Great songs heard on radio

I’ve heard Such A Beautiful Thing on Rebel - now that’s impressive

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Standing Strong / Wendy Matthews now on Breeze. Wow, this song used to be all over the radio back in the day but I haven’t heard it in decades. Fantastic to hear it again.

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Have been listening to Bay FM for a couple of days for a change. A very eclectic mix - having no RDS is a pain though. Who knew there was an extended version of The Look.

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Both played on The Conga Line at various times :smiley: I used to hear Standing Strong quite a bit on 2EC back when they had locally programmed music (late 2000s).

Today’s Earthroulette: Albany. Station: 6CRA (‘Great Southern FM’).

They’ve played these so far:

Hedgehoppers Anonymous- Good News Week

Kate Ceberano- Pash

Mostly standard classic hits so far but a decent announcer.

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Rocky Burnette- Tired Of Toein’ The Line

WLNG Long Island just now.

One of those songs that used to get played a fair bit but is now lost to radio.

They followed it up with ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ by the Stones which is a nice touch.

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Today’s Earthroulette takes me to the graffiti hewn, ghost sign laden inner suburbs of Melbourne, namely and specifically Richmond (Tigerland). So I knew it had to be 3PBS this arvo.

Currently enjoying some rare groove and soul (off vinyl) on the ‘Headhunters’ programme, once again an ear opening listen.

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On the mid north coast again today…although with 2RE’s morning talk back, I thought I’d try Great Lakes FM which covers a good length of the highway from Taree to Bulahdelah and heard…

Frente - No Time

From memory, it was the single after Accidently Kelly Street, which got some airplay at the time, but before today, I hadn’t heard the song for well over 30 years!

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Earthroulette: Echuca VIC

Station: EMFM 104.7

The Sports- Who Listens To The Radio

Scandal- The Warrior

Heart- Barracuda

Skyhooks- Million Dollar Riff

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At 6:20am on C91.3 FM this morning they played “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven followed immediately by “Dakota” by Stereophonics.

The former song peaked at #12 on the ARIA Singles Chart in mid-2008 but didn’t have any other songs chart here, while the latter receives intermittent airplay on some radio stations these days despite it being over 20 years old.

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Both great songs!

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Here are a couple of awesome Aussie songs that was played on Crow FM while travelling near Kingaroy last night.

The Man of Colours - Icehouse

Street Cafe - Icehouse

I was listening to Crow FM for about an hour and there was not one song I disliked.

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Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel on Triple M’s Night Show with Dave Gleeson. The Classic 9 tonight is ‘whistling songs’ and this placed at #9.

Monty Python at #1!

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Spinners- Rubberband Man

2EC this morning. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that on Australian commercial radio.

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Cry - The Mavis’s

Just played on Noongar 100.9 Perth

Classic 90s Aussie pop/rock.

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One of the best songs of the late 90s and criminally underplayed.

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I heard it at a servo or somewhere like that the other day, I had one of those “middle aged person singing old song out loud in public” moments as a result :joy:

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I could just imagine you going “oh doo doo doo doo, hoo hoo”

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I’ve changed my approach to random listening: I’m now picking a frequency per day rather than a town. I’m including even points as well, and I have UK and NZ stations for that.

Today’s frequency is 100.3 MHz

I’m on Bay FM Brisbane this afternoon. They’ve played these:

Bruce Cockburn- Wondering Where The Lions Are

The Eagles- How Long

The Kinks- Do It Again

Using this site for the randomised pick:

Edit: 'Same Old Girl’ by Daryl Cotton also played, and ‘Somewhere In My Heart’ from Aztec Camera was forward announced.

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Are you venturing into Japanese frequencies as well? :grinning_face: Even on 87.5 FM I wonder what music stations are out there?

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The app I’m using for this doesn’t cover the Japanese FM band (it does do AM, though). I’m using this:

Where you can directly ‘tune’ the frequency like a radio.

I can get 87.5 and a few European stations use it. There’s also a few ‘dummy’ online only radio stations that are selectable.

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