History never repeats...
C4's Rocked The Nation started its entertaining anecdote-heavy countdown of one C Chinese gooseberry music moments this week. In causa you missed it, here's a recapitulation of the first episode's pivotal events and we'll be keeping a weekly chalk up of the countdown as the series progresses. Collect the set, as they tell ... 100: In 1982, Fresh Zealand band Spyz ar the first Western rock play to wager China, three years in front Wallop.99: Savage's Sweep features in the strike motion picture Knocked Up, leadership to a major US record deal and a top 20 in the iTunes' hip hop chart.98: Sweetwaters 99 goes acidity departure bands and tradespeople owed $3 meg. Promoter Daniel Keighley afterward serves 12 months for fraud.97: Local record label Music World provides music for the masses by exploitation cheap knock-offs of overseas hits. The label's Golden Saxophones album sells half a one thousand thousand worldwide.96: In 1809 sealers find themselves marooned in the South Island lead to the number one European song written in Newly Zealand. Ostensibly the beginnings of "the Dunedin sound".
95: Pop Mechanix' director attempts buying the band a number one single with misfire cheques. It enters the charts at number 15 and disappears the chase workweek.94: Country isthmus The Warratahs' number one album The Only Game In Town spends 26 weeks in the peak 40 and cements them in the hearts of middle Freshly Sjaelland.93: In 1970, 13-year-old soprano Jacques Louis David Curtis records a song as his grandparents' Dec 25 present and winds up with a top 10 bingle with Rack of Fortune.92: Weekly music prove Fix To Wheel draws a billion viewers a hebdomad by having the likes of Sharon Eugene Gladstone O'Neill cover international hits.91: In 1986, TVNZ refuses to pay record companies for screening music clips. The only video seen on TV for intimately a yr is Queen's It's A Kind Of Deception due to Queen's record society purchasing advertising time.90: Blindspott find unexpected success in Indonesia selling 40,000 legal copies of their albums and intimately half a 1000000 illegal ones.89: Darcy Clay's home-recorded anthem Deliverer I Was Evil reaches number fin and wins him a most promising singer tam-tam.88: All-girl supergroup When The Cat's Aside cover Melting Potentiometer and receive themselves with an unexpected number one and in huge demand as a exist act.87: Larry's Rebels' isaac Bashevis Singer Larry Robert Morris serves six and half years in the Big House for trying to sell Lysergic acid diethylamide to undercover cop. 86: Concordance Dawn's Morning Light becomes a worldwide dance anthem in 2002.85: Long before New Sjaelland rock bands tour abroad, Maori concert parties take indigenous music to the world.84: Neil Finn plays quint nights in Auckland with a thrown-together supergroup of match, including players from Radiohead. Reb Marr from the Smiths and Drop Jam's Eddie Vedder. 83: Due south Auckland band Ardijah assist contrive "poly-fonk", a mix of South Pacific funk and stone. Their debut album produces ternion tip 20 singles.82: Steriogram draw the most expensive music clip of all time made for a Fresh Zealand ring when theater director Michel Gondry creates a stop-motion classic using knitted puppets for Walkie Talking picture Man.Rocked The Carry Nation, C4, Mon 8.30pm
