So we next enter the domain of the Top End who appear to have taken a different approach
MIX 104.9 DARWIN
NEW YEAR’S EVE
LOST CLASSICS BY REQUEST (you may see why they’re lost, or even question if they’re lost at all judging by this list)
TIMES APPROX ACST
Starts with an ad break after Matchbox20 – Disease
10:02: NEWS BREAK! The news appears to emanate from Adelaide for this station’s national updates.
10:05: Madonna – La Isla Bonita
10:09: The Real McCoy/MC Sar – Runaway
10:13: Cold Chisel – No Sense
10:16: Chicago – Hard to Say I’m Sorry
10:20: Icehouse – Don’t Believe Anymore
10:25: Shakespear’s Sister – Stay
AD BREAK
10:31: Billy Joel – Allentown
10:35: Quiet Riot – Cum on Feel the Noize
10:39: Silverchair – Freak
10:42: Michael Jackson (feat Janet Jackson) – Scream (The lines where the siblings utter “Stop Pressuring Me” is probably what the England tail enders were trying to say to the Australian bowlers in the first 3 tests)
AD BREAK
10:48: AC/DC - Who Made Who
10:52: Police – De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
10:56: Frente! – Bizarre Love Triangle
AD BREAK
11:00: NEWS BREAK (basically repeat of the 10PM Bulletin, which basically sounds as though it was the last recorded bulletin of the year which may have been about 5-6 PM or something given it advertises the BBL game at the Adelaide Oval coming up)
11:03: Dire Straits – Lady Writer
11:07: Savage Garden – Break Me Shake Me
11:10: Elton John – Little Jeannie
11:15: Bob Welch – Ebony Eyes
11:19: Paul Simon – Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
11:24: R.Kelly – I Believe I Can Fly
AD BREAK
11:31: Lionel Richie – Running With the Night
11:35: Eurogliders - Can’t Wait to See You
11:40: David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody
11:44: Euphoria - One In A Million (for some reason I get Sale of the Century flashbacks from this song)
AD BREAK
11:50: Whitesnake - Is This Love (the other song they had)
11:54: Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind of Love
AD BREAK
11:59: Texas - I Don’t Want a Lover
No fanfare here, but Happy New Year to our Top End cousins.