Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 01 January, 2013, 07:16:53 pm
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I have carried out extensive research over Christmas, and these are my findings.
Radio 1: You're under 20 and don't really like music. Who told Fearne Cotton that she had a radio voice?
Radio 2: You've slipped into middle age. Soon you will have turned into your own parents. Actually, it's Radio 1 from the 80s.
Radio 3: If Radio 3 plays a concert and no-one tunes in, does it make a sound?
Radio 4: People showing off how clever they are about subjects like lesbian haddock and Victorian interior designers.
Classic FM: Unchallenging, lots of Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss perm. Adverts mostly aimed at coffin-dodgers.
BBC local radio: Obsessed with third division football. Wishes it were Radio 2.
Provincial commercial radio: Playlist of five songs*. Double glazing adverts.
This has been a public service announcement.
*two of which are by Rihanna
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Roger,
What of Radio 1 Extra, 5 Live and Radio 6?
All got to be worth a mention!
:)
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Mrs.B calls Radio 5 "Radio Bloke"
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Radio 6 is for pseuds.
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Radio 6 is on digital only and Roger doesn't like digital radio (especially "dire" DAB). He'd like some of the music, though.
Radio 1 has always played a lot of really bad music. (That's not comment on the types of music).
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Radio 6 is for pseuds.
What are pseuds?
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I've forgotten what "pseuds" means. Actually, Radio 6 is for people who love pop and rock, with the odd bit or programme of the challenging ends of it. It's as simple and innocent as that.
Radio 2 is (supposed to be) easy listening (with a small ee and ell). Personally, I find it hard to listen to music and DJs that bore my ears off.
My dad has Radio 3 on a lot, so it has at least one listener! "Modern classical" plink plonk tuneless and rhythmless crap gets turned off, though.
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I am not Biggsy's dad and I listen to Radio 3.
So does Herbie Goldberg.
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I had Radio 3 on earlier, but now listening to 4extra.
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3 & 4 here usually.
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Provincial commercial radio: Playlist of five songs. Double glazing adverts.
The famille boab plays 'countdown to Rihanna' where before the radio is turned on to KISS FM we each guess how many songs till we hear the carribean crooner do her thing. Even Mr Smith can play along, despite not recognising her work, as it's always a number less than 10. It whiles away car journeys, anyway.
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What are pseuds?
Pseudo-intellectuals, I'd imagine.
I'm mainly a Radio 4 girl. Although I'm fairly sure I'm missing out on all the:
lesbian haddock
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So I'm a pseud who's into lesbian haddock and Victorian interior design.
Well I've been called worse I spose :)
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This lesbian haddock thing. Any good?
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Gently simmered in cream with a poached chicken embryo it's marvellous Basil.
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Jazz FM .... NICE :thumbsup:
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TSF Jazz, all the waffle and adverts are in forrin' so I can ignore them.
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Radio 4 and 6 here.
Whichever one I was listening to last tends to stay on until it annoys me, then I switch to t'other. You and Yours, Moneybox, Any Answers, Tom Robinson, etc.
Radio 6 I think caters for those of us who used to read the NME and listed to John Peel. Jarvis Cocker and Craig Charles are both excellent at introducing me to new (and sometimes very old) stuff, and when I was cooking the Christmas dinner a couple of years ago I had an education in good reggae. Informed, educated and entertained I was.
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I skip between R2, R5, R6, Absolute and various podcasts. There's no need to tie yourself down to one or two stations, there's good stuff all over the place.
That's the beauty of iPlayer and web radio. Most PVRs record digital radio, so you can listen at leisure.
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Staying in someone else's house over Christmas I heard "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera" on the radiogram. It was like an out of body experience, transported back to the school sick bay. Radio 2 is a Tardis. I've scratched it off all the dials at home.
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So I'm a pseud who's into lesbian haddock and Victorian interior design.
Same here, although the Today prog is the only thing I really bother with on Radio 4, and sometimes the news quiz. I wouldn’t make any pretence to being intellectual whatsoever. Also sometimes 6Music disappears up its own fundament (eg, at one point on Xmas Eve which drove me to listen to cheesy Xmas songs on Magic instead) and tries to be too weird/clever at which point I have no problem turning it over.
I have slightly more varied tastes when listening through my phone at work because that doesn’t have DAB, only FM.
The dog listens to a lot of Radio 4 when we’re out, though. She must be well up on what’s happening with The Archers.
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I like the shipping report.
Radio 4 has to be used in the hall, otherwise time flies. I kid you not.
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Radio 4, for the people who think watching QI means they're intelligent.
This year's most listened show was I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue wasn't it? i used to like that but it's just turned in a parody of itself, so many lazy in-jokes 's no actual show any more.
I gave R2 a listen over the holidays. The entire commentary by the 'DJ' at the time consisted of endless letters read and 'shout outs' to the listeners. Again, no actual content. So yes, Radio 1 from a few years ago. Though that might be R1 now for all I would know.
I tuned into R5 a couple of days ago and the show was a 2 hour phone in, the main theme being cancer stories. Not exactly what I call 'entertainment'.
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I have switched to DAB and discovered the joy of R4Ex - the best bits of radio from years past. Brilliant - plus there is Planet Rock which is a channel specially for 50somethings. Rick Wakeman and chums playing music I like for the days before Oasis and the collapse of things.
DAB is really good. Some excedllent stations on there ands teh sound quality is about a million times better than analogue.
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The book show on R 4 is very good - whenever it comes on in the car the whole family join in doing 'book show voice'.
It's a special way of speaking in which you have to really over-emphasise certain words, the use of nouns as verbs, and incorporate references to the text, the Novel as form, and writerly stuff that only exists in literary review. All done in either posh breathless 'I did Eng Lit at University' or mockney 'I am real, a bit right on, but also went to uni (actually it was a poly)'. Its a gem.
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If you ever wondered where Radio 2's DJ's end up after the BBC have done their ageist thing and kicked them out, tune in to Smooth FM.
Thankfully, you won't find Sarah Kennedy there.
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Don't think Mrs 'Arding's Kid'll wash up on those shores :(
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I don't listen to any of the ones in the list.
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Radio5 Live discovered phone-ins a few years ago and warmed to them to sucn an extent that I switch off whenever one is on. Lazy, cheap radio.
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How many people 'channel hop' on radio? Ours stays tuned in to Radio 2, as a sort of secular quasi-religious background.
Nigel Ogden enthusing about the four manual Compton, installed at the Odeon Cinema in some provincial town in New Zealand is like the Lord's Prayer to us, as we have our tea after circuit training on a Tuesday night. Others treat 'Pop Master' as a weekday morning sacrament.
Radio 2 is a liturgical form, it provides a reassuring background to life. It's not there to surprise, merely to soothe, it's stained glass radio. Radio 4 is the voice of the pulpit, it's there to preach, if you're keen on sermons, it's the one for you. With I Player if a particular sermon is flagged up, I might listen. In the meantime the moral content on 2 is restricted to 'Pause for Thought', the other religious bits are mainly hymn-singing.
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No mention of community radio.
We've got one of them round here. Small reach, very very local in outlook. Staffed, it seems, by volunteers. Can be dire, can be interesting. Rather like local radio used to be before Emap/Global Radio bought them all.
I tuned into one up in the Frozen North a few weeks as I hooned down the M1. The Damned, Love Song. Turned the volume upto 11.
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Maybe community internetting has taken over from community radio?
I learnt a lot from phone-ins (back when I listened to LBC) - mostly about how right-wing idiots think, but also about everything else.
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When young, I had an old valve radio, and I listened to whatever I could find on the Short Wave - Radio Moscow, TWMC, VoA, World Service. But I loved those rare snatches of faint broadcasts from obscure places like Radio Tirana, Voice of Vietnam, Vatican Radio...
Then, when the Goplana died, and I couldn't find any more valves, I became Radio 4 straight down the line (with World Service at night, natch). But now I will listen to Radio 2 for Popmaster, Johhny Walker, Paul O'Grady, occasional EPOS or Aled, and, till recently, the odd edition of Smagladin's show. Then there's 4Extra for various bits & pieces, such as the Comedy Club, and light drama serials.
If there's nothing else on, then Absolute Classic Rock gets a turn, or Planet Rock while washing up (especially if it's Alice Cooper).
And I still find time to listen to snippets of World Service.
I've turned into a radio tart.
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Radio 6 is for pseuds.
What are pseuds?
Hipsters gone old?
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i forgot another appointment on my dial - 1300-1600 weekdays is RadMac territory. Except there seems to be some wittering idiot standing in today.
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As a fan of spoken radio when BBC 7 switched to 4 extra, I thought it lost something, and went over to listening to downloaded podcasts instead. Apps like stitcher have revolutionised listening for me.
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I suppose if I weren't a Radio tart, and was forced to choose a station, then it would be Radio 2.
It really isn't far away from being the 55 year old's Radio 1 now.
However, I still need my fix of Radcliffe & Maconie on 6 (cross-post with Clarion). Come on Radio 2, get them back under your wing and you'll be one step closer.
I suppose there needs to be a constant careful hand-off of listeners, as they hit 30 and R1 stops being relevant to them, to an intermediate station. R2/R6 is perfect for me (R4 is as annoying as R1 to my ears) but where do current R2 listeners go in 20 years, when R1 hands-off another generation to R2?
You can't expect me to listen to adverts about double-glazing or a local tyre-fitting company so it must be BBC and R3 seems full of Oboes and Violins.
Maybe the stations should just be named after birth years of their potential listener group..
Radio 1 becomes - Radio 1998-2012
Radio 2 becomes - Radio 1960-1980
Radio 3 becomes - Radio 1812-1904
....and so on
The problem with R2 currently is that you can't leave it on all day. You hear Oasis singing about "cigarettes and alcohol" on one show and then Ken Dodd singing about "Tears for Souvenirs" on the following show. Someone needs to create Radio 2.5 and move the Ken Dodd, Max Bygraves and Englebert Humperdink fans along.
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Remember when R2 was all easy listening? Manhattan Transfer, Brotherhood of Man and "Sing Something Simple" on Sunday evening? That's why I am allergic to it now.
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The problem with R2 currently is that you can't leave it on all day. You hear Oasis singing about "cigarettes and alcohol" on one show and then Ken Dodd singing about "Tears for Souvenirs" on the following show. Someone needs to create Radio 2.5 and move the Ken Dodd, Max Bygraves and Englebert Humperdink fans along.
That's IMO what's great about R2, the fact that it's broad and almost eclectic in its mix of music. I'd welcome a radio show that put Brahms next to Tinchie Stryder followed by some John Coltrane or Val Doonican. If you listen to something samey like Heart FM it's the equivalent of Aural Waterboarding ....
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What about internet radio? I discovered Stomp Radio (Wed evening Jazz 10 pm - 1 am)
just over 12 months ago.
Oh, and I can catch up with Hancock's Half Hour by streaming via my Pure Evoke if I've
missed the episode on R4extra.
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The problem with R2 currently is that you can't leave it on all day. You hear Oasis singing about "cigarettes and alcohol" on one show and then Ken Dodd singing about "Tears for Souvenirs" on the following show. Someone needs to create Radio 2.5 and move the Ken Dodd, Max Bygraves and Englebert Humperdink fans along.
That's IMO what's great about R2, the fact that it's broad and almost eclectic in its mix of music. I'd welcome a radio show that put Brahms next to Tinchie Stryder followed by some John Coltrane or Val Doonican.
I agree (and I think this helps British pop music be so diverse and inventive, that we rarely just tune into a pure Country & Western station for example). However...it tends to be 2 hours of Val Doonican, Max Bygraves, Des O'Connor..before I get to hear Brahms (Did you know Brahms had a hit with "Come Outside" with Mike Sarne?*)
* Tenous musical gag of 2013 contender
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;D Good gag, mind :thumbsup:
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The problem with R2 currently is that you can't leave it on all day. You hear Oasis singing about "cigarettes and alcohol" on one show and then Ken Dodd singing about "Tears for Souvenirs" on the following show. Someone needs to create Radio 2.5 and move the Ken Dodd, Max Bygraves and Englebert Humperdink fans along.
That's IMO what's great about R2, the fact that it's broad and almost eclectic in its mix of music. I'd welcome a radio show that put Brahms next to Tinchie Stryder followed by some John Coltrane or Val Doonican. If you listen to something samey like Heart FM it's the equivalent of Aural Waterboarding ....
I agree, even with stations I like. Peel used to put on a cracking mix, as did Andy Kershaw. Adam and Joe's 6Music show did it brilliantly, though the music was secondary there.
Actually, there was a good moment on 6music this affer, when thank-fuck-it's-not-Maconie played some northern soul, then Cypress Hill a few tracks later.
I listen to shows rather than stations now, though less so since the IT boffins switched off the iplayer facility (apparently people were using it to catch up on last night's telly, and they couldn't remove the TV facility while leaving the radio facility there). Radio 5 is the default background station, until it gets too footbally.
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I stopped listening to any form of radio when Radio 3 dropped "Mixing It" umpteen years ago.
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R2 does have Desmond Carrington, who plays records thematically linked, from a variety of ages and styles.
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And Paul O'Grady who plays pre-war pieces as well as everything else. :)
I like Mr O'Grady.
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R2 does have Desmond Carrington, who plays records thematically linked, from a variety of ages and styles.
Donna Summer was the surprise item in MC Desmo's last show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pf0fz
I used to like Bob Dylan's show. I enjoyed Gloria Estefan's Latin series, it's a form I like, but have little knowledge of, and she's a good presenter.
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The problem with R2 currently is that you can't leave it on all day. You hear Oasis singing about "cigarettes and alcohol" on one show and then Ken Dodd singing about "Tears for Souvenirs" on the following show. Someone needs to create Radio 2.5 and move the Ken Dodd, Max Bygraves and Englebert Humperdink fans along.
They've had some weird stuff going on over the holiday period but I don't think it's particularly Ken Doddy generally.
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Provincial commercial radio: Playlist of five songs. Double glazing adverts.
The famille boab plays 'countdown to Rihanna' where before the radio is turned on to KISS FM we each guess how many songs till we hear the carribean crooner do her thing. Even Mr Smith can play along, despite not recognising her work, as it's always a number less than 10. It whiles away car journeys, anyway.
In the interests of SCIENCE I tried this on the way home. I thought I'd be banjaxed by not knowing what Rhianna's current (or indeed past) output sounds like. However all was well as the DJ announced that "next up a bit of Rhianna". After two records. I larfed.
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;D Good gag, mind :thumbsup:
I'm laughing on the inside ... honest :D
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And Paul O'Grady who plays pre-war pieces as well as everything else. :)
I like Mr O'Grady.
I like his radio show ... but have it on good authority that he's not so likeable in real-life ....
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And Paul O'Grady who plays pre-war pieces as well as everything else. :)
I like Mr O'Grady.
I get a bit irritated by the "requests for dead pets" slot. Come on, they're pets, they'd have no idea you were playing a request for them even if they were alive.
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And Paul O'Grady who plays pre-war pieces as well as everything else. :)
I like Mr O'Grady.
I get a bit irritated by the "requests for dead pets" slot. Come on, they're pets, they'd have no idea you were playing a request for them even if they were alive.
If you accept that it's a theraputic service for the bereaved owners it not quite so bad.
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And Paul O'Grady who plays pre-war pieces as well as everything else. :)
I like Mr O'Grady.
I get a bit irritated by the "requests for dead pets" slot. Come on, they're pets, they'd have no idea you were playing a request for them even if they were alive.
If you accept that it's a theraputic service for the bereaved owners it not quite so bad.
I always thought it was tongue in cheek humour. Has us in stitches. Is it meant to be serious, then?
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And Paul O'Grady who plays pre-war pieces as well as everything else. :)
I like Mr O'Grady.
I get a bit irritated by the "requests for dead pets" slot. Come on, they're pets, they'd have no idea you were playing a request for them even if they were alive.
If you accept that it's a theraputic service for the bereaved owners it not quite so bad.
I always thought it was tongue in cheek humour. Has us in stitches. Is it meant to be serious, then?
errr .... I reckon.....
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Radio 2 even has the same DJs who were on R1 in the 80s.
Local radio, whether commercial or BBC, seems to be in a gap between R1 and R2 but with lower production values.
When young, I had an old valve radio, and I listened to whatever I could find on the Short Wave - Radio Moscow, TWMC, VoA, World Service. But I loved those rare snatches of faint broadcasts from obscure places like Radio Tirana, Voice of Vietnam, Vatican Radio...
Then, when the Goplana died, ...
I used to listen to those on my mother's old Roberts (which wasn't so old it had valves) but never got Vietnam. Tirana was a favourite, not for anything they said but I loved the beepetty call sign with the long gaps and "This is Radio Tirana" in a variety of languages, then when they finally started broadcasting properly you never knew what language it was going to be in.
Funny that you had a radio called Goplana. (http://adbuzzer.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/goplanas-chocolate-is-full-of-emotions-since-1912/)
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Sweet!
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Radio 2 even has the same DJs who were on R1 in the 80s.
Steve Wright was funny in the 80's but not now. Laddish radio , it gets switched off almost immediately if I am driving.
I do miss DAB in the car and I do not understand why new cars are still being fitted with FM only radios .
Planet Rock is the default music station in our house-only available on DAB.
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When young, I had an old valve radio, and I listened to whatever I could find on the Short Wave - Radio Moscow, TWMC, VoA, World Service. But I loved those rare snatches of faint broadcasts from obscure places like Radio Tirana, Voice of Vietnam, Vatican Radio...
I too spent my childhood with a warmly glowing bakelite and wood bedroom companion. I remember roaming the airwaves and finding all sorts of exotica. Later, I built crystal sets which, to my astonishment, actually worked and pulled in what must have been Radio 4.
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Capital FM annoy me with their "The UK's No1 music station" advertising since they are a London only broadcaster (and yes I know you can stream them).
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...Steve Wright was funny in the 80's ...
Eh? ???
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Capital FM annoy me with their "The UK's No1 music station" advertising since they are a London only broadcaster (and yes I know you can stream them).
Are you sure? I had to suffer Capital FM on various frequencies from around Northampton to near Scarborough on a recent car journey. If I hear Alicia Keys' This Girrrl is on fyaaaar one more time... :P
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Ooh your right they have now bought or merged with several other local radio stations. Shows how long it is since I listened to Capitol FM.
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...Steve Wright was funny in the 80's ...
Eh? ???
Perhaps "Steve Wright is as funny now as he was in the 80's" would make more sense?
:D
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I think I can agree with that statement. it applies to 'in his own head' as well as reality.
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Capital FM annoy me with their "The UK's No1 music station" advertising since they are a London only broadcaster (and yes I know you can stream them).
Back in the days when I listened to radio (before they invented Rhianna, so the countdown would have been for Gabrielle I suppose), there was a national network of Capital FM clones with the same playlist and more-or-less the same adverts. You could travel the length of the country without hearing more than about 2 CDs worth of material.
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Capital FM annoy me with their "The UK's No1 music station" advertising since they are a London only broadcaster (and yes I know you can stream them).
Back in the days when I listened to radio (before they invented Rhianna, so the countdown would have been for Gabrielle I suppose), there was a national network of Capital FM clones with the same playlist and more-or-less the same adverts. You could travel the length of the country without hearing more than about 2 CDs worth of material.
You can get Capital on digital in most places, even Swindon. It's not the same since Chris Tarrant stopped doing the lunchtime show in about 1985.
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Looking around the web, it appears that a pirate radio station called Laser 558 was not a figment of my imagination - anyone else remember it?
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You can get Capital on digital in most places, even Swindon. It's not the same since Chris Tarrant stopped doing the lunchtime show in about 1985.
Surely the absence of Christ Tarrant is a good thing? I suffered enough of his morning o'clock smug bastardness in the early 90s...
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He was good at lunchtimes - smaller audience and quite subversive.
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I do miss DAB in the car and I do not understand why new cars are still being fitted with FM only radios .
Mrs T's 6 month old Fiesta has a FM/DAB radio, which makes trips out more enjoyable, apart from the fact that DAB is more suseptable to drop outs (It's either there or it isn't, no fade) and any run through the countryside has use constantly re-tuning.
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Looking around the web, it appears that a pirate radio station called Laser 558 was not a figment of my imagination - anyone else remember it?
I remember that one.
Wasn't it a pirate outfit ?
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I'd just like to point out for your edification that the
popular beat combo songstress from Barbados is actually spelt Rihanna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihanna), and it wasn't a typo.
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I turned on the radio this morning and to my surprise it was tuned to a local community radio station called BC FM. They were playing Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmilla :) but they then cut to "national news on the hour, live from the Sky newsroom". When I listened to them again later they were jingling that "we play more Bristol music than any other station in the country" - no shit! - although that particular DJ, who had an Irish accent, didn't play anything not made in the USA before about 1970. Later there was a programme "for Bristol's Caribbean and African communities" which included, bizarrely, some astronomy (did you know yesterday was perihelion?) as well as a calypso song which stuck in my mind for rhyming "bassline grooving" with "waistlines moving". :D The DJs seemed slightly amateur but then they probably are - no adverts so I can't see they'd have enough money to pay them - and the range of music more than made up for it. So I now say I rather like local radio, in this version at least! :thumbsup:
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Radio 3 now has an extra listener, thanks to the amazing self-untuning radio - take it into a different room and it's no longer tuned into the station it was receiving previously. I'm actually really pleased by Radio 3 - it's lots of good music mixed in with the best parts of Radio 4 - books and poetry and stuff without trying to be intellectual, political or confrontational, and no Archers!
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Do you like plinky-plonky "modern" classical? Rather a lot of that on R3.
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Do you like plinky-plonky "modern" classical? Rather a lot of that on R3.
I have an aunt who composes it! She is, apparently, world famous in Tasmania. :D
I find that kind of stuff "interesting" rather than "enjoyable".