Dundee Lad

July 13th, 1989

Not going to say much here because…well, frankly, there’s not a real lot I find interesting. Not back then, and not now.

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May 25th, 1989

Jumping ahead a few years from the last chart, and you can see there has been some absolutely massive changes. For a start, it’s down 10 tracks and is just a Top 30 now but more importantly, it is now divided into a Compact Disc chart and an Album/Vinyl chart. A lot of the same releases on each chart but also quite a few differences. Oddly enough, on the surface it appears heavy metal fans were slower to adopt the new medium with only Appetite for Destruction appearing in the CD list but it also appears in the vinyl list along with G’N'R Lies, And Justice For All, and Hysteria. I bought my first CD player in ‘88—a Yamaha that gave me no end of trouble with a disc tray that wouldn’t open properly—and the CD version of Metallica’s, And Justice For All, was one of the first CDs I bought…and I still have it.
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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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