Music Charts #8…

August 18th, 1983

Time to flick the tranny1 over to the FM band and check out what was happening at SA-FM. Originally they were Double-SA FM but I guess that was too much of a mouthful, so they were quickly able to switch to the shorter name. Kind of pissy, though because it made them sound as if they were the only FM station in the state but they were actually beaten to the line by the ORIGINAL TripleM—yes, you read that right; the original TripleM was not the commercial monstrosity that we know now but was actually a small community station with the call sign 5MMM. When the cunts who own the commercial station wanted to start broadcasting their shite in Adelaide, the original station had to give up their call sign and become Three D Radio.
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Music Charts #7…

October 19th, 1984

Jumping ahead a few months and another singles chart that would’ve done nothing for me at the time and only stirs some minor joy now. Fucking Agadoo by Black Lace at #10 pretty much says it all. The albums chart is quite a bit better with two Stevie Ray Vaughan albums and an Iron Maiden album in the top 25 for the state.
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Music Charts #6…

February 3rd, 1984

So we’ve jumped ahead a couple of years, thanks to the water damage mentioned in the notes about the charts.

This would’ve been a real meh! chart for me back then. About the only two songs I would’ve liked were In A Big Country by Big Country—still one of my all time favourite bands, who’s albums I still play regularly—and This is Not a Love Song by P.I.L. (I still like this and a lot of their music, even though I stopped liking Lydon way back in the late 80s. Back then it was because he told Richard Wilkins that Nelson Mandela was “nothing but a terrorist” when asked about the Free Nelson Mandela movement but nowadays it’s because he’s nothing but a fat, whiny, right-wing cunt). Even the Siouxsie & the Banshees cover of a Beatles song leaves me a bit cold because back then it felt like a total sell-out by the band.
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