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Check out Rage's playlist for tonight!!!

http://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/archive/2002/20021005.htm

Now I have to work out how to get my VCR working so I can tape Paint It Black at ~2:30am. So excited!!!

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 5 October 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

hey, what is this thing? digital tv channel pumpin out music videos all day? i LOVE that they tell you what they are going to play well in advance...this is brilliant - i wish every music channel did that so you dont have to sit thru shite for ages in the hope of catchin a cool video

― blueski, Saturday, 5 October 2002 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

In Australia the ABC, one of our two government-funded TV stations, plays a programme called Rage every Saturday night/morning. It's been going on for years.

Needless to say, we all love the ABC. (although aparrently it's "becoming increasingly irrelevant to mainstream Australia" (according to Victoria's former premier))

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

(it's also on Friday night/morning)

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"becoming increasingly irrelevant" in what sense, Andrew? is Rage an anomaly, or is a lot of the programming aimed at younger "edgy" viewers? i ask because over here the CBC (currently celebrating its 50 yr run with all sorts of odd retrospectives) gets accused of this all the time, but here it means "irrelevant to ppl under 65".

(sorry toraneko maybe this is a seperate thread: ABC vs. CBC vs. BBC irrelevance FITE!!)

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Saturday, 5 October 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

god i miss rage :-(

― donna (donna), Saturday, 5 October 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah the ABC is "irrelevant" because its numerable news and current affairs shows are supposedly aimed at lefty intellectual elites and don't concentrate on new diets and shady car dealers. Neither the Federal nor the State Governments appreciate having a news channel that actually questions what they're doing. The Right Establishment are hankering for the chance to do a subverted-Gramsci and fill Australia's one good channel for news (though the news shows on the multicultural channel SBS are v. good too) with their own organic intellectuals, but the journalists at the ABC are largely too good to be gotten rid of that easily.

'Rage' in that sense is an anomaly compared to the "concept" of the ABC, though there is a reasonable smattering of shows aimed at adolescents and young adults.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-three years pass...

A couple of decades on, broadcast TV is almost dead, but Rage remains virtually unchanged.

I'm tempted to highjack this thread for "marginal stuff I casually caught on Rage." I heart that the new releases they put in the Saturday daytime slot need not have any more commercial potential than what they play at, like, 3:48 AM LOL. This sequence today tickled my fancy with its, um, 'untutored' vocals and 'we're pretty weird, us' visuals. On the 'main' channel of the national broadcaster, mid-morning. Bless.

I know ILM is acquainted with the first act, at least. UK/USA/Aus acts, respectively, it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEmjeb7f9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGk9yMXKpBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A-wsF79Os4

― Heavy, downy baby goose (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 31 January 2026 02:56 (three months ago)

Haha beautiful.
Kind of gives you hope...

― bert newtown, Saturday, 31 January 2026 12:53 (three months ago)

I've come to learn that members of the latter outfit are from The Stroppies. My 'recognising micro indie celebs by sight' skills are not really what they could be lol.

I wonder why this is on ILE.

― Heavy, downy baby goose (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 31 January 2026 22:46 (three months ago)

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