Del Boy
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Post by Del Boy on May 13, 2015 9:32:53 GMT
Should have nicked the Jukebox.
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Post by Sam Tyler on May 14, 2015 3:56:44 GMT
Should have nicked the Jukebox. Then you'd have been up in front of the Jukebox Jury!
Back to the singles chart; I used to listen to it religiously every Sunday night throughout the 70's but I had other things on my mind once I got to the end of my teens. So, by the time the 80's came along I wasn't far off getting hitched and listening to the Top 20 of a Sunday night came way down the pecking order when there other interests.
Throughout the 80's we always had the radio on at home or in the car but as time has gone on the radio has been switched off because of the amount of crap the 'DJs' spout between doing their job and actually playing music. My daughter accused me of not giving 'modern' music a chance until she asked me for a lift to the station one morning. At that stage I was listening to CDs in the car but she tried the radio. Every channel throughout the 20 minute journey was just talk talk talk. She understood me from then on. Why do they spout so much crap when they are meant to be a music channel?
Sam.
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Post by Dirty Epic on May 15, 2015 14:23:49 GMT
Think it goes with the territory to have (most) radio stations with irritating DJ’s trying to project their (zero/painful) personality on the listener. I hate with a passion the likes of Heart FM. They have some seriously mind numbing DJ’s/personalities on their roster and worse still a repetitively bland ‘music mix’ constantly being regurgitated day after day. Yet they seem to get listenership and even ‘fans’ with this approach. FFS I hate that station with a passion and it's a bit rich saying they’re the best music 'mix' when there's zero variety on that station. Even once edgy former pirate stations like Kiss (and others) are now corporate and commercial concerns and for me apart from the music they play the blandness of Radio 1/2, Capital, Heart, Magic etc. seems to be a constant factor. Like you Sam I tend to listen to my own music rather than the radio but the one exception to that rule is BBC 6 Music. Even if you don’t like everything it does it does have an eclectic music policy and gives a platform for a wide variety of musicians (new and old) to play live too. Criminal that the BBC wanted to scrap it a few years ago against the backdrop of cutbacks.
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Post by Steve Austin on May 21, 2015 22:12:47 GMT
Hi guys, What do you make of the singles chart these days ? In a word cr@p!!
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Post by Tyne Tees Colour on Jun 3, 2015 7:54:47 GMT
I honestly feel there was a concerted effort within the music industry (Simon Cowell and the likes of him) to change the UK music scene away from the more creative dance and indie acts we had in the 1990’s to something we have now which resembles the US chart with clean-cut bland bankable stars that have a global appeal and dismiss everything else. I used to listen to the chart nearly every week up to about 2003 but since then I sort of gave up as I noticed a lot of acts in the chart all seemed very samey. They’re either overblown balladry types usually doing poor cover versions – thanks to tosh like X-Factor and The Voice etc., boring R&B/Rap acts retreading the same old ‘gangsta’ crap which has been stale since 1992, indie-by-numbers/metal/MOR rock acts which sound the same and like their influences and don’t really do anything out of the ordinary. Gawd they even make Oasis look like The Fall FFS! I get the feeling young people are more accepting of crap music which is being promoted to them. Excellent points. Agree whole-heartedly.
As you mention elsewhere, 6Music is about the best place to listen now. There is some good new music around, but beyond this station you probably struggle to hear it.
Other radio has become as cheesy as 1980s local stations. Radio 2 in particular has drifted right down into banality in the last 2-3 years.
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