Recap: Shaun hosts Rage, June 9th 2012

Shaun likened hosting Rage to plugging his MP3 player directly into the camera, and although he didn’t have the Rage theme, they dug it up anyway.

THE RAMONES Pet Sematary – Shaun noted that Stephen King was a huge fan of The Ramones, so exercised his creative control to ensure their song was included in the movie version of Pet Sematary.

THE CLASH London Calling
THE ROLLING STONES Undercover Of The Night

DEVO Freedom Of Choice – The brothers from Devo are now responsible for the music of Rugrats, but this song from them contains some hidden philospohy, so get your notes – there will be a quiz!

YELLO Oh Yeah
THE B-52S Rock Lobster
IGGY POP and KATE PIERSON Candy

DUCK SAUCE Barbra Streisand – He can’t explain his fascination with this song, but it was (obviously) used during TAYG, and the production company ended up paying over $50k of royalities – which was ok, because it was commercial television. On the ABC, you get paid in used stamps.

DAFT PUNK Da Funk
THE DOORS Hello, I Love You (Adam Freeland remix)
THE CURE In Between Days
ELVIS COSTELLO Pump It Up
ELVIS vs JXL A Little Less Conversation
EDWYN COLLINS A Girl Like You

DURAN DURAN A View To A Kill – In Shaun’s opinion, A View To A Kill was the last best James Bond film, not least because of the music. He just hopes that the line “My name’s Bon, Simon Le Bon” is kept at the end of the clip. (It was.)

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS I Ran
DEAD OR ALIVE You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
BILLY IDOL White Wedding

YES Owner Of A Lonely Heart – The LP cover is quite boring, and so is the rest of the album according to Shaun – he bought it based on the single, and assumes the rest of the album was produced by someone else. The orchestral jabs are good though.

THE CARS Hello Again
EURYTHMICS Would I Lie To You?
HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS The Power Of Love

BILL WYMAN Je Suis Un Rock Star – Shaun has so many songs he would love to play, including the Rolling Stones, so for a perverse reason he chose Bill Wyman’s solo song.

PSEUDO ECHO Funky Town
NEW ORDER Blue Monday
MI-SEX Computer Games
LEFTFIELD/LYDON Open Up
SEX PISTOLS Pretty Vacant
THE PRETENDERS Message Of Love
MIDNIGHT OIL U.S. Forces
THE JAM A Town Called Malice
THE STYLE COUNCIL Walls Come Tumbling Down
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES The Impression That I Get
TOM JONES Sexbomb

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Heart Attack – Shaun’s a little embarrassed he bought Olivia’s best of – forgive him? He decided on this rather than Physical, seems like a natural progression.

MARILYN Calling Your Name
PLASTIC BERTRAND Ca Plane Pour Moi
TOTO COELO I Eat Cannibals
HAYSI FANTAYZEE Shiny Shiny

PETER GABRIEL Shock The Monkey – There was a movie called “Project X” about Matthew Broderick rescuing a monkey from the space program, and this song was used in the opening credits. Shaun warns that the original film clip was “very weird” just like Peter, and Genesis was better off without him.

ART OF NOISE Dragnet
A-HA The Living Daylights
ENYA Orinoco Flow
EUROGLIDERS Heaven (Must Be There)
SADE Smooth Operator

SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR Chase The Sun – Shaun walked past the edit suite just the other week while the band was putting this together, commented how good it was and promised to put it on Rage when he programmed it…

SPLIT ENZ Message To My Girl
THE STRANGLERS Golden Brown
KATE BUSH Babooshka
THE BANGLES Walk Like An Egyptian
STEPPENWOLF Born To Be Wild
METALLICA Enter Sandman
NINE INCH NAILS Closer
CLIFF RICHARD The Millennium Prayer
ELTON JOHN I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues

There was also a sneaky 1 hour preview on Saturday morning (which I missed), but the following songs were played which weren’t repeated that night:

DEPECHE MODE Just Can’t Get Enough
FATBOY SLIM Weapon Of Choice
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS She Drives Me Crazy
ABC Poison Arrow
DAVID BOWIE Fashion
KASABIAN Fire

How many songs can you link to Shaun’s previous work?

4 thoughts to “Recap: Shaun hosts Rage, June 9th 2012”

  1. I count about 6 and a half, from some interviews I have read, ‘Message To My Girl’ was played at his wedding. So not really previous work.

    But I finally get the PLASTIC BERTRAND Ca Plane Pour Moi, reference from ‘Preincarnate’ I didn’t know this song previously.

  2. LOVED, LOVED, LOVED SHAUN’S PLAYLIST!!
    GREAT SONG CLIPS JUST KEPT ON ROLLING.

    ENTERTAINING VIEWING & MY EARS STILL REMINISCENT OF THE FANTASTIC MUSIC OF THEN. (OH HOW I MISSED MARILYN & HAYSI FANTAYZEE)

    ONE OF THE MORE EXCITING PLAYLISTS I’VE WATCHED FROM THE ‘RAGE COUCH’.

    PLEASE VISIT AGAIN SHAUN

  3. I have so many of these songs in my own playlist, Shaun. Have you been spying on me?

    Nudge, Nudge…

  4. THE CURE In Between Days
    ABC Poison Arrow
    DAVID BOWIE Fashion – He did brilliant cover versions on Micallef Tonight.

    SADE Smooth Operator – was referenced while Shaun was on his high horse on Micallef Tonight.

    MI-SEX Computer Games – was done on The Micallef Program

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