I’m posting this based on @Laoma and @Radiohead’s appreciation of the show, and this countdown in particular, in another thread. A lot of hits from '86!
20/20 Retro Countdown
Tuesday 28th October 2025 from 7pm AEST, Hot Tomato Gold
Theme: Strange, crazy and unusual - suggested by listener Anita
(Extra songs are ‘ordinary’)
20 - The Sports - Strangers on a Train (1980)
19 - Oingo Boingo - Weird Science (1985)
18 - Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (2006)
17 - Rick Springfield - Don’t Talk to Strangers (1982)
16 - Michael Jackson - Stranger in Moscow (1995)
Extra - Duran Duran - Ordinary World (1992)
15 - Tom Jones - It’s Not Unusual (1965)
14 - Icehouse - Baby, You’re So Strange (1986)
13 - Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger (1979)
12 - OMC - How Bizarre (1995)
Extra - Tina Turner - Typical Male (1986)
11 - Kim Carnes - Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes) (1985)
10 - “Weird Al” Yankovic - Eat It (1984)
9 - Seal - Crazy (1990)
8 - Electric Light Orchestra - Strange Magic (1975)
7 - Company of Strangers - Motor City (I Get Lost) (1992)
6 - Icehouse - Crazy (1987)
Extra - John Farnham - No Ordinary World (2002)
5 - New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (1986)
4 - Billy Joel - The Stranger (1977)
3 - Eurythmics - Love Is a Stranger (1982)
2 - Godley & Creme - An Englishman in New York (Strange Apparatus) (1979)
Extra - Dragon - Dreams of Ordinary Men (1986)
1 - Madonna - Beautiful Stranger (1999)