Awesome, you’re a llife saver, this makes things SO MUCH easier. 
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Here are the playlists from the last few days, programs will be uploaded soon. Charles presented the monthly top 25 of June 1990, and all round fantastic list, but for one absolute stinker, Guru Josh’s “Time for the guru”, that track has always been one of my personal hates. During my show I continued with the timewalk theme, starting from April 1985 gradually moving forward to February 1986.
Charles Musical Roadshow
2OOO FM 98.5
Aired: Wednesday 19th June 2024
Time: 10:00 pm to 12:00 midnight
Program 04 - ARIA monthly top 25 of June 1990
01 - Mark Williams - Show no mercy
02 - Ram Jam - Black betty (1990 rough and ready mix)
03 - Stone Roses - Fools gold (single edit)
04 - Hi Tek 3 - Spin that wheel (single remix)
05 - Blackbox - I don’t know anybody else
06 - 49ers - Touch me
07 - Absent Friends - I don’t want to be with anybody but you
08 - Andrew Ridgley - Shake you
09 - Wilson Philips - Hold on
10 - Michael Bolton - How am I suppose to live without you
11 - Skid Row - I remember you
12 - Angels - Talk to me
13 - Roxette - Dangerous (single remix)
14 - New Kids on the Block - Step by step
15 - Wet Wet Wet - Sweet surrender
16 - Paula Abdul - Opposites attract (with the funky bunch)
17 - Billy Idol - Rock the cradle of love
18 - Belinda Carllisle - Summer rain
19 - Roxette - It must have been love
20 - Tina Arena - I need your body
21 - Michael Bolton - How can we be lovers
22 - Guru Josh - 1990s (time for the guru)
23 - Kylie Minogue - Better the devil you know
24 - Craig McLachlan and Check 1 2 - Hey mona
25 - Madonna - Vogue
26 - Madonne - Keep it together (single remix)
27 - Heart - All I want to do is make love
The Fresh Mix dot Com
2OOO FM 98.5
Aired: Thursday 20th June 2024
Time: 10:00 pm to 12:00 midnight
Program 16 - Retro timewalk (April 1985 to February 1986)
01 - Boy Rocking - The house is shaking
02 - Jules Shear - Steady (1994 japanese vivid master)
03 - Commodores - Nightshift
04 - Eurythmics - Would I lie to you
05 - Kids in the Kitchen - Something that you said
06 - Brian Cadd - Land of the video (128k mp3 transcode)
07 - Machinations - You got me going again
08 - Agnetha Faltskog - I won’t let you go
09 - Marillion - Kayleigh
10 - Rick Springfield - Celebrate youth
11 - David Grant - Could it be I’m falling in love (duet with jaki graham)
12 - Time Bandits - Endless road (single version)
13 - Giorgio Moroder - Goodbye bad times (with Phil Oakey) (extended remix) (btg vinyl rip)
14 - Cock Robin - When your heart is weak (1985 japanese master)
15 - Cars - Tonight she comes
16 - Starship - We built this city (special club mix)
17 - Jimmy Cliff - Reggae Street (album version)
18 - Kid Creole and the coconuts - Endicott (single edit)
19 - Phil Collins - Separate Lives (duet with Marilon Marton)
20 - Wham - I’m your man (single version)
21 - Fra Lippo Lippi - Shouldn’t have to be like that
22 - Temptations - Lady soul
23 - Billy Ocean - When the going gets tough the tough get going
24 - Gang Gajang - Sounds of then
25 - Whitney Houston - How will I know (single version)
26 - Starship - Sara (single edit)
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Once again I side with Charlie here. 1990 was definitely time for the Guru!
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@anonymousbroadcaster I am loving the shows Mark and your good self put on the wireless. I can’t get enough of your shows. I feel spoilt getting it 4 nights a week. I know the fresh mix is 24/7 but love the themes and having you and Mark back announce. Well done.
@dxnerd Great show as well on Braidwood FM this week. With your themes/segments as well and weather forecasts.
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Got a bit of a frantic call tonight from Wollongong to say that we’re on the air, so about one minute past midnight, quickly got on the air and threw together a nice llist of little favourites at the last minute. Apparently we’re now on from midnight to 2:pm. Only done this as I happened to be up but with me resigning from 2OOO I don’t expect this midnight to 2 slot to last for long. I’ll be down south for most of the week, taking care of my mother who has advanced cancer, so I would expect by the time I get back on Friday, this slot may be gongskies.
01 - Spider - New romance (it’s a mystery)
02Monty Python - I bet you they won’t play this song on the radio
03 - Nolans - I’m in the mood for dancing
04 - Tarney Spencer Group - Cathy’s clown (unknown remaster)
05 - Rocky Burnette - Fallin’ in love (bein’ friends(
06 - Arpeggio - Runaway (24 96 vinyl remaster)
07 - M - Pop muzik (single version)
08 - Silver Studs - Dr bop (reggie rocket vinyl rip)
09 - Sylvers - Boogie fever
10 - Vicki Lawrence - He did with me
11 - Bucks Fizz - New beginning (mamba seyra)
12 - Boney M - Happy song (extended 12 inch version)
13 - Kids - Care for kids (2014 alberts remaster)
14 - David Grant - Could it be I’m falling in love (duet with jaki graham)
15 - Hot Butter - Popcorn
16 - Hot Butter - Percolator
17 - George McCrae - Rock your baby
18 - Tony Orlando - Knock three times (with Dawn)
19 - Julio Iglesias - To all the girls I loved before (with willie nelson)
20 - Nana Mouskouri - Only love
21 - Peter Sarstedt - Hemingway
22 - Forrest - Rock the boat (1990 BR Music master)
23 - Roger Voudouris - Get used to it
24 - Paul Nicholas - Heaven on the seventh floor)
25 - Peter Brown - Do ya wanna get funky with me
26 - Evelyn Champagne King - Shame (radio edit)
27 - Morris Albert - Feelings
28 - Cliff Richard - It’s only me you’ve left behind (2001 emi uk remaster)
29 - Shakin Stevens - Green door
30 - Hazell Dean - Searchin’
31 - Black Lace - Agadoo
32 - Shower Scene From Psycho - I’m into something good
33 - Abba - Just like that (completed)
34 - Hon Nick Jones - The ballad of lady di (with Ian McCrae) (24 96 vinyl remaster)
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Have 2OOO pushed your show back two hours? Sorry to hear that if so, even worse if it is going to disappear altogether.
Sorry to hear about your mum too, hope she’ll be okay.
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Thanks, your sentiments are much appreciated. yes, she’s fine and going well at the moment. The great news is that her cancer count has gone way way down, this has really lifted everyone’s spirits.
Yes, it seems they have pushed our show back two hours, we didn’t know that, until about a week in. The station manager did send us an SMS, but by the time that got through, we were back at our old slot, 10pm to midnight, then we were off the air.
One of my other friends noted that we were on from 2am to 4am. By that time I was pretty cross with this station’s management. As noted above, I then handed in my resignation and was pretty much through with the radio thing.
This week, I had to take a week off work for taking care of my mother, and while preparing the night before going down the south coast, one of my other friends informed me that we were now on between midnight and 2am. I quickly tuned into 2OOO to see what was going on, fired up the old broadcasting software, and had a bit of fun with the old K-tels.
Just got back tonight, and wile unpacking away stuff, quickly chucked on another playlist,
The Fresh Mix dot Com
Date - Friday 2nd August 2024
Time - 12:00 midnight to 2:00 am
Station - 98.5 2OOO FM
Theme - Just having some fun.
01 - Christopher Atkins - How can I live without her (theme from the pirate movie) (vinyl)
02 - Olivia Newton John - Heart attack
03 - King Trigger - The river (vinyl)
04 - Swanee - Temporary heartache
05 - Ferrets - Don’t fall in love
06 - Andy Gibb - Shadow dancing
07 - Tourists - I only want to be with you
08 - Racey - Such a night
09 - Michael Jackson - Don’t stop til you get enough
10 - Christie Allen - Goose bumps (bmg master)
11 - Bucks Fizz - Making your mind up
12 - Dooleys - Love patrol (2005 sony bmg remaster)
13 - KC and the Sunshine Band - Yes I’m ready (featuring Teri DeSario)
14 - Alan O’Day - Skinny girls (vinyl)
15 - Electric Light Orchestra - I’m alive (original select mastering)
16 - Skatt Brothers - Life at the outpost
17 - Leo Sayer - Bye bye now my sweet love
18 - Nolans - Attention to me
19 - Johnny Chester - My ding a ling
20 - Coast to Coast - Do the hucklebuck
21 - Bad Manners - Can can
22 - Tight Fit - The lion sleeps tonight
23 - Kelly Marie - Loving just for fun
24 - Jacksons - Time out for the burglar (radio edit) (DJ Paul T vinyl master)
25 - Boys don’t Cry - I wanna be a cowboy (single edit) (24 96 vinyl remaster)
26 - Little Richard - Operator
27 - Pino D’Angiò - Ma quale idea
28 - Hollywood Beyond - What’s the colour of money
29 - Pseudo Echo - Love and adventure
30 - Starship - Hearts of the world (will understand)
31 - Barry Manilow - I’m your man (album version)
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2OOO FM are still broadcasting us after midnight. I was still awake, so took a little time to pull this one together. There was no curation, just pure play with some promos chucked in. Just a good raid of the Ktels again, lots of fun.
Station - 2OOO FM 98.5
Date - Thursday 8th August 2024
Time - Midnight to 2:00 am
Theme - Ktel compilation mix
01 - Peter Frampton - Show me the way
02 - Graham Bonnet - Baby blue
03 - A La Carte - Dong dong diki diki dong
04 - Arabesque - In for a penny (in for a pound)
05 - Isley Brothers - Livin’ in the life
06 - Sister Sledge - Super bad sisters (2020 cherry red master)
07 - Audrey Landers - Honeymoon in trinidad
08 - Gloria Gaynor - My love is music
09 - Steve Allen - Letter from my heart (7 inch mix)
10 - Fun Fun - Happy station (original single version)
11 - Slizzy Bob - Fantasy
12 - E G Daily - One way love (better off dead)
13 - E G Daily - Hey there rocky
14 - Audrey Landers - Summernight in rome
15 - Ray Parker Jr - Girls are more fun
16 - Sister Sledge - Shake me down (2020 cherry red master)
17 - New Edition - A little bit of love
18 - Nona Hendryx - Why should I cry
19 - Freddie Jackson - Jam tonight
20 - Sparks - So important (single version) (btg vinyl master)
21 - A La Carte - You get me on the run (2004 edsel vinyl master)
22 - Adam and the Ants - Stand and deliver
23 - Brooklyn Bronx and Queens Band - On the beat (remixed version)
24 - Barbara Dickson - Think it over
25 - Leo Sayer - More than I can say
26 - Spinners - I’ll be working my way back to you babe (single version)
27 - Kelly Marie - Feels like I’m in love
28 - John St Peeters - Wonder world (24 96 vinyl remaster)
29 - Fiddler’s Dram - Daytrip to bangor
30 - Flying Lizards - Money (that’s what I want) (1993 capitol remaster)
31 - Hilly Michaels - Shake it and dance (2010 warner remaster)
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It would be great if you could upload some of these shows in mixcloud. 
Not sure if I can upload all of them, not all were recorded as some of these were pulled together on the spir of the moment. I’ll look into what shows were recorded and if I have some time hopefully next week, I’ll put them up.
thefreshmix.com on 2OOO
Friday 9th August 2024
Midnight to 2:00 am
A little more random fun.
01 - George Harrison - Cloud 9
02 - Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of love
03 - Patty Ryan - I don’t wanna lose you tonight
04 - Venetta Fields - Only one (24 96 vinyl remaster)
05 - Lana Pellay - Pistol in my pocket (single edit)
06 - Ashford and Simpson - Outta the world (album version)
07 - Dr Hook - Baby makes her blue jeans talk
08 - Rock Steady Crew - Rock steady crew (hey you)
09 - Alisha - Baby talk
10 - Rockmelons - Thief
11 - Peter Wolf - Come as you are
12 - Level 42 - Running in the family
13 - Sabrina - Boys (summertime love) (12 inch)
14 - Sabrina - Get ready (holiday rock)
15 - Mark Holden - Who do you love (btg vinyl master)
16 - Jamiroquai - Canned heat (radio edit)
17 - Ones - Flawless (radio edit)
18 - Spiller - Groovejet (if this ain’t love) (radio edit)
19 - Moloko - Sing it back
20 - Stardust - Music sounds better with you (radio edit)
21 - Cut Move - Lights and music
22 - Thelma Houston - Don’t leave me this way
23 - Elton John - Heartache all over the world (12 inch mix)
24 - Joe Vitale - Shoot 'em up
25 - Diana Ross - Love hangover (single version)
26 - Tina Charles - I’ll go where the music takes me (1991 sony master)
27 - Michael Zager Band - Let’s all chant
28 - Norma Jean - I like love (album version)
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Pick of the bunch for me. I often play this one hard up against the Nirvana song…
we’ve lost complete contact with 2OOO FM, however we seem to be on Midnight to 2am every day of the week now. If I’m still up, I’ll log into our Wollongong studios, and play an entire 80s comp. Last night it was Shakin 1984.
https://www.discogs.com/master/392319-Various-1984-Shakin
Tonight playing Choose 1985.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2507434-Various-Choose-1985
With over 900 comps, got plenty to roll through.
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I think I did a selection from Choose 1985 for a Missing Six one week, good idea.
Including Saturday and Sunday they just log into the “fresh mix” stream? That is kinda of bizarre but nothing surprises me these days. I am normally not listening to the radio that hour of the night but I am sure some shift workers would enjoy the music.
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yes, we seem to be on seven days a week now. Funny thing is my heart is not into radio anymore, however due to the fact that 2OOO FM are still syndicating us, I kind of in a weird sort of a way still feel obliged to still put something up.
I know it’s kind of lazy just putting on an entire compilation, but back in the 1970s 1980s, and early 1990s, these things were actually a lot of serious fun to listen to all the way through.
That kind of started changing around 1995 when hip hop, grunge, and heavy rock started dominating the charts, (Oasis, Presidents of the United States, Silverchair, and etc), they were still some good hit machines during the late 90s, but this kind of stuff completely dried up by 2001 2002.
Don’t know what it was, but everyone i knew from relatives, to school friends, to family seemed to have had a copy of this cossette. I eventually got the record second hand, but indeed it was one of the more popular comps, I think because of “Ghostbusters”, “Sunglasses at night”, and “What’s love got to do with it”. These were massive hits at the time; EMI certainly pulled off a coup there.
Here is the playlist to my last curated show from Friday last week.
The Fresh Mix dot Com
On 2OOO FM 98.5 Sydney
Friday 16th August 2024
Midnight to 2:00 am
More random fun
01 - Gavin Christopher - One step closer to you (single version)
02 - Big Pig - Hungry Town
03 - Genesis - In too deep
04 - James Ingram - Somewhere out there (duet with Linda Ronstadt)
05 - De La Soul - Me myself and I
06 - Vanilla Ice - Ice ice baby (original radio mix)
07 - Neneh Cherry - I got u under my skin
08 - Malcolm McLaren - Something’s jumping in your shirt
09 - PM Sampson - How I miss you so
10 - Jets - You better dance
11 - Cathy Dennis - Just another dream (original single mix)
12 - Bill Withers - Ain’t no sunshine (the eclipse mix)
13 - Eagles - Witchy woman
14 - Supercharge - You’ve gotta get up and dance
15 - Windchase - Glad to be alive (edit)
16 - Little River Band - Help is on the way (single version)
17 - Richard Clapton - Capricorn dancer
18 - David Dundas - Another funny honeymoon
19 - Sherbet - Magazine madonna
20 - Electric Light Orchestra - Strange magic
21 - Dr Buzzard - Whispering (cherchez la femme) (album version)
22 - Orgy - Blue monday
23 - Stereophonics - Dakota
24 - Arcade Fire - Intervention
25 - TV Rock - Flaunt it (featuring Seany B) (radio edit)
26 - Rogue Traders - Watching you
27 - Knack - My sharona
28 - Angels - Shadow boxer
29 - Angels - Take a long line
30 - Kylie Minogue - Hold on to now
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Conga Line 29 August 2024 (2BRW 88.9)
1600-1700
Mighty Mighty Bosstones- The Impression That I Get (EAGLE FM/9INETY6IX.1 CLASSIC)
The Living End- Prisoner Of Society (JJJ/9INETY6IX.1 CLASSIC)
Pendulum- ABC News Theme (remix) (JJJ CLASSIC)
Cutting Crew- (I Just) Died In Your Arms (A SIDE/B SIDE)
Cutting Crew- For The Longest Time (A SIDE/B SIDE)
Billy Joel- Modern Woman (FOREVER CLASSIC)
The Prodigy- Voodoo People (WOLFIE)
Redbone- The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Disco Montego ft. Katie Underwood- Magic
Bon Jovi- Something For The Pain
Psychedelic Furs- Shadow In My Heart (6NOW 96FM CLASSIC)
1700-1800
MISSING SIX: 90s reggae/Caribbean pop
Arrow- ‘Ot ‘Ot ‘Ot
Max-A-Million- Sexual Healing
Maxi Priest- Close To You
Apache Indian- Boom Shack-A-Lak
Diana King- Shy Guy
Shaggy- Boombastic (TAKE 40 AUSTRALIA CLASSIC)
Machine Gun Fellatio- The Girl Of My Dreams (Matt) (JJJ CLASSIC)
Spiderbait- Outta My Head (JJJ CLASSIC)
Def Leppard- Slang (POWERZONE CLASSIC)
The Sports- Who Listens To The Radio?
Barry Mann- Who Put The Bomp? (SMOKIN’ OLDIE)
The Vaughans- Who Farted? (WRONG SONG, ANNUAL PLAY)
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I’ll be doing a one off show tonight…
Yesterday in Coles, they played Lou Bega’s Mambo #5, which reminded me that that track was number one on my chart this week 25 years ago, which lead me to remember a number of other good songs from that list, can’t believe 1999 is already that long ago, now I’m feeling really old. This is going to be a spir of the moment show.
Leed Lemonade Top 20 Singles
Week Ending Sunday 19th September 1999
Radio Station - 2OOO FM 98.5 Sydney
Date - Wednesday 26th September 2024
Time - Midnight to 2:am
20 - Santana - Smooth (featuring rob thomas) (radio edit)
19 - George Michael - Star people ‘97
18 - Ronan Keating - When you say nothing at all
17 - Human Nature - Don’t cry (us radio remix)
16 - Gil - If you only knew
15 - Vanessa Amorosi - Have a look
14 - Rick Price - Good as gone
13 - Vengaboys - Boom boom boom boom (airplay mix)
12 - Alanis Morissette - So Pure
11 - Moloko - Sing it back
10 - T Spoon - Got 2 get u back (radio version)
09 - Five - If ya gettin’ down
08 - Steps - Love’s got a hold on my heart
07 - Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker (featuring Jay Z) (album version)
06 - Savage Garden - I knew I loved you
05 - Will Smith - Wild wild west (radio version)
04 - TLC - Unpretty
03 - Ann Lee - 2 times (original edit mix)
02 - Christina Aguilera - Genie in a bottle
01 - Lou Bega - Mambo no 5 (a little bit of)
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Well, it seems that we’re back on our old slot, 10:pm to midnight. However as we go out to air, there is another program simultaneously playing over the top of us. As we tuned into the on air monitors tonight about ten minutes before, we discovered that we’re were already on the air with other audio. Then at Midnight, 2OOO FM went over to the BBC world service.
So as this was a once off, it wasn’t too much of a big deal, the show was rather generic. May pay a visit to the studios next week out of curiosity to find out what is going on. Not that I’m that fussed anymore. We presumed that we were still on after midnight, hence the spir of the moment show.
There has definitely been personnel changes at 2OOO. When I had my initial interview with the station manager back in April, he couldn’t say enough how much he loathed the BBC and hated their journalists, thus at the time 2OOO’s entire schedule had no BBC programming, recorded, syndicated, or otherwise, so quite bizarre now how this has changed. I would have to say that I was a little taken back at the time on how much he carried on about it.
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Rocktober (billed as Rockin’ October) started on the Conga Line this week. How’s this for a ‘non bogan’ rock playlist? Doing double and triple Rock In Stereo album shots.
1600-1700
Rolling Stones- Monkey Man (Let It Bleed 1969)
Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
Moody Blues- Meet Me Halfway (The Present, 1983)
Moody Blues- Sitting At The Wheel
Moody Blues- It’s Cold Outside Of Your Heart
Gary Moore (ft. Phil Lynott)- Out In The Fields (WOLFIE, Run For Cover 1985)
Gary Moore- Empty Rooms
Men At Work- Be Good Johnny (Business As Usual 1981)
Men At Work- Helpless Automaton
1700-1800
Jethro Tull- Aqualung (1971)
Jethro Tull- Cross-Eyed Mary
Jethro Tull- Locomotive Breath
Alan Parsons Project- (The System Of) Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, 1987 remix)
Alan Parsons Project- The Raven
Little River Band- Playing To Win (1985) (MATT)
Little River Band- Blind Eyes
Motorhead- Ace Of Spades (1980)
Motorhead- Love Me Like A Reptile
Motorhead- Shoot You In The Back
Headgirl- Please Don’t Touch
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Some random trivia:
Just noticed that the new (Singapore) Class 95 music director has changed the naming format of several songs in the Class 95 music library.
Previously, songs with multiple artists were formatted as “ARTIST 1 - TITLE (FEAT. ARTIST 2)”. Since 4 October 2024, several songs’ metadata have been edited to show “ARTIST 1 [+] ARTIST 2 - TITLE” instead.
For example, B.O.B. - AIRPLANES (FEAT. HAYLEY WILLIAMS) is now renamed to B.O.B. [+] HAYLEY WILLIAMS - AIRPLANES
