in the after-match. The year was… 2002. WOW! This century!
Great songs. That’s what radio is all about. Not obscure B-sides heard on mediocre community stations
A couple from last night
Live Without It - Killing Heidi
(on SWR 99.9 Blacktown)
Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne
(on Gold 101.7 Sydney)
Getting old! I still can’t imagine this track fitting on Pure Mold. This is 23 years old now, the equivalent of playing something from 1979 in 2002!
Hard to believe it’s been over 20 years since Avril was making our lives Complicated but giving us a Happy Ending.
Yeah I know! Here it is
Something I was thinking about yesterday…
While I was listening to Max FM in Taree yesterday, as I mentioned in another thread, they played Shaggy’s “Oh Carolina” which is now 32 years old… they also played The Police “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” which is 45 years old.
For what would be best described at a CHR station… it got me thinking about 2DAY FM in 1990… they could have been close to a CHR station - imagine them playing something that was 45 years old in 1990… … it would have been 1945. Black Box, Janet Jackson, Sinead O’Connor, Vanilla Ice mixed in with Al Jolson, Ink Spots and the Andrews Sisters!
I am thinking about my age too lol! 2025 seems like so far away in the 90s.
I think it’s more a testament to the music that was released in the 80s (and some 70s) that a lot of it is still played on “contemporary” radio. I think 80s music in particular will be around for a while yet.
80s music still somehow sounds contemporary, in a way that 50s and even 60s music didn’t sound in the 80s and 90s. I think mainstream music changed less in the last 40 years than it changed in the 40 years before that.
It’s a fallacy for people to think that the 80s was the greatest decade for music just because they were teenagers at that time.
Research shows people will always think fondly of the music that was around during their formative years. To think that 80s music is somehow ‘special’ is absolute rubbish. I love 80s music. I was born in 1969, so was a teenager in the 80s. But I’m not blinded into thinking just because I was a teenager back then, that makes it the best music ever. My father was a teenager during the birth of rock n roll. Quite honestly, if anything I’d suggest the 50s is more ‘a testament to music’.
To cite an example. People may suggest that because McDonalds used ‘Living on a prayer’ in a TVC in the 2020s that means that somehow 80s music connects with people in a way that 50s music never did in the 80s. And yet in the 80s McDonalds re-worked a 50s song Mack the Knife to be one of their biggest campaigns ever - Mac Tonight. A favorite with all ages.
There was heaps of 50s music people connected with in 80s. If 50s music didn’t connect with people in the 80s, then how come, for example, Jackie Wilson’s Reet Petite was a chart topper in 1987 when it was re-released?
When I first came to Australia in 1988, Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong was number one in the charts.
Don’t let anyone ever try and tell you that 50s and 60s music didn’t resonate in the 80s.
Goo Goo Muck by THE CRAMPS on 80’s New Wave(back on sydney DAB)
Heaven(Is a Half-Pipe) by OPM on MMM2000’s
Shane Codd - Get out my head just heard on Slam!
That makes it the 11th time they’ve played the track in the past 24 hours. Great songs deserve to be heard on the radio. And they deserve to be heard often.
Nice work slam! I look forward to when you crank it up to once every two hours!
The Sun Always Shines on TV - A-Ha on Gold 104.3 this afternoon.
Also heard Get Set by Taxiride on This Week in Music yesterday. That’s a song I haven’t heard in radio in a long time.
Spandau Ballet- Only When You Leave
Wave 91.7 now. Superb track. Yes it’s from the 80s and I don’t care.
That’s definitely a rare one, obscure punk rock. I played ‘Garbageman’ by The Cramps on my show once, and that’s even obscure for me.
Great song. As a 14 yo I bought Parade on the basis of how good this song sounded on 3ZM. $9.99 for an LP back in those days. I was shocked when it only peaked at number 10 on RTR and then disappeared.
Still to this day one of my favorites from Spandau. So good that Wave played it.
Gliding - Double on RIM FM.
We often hear the Captain of her heart on Rim, but this is the first time I’ve heard this track.
I might even ring them and get them to play some Scritti Politti.
Or even a text. That’s the Perfect Way these days.
