Art of Noise, Back to the Future and Revenge of the Nerds.

4th June

Wham Rap - Wham
Twist a St. Tropez - Telex
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News
Paranomia - The Art of Noise
Theme from S-Express - S-Express
When you were mine - Cyndi Lauper
Alive and Kicking - Simple Minds
Burning down the house - Talking Heads
Nerds concert song - Revenge of the Nerds
Valotte - Julian Lennon

This week the Hollywood set of "Back to the Future" burnt down in a big fire at the Universal Studios. I played a song from the soundtrack of the movie in tribute.
I followed my nose pretty much this week with no clear plan. Once I started on 80's movies, I found myself amongst Revenge of the Nerds. Strange.

Covers - Bananarama, After the Fire, Toni Basil and Cyndi Lauper.

28th May

Der Kommissar - After the Fire
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole
Born to Run - Frankie goes to Hollywood
Mickey - Toni Basil
All through the night - Cyndi Lauper
China Girl - David Bowie
Long Train Running - Bananarama
Jackie Wilson said - Dexy's Midnight Runners
You better run - Pat Benatar
You keep me hanging on - Kim Wilde
The Tide is high - Blondie

A show full of cover songs. Songs that were covered in the 80's that is.
Some were obvious and some not and some I knew about but had never heard before and thought I should have. And some I wish that I hadn't ever heard. Bruce Springsteen should NOT be covered, it doesn't matter how good you are!

I first heard that Bananarama had covered Long Train Running last year. I was looking for the lyrics for the community band. I found it recently to play on air. It's not the Doobie Brothers thats for sure, but it isn't unbearable.

Some ska, some pop, some fun!

21st May

Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Start - The Jam
One in ten - UB40
My ever changing moods - The Style Council
Mother's Talk - Tears for Fears
Missionary Man - Eurythmics
Who's that girl - Eurythmics
You should hear how she talks about you - Melissa Manchester
Rhythm is gonna get you - Gloria Estefan
Only Lonely - The Divinyls
Hey Little Boy -The Divinyls
Sweet Insomnia - Faithless vs Eurythmics

I don't even remember how I came up with this list of music, it was so late at night and I was surfing the net for inspiration. My collection of 80's music had gaps and I've found some of the music to fit into it.
Much of the music in this show hasn't been played on Choose Life before. I love variety!

Thinking quick and running out of time!

Sometimes a week goes by too quickly. Time for research was short. Time for planning even shorter. This is the show that I ended up with, for no particular reason.

14th May

Automatic - Pointer Sisters (extended mix)
Chequered Love - Kim Wilde
Dress you up - Madonna
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Stand and deliver - Adam and the Ants
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Touch - Noiseworks
Body and Soul - Jenny Morris
Out of mind, out of sight - The Models
All Night - Bit by Bats

Bit by Bats got thrown in at the end as they have an 80's sound, a band from Melbourne who have released an album and recently split.

Club 80's Pt 3

I guess the list of songs to play just got out of hand!!
7th May

Rapture - Blondie
You spin me right round - Dead or Alive
Two Tribes - Frankie goes to Hollywood
Love song - Simple Minds
Shout - Tears for Fears
Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club
There must be an angel - Eurythmics
Speak like a child - The Style Council
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Pump up the Jam - Technotronic

Club 80's

The second of the "club" shows.
30th April

Sunglasses at night - Corey Hart
Rock It - Herbie Hancock
Miami Vice - Jan Hammer
Love comes quickly - Pet Shop Boys
Don't talk to me about love - Altered Images
Slave to the Rhythm - Grace Jones
Fade to Grey - Visage
Thorn in my side - Eurythmics
We connect - Stacey Q
Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine
Dress you up - Madonna
Rock me Amadeus - Falco

Bicey's pop choices

19th March 2008

Raspberry Beret - Prince
Opportunities - Pet Shop Boys
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News
Obsession - Animotion
Broken Wings - Mr Mister
Alone - Heart
Hazy shade of winter - The Bangles
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Material Girl - Madonna
Sign your name - Terence Trent Darby
Can you feel it - The Jacksons
Sweet dreams (are made of this) - Eurythmics

Mel's choice

12th March

Mel Farrelly's choice this time, guest programming an 80's show isn't so hard after all!!!

Poison - Alice Cooper
Cheap Wine - Cold Chisel
I'll be there for you - Bon Jovi
Run to Paradise - Choirboys
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper
Like a virgin - Madonna
Red red wine - UB40
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Throw your arms around me - Hunters and Collectors

Ok, so this must be what most people remember of the 80's!
Hmmm.....

The look of the 80's?? Transvision Vamp were all over it!

16th April

I had been watching telly for inspiration for this show. I happened across Transvision Vamp and Corey Hart. The tone was set!!

80's Megamix
Club Tropicana - Wham
I can't go for that - Hall and Oates
Blue Monday - New Order
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Without You - Eurogliders
Just can't get enough - Depeche Mode
Revolution Baby - Transvision Vamp
Venus - Bananarama

Stay tuned for the next Choose Life when I WILL play Corey Hart, as well as the very strange Grace Jones and other club sounding music from the 80's. It's fun stuff.

Teya's memories! New Groove - I didn't ask how old she was!!

April 2nd 2008

1. Crazy Little thing called love - Queen
2. New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran
3. I heard a rumour - Bananarama
4. New Groove - Rockmelons
5. Don't wanna be the one - Midnight Oil
6. Before too long - Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
7. When Love breaks down - Prefab Sprout
8. Dusty Pages - Icehouse
9. Great Wall - Boom Crash Opera
10. E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite.

You can never have enough Kylie Mole!!

26th March 2008


1. 1999 - Prince
2. Ride like the Wind - Christopher Cross
3. Robert de Niro's Waiting - Bananarama
4. China Girl - David Bowie
5. Too nice to talk to - The English Beat
6. Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
7. Science Fiction - Divinyls
8. Heaven Must be there - Eurogliders
9. All over the world - E.L.O.
10. Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
11. Two strong hearts - John Farnham
12. Made my day - Tim Finn
13. So Excellent - Kylie Mole

A bit of everything in that list really.

Choose Life goes Rage!

27th Feb

I challenged a friend who is obsessed with music, I collect those kind of friends it seems, to produce a show for Choose Life.

Bicey came up with a couple of lists and his flatmate Mel has a list too. Stay tuned for more guest programmers selections.

For this show I played Bicey's "Rock" list. It was brilliant, he had done the research for me too.

Here is the "Bicey Rocks Choose Life" running sheet!

1. Let's go crazy - Prince (I had to play some of his songs slightly out of order for technical reasons, no seriously, I did!)
   
2. Get it on - The Power Station
3. Far side of crazy - Wall of Voodoo
4. Women - Def Leppard
5. Friday on my mind - Gary Moore
6. Nothin but a good time - Poison (Have you SEEN "the Rock of Love?" All comments and opinions I would think would be obvious! OMG!)
   
7. All fired up - Pat Benetar
8. We close our eyes - Go West
9. Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
10. Girls, girls, girls - Motley Crue (not my choice so you will hear no opinions from me!)
    
11. Here I go again - Whitesnake
12. Eruption - Van Halen (played after I signed off)
13. Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
    

Ok, so a different choice of songs to what I would normally play and that was precisely what I was after.
Thanks to the Bice Man!
So Excellent!!

Too many songs, not enough time!

20th Feb

Yes, it's another Wednesday.

1. Rio - Duran Duran
2. Shy Boy - Bananarama
3. To cut a long story short - Spandau Ballet (their first single)
4. Train of thought - Aha (a song about existentialism if you can believe it.)
   
5. Trust Me - I'm Talking (Kate Ceberano and Zan who's surname I can never remember unless I look it up. I wonder what she is up to these days?)
   
6. Don't talk to strangers - Rick Springfield (wish I had seen him at the Countdown Spectacular 2!)
   
7. Don't go - Yazoo
8. The Riddle - Nik Kershaw
9. Love's great adventure - Ultravox
10. Union of the Snake - Duran Duran (a song my fellow 80's partner in music has never heard.)
    
11. Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne (from the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" soundtrack - it's late, I might have that wrong....)
    

I had in mind a synthesizer style of music as my theme for this show as it seems so much modern music has gone that way again. (Rogue Traders, Cut Copy, Mylo, need I go on??)

As usual I included a couple of Australian artists in the mix although much less synthesised than the others and Jackson Browne at the end to ease listeners back into the usual Roxfm playlist.

Push THAT button when? Ooops!

In a show wracked with technical stuff ups, (gimme a break, it's been a while since I've been in the studio you know...) this is what we ended up with:

Wed 6th Feb

1.Absolutely - Eurogliders
2. Say I love you - Renee Geyer
3. Soul kind of feeling - Dynamic Hypnotics
4. Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benetar
5. Cruel Summer - Bananarama
6. Change in Mood - Kids in the Kitchen
7. Love Plus One - Haircut 100
8. Close to me - The Cure
9. Come Around - Mental as Anything
10. Scatterlings of Africa - Juluka
11. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
12. Inbetween Days - The Cure

After 3 years in the wilderness musically, Choose Life has found it's way home!

The most EXCELLENT radio show on Roxfm is back.....well, sort of.

13/11/07

Song listing:

1. Bad Boys - Wham (Woo hoo!)
2. Alive & Kicking - Simple Minds
3. Girls on Film - Duran Duran
4. Just keep walking - INXS
5. Read About it - Midnight Oil
6. The City of Soul - Eurogliders (to complete the set of 3 Australian songs to be played in show)
7. Mirror in the Bathroom - The English Beat
8. My Girl - Madness
9. Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
10. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
11. Big Boss Grove - Style Council
12. Hand on your heart - Kylie Minogue
13.Lucky Star - Madonna

Take the pressure down!

With new radio stations popping up in town, the pressure is on to show these commercial guys a thing or two about radio. Don't you think?

Well anyway, there have been a few mournful emails from a couple of past presenters, reminiscing about the good old days. Maybe Choose Life needs a shot of "V" or "Red Bull."

The Madonna earrings need to see the light of day, that is for sure.

For those of you who know our illustrious 80's freaks, talk it up. Birthdays are coming and I can't think of a better way of celebrating than locking ourselves in to the station and seeing how much 80's music can be dug out of it!!!

Community radio LIVES! (Remember that one from those early graffiti days?)

Suddenly 30

26/10/04

1. Everybody have fun tonight - Wang Chung.
2. Thriller - Michael Jackson.
3. Bad vs Ghostbusters - Michael Jackson vs Ray Parker Jr.
4. Tocatta (Parts 1 & 2) - Sky.
5. Mad about you - Belinda Carlisle.
6. Love is a battlefield - Pat Benetar.
7. Automatic - The Pointer Sisters.
8. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield.
9. What I like about you - The Romantics.
10. Crazy for you - Madonna.
11. Edge of Heaven - Wham.
12. Rock the night - Europe.


Much of the music in this show was used in the movie Suddenly 30. There was more but I didn't remember it all.

The Cockroaches = The Rolling Stones?

19/10/04

1. She's the one - The Cockroaches. (1987) The Cockroaches info
2. Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper.
3. Stop - Sam Brown.
4. Open Arms - Journey.
5. Cry in shame - Johnny Diesel.
6. You win again - Bee Gees.
7. Kiss - Prince.
8. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson.
9. Eat it - Wierd Al Yankovic
10. Physical - Olivia Newton John.
11. Anything for you - Gloria Estefan.
12. Heaven must be there - Eurogliders.
13. Bad Boys - Wham.
14. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

Kylie who?

12/10/04

1. Crazy little thing called love - Queen.
2. New moon on Monday - Duran Duran.
3. I heard a rumour - Bananarama.
4. Only when you leave - Spandau Ballet.
5. Sailing - Christopher Cross.
6. Free fallin' - Tom Petty.
7. New Groove - The Rockmelons.
8. Before too long - Paul Kelly.
9. The Politics of Dancing - Re-flex.
10. Don't wanna be the one - Midnight Oil.
11. Stuck with you - Huey Lewis and the News.
12. Got to be certain - Kylie Minogue.

28/09/04

1. Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants.
2. Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel.
3. Rio - Duran Duran.
4. Pump it up - Elvis Costello.
5. Venus - Bananarama.
6. Relax - Frankie goes to Hollywood.
7. Dress you up - Madonna.
8. Here I go again - Whitesnake.
9. Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
10. How am I gonna sleep - Tim Finn.
11. More than I can say - Leo Sayer.
12. Reach up for the sunrise - Duran Duran.