The Chosen Few

The Chosen Few
01 - Bad Habits - Billy Field
02 - Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
03 - Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Cold Chisel
04 - Sailing - Christopher Cross
05 - In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
06 - Mister Sandman - Emmylou Harris
07 - Only For Sheep - Bureau
08 - Love You Like I Never Loved Before - John O'banion
09 - I Love You - Climax Blues Band
10 - I Love A Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
11 - One Day I'll Fly Away - Randy Crawford
12 - Trickle Trickle - Manhattan Transfer
13 - When I Dream - Jack Clement
14 - Whip It - Devo
15 - Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees - Marcia Hines
16 - Shake It And Dance - Hilly Michaels
17 - Passion - Rod Stewart
18 - I Don't Mind - Hitmen

***Many Thanks To Mark For The Covers***

In The Bag [1981]

In The Bag

01 Whip It - Devo
02 Waiting - The Dugites
03 The Loved One - INXS
04 Primary - The Cure
05 Lady - Adam & The Ants
06 Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers
07 A Room Full of Diamonds - Radiators
08 Einstein A Go Go - Landscape
09 Meaningless Songs - Heebeegeebees
10 Kiss On My List - Hall & Oates
11 Dreams - Grace Slick
12 Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
13 My Mother's Eyes - Bette Midler
14 Meheeco - Sky
15 Games - Phoebe Snow
16 Super Trouper - ABBA
17 Can't Stop the Music - Village People
18 Bring Me No More Roses - Donna Fisk

HERE IT IS

Straight Ahead [1981]

Straight Ahead
01 Soft Cell - Tainted Love. 02 Johhny Warman - Screaming Jets. 03 Smokey Robinson - Being With You. 04 Toyah - I Want To Be Free. 05 Marc Hunter - Big City Talk. 06 Genesis - Adacab. 07 Bucks Fizz - The Land Of Make Believe. 08 The Bee Gees - He's A Liar. 09 Kool & The Gang - Celebration. 10 Hall & Oates - Private Eyes. 11 INXS - Stay Young. 12 Gidea Park - Beach Boys Medley. 13 Roxy Music - Jealous Guy. 14 RPO - Hooked On Classics. 15 Rick James - Super Freak. 16 Vertical Hold - My Imagination 17 Moody Blues - Gemini Dream. 18 Stars On 45 - More Stars (ABBA Medley).
STRAIGHT AHEAD

Hitwave '81

Hitwave '81
Side 1
01 Stars on 45 - Stars On 45
02 This Ole House - Shakin' Stevens
03 Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon
04 Gotta Pull Myself Together - The Nolans
05 Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
06 Shout & Deliver - The Reels
07 How Come - The Sports
08 Fade to Grey - Visage
09 Jealous Guy - Roxy Music

Side 2
10 Turn Me Loose - Loverboy
11 Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
12 Celebration - Kool and the Gang
13 Hip, Shake, Jerk! - The Quick
14 Into the Heat - The Angels
15 History Never Repeats - Split Enz
16 Falling In & Out - Mi-Sex
17 Nobody Wins - Elton John
18 The Wild Colonial Boy - Dr Hook

1981 Over The Top

This tape holds many memories for me. In the early 80's my dad was helping my step brother run a courier business and one night my younger sister and I got to go on a 6hour trip with him and this was the tape my step brother had in the tape deck at the time. I remember falling in love with Icehouse and Mondo Rock thanks to this tape

Side 1:
1: Mental As Anything - Too many times
2: Jona Lewie - Louise ( We get it right )
3: Devo - Beautiful world
4: Olivia Newton-John - Physical
5: Rick Springfield - I've done everything for you
6: Stevie Nicks + Tom Petty - Stop draggin' my heart around
7: Kim Wilde - Chequered love
8: Little River Band - The night owls
9: Ph.D - I won't let you down

Side 2:
1: Billy Squier - The stroke
2: Swanee - If I were a carpenter
3: Juice Newton - Queen of hearts
4: Icehouse - Love in motion
5: Mondo Rock - Chemistry
6: Billy Field - You weren't in love with me
7: Dave Stewart - What becomes of the broken hearted
8: Divinyls - Boys in town
9: Pat Benatar - Fire and ice

The album debuted on the Oz Top 100 chart 30 Nov 1981 and spent 14 weeks inside the top 100, peaking at #4 in time for Xmas. ( Many thanks to Rhys for the info)

1981... Rocks On

1981 Rocks On

01. Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes
02. Rupert Hine - Misplaced Love
03. Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
04. Renee Geyer - Say I Love You
05. Split Enz - I Dont Wanna Dance
06. Mondo Rock - Cool World
07. Sheena Easton - Modern Girl
08. Australian Crawl - Things Don't Seem
09. Gary US Bands - This Little Girl
10. Kim Wilde - Kids In America
11. Duran Duran - Planet Earth
12. Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
13. Ultravox - Vienna
14. The Church - The Unguarded Moment
15. Mental As Anything - If You Leave Me Can I Come Too
16. Jimmy & The Boys - They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me
17. Air Supply - The One That You Love
18. Stray Cats - Rock This Town



I am starting the tiresome ripping process for the tapes I am recreating. The first of this is for 1981... Rocks On and hopefully I will get time to add at least one more today if not tomorrow.

PLEASE NOTE: I know that the vinyl people out there like to rip at 192 and even as high as 320 but lil ole me is ripping at 128. Also if anyone is interested, the way I have been ripping these files for the most part has been from the few cassettes I have that are still workable using Mega Sound Recorder, a nifty little program that splits as it goes which I love ( yes I can be lazy ) For the tracks that are just too stretched to save I have been scouring the blogs and web for replacements if I don't have them on the actual artists albums in my own collection. I'd suggest to anyone looking for so of the harder to find tracks ( and I mean rip my hair out, I am never going to find it tracks), that you visit someone like Ausrock at ausrock.blogspot.com. Not only may you find that one your missing but you will definetly have your eyes opened as to just how diverse the Australian Music scene was/is and always will be hopefully. He does a bang up job, and has brilliant contributors.

1981... The Sound

Another gem. I am happy to share albums that might bring back a memory or two for like minded people. 

(Image from wikipedia, thank God, one of several cassette linings I have lost over the years)
So here's whats on it. (I'd love to kiss the person that decided to print the "contents" onto cassettes)

1981..The Sound

01 - The Swingers - Counting The Beat
02 - Split Enz - One Step Ahead
03 - Madness - Baggy Trousers
04 - Icehouse - Walls
05 - Jona Lewie - Stop The Calvary
06 - The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic
07 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I Want To Be Straight
08 - Adam And The Ants - Young Parisians
09 - AC_DC - Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
10 - Sheena Easton - Morning Train (9 To 5)
11 - Dr Hook - Girls Can Get It
12 - Air Supply - Every Woman In The World
13 - Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning
14 - Little River Band - Long Jumping Jeweller
15 - John Farnham - Too Much Too Soon
16 - Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues
17 - Dire Straits - Tunnel Of Love
18 - Cheetah - Spend The Night

Probably one of my first brushes with one of my all time favs, Icehouse.