1 June 2024 I get earworms all the time. A song will jump into my mind’s eye often at an inconvenient time, and it refuses to leave.
25 May 2024 The songs of the year 1984, upon reflection, include some of the strangest ideas and most daring creative choices on vinyl. From the sound of...
18 May 2024 Anyone who was a school student in the 80s probably owned one or more of those Various Artists compilations released as a collaboration between major...
11 May 2024 Music meant a lot to me as a child. The year 1984 has a shedload of great records that have stayed with me and I...
27 April 2024 In 1984 there was still a budget for locally produced TV series about fictional inner-city rock bands. The ABC bankrolled one such series named Sweet...
12 April 2024 Many of you will know, have heard, spoken to, and even worked with Kevin Hillier (who celebrated 50 years in radio in 2023) and Sarah...
13 April 2024 There seemed to be a thing in the production of pop singles in the early 80s, where it was trendy to use advanced technology to...
11 April 2024 Triple M are bringing back their GOAT Countdowns for 2024 after counting down albums and songs last year (spoiler alert of the winners here) and...
29 March 2024 I have listened to Queen for as long as I can remember. However, I think this is the first song of theirs I remember hearing.
16 March 2024 In late 1984, going into 1985, my prized possession at the time was an LP named “Choose 1985”, a compilation album assembled in collaboration between...
9 March 2024 Frankie Says…. If there was one band who dominated the attention of the media and the record buying public so intensely in 1984, it was...
2 March 2024 This week’s edition of Songs of 84 isn’t really a song. It was, however, marketed as a 12” single, and therefore made the top 20...
24 February 2024 Ask a diehard music fan to name a band from the 80s that started in Perth, Western Australia and they might answer The Triffids, or...
12 February 2024 Dancing in the Dark / Bruce Springsteen - No 5, 1984 Bruce Springsteen was no stranger to music fans by the time the 1980s rolled...
3 February 2024 To accompany our weekly articles on the songs of 74, which are turning 50 this year, Radioinfo reader and podcaster David Kowalski felt that a celebration...
