Dundee Lad

Bought this one the same day as The Killgirls album. Whereas the previous album is more goth and industrial, this one is very much a throwback to 80s synthpop but I love all sorts of music, and this album still gets played regularly. Alas, another artist who only seems to have released one album on Bandcamp, and then disappeared into the ether.

Came across this album while sauntering through Bandcamp and immediately bought it. That was back in 2012 but I have no idea if the band is still going. Their official website is no more, and the domain is now home to an indie animated movie, so that doesn’t bode well for their continued existence.

Anyway, this is White Bus from their album, Animal.

October 18, 1984

Well shit! I balls’d that one up! I commented on the first SAFM entry that I couldn’t compare it to the 5AD chart of the same week because I didn’t have one but speculated that they’d be much the same. And then there’s this bloody chart, which is from the same week as the last 5AD chart I posted and gives us a clear comparison between the two stations.
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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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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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