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Airdate: 25 years of rage

Big hair, big choons.....rage goes back to the '80s in the first of its monthly specials to celebrate 25 years.

This year ABC music show rage celebrated its 25th year and to continue marking the occasion it will count down the best music videos and guest programmers on the fourth Saturday of each month.

This weekend it goes back to where it all began: “Prepare for double denim, big hair, shoulder pads, leotards and parachute pants. And that’s just the fashion…..rage will be playing all the top notch music videos and guest programmers that graced the couch from 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990!”

The first playlist includes plenty of enticing acts.

Saturday night 28 July
10:30pm
IGGY POP Real Wild Child (Universal)
GUNS ‘N’ ROSES Welcome To The Jungle (Universal (MCA)
RUN DMC and AEROSMITH Walk This Way (Polydor)
MICHAEL JACKSON Bad (Sony)
11:00pm
SALT ‘N’ PEPA Push It (Polydor)
PRINCE Sign O’ The Times (Warner)
M.A.R.R.S. Pump Up The Volume (Virgin)
PETER GABRIEL Sledgehammer (Virgin)
JOHN FARNHAM – Live Pressure Down (Sony)
KYLIE MINOGUE Locomotion (Mushroom)
MEL and KIM Respectable (Mushroom)
11:30pm
WHITNEY HOUSTON I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) (BMG)
BEASTIE BOYS Fight For Your Right (Revisited) (EMI)
12:00am
BROS When Will I Be Famous? (Sony)
GEORGE MICHAEL Faith (Sony)
RICK ASTLEY Never Gonna Give You Up (BMG)
PAUL SIMON You Can Call Me Al (Warner)
HOODOO GURUS What’s My Scene (BMG)
MIDNIGHT OIL Beds Are Burning (Sony)
12:30am
PAUL KELLY and THE COLOURED GIRLS Before Too Long (Mushroom)
THE SMITHS Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before (Festival)
CROWDED HOUSE Don’t Dream It’s Over (EMI)
U2 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Polydor)
BON JOVI Living On A Prayer (Mercury)
MOTLEY CRUE Girls, Girls, Girls (Warner)
INXS Need You Tonight/Mediate (Warner)
NENEH CHERRY Buffalo Stance (Virgin)
1:00am
TONE LOC meets ZZ-BROS Wild Thing Y2K (BMG)
ICE-T Colors (Warner)
N.W.A Express Yourself (Polydor)
SONIC YOUTH Teenage Riot (Universal (MCA))
MY BLOODY VALENTINE Feed Me With Your Kiss (Warner)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS The Mercy Seat (Mushroom)
R.E.M. Orange Crush (Warner)
1:30am
BOBBY BROWN Every Little Step (BMG)
JANET JACKSON The Pleasure Principle (A and M Records)
THE B-52S Love Shack (Warner)
KYLIE MINOGUE I Should Be So Lucky (Mushroom)
MICHAEL JACKSON Smooth Criminal (Sony)
ROBERT PALMER Simply Irresistible (EMI)
THE CHURCH Under The Milky Way (Mushroom)
2:00am
THE GO-BETWEENS Streets Of Your Town (Universal (MCA)
CROWDED HOUSE Better Be Home Soon (EMI)
THE BANGLES Eternal Flame (Festival)
THE TIMELORDS Doctorin’ The Tardis (BMG)
MADONNA Like A Prayer (Warner)
SOUL II SOUL Back To Life (Virgin)
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS She Drives Me Crazy (Polydor)
PRINCE Batdance (Warner)
2:30am
TRANSVISION VAMP Baby I Don’t Care (BMG)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK You Got It (The Right Stuff) (Sony)
YOUNG MC Bust A Move (Polydor)
PAULA ABDUL Opposites Attract (Virgin)
MENTAL AS ANYTHING He’s Just No Good For You (Warner)
ELVIS COSTELLO Veronica (Warner)
THE HUMMINGBIRDS Blush (Polydor)
3:00am
STONE ROSES Fools Gold (Universal (MCA)
INXS New Sensation (Warner)
THE SUGARCUBES Birthday (Sony)
BILLY JOEL We Didn’t Start The Fire (Sony)
MICHAEL JACKSON Leave Me Alone (Sony)
SIOUXSIE and THE BANSHEES Peek A Boo (Polydor)
MADONNA Express Yourself (Warner)
3:30am
THE PIXIES Here Comes Your Man (Shock)
AEROSMITH Janie’s Got A Gun (Warner)
METALLICA One (Universal)
MAX Q Way Of The World (Sony)
BEASTIE BOYS Shadrach (EMI)
PUBLIC ENEMY Fight The Power (Sony)
4:00am
DEEE-LITE Groove Is In The Heart (Warner)
IGGY POP and KATE PIERSON Candy (Virgin)
FAITH NO MORE Epic (Festival)
SONIC YOUTH Kool Thing (Universal (MCA)
JANE’S ADDICTION Been Caught Stealing (Warner)
BELL BIV DEVOE Poison (BMG)
SNAP The Power (BMG)
4:30am
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Bonita Applebum (BMG)
GEORGE MICHAEL Freedom ’90 (Sony)
MADONNA Vogue (Warner)
MADONNA Justify My Love (Warner)
NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS The Ship Song (Mushroom)
SINEAD O’CONNOR Nothing Compares 2 U (EMI)
5:30am
EUROPE The Final Countdown 2000 (Sony)
STARSHIP Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now (RCA)
DAVE DOBBYN Slice Of Heaven (Sony)
TRACY CHAPMAN Fast Car (Warner)
PHIL COLLINS A Groovy Kind Of Love
RICHARD MARX Right Here Waiting (EMI)
6:00am
BILL MEDLEY and JENNIFER WARNES (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life (BMG)
FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION Perfect
BOBBY MCFERRIN Don’t Worry, Be Happy (EMI)
TOM PETTY Free Fallin’ (MCA)
ALANNAH MYLES Black Velvet (Warner)
BLACK BOX Ride On Time (BMG)

Further episodes will air:

Saturday 25th August ‐ Celebrating 25 Years of rage: 1991‐1994
Saturday 22nd September ‐ Celebrating 25 Years of rage: 1995‐1998
Saturday 27th October ‐ Celebrating 25 Years of rage: 1999‐2002
Saturday 24th November ‐ Celebrating 25 Years of rage: 2003‐2006
Saturday 22nd December ‐ Celebrating 25 Years of rage: 2007‐2011

4 Responses

  1. I haven’t watched Rage in years, but being a complete 80’s nerd, I shall be watching this Saturday. There’s some absolute gems in that playlist!

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