Retro Rage
Editorial
Release date: 20 June 2009 (Universal)
Back in ancient times (aka the '90s), there was no Youtube, file sharing or anything like that. Hell, pre-1995 the internet didn't really exist. If you wanted to see a particular videoclip in those dark days you're only real choice was watching Rage and hoping for the best. While the weekly Top 50 countdown on Rage was fine for catching up on the latest hits, seeing anything older was a bit trickier. Indeed, the only way you could watch classic videoclips was to wait until you're favourite act was guest programming and hope they dropped in what you wanted to see. Usually, you'd set the VCR (remember those?) to long-play around 1am and then watch the whole thing the following morning to see what treasures you had amassed. Good times ...
The new Retro Rage compilation is sort of like that Sunday morning, long-play VCR tape feeling, i.e. a mix of favourites, surprises, duds and tracks you've never heard before. The one thing that draws them all together is the fact they all got regular play from guest programmers back in the day, and continue to do so today. Want some examples? Try, David Bowie (Modern Love), De La Soul (Eye Know, Divinyls (Science Fiction), Adam and the Ants (Stand And Deliver) and the ultimate retro track, Soft Cell's Tainted Love. If you want a Rage-style trek down memory lane, this release does the job nicely.
Tracks:
Disc One
1. Modern Love - David Bowie
2. White Wedding Part 1 - Billy Idol
3. Lost Weekend - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4. Left Of Center - Suzanne Vega, Joe Jackson
5. Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
6. Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
7. I Don't Want To Talk About It - Everything But The Girl
8. Johnny Come Home Us - Fine Young Cannibals
9. Rapture - Blondie
10. A Message To You Rudy - The Specials, Rico
11. Eye Know - De La Soul
12. Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
13. Push It - Salt-N-Pepa
14. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby
15. The Only Way Is Up - Yazz
Disc Two
1. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
2. Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants
3. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
4. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
5. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
6. Science Fiction - Divinyls
7. Deanna - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
8. Under The Milky Way - The Church
9. Wide Open Road - The Triffids
10. Streets Of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
11. Just Like Fire Would - The Saints
12. Down Under - Men At Work
13. Physical - Olivia Newton-John
14. It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It - Fun Boy Three & Bananarama
15. The Lovecats - The Cure
Back in ancient times (aka the '90s), there was no Youtube, file sharing or anything like that. Hell, pre-1995 the internet didn't really exist. If you wanted to see a particular videoclip in those dark days you're only real choice was watching Rage and hoping for the best. While the weekly Top 50 countdown on Rage was fine for catching up on the latest hits, seeing anything older was a bit trickier. Indeed, the only way you could watch classic videoclips was to wait until you're favourite act was guest programming and hope they dropped in what you wanted to see. Usually, you'd set the VCR (remember those?) to long-play around 1am and then watch the whole thing the following morning to see what treasures you had amassed. Good times ...
The new Retro Rage compilation is sort of like that Sunday morning, long-play VCR tape feeling, i.e. a mix of favourites, surprises, duds and tracks you've never heard before. The one thing that draws them all together is the fact they all got regular play from guest programmers back in the day, and continue to do so today. Want some examples? Try, David Bowie (Modern Love), De La Soul (Eye Know, Divinyls (Science Fiction), Adam and the Ants (Stand And Deliver) and the ultimate retro track, Soft Cell's Tainted Love. If you want a Rage-style trek down memory lane, this release does the job nicely.
Tracks:
Disc One
1. Modern Love - David Bowie
2. White Wedding Part 1 - Billy Idol
3. Lost Weekend - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
4. Left Of Center - Suzanne Vega, Joe Jackson
5. Pretty In Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
6. Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
7. I Don't Want To Talk About It - Everything But The Girl
8. Johnny Come Home Us - Fine Young Cannibals
9. Rapture - Blondie
10. A Message To You Rudy - The Specials, Rico
11. Eye Know - De La Soul
12. Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
13. Push It - Salt-N-Pepa
14. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby
15. The Only Way Is Up - Yazz
Disc Two
1. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
2. Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants
3. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
4. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
5. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
6. Science Fiction - Divinyls
7. Deanna - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
8. Under The Milky Way - The Church
9. Wide Open Road - The Triffids
10. Streets Of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
11. Just Like Fire Would - The Saints
12. Down Under - Men At Work
13. Physical - Olivia Newton-John
14. It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It - Fun Boy Three & Bananarama
15. The Lovecats - The Cure
Mikolai, June 2009
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